Tennis Paparazzi

Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells is always the first Masters Series tournament for the year. All the players in the Top 20 South African Airways ATP Rankings will be featured in the 2008 Pacific Life Open.

World No.1 Roger Federer who had not won his first ATP title yet in 2008 is determined to win the title this year in order to defend his World No.1 ranking. World No.2 Rafael Nadal is only trailing Federer by 350 ATP ranking points will need to defend his title this year to stand a better chance of taking over Federer in the number 1 spot. Both players have not won their ATP title yet in year 2008. Who will emerge the winner?

The main draw for the men’s singles will be a very exciting and challenging journey for both World No.1 and No.2. Federer is looking at Djokovic and Andy Roddick who both started off their seasons with outstanding results. Guillermo Canas who surprisingly subdue the World No.1 Roger Federer in the first round of last year Pacific Life Open is also in the same half of the draw as Federer this year. Nadal is leading the other half of the draw that includes Tsonga who crashed him out in the 2008 Australian Open semi-finals in straight sets.

Djokovic will start off the order of play today against Andreas Seppi from Italy followed by Nadal against a qualifier named Santiago Giraldo.

Stay tuned on my blog for more updates of the 2008 Pacific Life Open.