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1/11/10 2:32 PM | Johan Lindahl
Roger Federer's decision to skip the Kooyong AAMI Classic event and prepare in private for the Australian Open won't be much help to Andy Roddick.
With a place now to be filled in the eight-man field the American who won it a year ago would have certainly been top of the list for promoter Colin Stubs. But after his title victory in Brisbane at the
weekend over Radek Stepanek, Roddick says he will train alone in the run-up to the Australian open which begins Monday.
Another Kooyong candidate might be Andy Murray, but the Scot has already indicated that he and his team prefer the Federer and Roddick strategy as well.
Federer's management confirmed at the weekend that the Swiss No. 1 will give the VIP Kooyong tuneup a miss, leaving a competent field lacking star firepower with the eighth participant still to be announced for the four-day event beginning Wednesday.
Novak Djokovic, Robin Soderling, Fernando Gonzalez, and Tommy Haas are already hard at work in training prior to their Kooyong starts with both 2008 Open champion Djokovic and Soderling getting
acclimated to the courts.
The other three in the field are US Open winner Juan Del Potro, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, fighting a wrist injury, and Spain's Fernando Verdasco.
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