Malaysian Open Tennis 2009: Here's the official entry list...

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I have to republish this again.

1 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS (currently ranked at no.8)
2 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 10
3 Soderling, Robin SWE 11
4 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 12
5 Monfils, Gael FRA 13
6 Berdych, Tomas CZE 18
7 Ferrer, David ESP 19
8 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 32
9 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 36 (Wooohooooooooo! My prayers answered!)
10 Gasquet, Richard FRA 38 (Wonder if he's ready to make a return trip to Malaysia and play here...)
11 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 42
12 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 43
13 Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 49
14 Vliegen, Kristof BEL 50
15 Acasuso, Jose ARG 51
16 Serra, Florent FRA 56
17 Golubev, Andrey KAZ 57
18 Rochus, Christophe BEL 60
19 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 64
20 (SE)
21 (SE)
22 (Q)
23 (Q)
24 (Q)
25 (Q)
26 (WC) (Will be given to Kei Nishikori if he can recover in time for this tournament... very unlikely though)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)

Alternates
1. Greul, Simon GER 66
2. Bellucci, Thomaz BRA 67
3. Ginepri, Robby USA 70
4. Hernych, Jan CZE 72
5. Koellerer, Daniel AUT 73
6. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 74 (If Nishikori can't recover in time for MO, then please bring Rendy, Asia's best here!)
7. Crivoi, Victor ROU 75
8. Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 76
9. Zeballos, Horacio ARG 78
10. Luczak, Peter AUS 79
11. Kendrick, Robert USA 80
12. Korolev, Evgeny RUS 82
13. Hernandez, Oscar ESP 84
14. Odesnik, Wayne USA 85
15. Phau, Bjorn GER 87

If you're impressed with the line-up, then get your tickets fast! Go to www.MalaysianOpenTennis.com

In the meanwhile, HCFoo is hoping and drooling for a pair up between Verdasco and Lopez at the Malaysian Open doubles match.

TENNIS WATCH: Richard Gasquet's return, Andy Murray's white boy rap

Richard Gasquet could be making his competitive return at New Haven next week.

He has not played since Rome after tested positive for cocaine in Miami.

A hair test recently has cleared Gasquet of regular cocaine use, while a hair test on Pamela, the woman Gasquet cited as the source of the cocaine in his system, indicated regular use of the banned substance.

Gasquet said he repeatedly kissed Pamela at a nightclub the evening before his positive test.

Pamela is reportedly suing Gasquet for defamation.

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After Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray is the latest tennis star who will be featured in one of the Bryan Brothers Band's song.

The Bryanbros tweeted about Murray rapping a verse for one of their song to be included in their debut album, Let It Rip scheduled to release on September 1.

Fernando Verdasco upset in Cincy, narcissistic FeVer takes over

It's quite a rare occasion to see Fernando Verdasco lost in the first round.

He blamed the racquet. But Verdasco could have underestimated his fellow compatriot Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, which resulted him to lost 6-7, 6-7 in Cincinnati Masters.

Loss aside, Verdasco could be winning with his FeVer clothing range soon (I stole this picture from Forty Deuce).

Most probably inspired by the famous "RF" monogram, Verdasco's dad assured fans that their are working towards making FeVer available in the market soon!

Marat Safin: Life after retirement... the answer could be marriage

"Agassi is different. He likes to take care of the kids. He has some kind of a school. Courier, he has a band. McEnroe, he's commentating, and also he has a band. So everybody has a different approach. Some people get depressed and they try to come back. Some people they can't because they are overweight. Everybody has a different story. I will see. I think it's very interesting life afterwards."
~ Marat Safin, on life after retirement.

According to Down The Line Tennis, Russian media has reportedly said that Marat Safin will be marrying his pop singer girlfriend Nastya Osipova. No date were mentioned yet.

So a marriage could be something that he's looking forward to after retirement.

Updates:
Here's an interesting comment from an anonymous reader who denied the "marriage":

"This was a lie started by Life.ru. Marat himself said there would be no wedding and when in Paris when questioned by an Argentine sports announcer, he said he had a girlfriend "sort of. A little, a little." Marat is not in love with Nastya Osipova and will not be marrying her."

(Image via Yahoo! Sports)