Next Week

I am so tired from Wimbledon that I don't have much energy to analyse the draws for this week, but I'll look at them anyway. Wawrinka leads the seeds in Gstaad on Red Clay. Personally without much analyse on many of the top players I don't know who will succeed but I will be cheering for the third seed; Youzhny. In Newport, USA Mardy Fish leads the seeds with expectedly quite a few Americans. I don't really have a favourite here so I will skip this draw until the final. In Bastad, Sweden Ferrer - the newly crowned No.4 in the world leads the seeds on Clay. Robredo, Nieminen, Mota, Safin, Berdych, Monfils and Verdasco look also to be title contenders. Hopefully Safin will play well here and continue his good run. This draw is interesting though so I'll be following it for the whole week. In Stuttgart Germany the newly crowned Wimbledon champion will go back to his favourite surface; Clay. He will surely be the favourite; but one question does lurk into mind - will he be too tired to play? Anyway besides Nadal it looks like Gasquet will also try to get back into the Top 10. But this draw doesn't ineterest me until possibly the Quaterfinals.
On the womens side it looks like the Top players are licking their wounds from Wimbledon as no Top 10 player will be active; you could argue that it is just a Tier III and IV tournament but I think it is somewhat to do with their early loss. In Budapest Szavay and Cornet lead a draw of blow Top 40 players. This draw doesn't really interest me. In Palermo it will be one of my favourites; Flavia Pennetta leading the draw. Her biggest adversary here is Medina Garrigues; who recently beat her. Alla Kudryavtseva will however want to say differently. Besides those three I don't see many other possible winners, unless Wickmayer can make a shock comeback.