FEDERER SKIPS MAIN AUSSIE OPEN WARM UP

FEDERER SKIPS MAIN AUSSIE OPEN WARM UP

world no:1 Roger federer will not playing warm up matches for the australian open at this week"s koyang classic in melbourne but the propmting to target the briton andy murrey for the vacnt eigth spot invitation. federer who won the grand slam at last year to take rest for before next weekend grand slam at melbourne park ,tournament director Colin Stubs said on Monday.
tonu godsick from img, who is the federer reprentative says roger is pass on the spot this year.stubs says its possible , he`ll play a exhisbition match.Organisers had pledged to hold a place for the 15-times grand slam champion until the day before the January 13-16 tournament.
Aside from missing the 2008 event with glandular fever, Federer has been a fixture at the leafy Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club over the last six years, using it as a springboard to three Australian Open titles.
federer management was did not responce about is taking rest stub said their is any 50-50 chance to play.The 28-year-old was beaten emphatically by Russian world number six Nikolay Davydenko in the semi-finals of the Qatar Open on Friday, a week after his first loss to Swede Robin Soderling in 13 encounters at an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi.

Stubs said organisers were chasing British world number five Andy Murray to take the last place in the field, which boasts US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Spain and Serbian world number three Novak Djokovic.

France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Spaniard Fernando Verdasco will also line up at Kooyong where players are guaranteed three matches on the same surface used at Melbourne Park.
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