The second day of the Kremlin Cup features No. 4 seed Igor Andreev, who captured the title in Moscow in 2005, along with No. 2 seed Victor Hanescu of Romania, No. 7 Fabrice Santoro of France and No. 8 Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina. In addition, last year’s singles finalists, Igor Kunitsyn and Marat Safin, team up for a first round doubles match against No. 2 seeds Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram during the day session. Leading off the schedule of play is Russian teenage wild card Mikhail Biryukov, who makes his ATP World Tour debut against Ukraine qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky. Not before 6 p.m., Andreev takes on Robby Ginepri, looking to avenge a four-set loss to the American at Roland Garros last year.
    
TUESDAY FIRST ROUND HEAD-TO-HEADS – In Order of Play by Court

Centre Court

(WC) Mikhail Biryukov (RUS) vs (Q) Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)   First Meeting
  
Biryukov FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 0-0
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: April 28, 1992
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 1156

• Biryukov, 17, is the youngest player and lowest-ranked (No. 1156) in the draw and he’s making his ATP World Tour debut
• He has earned five South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking points this season by playing in Futures events...In March, he reached the quarter-finals at the U.S. Futures #6
• In August, he played in back-to-back Russia Futures #4 and #5, losing in the second round each time
• He played in three of the four junior Grand Slam tournaments this year, with his best result the quarter-finals at the Australian Open...He also lost in the second round at Roland Garros and US Open

Stakhovsky FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
QF: Doha (l Murray); Zagreb (l Troicki)
YTD W-L: 9-13
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 1
Date of Birth: January 6, 1986
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 110

• Stakhovsky, 23, qualified into the main draw on Monday with a three-set win over Ilya Belyaev...He is 1-3 lifetime in Moscow, defeating No. 21-ranked Dmitry Tursunov three years ago before losing in the next round to Arnaud Clement...Last year he lost to another Frenchman, Paul-Henri Mathieu 63 62 in the first round…He won his first ATP World Tour doubles title in Moscow last year (w/Starace)
• The top player from Ukraine has a 9-13 match record on the season in ATP World Tour level competition and is 15-12 in Challengers...Last week he advanced to the quarter-finals at the Tashkent Challenger
• His best ATP World Tour results are the quarter-finals in Doha in the first week of the season, losing to eventual champion Andy Murray, and in Zagreb in February (l. to Troicki)
• Last season finished in the Top 100 for the first time at a year-end best No. 74, highlighted by his first ATP World Tour title in Zagreb (d. Ljubicic)

Igor Kunitsyn-Marat Safin vs. (2) Eric Butorac-Rajeev Ram First Meeting

• Kunitsyn-Safin are playing together in their fourth ATP World Tour tournament (4-4 record), the second this year...In late July, they reached the quarter-finals in Los Angeles (l. to Bryans)...They also teamed in the Davis Cup quarter-final tie in Israel in July and lost to Erlich-Ram in five sets
• In their previous tournaments together, they advanced to the semi-finals in Los Angeles last year (l. to Parrott-Vemic) and later in the season they reached the quarter-finals in St. Petersburg (l. to Bopanna-Mirnyi)
• Kunitsyn has a 52-63 career record in doubles and he is 0-3 in ATP World Tour finals -- 2006 Nottingham (w/Tursunov), 2007 Newport (w/Healey) and 2009 Kuala Lumpur (w/Levinsky)...His best Grand Slam result was the semi-finals at Roland Garros last year (w/Tursunov)
• Safin has a career mark of 96-118 in doubles and he is 2-4 in finals...He won titles in 2001 Gstaad (w/Federer) and 2007 Moscow (w/Tursunov)

•  Butorac-Ram are teaming together for the fourth time, the third this year...They have a 9-1 career mark since debuting at Queen's in June 2008 with a quarter-final result (l. to Mirnyi-J. Murray)
• This season they opened with a title in Chennai (d. Scherrer-Wawrinka) and earlier this month (Oct. 4) they earned the title in Bangkok (d. Garcia-Lopez-Zverev)...Butorac also won the title in Estoril (w/Lipsky) in May
• Butorac has a 70-74 career record in doubles and he is 7-1 in ATP World Tour finals...He won three titles in 2007 -- San Jose, Memphis and Nottingham (all w/J. Murray)...Last year he won the title in Los Angeles (w/Bopanna)
• Ram has a 36-38 career mark in doubles and he is 3-1 in finals...Besides the two titles (w/Butorac), also won in Newport (w/Kerr) where he also collected his first ATP World Tour singles title    

  
(4) Igor Andreev (RUS) vs Robby Ginepri (USA) Ginepri Leads 1-0
08 Roland Garros (France) Clay R64 Robby Ginepri 4-6 6-2 7-6(5)  6-2

Andreev FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
SF: Casablanca (l Ferrero); Gstaad (l Bellucci); New Haven (l Verdasco); QF: Dubai (l Ferrer)
YTD W-L: 27-29
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 3
Date of Birth: July 14, 1983
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 41

• Andreev, 26, comes into his hometown tournament with an 11-4 career mark and he has never lost in the first round in five previous appearances...His last ATP World Tour title came here four years ago when he defeated German Nicolas Kiefer in three sets...He also reached the quarter-finals in his debut in 2003 (l. to Mathieu) and in 2007 (l. to Davydenko)
• The No. 3 Russian (behind No. 6 Davydenko, No. 30 Youzhny) comes in with a 27-29 match record on the season (14-17 on hard courts)…He is 1-4 indoors
• His best results are the semi-finals in Casablanca (l. to Ferrero) and Gstaad (l. to Bellucci) on clay and in New Haven (l. to Verdasco) on hard courts in August…He lost to the eventual champion in all three
• He is ranked No. 41 and he’s trying to finish in the Top 50 for the third straight year and fifth in last six

Ginepri FastFacts:
2009 Highligts:
W: Indianapolis (d Querrey)
YTD W-L: 11-19
YTD Titles: 1
Career Titles: 3
Date of Birth: October 7, 1982
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 92

• Ginepri, 27, is making his second straight appearance in Moscow after losing in the second round to eventual champion Igor Kunitsyn last year
• His best result of the season came in July when he captured his third career ATP World Tour title at
      the Indianapolis Tennis Championships, defeating countryman Sam Querrey
• He has an 11-19 match record on the season (9-11 on hard) and 2-3 indoors…He is coming off a two-week trip to Asia where he lost in the second round in Bangkok and first round in Beijing…He played in the qualifying in Shanghai but lost in the last round
• The Georgia resident, who was slowed early in the year by a nine-day hospital stay due to appendix  surgery, came back from the surgery 30 pounds lighter
• The American ranked as high as No. 15 on South African Airways ATP Rankings on Dec. 26, 2005

Court 1

(7) Fabrice Santoro (FRA) vs (WC) Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS)  First Meeting

Santoro FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
SF: Eastbourne (l Dancevic); Newport (l Querrey); QF: Dubai (l Simon)
YTD W-L: 14-17
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 6
Date of Birth: December 9, 1972
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 50

Kuznetsov FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 0-0
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: February 22, 1991
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 413

(Q) Nicolas Kiefer (GER) vs Marcel Granollers (ESP)    First Meeting

Kiefer FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
SF: Stuttgart (l Chardy); QF: Gstaad (l Bellucci)
YTD W-L: 12-14
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 6
Date of Birth: July 5, 1977
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 104

Granollers FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
SF: Chennai (l Cilic)
YTD W-L: 15-22
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 1
Date of Birth: April 12, 1986
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 78

Court 2

Wayne Odesnik (USA) vs (2) Victor Hanescu (ROU)    First Meeting

Marc Gicquel (FRA) vs Christophe Rochus (BEL)  Gicquel Leads 1-0
06 US Open (U.S.A.) Hard R128 Marc Gicquel 6-3 6-3 6-4
Other Meetings:
04 St. Brieuc CH (France) Clay R16 Christophe Rochus 6-3 6-1

Andrey Golubev (KAZ) vs Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG) Vassallo Arguello Leads 1-0
09 Stuttgart (Germany) Clay R32 Martin Vassallo Arguello 3-6 6-3 6-0
Other Meetings:
05 Reggio Emilia CH (Italy) Clay R32 Martin Vassallo Arguello 6-2 6-4

Court 3

(Q) Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA)  First ATP Meeting
Other Meetings:
09 Roland Garros Q (France) Clay R2 Fabio Fognini 6-3 7-6(4)

Daniel Koellerer (AUT) vs Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)  First ATP Meeting
Other Meetings:
05 Olbia CH (Italy) Clay R32 Janko Tipsarevic 7-5 6-1

WEDNESDAY FIRST ROUND HEAD-TO-HEADS

Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) vs Marat Safin (RUS)   Davydenko Leads 4-3
06 Dubai (U.A.E.) Hard R32 Marat Safin 4-6 6-2 6-2
06 ATP Masters Series Indian Wells  Hard R32 Marat Safin 7-6(5)3-6 6-4
06 Estoril (Portugal) Clay R16 Nikolay Davydenko 4-6 6-1 6-2
06 Moscow (Russia) Carpet F Nikolay Davydenko 6-4 5-7 6-4
07 ATP Masters Series Rome (Italy) Clay R32 Nikolay Davydenko 7-6(4)7-5
08 Roland Garros (France) Clay R64 Nikolay Davydenko 7-6(4) 6-2 6-2
08 Moscow (Russia) Hard QF Marat Safin 7-6(5) 4-6 6-4

Evgeny Korolev (RUS) vs Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)   Korolev Leads 1-0
09 Delray Beach (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Evgeny Korolev 6-4 7-6(3)
Other Meetings:
05 Aachen CH (Germany) Carpet QF Evgeny Korolev 6-1 7-6(1)

(Q) Illya Marchenko (UKR) vs Denis Istomin (UZB)  First ATP Meeting
Other Meetings:
07 Uzbekistan F1 (Uzbekistan) Hard SF Denis Istomin 4-6 7-6(4) 6-2
08 Bukhara CH (Uzbekistan) Hard F Denis Istomin 4-6 6-2  6-4
08 Astana CH (Kazakhstan) Hard R32 Denis Istomin 6-3 6-1