You can view the draw HERE.
This year ought to be interesting on the men's side as so many of the top seeds come into the Indian Wells event on the heels of time off for injury. Roger with his lung infection. Rafa and that damn knee. Murray and his mental health time. Roddick and Davydenko with their stuff... How will they hold up? Many questions will be answered in the coming 2 weeks.
Like every once else in the whole entire world I looked first to see where Rafael Nadal fell in the draw and breathed a heavy sigh of relief to see him in the bottom half - I always hold out hope for a Rafa/Roger final.
#1 Roger Federer must be pretty thrilled with his draw - not a lot of upset-worthy names loom in his quarter except possibly Radek Stepanek (he'd have to have a really great day) and Andy Roddick (pray for this match people).
#2 Novak Djokovic will sail into the quarters - there is not a single guy in his draw that will beat him. Fish, Kohlschreiber, Dent, Simon - I don't think so.
#3 Rafael Nadal got handed a very tricky draw - 3 big bombers are in there: Mario Ancic, Sam Querrey and John Isner and that's just to get into the quarters where recent nemesis Davydenko could await. YIKES.
#7 Andy Roddick should get through to face a potential fun 4th round with a few players: Monfils, Gasquet or Nalbandian.
Projected Seeded Quarterfinals:
1 Roger Federer vs 7 Andy Roddick
4 Andy Murray vs 6 Robin Soderling
3 Rafael Nadal vs 5 Nikolay Davydenko
2 Novak Djokovic vs 8 Marin Cilic
It's hard to bet against any of these guys but I would have to say that the quarterfinal least likely to happen would be Nadal vs Davydenko. They both seem vulnerable and they have some very dangerous players they may have to face...
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