WHTV: Djokovic defence in Dubai as Federer withdraws

Posted on February 22, 2010 by godadnet

Top seed Roger Federer has pulled out of this week’s William Hill TV streamed Barclays Dubai Tennis Championship, the ATP Dubai Open.

The two-million-dollar ATP Dubai Open will feature five of the world’s ‘Top 10′ including defending champion Novak Djokovic.

Andy Murray, Marin Cilic, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nikolay Davydenko will also be in action, but will compete without four-time former champion Federer due to a lung infection, said Dubai officials on Sunday.

“He has got a lung infection,” said ATP circuit official Stephen Duckett. “He saw a doctor and he was advised not to play for a fortnight.”

Spain’s Tommy Robredo will now take Federer’s place and will face France’s Julien Benneteau in the first round.

The complete line-up for the 2010 ATP Dubai Open which will be featured LIVE on William Hill TV looks like this.

Player	Nationality	Rank
Novak Djokovic	SRB	2
Andy Murray	GBR	4
Nikolay Davydenko	RUS	6
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	USA	9
Marin Cilic	CRO	10
Mikhail Youzhny	RUS	15
Gilles Simon	FRA	16
Tommy Robredo	ESP	17
Ivan Ljubicic	CRO	24
Jurgen Melzer	AUT	29
Feliciano Lopez	ESP	34
Viktor Troicki	SRB	35
Marcos Baghdatis	CYP	36
Janko Tipsarevic	SRB	37
Julien Benneteau	FRA	39
Andreas Seppi	ITA	46
Gillermo Garcia-Lopez	ESP	47
Marco Chiudinell	SUI	53
Michael Berrer	GER	56
Florent Serra	FRA	59
Arnoud Clement	FRA	62
Lukas Lacko	SVK	66
Sergiv Stakhovsky	UKR	69
Michael Llodra	FRA	79
Rainer Schuettler	FRA	89+
Igor Kunitsyn	RUS	90#
Simone Bolelli	ITA	110
Bjorn Phau	GER	124#
Stefan Koubek	AUT	128#
Jan Hernych	CZE	137*
Somdev Devvarman	IND	141#
Mohammad Ghareeb	ITA	513+