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Safin set to play in Barcelona Open

AFP, Barcelona
Marat Safin will test himself against a trio of clay-toughened Spanish fellow seeds when he returns to action at the 1-million-euro Barcelona Open.
The 23-year-old Russian has not set foot on the red dirt this season and last competed at the hard-court Miami Masters, where he lost in his opening match to Italian Davide Sanguinetti after a first-round bye.
Safin fronted up for Russia's 5-0 Davis Cup hammering this month in Buenos Aires but was unable to play due to injury.
Seeded fourth at the Real Club de Tenis, Safin begins with a bye and then will face either Slovak Karol Beck or a qualifier.
Heading the field at their home event are three Spaniards with polished claycourt pedigrees.
Juan Carlos Ferrero, winner of the Monte Carlo Masters at the weekend, is atop the field, with long-time rival Carlos Moya second.
Moya, beaten in the semifinals in the Principality by Argentine Guillermo Coria, is hoping to improve on last year's early exit in Barcelona.
"There is not a competition between us Spaniards; for me it's to be Number one in the world, not in Spain. You have to go step by step, try to win the next match and see what happens," said Moya.
Albert Costa will continue his tune-up for the defence of his French Open title as third seed.
Outside of Safin, the rest of the 16 seeds all come to the Catalan capital with their games honed on the clay in Monte Carlo.
The tournament suffered a pair of high-level - thought not totally unexpected - defections.
World Number one Lleyton Hewitt is embroiled in a legal feud with the ATP and is in the process of cutting his tournament schedule to rule out smaller events, concentrating on the four majors and the Davis Cup, where Australia face Switzerland next September.
Briton Greg Rusedski has not competed since the US Open, and has since undergone two surgeries to sure ankle and knee injuries.
The pressure will be on Argentine Gaston Gaudio, the defending champion who went through a purple patch here a year ago as he won Barcelona and Mallorca back-to-back.
The South American lost in the third round at Monte Carlo to Ferrero, the man of the moment on the surface.