week *32* : Challengers (9-15/8)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I will post Binghamton for now, as Fiona asked (hopefully BelgiumDude will do the rest .. i am lazy!)

BINGHAMTON CHALLENGER

1. Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 68
2. Stepanek, Radek CZE 71
3. Levy, Harel ISR 137
4. Salzenstein, Jeff USA 142
5. Goldstein, Paul USA 148
6. Kendrick, Robert USA 150
7. Wessels, Peter NED 151
8. Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 152
9. Parmar, Arvind GBR 158
10. Okun, Noam ISR 164
11. Kim, Kevin USA 166
12. Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 170
13. Kratochvil, Michel SUI 173
14. Draper, Scott AUS 179
15. Mamiit, Cecil USA 180
16. Udomchoke, Danai THA 183
17. Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 187
18. Taino, Eric USA 192
19. Vico, Uros ITA 202
20. De Voest, Rik RSA 205
21. Dancevic, Frank CAN 206
22. Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 209
23. SPECIAL EXEMPT
24. SPECIAL EXEMPT
25. WILDCARD
26. WILDCARD
27. WILDCARD
28. WILDCARD
29. QUALIFIER
30. QUALIFIER
31. QUALIFIER
32. QUALIFIER

Jay

[Fee]

Thank you Jay, exalted one.

[BelgiumDude]

St Petersburg
1 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 131
2 Kindlmann, Dieter GER 136
3 Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 144
4 Tabara, Michal CZE 146
5 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 153
6 Schukin, Yuri RUS 214
7 Kralert, Petr CZE 222
8 Moraru, Gabriel ROM 255
9 Enev, Todor BUL 271
10 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 312
11 Ivanov-Smolensky, Kirill RUS 320
12 Markin, Alexander RUS 322
13 Stoliarov, Andrei RUS 325
14 Svarc, Ladislav SVK 329
15 Zelenay, Igor SVK 331
16 Sugiyama, Norikazu JPN 332
17 Kanev, Yordan BUL 337
18 Vagnozzi, Simone ITA 348
19 Giorgini, Daniele ITA 349
20 Neunteibl, Marko AUT 350
21 Cobolli, Stefano ITA 357
22 Kutsenko, Vadim UZB 365
23 SPECIAL EXEMPT
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 WILD CARD
26 WILD CARD
27 WILD CARD
28 WILD CARD
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

Manta
1 Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 163
2 Gallardo Valles, Miguel MEX 196
3 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 219
4 Miranda, Ivan PER 220
5 Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq PAK 229
6 Delgado, Jamie GBR 236
7 Marray, Jonathan GBR 237
8 Russell, Michael USA 247
9 Childs, Lee GBR 276
10 Daniel, Marcos BRA 279
11 Gonzalez, Santiago MEX 280
12 Silva, Julio BRA 288
13 De Armas, Jose VEN 333
14 Fabbri, Alejandro ARG 335
15 Orellana, Kepler VEN 338
16 Onoda, Michihisa JPN 353
17 Zimonjic, Nenad SCG 367
18 Contzler, Bertrand FRA 372
19 Fruttero, John Paul USA 377
20 Szymanski, Jimy VEN 412
21 Ishii, Yaoki JPN @
22 Melo, Daniel BRA @
23 SPECIAL EXEMPT
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 WILD CARD
26 WILD CARD
27 WILD CARD
28 WILD CARD
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

Graz
1 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 126
2 Karanusic, Roko CRO 147
3 Sabau, Razvan ROM 155
4 Cakl, Tomas CZE 169
5 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 195
6 Berrer, Michael GER 198
7 Knowle, Julian AUT 207
8 Simon, Gilles FRA 212
9 Pequery, Jean-Michel FRA 218
10 Adaktusson, Jacob SWE 225
11 Hemmes Jr., Fred NED 230
12 Scherrer, Jean-Claude SUI 233
13 Mackin, Alan GBR 243
14 Agaev, Emin AZE 253
15 Ketola, Tomas FIN 268
16 Snobel, Pavel CZE 270
17 Prpic, Filip SWE 277
18 Minar, Jan CZE 299
19 Marach, Oliver AUT 300
20 Baccanello, Paul AUS 303
21 Mlynarik, Zbynek AUT 313
22 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 317
23 SPECIAL EXEMPT
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 WILD CARD
26 WILD CARD
27 WILD CARD
28 WILD CARD
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

Cordenons
1 Koellerer, Daniel AUT 171
2 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 177
3 Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 190
4 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 191
5 Aldi, Francesco ITA 204
6 Navarro, Salvador ESP 235
7 Pospisil, Jaroslav CZE 245
8 Fraile, Gorka ESP 254
9 Luzzi, Federico ITA 258
10 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 259
11 Bardoczky, Kornel HUN 263
12 Veronelli, Diego ARG 265
13 Tuksar, Sasa CRO 266
14 Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 269
15 Genaro-Martinez, Javier ESP 273
16 Azzaro, Leonardo ITA 275
17 Ager, Johannes AUT 295
18 Todero, Nicolas ARG 296
19 Marcaccio, Gustavo ARG 305
20 Summerer, Tobias GER 308
21 Goellner, Marc-Kevin GER 315
22 Hajek, Jan CZE @
23 SPECIAL EXEMPT
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 WILD CARD
26 WILD CARD
27 WILD CARD
28 WILD CARD
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

Binghampton
1 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 68
2 Stepanek, Radek CZE 71
3 Levy, Harel ISR 137
4 Salzenstein, Jeff USA 142
5 Goldstein, Paul USA 148
6 Kendrick, Robert USA 150
7 Wessels, Peter NED 151
8 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 152
9 Parmar, Arvind GBR 158
10 Okun, Noam ISR 164
11 Kim, Kevin USA 166
12 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 170
13 Kratochvil, Michel SUI 173
14 Draper, Scott AUS 179
15 Mamiit, Cecil USA 180
16 Udomchoke, Danai THA 183
17 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 187
18 Taino, Eric USA 192
19 Vico, Uros ITA 202
20 De Voest, Rik RSA 205
21 Dancevic, Frank CAN 206
22 Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 209
23 SPECIAL EXEMPT
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 WILDCARD
26 WILDCARD
27 WILDCARD
28 WILDCARD
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

[BelgiumDude]

Jay, if you find the time to do the IN and OUT'S for this challengers,
and you want to do it,
you truly are a god!

(now already you rock bigtime )

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I *could* try to list just the IN, OUT and NEXT for the challengers in the week before they start (the lists hardly move much before that), say couple of times during the week, mon/wed/fri ...

But I have a sneaky supicion that challenger tournament directors may complain to ATP if we start listing the withdrawals here --- those guys are more touchy about their entry lists (and may have the time to come here and see that we are following it!) .... A larger number of challenger withdrawals are from among the higher seeds too, compared to the ATP tou events ..

I don't know if we should care about their and ATP's view on it, though.

I have not seen ATP say why they don't release updated lists for the public, but I don't want them to go after the players through whom we get the info that they have access to ..

Let me think about this.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

For now, here are the NEXT lists ...

Binghamton (2 SEs to go): Vemic (IN), Vahaly (IN), Baker, Gimelstob, Amritraj, Zovko, Tsonga, Guccione

Graz (2 SEs to go): Stoppini, Logtens, Masson, Marafiote, Quintero, Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic

St.Petersburg (2 SEs to go): Puerto, Cobolli, Pavicevic, Kutsenko, Colla, Yaroshenko, Mergea, Wauters

Cordenons: (2 SEs to go): Goellner, Stoppini, Masson, Marafiote, Quintero, Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic

Manta (2 SE spots to go): Joseph (IN), Matsui (IN), Krajan (IN), Tavarez, Harboe, M.Melo, Nunez, Abel, Engel

Jay

[PatatRiek]

Jay, if you find the time to do the IN and OUT'S for this challengers,
and you want to do it,
you truly are a god!

yeah, having these info would be awesome!!

thanx for the NEXT lists Jay

[PatatRiek]

btw Jay, i am just wondering....what kind of info does the ATP give to the players? are they updated frequently about the the IN and OUT's?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yes, the lists are updated very frequently, especially from the wednesday of the week before the event. I believe ATP does a very good job of staying on top of the entry lists, checking with the ALT list players on where they are going to play, etc, all the way till the friday afternoon when they hand it over to the ATP supervisors at the tournament sites who take over during the last few hours before the main draw lists are closed and the qualifying draws are made.

I believe the players pay every year to get their player-zone accounts. Then they can see the entry lists. They can enter the events online rather than send faxes to ATP. They can also see the preliminary lists for events before the entry closes, but most of the time about 40% of the entries only come in during the last day or two before the deadline, so it is guesswork for some of the players to figure out where they might make entry and place their entry priorities properly. With a playerzone account, they can change their entries till the last minute before the moday deadlines (5 pm in Florida) though.

Not sure how much the players pay for their accounts. Some two ro three hundred dollars a year I think.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

thanx for the explanation Jay very interesting!

[BelgiumDude]

Jay, perhaps you could add "week 32" to the title, like I already did for the other tournies (except also the Olympics!). I think that would make it much more easy for everybody.
And perhaps it's not a bad idea to lock/delete/erase topics for tournaments which are already finished.
Just some ideas to make things clearer

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I will simply list who made it in; not who withdrew or who is cut out from the list .. I will list an OUT only for those ALT list players whom I have previously listed as IN. How about that?

In successive lists, those listed as IN are the new ones going in after the last ones .. At Binghamton for instance, Vemic and Vahaly were in earlier. Baker, and Gimelstob were next. Now I have listed Gimelstob as IN, which means Baker isn't going there. I will list any OUT from among those who I listed as IN, if an IN player from the ALT list withdraws, as in the case of Krajan at Manta below (hope that all makes sense! )

Update:

Binghamton (2 SEs to go): Gimelstob (IN), Amritraj, Zovko, Tsonga, Guccione, Ram

Graz (2 SEs to go): Stoppini (IN), Logtens (IN), Masson, Marafiote, Quintero, Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic, Colla

St.Petersburg (2 SEs to go): Puerto, Pavicevic, Kutsenko, Yaroshenko, Mergea, Wauters, Klemetz, Mazarakis

Cordenons: (2 SEs to go): Goellner (IN), Stoppini, Masson, Quintero, Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic, Marin, Colla

Manta (2 SE spots to go): Krajan (OUT), Harboe (IN), M.Melo (IN), Nunez, Abel, Engel, Ivanov, Pless

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

OK, I will change the title, BelgiumDude ..

Jay

[PatatRiek]

Graz (2 SEs to go): Stoppini (IN), Logtens (IN), Masson, Marafiote, Quintero, Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic, Colla

Cordenons: (2 SEs to go): Goellner (IN), Stoppini, Masson, Quintero, Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic, Marin, Colla

Stoppini is IN for Graz ... so is het OUT for Cordenons?

Thanks Jay!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Not necessarily. If Stoppini had specified a higher priority (preference) for Cordenons, then they will put him in there once a spot opens up there and cut him out from Graz. He is still listed for Cordenons ..

Jay

[PatatRiek]

thanx Jay, i hope Masson will get in the maindraw cos he can't play the qualies...

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update

Binghamton (2 SEs to go): Amritraj (IN), Zovko (IN), Tsonga, Guccione, Ram, Boeker, Fleishman, Sarstrand

Graz (1 SE to go): Masson (IN), Marafiote, Quintero, Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic, Colla, Mergea

St.Petersburg (2 SEs to go): Puerta (IN), Pavicevic, Kutsenko, Wauters, Klemetz, Mazarakis, Munoz, Sipaeya

Cordenons: (2 SEs to go): Goellner (OUT), Masson (IN), Quintero (IN), Bohli, Cobolli, Pavicevic, Marin, Colla, Mergea

Manta (2 SE spots to go): Harboe (IN), M.Melo (IN), Nunez (IN), Engel (IN), Pless, Lemos, Montilla


So, Stoppini is going to Graz, it seems, as he is now gone from the Cordenons list. Masson will be removed from one of the two places he has made into.

Montilla is ranked #1060 and could make at Manta!! Though there some 15 odd top-350 players, the list quite poor at this challenger. It will be a decent challenger after the first round or two though.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

Masson will be removed from one of the two places he has made into.

Masson had specified a higher priority for Graz I believe

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update

Binghamton (2 SEs to go): Amritraj (OUT), Tsonga (IN), Guccione, Ram, Boeker, Fleishman, Sarstrand, Widom

Graz (1 SE to go): Masson (OUT), Marafiote (IN), Cobolli, Colla, Mergea, Derer

St.Petersburg (2 SEs to go): Puerta (IN), Kutsenko, Wauters, Klemetz, Mazarakis, Munoz, Sipaeya

Cordenons: (2 SEs to go): Masson (OUT), Quintero (IN), Bohli (IN), Cobolli, Marin, Colla, Mergea

Manta (2 SEs released): Engel (OUT), Pless (IN), Lemos (IN), Montilla (IN), Duclos

So, I guess Masson is not playing anywhere ..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Binghamton (2 SEs to go): Gimelstob (OUT), Guccione (IN), Boeker, Fleishman, Sarstrand, Widom, Mankad ..

Graz (1 SE to go): Derer (IN), Munoz, Piccari, Vik..

St.Petersburg (2 SEs to go): Puerta (OUT), Kutsenko (IN), Wauters, Klemetz, Mazarakis, Munoz, Sipaeya ..

Cordenons: (2 SEs to go): Cobolli, Marin, Colla, Mergea ..

Manta (2 SEs released): Duclos (nobody else left in the list!)

Jay

[PatatRiek]

So, I guess Masson is not playing anywhere ..

that is correct.... i will ask him why

SE for St.Petersburg could be for Wauters & Darcis ? they're playing the semis in Mordovia

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Qualifying seeds: [You can guess which NEXT-INs might have made entry in the last minute, if they are not among the Qualies seeds]

Graz: Mertl, Abel, Masik Stakhiovsky, Kadir, Kanellos, G.Novak, Korolev. (cut: NR)

St.Petersburg: Recourderc, Sipaeya, Vlasov, Sitak, Cherkasov, Hartman, Zverev, Ouvarov. (cut: NR)

Cordenons: Cobolli, Viloca, Bolelli, Greul, Karol, Motti, D.Novak, Poch-Gardin. (cut: one BYE, to Cobolli)

Manta and Binghamton qualifying draws to be made later today. No changes in the entry list from above.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Last update:

Binghamton (2 SE spots to go): Boeker (IN), Fleishman, Sarstrand, Widon, Mankad

Manta (SE spots cleared): Duclos (IN) [And the very last guy in the list, ranked #1448 made entry as the 24th guy! -- How about that?]

The qualifying draws would be out soon ..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Qualifying draw seeds:

Binghamton: Sarstrand, Chen, Crabb, Rettenmaier, Healy, Sachire, Haybittel, Cerda

[PatatRiek]

thanx Jay it was great having these info for the challengers

keep up the good work

ciao
PatatRiek

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Very final update:

Seeds at Manta qualies: Jean-Julien Roger, David Gonzales (ECU), Andres Arango (ECU).

Roger, ranked #420 would have easily made the draw had he entered, but he should have no problem qualifying in. A lot of byes in the qualies.

Jay

[Guest]

Thanks guys for all the updates it's a great help for us to follow how our fave players are going and where they will be playing next.

Keep up all the good work!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Well, one more update ---

Binghamton: Sarstrand moved into the main draw from qualies, before the qualkies started. So, technically he is the last direct entry to main draw.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

C Rochus received a WC for Cordenons