Andy Murray is seeded eighth at the Cincinnati Masters event and therefore has been gifted with a bye in the opening round.

The 21-year-old suffered from a knee injury at the Toronto Masters but has confirmed he should be fit to play.

It's something I've had for quite a long time. It does hurt from time to time in matches. I'll have a scan on Monday but I should be OK to play.

This is my favourite surface. I feel I play consistently well on it, and my results in the bigger tournaments would suggest that.
The Scot is due to meet either Paul-Henri Mathieu or Sam Querrey in the second round. Murray has a positive head to head against both men having beaten Mathieu on both occasions they met and Querrey once.

R1- Bye
R2- Mathieu or Querrey
R3- Gasquet (predicted)
QF- Davydenko (predicted)
SF- Federer (predicted)
Murray finds himself in the same quarter as Nikolay Davydenko, and in the same half as world number one, Roger Federer.

Draw in full

I don't see why not!

 What's that clicking noise?........is it fuzzy playing Russian Roulette or is it just Andy's kneecap again?

lol, yeah i agree... he might not even get as far as the semi's if he plays like he did this week.

but i don't think the great man has lost his magic yet, he might still surprise us all!

Gasquet is my only worry.  I'd be supremely confident about Murray beating both Davydenko and Federer.  Sounds strange to be so confident, but Murray's game is all wrong for Fed at the best of times, nevermind when he's struggling.

Yeah agreed but I still think that Andy should at least reach the semis and can easily go further.

Gasquet had one opportunity to seal the match, not dozens.  With the exception of the double fault, Andy won that game.  It wasn't a choke.

It's all conjecture.  Gasquet was up two sets and a break.  Murray broke his serve.  It was no different to Gasquet breaking Murray's serve.  Just because Murray happened to break at 4-5 doesn't mean Gasquet choked.  Watch that game again and you'll see that Andy won 3 of those 4 points: a screaming backhand winner, an awesome return of serve that was out of Gasquet's reach when he came in to volley and a forehand that forced a Gasquet error.  Gasquet double faulted for the break, but Murray won the other points.  You can't call 1 double fault a choke.

After that, Gasquet never had any chances.  Murray played a great tiebreaker and then simply outplayed Gasquet.  It was a best of 5 sets match.  The fact that someone is up by 2 sets does not mean that they *should* win the match.  They still have to win another set.  Losing from 2 sets up does not automatically equate to a choke.  It simply means that they lost 3 sets in a row.  It's the same as losing in straight sets.

People seem to think that a 2 set lead should automatically lead to a win and if it doesn't, it's a choke.  It's nonsense.  Gasquet lost because Murray raised his level and he couldn't maintain his own level.  If anything, it was a lack of stamina that cost him and not a choke.