Queen’s organizers must have looked up to the tennis gods and said “why has thou forsaken me?”.  Tournaments give seeds to top players to protect them from beating up on one another so that they might play in the later rounds.  And yet Queen’s has the singular privilege–if one can call it that–of all top 6 seeds having been upset.

The day started off with Andy Murray continuing his match against Mardy Fish.  Last night, at 3-all, Fish stormed off the court at 8:30, having been up 3-1.  Murray complained bitterly that the Monfils-Fognini match went at least another hour longer and that this match shouldn’t be called so soon.  Nevertheless, the match was postponed until today.  The two continued on serve until the tiebreak when Murray reverted to his usual habits.  In a desire to be aggressive, Murray netted a few shots while Fish came to net and applied the pressure to him.  Murray lost the tiebreak 7-2.  Being the defending champ, Murray will lose some points when rankings come out next week.

Already, Novak Djokovic had lost in 3 sets to the “X” man, Xavier Malisse.  Number 4 seed, Andy Roddick, lost in two close sets to Dudi Sela in the third round.  Roddick has hardly played since his victory in Miami.  He skipped the entire clay season, won a few matches at the French, and lost to Sela.

Number 5 seed, Marin Cilic, has a game that’s probably not well-suited to the grass.  He prefers the higher bounce and faster pace of hard courts.  Michael Llodra, the 12th seed, beat him in two close sets.  Llodra now plays Fish, who has to play two matches in one day (admittedly only a handful of games against Murray) to keep to the schedule.

Number 6 seed, Gael Monfils, isn’t much of a grass courter.  He can get too passive, stand way back, and try to use his athleticism to win.  He lost in the 2nd round to Rainer Schuettler.

At number 7 is Sam Querrey, and he’s now has a good chance to move on.  Number 8 is Feliciano Lopez, who has a game that works well on grass.

And the seed you least expect to lose, three time finalist (including one win) at Wimbledon, Rafael Nadal, continued to struggle some.  Feliciano Lopez is one of the few Spaniards whose game is perhaps best suited to grass.  He has a big lefty serve.  He slices his backhand a lot.  He volleys pretty well.  He took the first set in a tiebreak.  In the second set, Lopez had an early break but Nadal played an aggressive match and broke back right away.  Lopez again broke late, and worked hard to serve out the match.  In the end, his deep slices and a few awkward shots leading to Nadal errors lead him to the win.

Final score: 7-6(5), 6-4.

So Queen’s is wide open to the lower seeds, with Sam Querrey as the highest seed remaining.