week *33* : Challengers (16-22/8)

[BelgiumDude]

Bronx
1 Elsner, Daniel GER 101
2 Hernych, Jan CZE 109
3 Gasquet, Richard FRA 115
4 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 125
5 Reid, Todd AUS 127
6 Peya, Alexander AUT 128
7 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 131
8 Lopez, Marc ESP 133
9 Wessels, Peter NED 147
10 Karanusic, Roko CRO 152
11 Jeanpierre, Julien FRA 154
12 Luczak, Peter AUS 155
13 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 156
14 Sabau, Razvan ROM 157
15 Parmar, Arvind GBR 161
16 Phau, Bjorn GER 165
17 Vico, Uros ITA 166
18 Minar, Ivo CZE 167
19 Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 168
20 Mamiit, Cecil USA 176
21 Seppi, Andreas ITA 184
22 Varlet, Julien FRA @
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

Geneva
1 Calatrava, Alex ESP 91
2 Vliegen, Kristof BEL 98
3 Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 108
4 Rochus, Christophe BEL 123
5 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 126
6 Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 134
7 Squillari, Franco ARG 153
8 Pescosolido, Stefano ITA 158
9 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 160
10 Tenconi, Tomas ITA 163
11 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 169
12 Robert, Stephane FRA 171
13 Pequery, Jean-Michel FRA 185
14 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 187
15 Waske, Alexander GER 191
16 Aldi, Francesco ITA 204
17 Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 210
18 Pashanski, Boris SCG 215
19 Fogues, Francisco ESP 216
20 Eschauer, Werner AUT 233
21 Navarro, Salvador ESP 236
22 Luzzi, Federico ITA 237
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

Monchengladbach
1 Montanes, Albert ESP 83
2 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 87
3 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 102
4 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 105
5 Blanco, Galo ESP 112
6 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 120
7 Kindlmann, Dieter GER 130
8 Portas, Albert ESP 139
9 Tabara, Michal CZE 146
10 Behrend, Tomas GER 149
11 Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 150
12 Vanek, Jiri CZE 162
13 Guzman, Juan-Pablo ARG 172
14 Koellerer, Daniel AUT 178
15 Roitman, Sergio ARG 179
16 Haehnel, Jerome FRA 183
17 Vicente, Fernando ESP 190
18 Andersen, Jan Frode NOR 192
19 Perez, Didac ESP 194
20 Delfino, Mariano ARG 202
21 Schukin, Yuri RUS 207
22 Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 208
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

Samarkand
1 Mertinak, Michal SVK 180
2 Pospisil, Jaroslav CZE 241
3 Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 253
4 Ager, Johannes AUT 268
5 Snobel, Pavel CZE 277
6 Enev, Todor BUL 280
7 Fitz, Sebastian GER 289
8 Bachelot, Jean-Francois FRA 300
9 Marcaccio, Gustavo ARG 306
10 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 309
11 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 313
12 Ivanov-Smolensky, Kirill RUS 319
13 Kanev, Yordan BUL 325
14 Stoliarov, Andrei RUS 330
15 Sugiyama, Norikazu JPN 335
16 Pavicevic, Vladimir SCG 338
17 Ryderstedt, Michael SWE 344
18 Wang Jr., Yu CHN 347
19 Sela, Dudi ISR 348
20 Orellana, Kepler VEN 352
21 Dustov, Farrukh UZB 356
22 Kutsenko, Vadim UZB 359
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

[westaussie1]

can you plz post next in list for bronx

[R. Jayakrishnan]

NEXT LISTS:

Bronx: Kunitsyn, Roger-Wasselin, Taino, Bogdanovich, Suzuki, Berrer, Faurel, Serra, Rehnquist, Simon, ...

Geneva: Navarro-Pastor, Prodon, Bruthans, Moraru, Fraile, Cermak, Armando, Lorenzi, Kralert, Stoppini, ...

Monchengladbach: Santopadre, Browne, Navarro-Pastor, Prodon, Bruthans, Moraru, Fraile, Cermak, Armando, Lorenzi, ...

Samarkand: Sanon, Piccari, Mergea, Neunteibl, Puerta, Sipaeya, van Gemerden, Vlasov, Wiltsching, Szymanski ...

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Will update the list a couple of times next week, as people make main draw list, and append more names to the lists if needed..

Jay

[Guest]

Do you know if Scott Draper is in Bronx?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

No, no Draper in the list .. Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

List updates --- As always, I am not listing who withdrew from the initial entry list, to keep the tournament directors from complaining. Only who is making it in (and anybody from the initial waiting list who made it and is not going) ...

NEXT LISTS:

Bronx: (No change) Kunitsyn, Roger-Wasselin, Taino, Bogdanovich, Suzuki, Berrer, Faurel, Serra, Rehnquist, Simon, ...

Geneva: Moraru, Fraile, Cermak, Lorenzi, Kralert, Stoppini, Azzaro, Genaro-Martinez ...

Samarkand: Sanon (OUT), Piccari (IN), Mergea, Neunteibl, Puerta, Sipaeya, van Gemerden, Vlasov, Szymanski, Mertl ...

Monchengladbach: Santopadre (IN), Browne (IN), Navarro-Pastor (IN), Prodon (IN), Moraru, Fraile, Cermak, Lorenzi, Kralert, Stoppini, Azzaro ...

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

NEXT List Update:

Bronx: Kunitsyn (IN), Roger-Wasselin, Taino, Bogdanovich, Suzuki, Berrer, Faurel, Serra ..

Geneva: Moraru (IN), Fraile, Cermak, Lorenzi, Kralert, Stoppini, Azzaro, Genaro-Martinez ..

Samarkand: No change. Mergea, Neunteibl, Puerta, Sipaeya, van Gemerden, Vlasov, Szymanski, Mertl ...

Monchengladbach: Santopadre (OUT), Browne (OUT), Moraru (IN), Fraile (IN), Cermak, Lorenzi, Kralert, Stoppini, Azzaro

[Rob & Stephen]

Jay, Alex Bogdanovic gets rather annoyed when people get his name wrong and has no 'h' at the end of his name. He complains to the ATP quite often about it, so i thought i'd tell you before he gets to you too.
PS. When is Stephen Amritraj going to regain his Indian heritage and not play for the USA?
Talk soon, Rob

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I knew there was no "h" with Alex (I think) .. I was copying the line in the lists in this thread and kept copying the wrong spelling! .. Will stick to "vic" from now on ... Hey, at least I did not add an e at the end and call him Bog-Da-Novice

As for Stephen - Well, he is born and brought up in the US but also bleeds a good amount of Indian blood. He has had a long setback with a knee injury and is just coming out from it. Will be back in college tennis at Duke this year. I suppose he is witing to raise his singles game a couple of notches and make some noise before starting any serious talk about playing under the Indian colors. Let us see ...

Jay

[Rob & Stephen]

Thanks for the reply.
Shame about his injury. I have recently made a topic in the Pro Tour forum about players, injuries and such like - please feel free to comment on it.
I have seen Prakash and Stephen play doubles together and I think your quite correct about them needing to improve a wee bit. At the moment their not as consitant strokers of the ball as their father and uncles were - and still are as Vijay shows on the seniors tour.
How does Vijay feel about his sons playing for two different countries?
Time to go, talk soon.
Rob

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I know we are off-topic here, but Stephen Amritraj is actually the son of Vijay's brother and old doubles partner, Anand. They are all fine with whichever way the sons turn out to be. Playing for USA or IND. In Prakash's case, there was better opportunity to be among the top-4 in India than be unknown in the USA, so they chose that option. Stephen has not come up that much yet ....

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Changes in the ALT list NEXT-IN (main draw withdrawal news withheld as usual!):

Bronx (2 SEs to go): Roger-Wasselin (IN), Taino, Bogdanovic, Suzuki, Berrer, Faurel, Serra ..

Geneva (2 SEs to go): Fraile (IN), Lorenzi (IN), Kralert, Azzaro, Genaro-Martinez, Serrano, Tuksar, Todero ..

Samarkand (2 SEs to go): Mergea (IN), Puerta (IN), Sipaeya (IN), van Gemerden, Vlasov, Szymanski, Mertl, Matsui, Joseph ...

Monchengladbach (2 SEs to go): Fraile (OUT), Cermak (IN), Lorenzi, Kralert, Azzaro, Serrano, Tuksar, Todero ..

Jay

[Rob & Stephen]

Oops, well there's another thing i've learned today. Sorry guys, guess i need to check my facts.

Thanks for that Jay.
Rob

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Changes in the ALT list NEXT-IN (main draw withdrawal news withheld as usual!):

Bronx (2 SEs to go): Taino, Suzuki, Berrer, Faurel, Serra ..

Geneva (2 SEs to go): Azzaro, Serrano, Tuksar, Todero, S.Gonzalez, Dellatorre ..

Samarkand (1 SE to go): van Gemerden (IN), Vlasov (IN), Szymanski, Mertl, Banks, Auckland, Stakhovsky, Petrazzuolo ..

Monchengladbach (both SEs released): Kralert (IN), Azzaro (IN), Serrano, Tuksar, Todero, S.Gonzalez, Dellatorre ..

Jay

PS: Note that all players who made the draws from the ALT will be listed in one of the updates as (IN). That is, if a player was first in the NEXT list in one update and just disappears the next time, it doesn't mean he made it in - just that he is not going there. or he would be listed as an (IN) .. Just clarifying my update scheme

[R. Jayakrishnan]

That was about it for official changes ... There may have been some more withdrawals befiore the qualies sign-in time when the main draw lists were finalized.

Here are the qualifying seeds for the Europe-Asia challengers .. I supppose, a few of the next-in players (Serrano, Tuksar, Todero, S.Gonzalez, Dellatorre ...) probably made it in the end somewhere with SEs clearing in the end.

Geneva Q:
1. Lammer, 2. Contzler, 3. Violca, 4. Bohli, 5. Wiltsching, 6. Guez, 7. Brizzi, 8. Capdeville

Samarkand Q:
1. Child, 2. Banks, 3, Chromasta, 4. Jimenez-Letrado, 5. Kedriouk, 6, D.Alvarez, 8. Ogorodov

Monchengladbach Q:
1. Mackin, 2. Summerer, 3. Zelenay, 4. Petzchner, 5. Munoz De La Nava, 6. Neunteibl, 7. Quintero, 8. A.Beck

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Bronx Q seeds:

1. Rehnquist, 2. Taino, 3. Faurel, 4. Sarstrand, 5. Zovko, 6. Guccione, 7. T.Chen, 8. Baccanello

Only about 22 players showed up. All the seeds and another couple more guys have byes in the first round.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

ok ... this is off topic obviously. sorry in advance

but does anyone know where i can find the Q-draw for the bronx challenger for women?