Tennis Paparazzi

Two unseeded players, Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka and Korean Hyung-Taik Lee managed to secure a fourth-round placing after a two difficult second and third round battles against seeded players. Wawrinka and Hyung-Taik Lee will meet in the fourth round. Personally I would support the Korean because I am Asian!

World No.5 David Ferrer really put up a good play and eventually lose the match to the Korean Hyung-Taik Lee in 3-sets 6(5)-7, 7-6(5), 6(3)-7. The Swiss No.2 Wawrinka was not able to close the match in straight-set after taking the first set from No.18 seed Marcos Baghdatis but eventually won the match without losing a game in the third set 6-3, 6(1)-7, 6-0.

The match between Argentine countrymen No.16 seed Guillermo Canas and No.21 seed Juan Monaco was full of drama especially in the third set where there are 2 over-rules from the chair empire which the players disagree and argue for a while. It even affected the mood of Juan Monaco and indirectly contributed to his loss to Guillermo Canas. 

As the match progress, the more exciting it will become. In the fourth round, World No.2 Rafael Nadal sets up an encore match with World No.17 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga since the recent 2008 Australian Open where the Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga upsets Nadal in straight 3-sets in the semi-final. Their career head-to-head statistics is 1-1 so this will be quite an exciting match to watch out for. No.8 seed Richard Gasquet will face No.9 seed James Blake for the third time in the Masters Series. Can the No.1 Frenchman extend the lead to 3-0?

World No.3 Novak Djokovic clash with Guillermo Canas for the second time. Canas dream of winning his first Masters Series shield was smashed by Serbian Novak Djokovic last year in Miami Masters Series Final. This is going to be a golden opportunity for Canas to prove that he can also defeat the World No.3 like the way he overcome the World No.1 last year in Miami.

There are still three Top 10 players who will played today, World No.1 Roger Federer vs Nicholas Mahut, World No.4 Nikolay Davydenko vs seond American left in the competition, Mardy Fish, and World No.7 David Nalbandian vs World No.29 Radek Stepanek.