[Martian KC]

Alex returns to play the next week (21-23 des.) in the<br />Spanish Masters. Today did draw the order of matches,<br />in Barcelona, the place where will play the tournament<br />(in concrete, the Sant Jordi pavilion...remember the<br />place where one year ago Spain won the Davis<br />Cup...ay..what memories!!)

The draw is the next:

Friday 21 des. (quarters):<br />1- Ferrero - Robredo<br />2- A.Portas - A.Costa<br />3- A.Martín- C.Moyà<br />4- F.Mantilla - A.CORRETJA

Saturday 22 (semis):<br />winner 1 - winner 2<br />winner 3 - winner 4

Sunday 23 (Final)

<br />Look at that, Tommy has beaten Juan Carlos before and Alex I don't think in shape yet as he just did get married. <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> Good luck to Alex, Tommy, Albert, Alberto, and Felix!

 

[Nacho]

Pff, JC vs Tommy in the 1st round <img src="frown.gif" border="0"> Whoever wins this match should take the title

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Tommy beat Ferrer on hard courts.<br />i assume this is played on clay? In which case I'd pick Ferrero to win it. Even if clay IS Tommy's best surfact, it is Ferrero's superior surface.

Mind u this is coming from someone who has never seen Tommy play, who is extreemly biased in Ferrero's favour. <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

 

[Kart]

Best of luck to Ferrero <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> and Corretja <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

 

[NejedlyKanepi]

"it is Ferrero's superior surface."

yes yes it is. i think while tommy has a nice strong game that adapts well for different surfaces (someone who has seen him play a bit) you hit the nail dead on when you said ferrero is superior on the surface. its like best playing better, or rather, best playing good because really they have games at two different levels with ferrero up here (holidng hand up) and tommy here (holding hand a distance below) so juan playing his best is better than tommy playing his best (on clay, and probably even all other surfaces) they showed a very small bit of tommy/juan at the us open, and you could tell juan just wasnt exactly there where as tommy was. this match/tournament should be heavily in juans favor. but moya is probably my second pick, not my second favorite, but my honest pick for second.