
The first racket of Russia Nikolai Davydenko starts at the Moscow Tennis tournament "Kremlin Cup" with a match with the Frenchman Floran Serra. These were the results of the competition held on Saturday on Saturday, RIA Novosti reports.
Marat Safin will get an opponent from qualification, and Igor Andreev will play with Liu Yensun from Taiwan. Mikhail Yuzhny will meet with Teimuraz Gabashvili, and Dmitry Tursunov and Igor Kunitsyn will converge in another Russian derby.
In the female part of the tournament, the first four seeded ones - Elena Yankovich (Serbia), Dinara Safina (Russia), Elena Dementieva (Russia) and Ana Ivanovich (Serbia), respectively, start from the second round. Safina will meet with the winner of the match of the Frenchman Amelie Mororemo - Alise Cornet. Alena Bondarenko (Ukraine), or a tennis player who has come out of the qualification, will become the rival of Dementieva. Yankovich can meet with Russian Vera Dushevina if she manages to beat Nicole Vidishov from the Czech Republic.
The ex-first racket of Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova will meet with Chinese Lee in the first round. Also in the first round there will be purely Russian matches: Maria Kirilenko - Vera Zvonareva and Elena Vesnina - Ekaterina Makarova. Anna Chakvetadze will play with the Dange of Karolin Voznyatski, and Nadezhda Petrova will be with the rival from the qualification.
Matches of the main tournament "Kremlin Cup" will begin in the Moscow sports complex Olympic on Monday.