AN ATP MASTERS SERIES EVENT
11th - 19th OCTOBER
ATP News : 2005
Gaudio will be the eighth player in Shangai
Lleyton Hewit announced yesterday that will not play in Shangai. The Australian had to withdraw from the circuit finale in Shanghai, the tournament that he won in 2001 in Sydney and in 2002 in Shangai, due to Hewitt and his wife are expecting their first
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Madrid, November 8th, 2005. The fortunate after the resignation of Hewitt to play in Shangai has been Gaston Gaudio. The Argentine, with four titles in 2005 (Gstaad, Kitzbuhel, Viña del Mar, Buenos Aires and Estoril), holds the ninth position in the ranking and will play for the second consecutive time the Masters Cup. Last year, he played there for the first time and he did not win any match. Gaudio will seek this year his first triumph in the tournament of Masters. Hewitt, ex number one of the world, who won the title of champion of the Masters in 2001 in Sydney and in 2002 in Shangai, reaffirmed that his great desire always was to participate in the last tournament of the year, but the one of being father was above any tournament. The Australian player through the ATP said that he was "very disappointed", but that "with my baby due in the next two weeks, it is not possible for me to come”. The last tournament of the season that distributes 4,45 million dollars in prize will begin on Sunday. Next to Gaudio, will also be Federer, Nadal, Roddick, Agassi, Coria, Davydenko and Ljubicic. The Russian Marat Safin has been another of the important drops of this year. Safin has preferred not to risk this year and to recover himself of a wound in his knee that has put him away from the courts. |