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Three former champions of the tournament will grace the court when top seeds USA, represented by world number 11 James Blake, start their campaign against the Slovak Republic in their opening rubber. Teenager Dominika Cibulkova, world number 20, will join Dominik Hrbarty as they aim to upset the two time champions. In other first round matches, rising French Superstars Alize Cornet and Gilles Simon have been given the honour of opening the tournament and will face the winner of the Asian Hopman Cup. The Russian siblings of world number 2 Dinara Safina and big brother and former world number 1 Marat Safin play their first match on “Tennis West Family Day” against the inform Italian combination of world number 14 Flavia Pennetta and Simone Bolelli.
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