A dirt-baller by trade, Ferrer has improved on hardcourts in recent years as he showed here last year with a run to the last 16. Didn't end 2006 particularly well but enjoyed a decent warm-up tournament in Auckland to suggest he can again reach week two in Melbourne. It will need something extraordinary to happen, though, if he is to mount a title challenge.
TEN-YEAR GRAND SLAM HISTORY
06
05
04
03
02
01
00
99
98
97
Australian Open
4R
1R
2R
1R
-
-
-
-
-
-
French Open
3R
QF
2R
2R
-
-
-
-
-
-
Wimbledon
4R
1R
2R
2R
-
-
-
-
-
-
US Open
3R
3R
1R
1R
-
-
-
-
-
-
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