Top four seeds ready for play

Ferrer, Almagro, Verdasco and Chela in action Wednesday

January 11, 2012

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The sun is shining and we've got a star lineup today for 2012 Heineken Open action.

Day four gets underway with the young upstart Ryan Harrison of the US taking on 2008 champ Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany on centre court, followed by #2 seed Nicolas Almagro of Spain.

Top seed and defending champion David Ferrer plays his first match against Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic before Kiwis Artem Sitak and Jose (Rubin) Statham play Frantisek Cermak of the Czech Republic and Filip Polasek of Slovakia.

Other singles action today includes #4 seed Juan Ignacio Chela, Thomaz Bellucci and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

The night session brings Fernando Verdasco back to the court in singles action, as the #3 seed plays Carlos Berlocq of Argentina. The Kiwi doubles team of Daniel King-Turner and Michael Venus will end the night session against Treat Conrad Huey and Scott Lipsky.