"It's my first final in Masters Series and I'm happy with my season, " said the beaten Ferrer.
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Murray, who is going for a third successive Masters Series title, opens his campaign against American Sam Querrey on Wednesday.
Tim Henman spent just over an hour beating Marc Rosset in the first round of the Masters Series event in Monaco.
However, Murray is expected to participate in the Rogers Cup in Toronto, the sixth ATP Masters Series event this season, starting 21 July.
"I have been to the Masters Series events in the States and grand slams but for setting this beats them all, " said Sloss.
Federer is seeking to match Rafael Nadal's record 21 Masters Series titles this week by winning the Cincinnati event for the fifth time.
Murray arrived in Russia having sealed back-to-back Masters Series titles in Cincinnati and, last week, Madrid, after reaching the US Open final in between.
World number three Nikolay Davydenko questions why none of the four North American Masters Series events are going to be touched in the planned shake-up.
Nalbandian has made quiet progress through the draw to his first Masters Series final, and victory will bring him into contention for a Masters Cup place.
Youzhny is one of Murray's rivals for the remaining two places and next week's Masters Series tournament in Paris is the last chance to earn qualifying points.
But he has been surpassed by Rafael Nadal on the list of all-time Masters Series titles after the Spaniard won in Rome to match record-holder Andre Agassi on 17.
That position was based on his early season form on clay, when he won four titles, including beating Gustavo Kuerten in the Masters Series event in Rome in the build-up to Roland Garros.
In the second set, Gasquet disrupted the Czech's rhythm as he failed to reproduce the form that ousted French Open winner Rafael Nadal, the defending Canada Masters Series champion, in the previous round.
Another final in the Masters Series at Indian Wells, before destroying Gustavo Kuerten and Marat Safin on his way to the Masters title in Rome finished off an excellent start to the year.
The ATP requires players to enter the four Grand Slam events, the nine Masters Series tournaments and at least five other events, but Miles said players choose to play a lot more than that.
The Monte Carlo resident made it to final of the Madrid Masters Series event and the last four of the Rome and Toronto Masters, as well as reaching at least the semi-finals stages in five other tournaments.
The Czech player won through to his first Masters Series final with a straight sets win over Fabrice Santoro on Saturday but said he had picked up the injury towards the end of that match.
Murray lies 18th, 48 points behind the player in eighth, but could feasibly qualify if he wins the St Petersburg Open and reaches the final of the last Masters Series tournament in Paris next week.
He is a two-time US Open Champion and has won all four Grand Slam singles titles, and has victories in Davis Cup, Masters Series and an Olympic gold medal thanks to his precision and exceptional timing.
The final crowned a memorable week for Argentine tennis, who had four players in the semi-finals - the first time in a Masters series tournament that all the players in the last four were from the same country.
Originally posted online as a riff on the Twilight fan-fiction series Masters of the Universe, the story soon got picked up as an eBook, spawned two sequels and sold over a quarter of a million copies online.
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Masters of Science Fiction on ABC, a series of episodes directed and written by various prominent sci-fi authors.
But my tip as the most significant is the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standard's series of four hearings with City masters of the universe.
For the last several years the festival, now owned by Hyatt Hotels, has gone global as the more accessible Park Hyatt Masters of Food and Wine, a quarterly series of seasonally and locally inspired culinary events at Park Hyatt hotels around the world.
"Our masters at ITV have decided that there shan't be a fourth series of the television series Kingdom, " he said.
The award ceremony - appropriately, for students who had studied a masters course in distance education - is expected to be the first of a series as more and more courses are delivered through the internet.
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