Along with the other seeds at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, Andy Murray has been handed a ticket straight to the second round. However, there he may face former world number one, Marat Safin.

Murray will find out his opponent when the winner of the match between Safin and Austrian Jurgen Melzer is decided. Following this potentially tricky first opponent, the number eleven seed has managed to avoid all of the top five until the quarter final, where he would possibly be given the chance to repeat his landslide victory of last week over the current number one, Roger Federer. However the draw is far from easy with an on-form Andy Roddick predicted for the fourth round.

The rest of Murray's draw is as follows:


View the full draw.

Murray confirmed for Queens Club
Andy Murray has confirmed that he will once again compete at the biggest warm up tournament for Wimbledon held at the Queens Club in London.

This year's event is scheduled to begin on the 9th of June and will also feature world number two, Rafael Nadal, world number 3, Novak Djokovic and defending champion, Andy Roddick.

Last year Murray missed out on competing at the tournament at which he burst onto the British scene in 2005 because of his significant wrist injury.

It's not terrible, for a Masters certainly. Although Roddick is on a bit of a high.

He meets Roddick in the 4th round, and Federer in the quarters. Its probably the hardest draw he could have got.

His fourth round and quarter final matches are arguably the hardest possible. The possibilities for the fourth round were seeds 5-8, and i would say Roddick is the hardest from those. In the quarters he could have faced any of the top 4, and he got a Federer out to prove a point.

Whats worse then being in Federers quarter, and Roddick's eighth?

And my other point still stands, he didn't "manage" to avoid the top 5 till the quarters - it was very unlikely he would have met the top 5 before then. The top 4 it was impossible to meet, and the chance of meeting the 5th was only 25%.

Well in that case I'm wrong then.

I did say 'arguably'! If you'd have asked me before hand for what i would want the least, this combination would have probably been it for me!
My point for the 'manage' business was more that it sounds like he was dealt a bit of luck by not meeting a top 5 player, but thats not true... The truth is, the reason you probably wrote 'manage' was because you thought originally he only met Fed in the semis. That would then have been extremely lucky, not to meet a top 5 to the semis (it would have been so lucky because its impossible - you have to be one of the top 4 not to meet a top 4 till the semis!)

I was kidding. Hence the

That was kind of my way of acknowledging my mistake.

I hope so. This could very well be where he makes his mark. Show everyone he deserves that place in the top 5.