2008 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
Tennis tournament
The 2008 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts . It was the 36th edition of the event known that year as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament , and was part of the ATP International Series Gold of the 2008 ATP Tour . It took place at the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam , Netherlands, from 18 February through 24 February 2008. Michaël Llodra won the singles title.
The field featured ATP No. 2, reigning French Open champion and recent Australian Open semifinalist Rafael Nadal , Moscow winner Nikolay Davydenko , and Tennis Masters Cup runner-up and Australian Open quarterfinalist David Ferrer . Also present competing were Chennai titlist Mikhail Youzhny , Tokyo semifinalist Tomáš Berdych , Andy Murray , Juan Carlos Ferrero and Marcos Baghdatis .
This tournament was notable in which none of the seeds reached the quarter-finals, with defending champion Youzhny, Murray, Ferrero and Baghdatis, as well as 2004 champion Lleyton Hewitt , all losing in the first round. Nadal, Davydenko, Ferrer and Berdych were the second round casualties – with Italian Andreas Seppi causing an upset by virtue of his defeat of the top-seeded Nadal, to follow on from his first round defeat of Hewitt. This was only the third ATP tournament since 2000 in which no seeds reached the quarter-finals.[ 3]
Finals
Singles
Michaël Llodra defeated Robin Söderling , 6–7(3–7) , 6–3, 7–6(7–4)
It was Michaël Llodra's 2nd title of the year, and his 3rd overall.
Doubles
Tomáš Berdych / Dmitry Tursunov defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber / Mikhail Youzhny , 7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
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