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Rome: better than 2006?

Roger will play the ‚Internazionali d’Italia’ in Rome this week. He will certainly try to improve last year’s mark when he lost to Rafael Nadal in the final – after having had two match balls. He has never been able to win the tournament this far.

Roger has a bye for the first round and will later either face Spain’s Nicolas Almagro (ATP 39) or his British friend Tim Henman (ATP 50). Roger has won all three duels with Almagro who has already won a title on clay (Valencia) this year and leads the head-to-head against Henman 7-6. Roger has won the last 6 matches against Henman.

Our number one could meet France’s Richard Gasquet (ATP 15) who just made the final in Estoril. The quarter finals could mean matches against Tomas Berdych (ATP 12) or Ivan Ljubicic (ATP 8).