MUNICH AND OEIRAS HAVE PLENTY TO OFFER DURING MASTERS BREAK By Ricky Dimon

Written by: Staff on 27th April 2014

MUNICH AND OEIRAS HAVE PLENTY TO OFFER DURING MASTERS BREAK By Ricky Dimon

epa03821398 Canadian Milos Raonic asks for balls ibefore serving to Rafael Nadal of Spain during their Men's singles final match of the Open ATP tennis tournament in Montreal, Canada, 11 August 2013. Nadal later won the match. EPA/ANDRE PICHETTE |

For a second straight week there is no Masters 1000 event and this time around there is not even a 500-pointer on the menu. Monte-Carlo and Barcelona have gone by the wayside and the back-to-back stretch of Madri followed by Rome does not begin until next week.

Munich and Oeiras, however, should not be overlooked.

Two Top 10 players are in action, with Tomas Berdych and Milos Raonic leading the way in Oeiras. Munich may not have the Top 10 stars, but its deep field specializes is the 11-30 range. Fabio Fognini, Tommy Haas, Mikhail Youzhny, Gael Monfils, Philipp Kohlschreiber, and Feliciano Lopez are all taking part in the tournament.

It is interesting to note just how wide open Munich is. Seven of the eight seeds in the draw have retired from at least one match already in 2014 (only Andreas Seppi has persevered through the first four months of the season unscathed). Both Fognini and Kohlschreiber, for example, retired with injuries in Barcelona matches against Santiago Giraldo last week. Gael Monfils retired from a Bucharest semifinal against Grigor Dimitrov.

Unseeded veterans such as Lleyton Hewitt, Jarkko Nieminen, Jurgen Melzer, and Ivo Karlovic will be look to capitalize on this opportunity at the BMW Open.

Berdych and Raonic are essentially replacing David Ferrer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the Oerias bracket. Ferrer and Wawrinka were the top two seeds last year and they faced each other in the final (Wawrinka won in straight sets). Berdych and Raonic will be favored to do the same this week, but some in-form contenders like Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Teymuraz Gabashvili, and Portugal’s own Joao Sousa will be hoping to crash the party.

Topics: David Ferrer, Fabio Fognini, Gael Monfils, GRIGOR DIMITROV, Lleyton Hewitt, Masters 1000, Mikhail Youzhny, Munich, Oeiras, Ricky Dimon, Stanislas Wawrinka, Tennis, Tennis News, Tommy Haas

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April 27, 2014 at 11:01 pm

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April 28, 2014 at 4:20 am

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