This year’s US Men’s Clay Court Championship at the River Oaks Country Club features a solid field led by the top two Americans on the ATP World Tour, No. 9 Mardy Fish and No. 10 John Isner. This is the only ATP World Tour 250 clay court tournament in the United States. Fish returns as the top seed for the second year in a row and Isner was No. 4 one year ago. Isner helped the U.S. into the Davis Cup semi-finals (vs. Spain) by winning both of his singles matches vs. France over the weekend. There are a tournament-high eight Americans in the draw, including defending champion Ryan Sweeting.
The other seeds are: No. 3 Feliciano Lopez of Spain, No. 4 Juan Monaco of Argentina, No. 5 Kevin Anderson of South Africa, No. 6 Carlos Berlocq of Argentina, No. 7 Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia, and No. 8 Ivo Karlovic of Croatia. Lopez, Monaco and Anderson are all wild card entries. On Monday’s schedule, there are four qualifying, three singles main draw and one doubles match. The final round of qualifying includes Houston resident Michael Russell, who is first on Center Court vs. Daniel Kosakowski followed by 2004 champion Tommy Haas against Go Soedaof Japan. In the evening session, former World No. 4 and 2008 runner-up James Blake takes a 2-0 career advantage against No. 6 seed Berlocq. Blake won the last meeting here in the first round one year ago in three sets. In the final match, 2010 finalist Sam Querrey takes on Frenchman Eric Prodon for the first time. Prodon is looking for his first ATP World Tour match win of the season (0-5).
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