MELBOURNE, Australia -- The draw has been pretty decimated, but there's still a few guys like Roger Federer, Tommy Haas and Tim Henman who are looking pretty good. They are the guys who are always on the cusp of breaking through -- can they actaully step up and win one?

	McEnroe's Take
	McEnroe Former ATP Tour pro Patrick McEnroe is providing ESPN.com with in-depth analysis during the Australian Open. McEnroe, a tennis analyst for ESPN, is the U.S. Davis Cup team captain.

Henman is the favorite in the bottom half of the draw. In the top half, you have a potential Haas-Federer quarterfinal. Haas has always been a guy who has the game to win a slam, and now he's putting it together mentally and playing with focus. Federer is the new Pete Sampras. He's a great athlete, has an all-court game and tremendous speed plus is a great shotmaker.

Sampras is looking good. He plays Nicolas Escude and then most likely Marat Safin. We'll get a chance to see how well he's playing and how he's holding up.

American Todd Martin is playing well. The old fella looks fitter than he has in two years. It's a big third-round matchup for him against Haas, who is favored in that match.

Taylor Dent, who's in the bottom half of the draw, has an all-court attacking style of game that's looking good. He's in a section of the draw where he can make some noise.

Alex Kim, the Stanford grad, had an incredible victory against Yevgeny Kafelnikov. It's the first time I've seen his game and it's very impressive. He has a good chance to get to the quarters, which is an incredible story coming from the qualifiers. Now it's up to how he'll respond to the pressure of having people looking at him to win and not be the underdog anymore. He faces Fernando Gonzalez on Friday.

Also in that part of the draw is Stefan Koubek who beat American James Blake in five sets -- needless to say that's what we call a wide open part of the draw.

Andy Roddick, who was retired with an injury Thursday seems to be OK. He headed home today, but he's obviously disappointed because he knew he had a chance to do well. He's going to go back and rest up. He'll be fine for Davis Cup and be ready for Oklahoma City.

There have been more injuries than usual this year, but we always see a lot of people go down early at the Australian Open. This Grand Slam starts so early -- it's the beginning of the season and you have people coming off a break after not having a lot of match play. It would be like having the NBA playoffs or the Super Bowl in the second week of the season.

There's not a long enough time in the offseason to recover. The players who do well at the end of the season try to come in and they are still recovering from last year. None of the eight guys who played in the Masters Cup are left in the draw.

There is the obvious argument that there's more depth now, but the other factors outweigh it. At other Grand Slam tournaments, players have a whole year to figure out where they are, but here you come in cold and some players need more time ot figure out their game.