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The Spaniard, like the rest, will not know the name of his rival until it is solved upstream and the first round, although it is known that in the quarter would meet Russia's Nikolay Davydenko.

Rafael Nadal, world number three and defending champion, and also Spanish Fernando Verdasco, Juan Carlos Ferrero, David Ferrer, Tommy Robredo, Feliciano Lopez and Albert Montanes has been exempted from the first round of Indian Wells tournament, the Masters 1000 initial season as the draw was made this morning.

Nadal, like the rest, will not know the name of his rival until it is solved upstream and the first round, although it is known that in the quarter would meet Russia's Nikolay Davydenko, fifth seed who has won in its previous three clashes. With whom insurance is not cross, at least until the end, is with the Swiss world number one Roger Federer.

Also in the fourth round, if No surprises could be found with one of two Americans in better shape and that they operate best in fast track, John Isner (fifteenth-seeded) or Sam Querrey (17). The first season won the tournament in Auckland and the second that of Memphis.

Davydenko, who will start against the winner of the match between Swiss and Estonian Marco Chiudinelli Ernest Gulbis, may also be one of the opponents of Fernando Verdasco, the tenth seed.

Federer, Roddick and Murray, on the same side of the table

Switzerland's Roger Federer, world number one and looking back at the end after four years after winning the tournament three times, he could be on the road with Andy Roddick and Andy Murray, eighth and fourth ranking ATP.

The Swiss opened their participation in the second round against the winner of the match between Romanian Victor Hanescu and Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela, and the third is presumed that his opponent Marcos Baghdatis, twenty-seventh favorite.

Roddick, a semifinalist three times in this tournament, also has a tough road, which will appear as potential opponents Frenchmen Gael Monfils and Richard Gasquet and David Nalbandian, who got in his return to Argentina in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup with his magnificent performance against Sweden.

Murray has the potential opponents on the road in the fourth round to David Ferrer, seeded thirteenth, or American James Blake, a finalist in 2006 and will face in the first round to Spanish Daniel Gimeno-Traver.

Then, in the quarter are presumed to be British rival Swede Robin Soderling and France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The Serbian Novak Djokovic, a finalist in 2008 and second seed, can be measured in the second round with American Mardy Fish always difficult.

The Croatian Marin Cilic, the player with the best record of wins so far this season (18-2) could be his opponent in the quarterfinals, but also appears on his way Juan Carlos Ferrero, the eleventh seed has won 14 of 15 games in the Latin American stage the circuit.

Justine Henin in the first round of the women The women's table will kick-started the tournament the next morning with the presence in the first round of the Belgian Justine Henin, who reached the end of his first two tournaments after recurrence (Brisbane and the Australia Open) and is measured Magdalena Rybarikova.

This is the last tournament in which Henin participates without being seeded.

In this issue there is the curiosity that none of the six previous champions at Indian Wells are among the top eight favorites.

Considers that the placidity or not on their side of the table depends on your game · Nadal was not very satisfied with his first practice on Saturday and decided to repeat in the afternoon

As usual whenever it considers its options, Rafa Nadal does not look like the big favorite to defend his title at the Australia Open. "Of course not, on hard courts there are plenty of good players. I think that even as the world number two, I'm not the most favorite there are always surprises, "he said.

Nadal believes that its placidity or not part of the picture depends on your game. "The important thing is to play well, because it seems anything but difficult and you see things clearer. If you play worse everything becomes complicated. We'll see how I play and I begin the first day, that's what worries me right now," said .

Nadal's first opponent will be Australian Peter Luczak, 78 of the world, with which it has faced so far although one of them, "he said.

For Nadal there is no clear favorite, but a group of players, and not rule out any surprises. "When you finish one and start another it seems that everything starts again. Davydenko is the one I have seen him play and he's doing really a very high level. After the usual suspects will be there. Do not think there are many surprises. Tsonga, Djokovic , Soderling, Verdasco, Roddick, Cilic, all these will be fighting to win, but surely and that when he learned he had won in Manacor luck, took it out of him in amazement. "I know he plays from the bottom of the track is very solid fighter. I've seen him on TV sometimes but I have too much information. We must try to overcome it by rhythm going for me.

In purely sporting, Nadal was not very satisfied with his first practice on Saturday and decided to repeat in the afternoon. "The week is getting very long, I have trained very well these days, but today was worse, but I think I'm in a good lineup, "said Nadal.

"I think I started the year very well and now we must try to play well here on Monday, when I think I will begin, and what matters is where it starts. I'm here to do my best," he said.

Marin Cilic gave the big surprise of the day by eliminating Andy Murray in the second round of U.S. Open 2009. The Croatian, who signs his best performance at a Grand Slam, is measured in the quarterfinals to Juan Martin del Potro.

The Scot, with his defeat, lost to world No. 2 Rafael Nadal hand, which defeated Gael Monfils smoothly.

The Croatian Marin Cilic (16) beat Andy Murray (2) by an aggregate score of 7-5, 6-2 and 6-2 after two hours and seven minutes in the crash which closed the morning session on center court, the Arthur Ashe. The match was perfect for a Cilic very firm with the service and more aggressive than his rival, adding up to 35 hit winners. Murray, with a few more numbers than discreet, he was always against the tide and gave feelings of fatigue from the beginning of the crash. The British did not use any of the seven balls to break it did in the game and gave, in three sets, up to five of their services. With this defeat, Murray, defendñia 1,200 points last year final at Flushing Meadows last year, could lose his status as world No. 2 for Rafa Nadal, who recovered the second world ranking if he wins to Gaël Monfils in the second round.

In the quarterfinals, Marin Cilic will have to face to face with Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, who broke the Spanish Juan Carlos Ferrero for a score of 6-3, 6-3 and 6-3 after two hours and eight minutes of play in a crash on the runway played Louis Armstrong. Del Potro and Cilic only have seen the faces on one occasion in the second round of Australia Open past, a party that ended with victory of Tandil 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.