Preview: Barclays Dubai Tennis Tournament

City: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Championship Points: 500
2008 Singles Champion: Andy Roddick
2008 Doubles Champions: Knowles/Bhupathi

Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Fernando have all pulled out of the tournament. This leaves Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic as the heavy favorites. Hopefully, a couple of players will step it up and make this tournament interesting.

Tournament Draw
Singles / Doubles

Monday's Matches:
Singles Round of 32
2 Andy Murray (GBR) vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)
4 David Ferrer (ESP) vs. Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)
5 Marin Cilic (CRO) vs. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
7 Ivo Karlovic (CRO) vs. Q Marci Chiudinelli (SUI)
Victor Hanescu (ROU) vs. Fabrice Santoro (FRA)
Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) vs. Q Laurent Recouderc (FRA)

Doubles Round of 16
R. de Voest (RSA)/D. Tursunov (RUS) vs. I. Andreev (RUS)/M. Youzhny (RUS)
3 L Dlouhy (CZE)/L Paes (IND) vs. S Bolelli (ITA)/I Karlovic (CRO)
M Matkowski (POL)/R Schuettler (GER) vs. C Kas (GER)/P Kohlschreiber (GER)

Monday's Order of Play

(image from 2008 final: Barclays Dubai Tennis Tournament)