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This was in the Houston paper, gives some info about players, the matches, etc.
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Novak is added to mix as No. 2 seed

Roddick will still play; Philippoussis, Young withdraw
By DALE ROBERTSON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Defending co-champion Jiri Novak has been added to the River Oaks International field and will be the No. 2 seed when the River Oaks Country Club's 71st tournament starts Monday.

Tommy Haas, once the second-ranked player in the world, is the top seed in the 24-man event. Paradorn Srichaphan will be the third seed, followed by Taylor Dent, Robby Ginepri, Thomas Enqvist, Jeff Morrison and Dmitry Tursunov.

The seeded players will receive first-round byes.

But the tournament has lost two of its top drawing cards in Mark Philippoussis and Donald Young Jr. Philippoussis, the former Wimbledon runner-up whose career has been plagued by physical problems, was hurt again in his opening match in the Nasdaq-100 Open and will be off the court for at least five weeks. Young had to withdraw because of a scheduling conflict.

The last man into the field will be decided at 2 p.m. today when Michael Domanski plays Dusan Vemic in the final round of qualifying.

Novak, ranked 26th to Haas' 17th on the ATP computer, advanced to the final against Hugo Armando a year ago but they were unable to finish because of daylong heavy rains. Armando also returns and will meet Alex Kuznetsov in Monday's featured match at 5:30 p.m. The tournament begins with Brendan Evans vs. Thomas Blake at 1:30 p.m.

Tournament director and River Oaks head pro Van Barry says Andy Roddick's exhibition match against Mardy Fish on Thursday evening will be played as scheduled despite Roddick's having to withdraw from the Nasdaq in the second round last week with a wrist injury.

"I've kept in touch with Andy's people and they've assured me he's OK," Barry said.

i thought flip had recovered from his injury - i guess he is playing it safe this time an not rushing into competitive tennis

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Guess not

Here's the draw, if anyone cares?


Tommy Haas (1)/Bye
Brendan Evans/Thomas Blake
Thomas Enqvist (6)/Bye
Mike Russell/Qualifier

Paradorn Srichaphan (3)/Bye
Hugo Armando/Alex Kuznetsov
Jeff Morrison (7)/Bye
Jeff Tarango (WHAT???? LMAOOOOOO)/James Blake


Benedikt Dorsch/Wayne Ferreira
Bye/Dmitry Tursunov (8)
Luke Jensen/Philip Simmonds
Bye/Taylor Dent (4)

Callum Beale/Benjamin Becker
Bye/Robby Ginepri (5)
Frank Dancevic/Michael Ryderstadt
Bye/Jiri Novak (2)

[Kristen]

GO WAYNE!!!!!!
And Thomas
and Ryderstedt Nearly missed him there!

[dmarena]

Any scores from Oaks?

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EDITED to include results as available

Schedule of Play
Monday, April 4
Stadium Court

Day Session 1:30 p.m.
Brendon Evans DEFEATED Thomas Blake 6-3 6-1
Followed by
Mike Russell DEFEATED Dusan Vemic 3-6 6-3 6-3

Evening Session 5:30 p.m.
Hugo Armando DEFEATED Alex Kuznetsov 7-5 6-3
Followed by
Michael Ryderstadt DEFEATED Frank Dancevic 7-5 6-4

[Fee]

Andy's okay to play an exo match, but not Monte Carlo? Oh, this will be interesting...

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Fee, we all know Andy was never gonna play MC. This just gives him a mildly acceptable excuse. Should be good times in GM, though

go hugo

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Schedule of Play
Tuesday, April 5

Stadium Court

Day Session 1:30 p.m.
Benjamin Becker vs Callum Beale
Followed by
Ginepri/Morrison vs Srichaphan/Middleton
Evening Session 5:30 p.m.
James Blake vs Jeff Tarango
Followed by
Wayne Ferreira vs Benedikt Dorsch


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Grandstand Court

Day Session 2:30 p.m.
Luke Jensen vs Phillip Simmonds
Followed by
Tursunov/Dancevic vs Enqvist/Tillstrom

[jole]

What a wacky event.

[Éowyn]

robbys playing with jeff? interesting :|

[Tricky_Forehand]

For today's results:

Brendan *Now if he can just do that when he's playing to earn points *
Dusan
Frank

Tomorrow:

Robby/Jeff
Dmitry/Frank

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they finally put up the full dubs draw

Ginepri-Morrison (1)/Srichaphan-Middleton
Haas-Armando/Blake-Blake

Evans-Kuznetsov/Ferreira-Tarango
Enqvist-Tillstrom/Tursunov-Dancevic (2)

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Tuesday's results.. nice of them to give the doubles score I'll edit as more are posted.

Becker defeats Beale
3-6, 6-3, 6-4

Ginipre/Morrison defeats Srichaphan/Middleton