week *43* : ATP Basel, St Petersburg, Stockholm (25-31/10)

[BelgiumDude]

BASEL
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Henman, Tim GBR 4
3 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 8
4 Massu, Nicolas CHI 9
5 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 11
6 Schuettler, Rainer GER 12
7 Nalbandian, David ARG 14
8 Robredo, Tommy ESP 17
9 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 19
10 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 20
11 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 21
12 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 22
13 Spadea, Vincent USA 24
14 Novak, Jiri CZE 25
15 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 26
16 Dent, Taylor USA 28
17 Ancic, Mario CRO 29
18 Horna, Luis PER 34
19 Mayer, Florian GER 36
20 Arazi, Hicham MAR 40
21 Costa, Albert ESP 45
22 Nadal, Rafael ESP 48
23 Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 51
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 SPECIAL EXEMPT
26 WILD CARD
27 WILD CARD
28 WILD CARD
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

Alternates
IN Volandri, Filippo ITA 53
OUT Carraz, Gregory FRA 78
OUT Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 79
IN Starace, Potito ITA 80
OUT Popp, Alexander GER 81
IN Koubek, Stefan AUT 82
IN Montanes, Albert ESP 83
OUT Arthurs, Wayne AUS 84
OUT Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 85
OUT Monaco, Juan ARG 86
OUT Mantilla, Felix ESP 87
OUT Muller, Gilles LUX 88
OUT Rusedski, Greg GBR 90
OUT Corretja, Alex ESP 91
IN Dupuis, Antony FRA 92
OUT Sluiter, Raemon NED 93
OUT Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 94
OUT Acasuso, Jose ARG 95
IN Hanescu, Victor ROM 96
1. Morrison, Jeff USA 97
2. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 99
3. Mello, Ricardo BRA 100
4. Calatrava, Alex ESP 101
5. Hernandez, Oscar ESP 102
6. Garcia, Adrian CHI 103
7. Elseneer, Gilles BEL 104
8. Pless, Kristian DEN @104
9. Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 105
10. Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 106
11. Reid, Todd AUS 107

ST PETERSBURG
1 Moya, Carlos ESP 6
2 Safin, Marat RUS 13
3 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 18
4 Fish, Mardy USA 27
5 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 33
6 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 35
7 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 37
8 Llodra, Michael FRA 38
9 Sargsian, Sargis ARM 41
10 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 44
11 Andreev, Igor RUS 49
12 Ferrer, David ESP 54
13 Beck, Karol SVK 56
14 Labadze, Irakli GEO 57
15 Saulnier, Cyril FRA 58
16 Martin, Alberto ESP 62
17 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 63
18 Mirnyi, Max BLR 64
19 Clement, Arnaud FRA 67
20 Benneteau, Julien FRA 74
21 Stepanek, Radek CZE 75
22 Hernych, Jan CZE 76
23 Sanchez, David ESP 77
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 SPECIAL EXEMPT
26 WILD CARD
27 WILD CARD
28 WILD CARD
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

Alternates
IN Carraz, Gregory FRA 78
IN Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 79
OUT Starace, Potito ITA 80
OUT Popp, Alexander GER 81
OUT Koubek, Stefan AUT 82
OUT Montanes, Albert ESP 83
OUT Arthurs, Wayne AUS 84
OUT Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 85

OUT Monaco, Juan ARG 86
OUT Mantilla, Felix ESP 87
IN Muller, Gilles LUX 88
IN Rusedski, Greg GBR 90
IN Corretja, Alex ESP 91
OUT Dupuis, Antony FRA 92
OUT Sluiter, Raemon NED 93
OUT Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 94
OUT Acasuso, Jose ARG 95
OUT Hanescu, Victor ROM 96
OUT Morrison, Jeff USA 97
OUT Almagro, Nicolas ESP 98
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 99
IN Mello, Ricardo BRA 100
OUT Calatrava, Alex ESP 101
OUT Hernandez, Oscar ESP 102
1. Garcia, Adrian CHI 103
2. Elseneer, Gilles BEL 104
3. Pless, Kristian DEN @104
4. Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 105
5. Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 106
6. Reid, Todd AUS 107

STOCKHOLM
1 Roddick, Andy USA 2
2 Agassi, Andre USA 7
3 Pavel, Andrei ROM 15
4 Johansson, Joachim SWE 16
5 Canas, Guillermo ARG 30
6 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 31
7 Haas, Tommy GER 32
8 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 39
9 Soderling, Robin SWE 42
10 Verkerk, Martin NED 43
11 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 46
12 Johansson, Thomas SWE 47
13 Schalken, Sjeng NED 50
14 Calleri, Agustin ARG 52
15 Berdych, Tomas CZE 55
16 Ginepri, Robby USA 59
17 Enqvist, Thomas SWE 60
18 Malisse, Xavier BEL 61
19 Philippoussis, Mark AUS 66
20 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 69
21 Rochus, Olivier BEL 70
22 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 71
23 Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 73
24 SPECIAL EXEMPT
25 SPECIAL EXEMPT
26 (WC) Ryderstedt, Michael SWE
27 (WC) Eleskovic, Ervin SWE
28 (WC) Carlsen, Kenneth DEN
29 QUALIFIER
30 QUALIFIER
31 QUALIFIER
32 QUALIFIER

Alternates
OUT Carraz, Gregory FRA 78
OUT Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 79
OUT Starace, Potito ITA 80
OUT Popp, Alexander GER 81
OUT Koubek, Stefan AUT 82
OUT Montanes, Albert ESP 83
IN Arthurs, Wayne AUS 84
IN Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 85
OUT Monaco, Juan ARG 86
OUT Mantilla, Felix ESP 87
OUT Muller, Gilles LUX 88
OUT Blake, James USA 89
OUT Rusedski, Greg GBR 90
OUT Corretja, Alex ESP 91
OUT Dupuis, Antony FRA 92
IN Sluiter, Raemon NED 93
OUT Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 94
OUT Acasuso, Jose ARG 95
OUT Hanescu, Victor ROM 96
IN Morrison, Jeff USA 97
OUT Almagro, Nicolas ESP 98
IN Vliegen, Kristof BEL 99
OUT Mello, Ricardo BRA 100
OUT Calatrava, Alex ESP 101
IN Hernandez, Oscar ESP 102
IN Garcia, Adrian CHI 103

[Elina]

Thanks for posting these lists, BelgiumDude!

The Entry list for Stockholm looks quite good. I'm looking forward seeing those players in action.

[vinit]

I've noticed my favourite player Greg Rusedski is 12th in the alternate list for these events. Can he still enter the qualifying tournament?

[PatatRiek]

thanx BelgiumDude

[Fredde]

I've noticed my favourite player Greg Rusedski is 12th in the alternate list for these events. Can he still enter the qualifying tournament?

He can certainly enter qualifications.

He might be able to enter main draw without qualifiers. I can already spot some players that will not enter. Schalken, Verkerk (currently injured but not sure if he will withdraw), Pavel (pretty seriously injured in US Open so very unlikely that he is back as far as I understood it) and maybe also Calleri are players that probably withdraws. Add to that 2 SE spots that might not be filled and some players on alternate list that prefers one of the other two events.

And know I am discussing Stockholm Open and no other tourney. The same probably applies for those tourneys as well.

[Tennis724]

Is Alex Bogomolov somewhere on that alternate list for St. Petersburg?

[BelgiumDude]

Is Alex Bogomolov somewhere on that alternate list for St. Petersburg?

Bogomolov
Basel : alternate 29
St Petersburg : alternate 29
Stockholm : alternate 30

[Tennis724]

Thank you

[Björki]

when will the qualylists come out?
Especially Stockholm pls.

[seb]

NEVER !!!

> Qualies list are made only for Grand Slams, TMS and World Series Gold.

[Björki]

any official withdraws for those tournaments?

[BelgiumDude]

I have expanded the alternate lists from 15 to 30.
Any withdrawals yet, Jay?
Is there somebody who knows some wildcards already?

Greetings
BD

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Good idea to expand the ALT list further down, BD. This being late in the year, there have been a larger number of withdrawals at these events.

Updates:

Basel (2 SE spots to be released)
No withdrawals from main draw or ALT.

St.Petersburg (2 SE spots to be released)
OUT: Santoro (and Popp from ALT)
IN: Carraz
NEXT: Mathieu, Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber...

Stockholm (2 SE spots to be released)
OUT: Verkerk (and Carraz, Popp, Blake from ALT)
IN: Mathieu
NEXT: Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco...

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

No change from above, at any of the three places

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Basel (2 SE spots to be released)
OUT: Kiefer (and Carraz from ALT)
IN: Volandri
NEXT: Mathieu, Starace, Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla

St.Petersburg (2 SE spots to be released)
OUT: Santoro (and Popp from ALT)
IN: Carraz
NEXT: Mathieu, Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller ...

Stockholm (2 SE spots to be released)
OUT: Verkerk (and Carraz, Popp, Blake from ALT)
IN: Mathieu
NEXT: Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller, Rusedski ...

Jay

[Guest]

Isnt it like illegal or wateva to enter 3 tournaments Montanes and Arthurs has i was reading in itf u may only enter 1 tournament a week

[Guest]

Roddick is out of Stockholm according to an article posted at www.andyroddick.com

[Fee]

Isnt it like illegal or wateva to enter 3 tournaments Montanes and Arthurs has i was reading in itf u may only enter 1 tournament a week

Since we have some international visitors on this board who speak English as a second language, could you perhaps write in plain English to make it easier for them (and old people like me) to understand? Thanks.

It is true that you may only enter one tournament a week, but I believe there is a rule that allows ATP players to be on more than one Alternate list at the same time.

[Björki]

It looks like Ferrero is out in Basel.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

There is no problem in entering multiple lists (showing the priority for each event in the entry form). If you did not make the inittial direct entry list of any of the events, they you will be placed in all the ALT lists. Then as spots clear and you make your first priority event you would be taken out of other events' lists. If you move up from the ALT to main draw list in, say, your second priority list, then you will stiull be kept in your first priority list. At a later time if you make your first priority event's main list, you will be taken out from the second priority list, etc.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update: None of the three entry lists has changed from what I posted above .. Withdrawals coming very slow this week I guess. Roddick's withdrawl may become official later I guess.

Jay

[Romano]

Hello everybody! What is the possibility that Sanguinetti is directly in, in one of those tournaments??

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Basel - No change from above

St.Petersburg - No change from above

Stockholm (2 SE spots to be released)
OUT: Verkerk, Roddick (and Carraz, Popp, Blake from ALT)
IN: Mathieu, Starace
NEXT: Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller, Rusedski, Corretja ...

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Basel (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Kiefer (and Carraz from ALT)
IN: Volandri, Mathieu, Starace
NEXT: Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller

St.Petersburg (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Santoro (and Popp from ALT)
IN: Carraz, Mathieu, Starace
NEXT: Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller ...

Stockholm (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Verkerk, Roddick, Philippoussis, Tursunov (and Carraz, Popp, Blake from ALT)
IN: Mathieu, Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber
NEXT: Monaco, Mantilla, Muller, Rusedski, Corretja, Dupuis, Sluiter ...

Nothing is finalized basically, excpet who has withdrawn. There will be some changes soon, as ATP figures out where the players who have made multiple lists ike Starace and Mathieu are going.

Jay

[Guest]

First wild card delivered to Wawrinka

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Pease, could you all give some details when you post, like WHICH tournament gave somebody a wildcard, who withdrew from where, etc.. Thanks

Jay

[Björki]

First wild card delivered to Wawrinka

it should be Basel because he is from Switzerland.

[Reeco]

It was already written in the subject title isn't it?

[sheva81]

[Volandri and Starace will play in Basel

[PatatRiek]

well... it looks like lots of good players will have to play quallies this week ... i wonder who will show up & where.

thanks for all the updates Jay!

msg
PR

[Guest]

[Volandri and Starace will play in Basel

where did you find out?

[Reeco]

Haehnel should also play in Basel qualies, or maybe could he get a wild card after his victory in metz....

[nitsansh]

Obviousely Basel would be their first choice... I would expect Mathieu to play there too...

[Reeco]

Chiudinelli just receive a Wild Card for Basel main draw...

[keope977]

Wild cards for Stanislas Wawrinka and Marco Chiudinelli in Basel.
Starace will play in Basel according to his official web site.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Basel (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Kiefer, Costa, Ferrero (and Carraz, Mathieu, Popp, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller Rusedski, Corretja, Sluiter, Lu from ALT)
IN: Volandri, Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Dupuis
NEXT: Acauso, Hanescu, Morrison, Vliegen, Mello, Calatrava, O.Hernandez ...

St.Petersburg (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Santoro, Melzer, Moya, D.Sanchez (and Starace, Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Dupuis, Sluiter, Lu, Hanescu, Almagro, Vliegen from ALT)
IN: Carraz, Mathieu, Muller, Rusedski, Corretja, Acasuso
NEXT: Morrison, Mello, Calatrava, O.Hernandez, Garzia, Elseneer, Pless ...

Stockholm (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Verkerk, Roddick, Philippoussis, Tursunov (and Carraz, Mathieu, Starace, Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller, Blake, Rusedski, Corretja, Dupuis, Lu, Almagro from ALT)
IN: Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Sluiter, Acasuso, Hanewscu, Morrison
NEXT: Vliegen, Mello, Calatrava, O.Hernandez, A.Garcia, Elseneer, Pless ...

Man, a ahole bunch of changes over the last few hours. And we may not done yet ...

Jay

[Elina]

Wow, that is a lot changes. I see that there are still guys on two or three lists. Jay, can you tell me if Thierry Ascione is on any of the alternate lists? Thanks!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates -- Some more changes.

Basel (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Kiefer, Costa, Ferrero, Arazi (and Carraz, Mathieu, Popp, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller Rusedski, Corretja, Sluiter, Lu, Acauso from ALT)
IN: Volandri, Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Dupuis, Hanescu
NEXT: Morrison, Vliegen, Mello, Calatrava, O.Hernandez, A.Garcia ...

St.Petersburg (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Santoro, Melzer, Moya, D.Sanchez (and Starace, Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Dupuis, Sluiter, Lu, Acasuso, Hanescu, Morrison, Almagro, Vliegen, Calatrava from ALT)
IN: Carraz, Mathieu, Muller, Rusedski, Corretja, Mello
NEXT: O.Hernandez, A.Garzia, Elseneer, Pless, Sanguinetti, Bogomolov ...

Stockholm (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Verkerk, Roddick, Philippoussis, Tursunov, Canas (and Carraz, Mathieu, Starace, Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller, Blake, Rusedski, Corretja, Dupuis, Lu, Acasuso, Almagro from ALT)
IN: Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Sluiter, Hanescu, Morrison, Vliegen, Mello
NEXT: Calatrava, O.Hernandez, A.Garcia, Elseneer, Pless, Sanguinetti, Bogomolov ...

getting close to final official lists, I guess.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Elina: Ascione is about 12 out from all three list now. Probably will need to play qualies somewhere and probably will be a top-4 seed -- so he would be OK.

[BelgiumDude]

Thanks Jay for the updates!
Lots of changes in the end, I have edited the lists in the first post.
I do think there is a mistake for the St Petersburg list.
There are 4 withdrawals + 2 SE cleared, so that makes 6 spots. And you have 7 players in. So I think Mello isn't in yet OR there was a fifth player who has withdrawn.
Greeting
BD, hoping on a few more withdrawals so Elseneer could get in

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Thanks BD. Just corrected that above. I had Acasuso playing St.Pete. But it turns out that he is not playing any of the three events though he could have made all of them ...

Jay

[Elina]

Thanks!

Elina: Ascione is about 12 out from all three list now. Probably will need to play qualies somewhere and probably will be a top-4 seed -- so he would be OK.

[Guest]

[Volandri and Starace will play in Basel

where did you find out?

they said it in an interview

[GOGU]

why HANESCU is IN at the both tournaments:BASEL ANd Stockholm??
Where will play???

[Guest]

test

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates -- Some more changes.

Basel (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Kiefer, Costa, Ferrero, Arazi (and Carraz, Mathieu, Popp, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller Rusedski, Corretja, Sluiter, Lu, Acauso from ALT)
IN: Volandri, Starace, Koubek, Montanes, Dupuis, Hanescu
NEXT: Morrison, Vliegen, Mello, Calatrava, O.Hernandez, A.Garcia ...

St.Petersburg (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Santoro, Melzer, Moya, D.Sanchez (and Starace, Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Monaco, Mantilla, Dupuis, Sluiter, Lu, Acasuso, Hanescu, Morrison, Almagro, Vliegen, Calatrava, O.Hernandez from ALT)
IN: Carraz, Mathieu, Muller, Rusedski, Corretja, Mello
NEXT: A.Garzia, Elseneer, Pless, Sanguinetti, Bogomolov ...

Stockholm (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Verkerk, Roddick, Philippoussis, Tursunov, Canas (and Carraz, Mathieu, Starace, Popp, Koubek, Montanes, Monaco, Mantilla, Muller, Blake, Rusedski, Corretja, Dupuis, Lu, Acasuso, Hanescu, Almagro, Mello, Calatrava from ALT)
IN: Arthurs, Kohlschreiber, Sluiter, Morrison, Vliegen, O.Hernandez, A.Garcia
NEXT: Elseneer, Pless, Sanguinetti, Bogomolov ...

That may be the final official list, I think, because the qualies draws would be made by now.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Seeds at St.Petersburg qualies: Burgsmuller, Peya, Lisnard, Vanek, Okun, Karanusic, Voltchkov, Levy. [Cut: #460]

[PatatRiek]

BD, hoping on a few more withdrawals so Elseneer could get in

well seems like he just didn't make it and he won't be in the quallies cos he was playing in Bolton today

anyways Jay, thanks for keeping us informed

qdraw Basel

qdraw Stockholm

regards
PR

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Elseneer may have made the main draw somewhere. He was basically the next one to make it in somewhere if there was anymore withdrawals after the list I posted ... I think that was pretty much the final official lists, but any withdrawals in the last few hours are handled by the ASTP supervisors onsite. There could well have been some withdrawal, and he may have made it. We would know only after the main draw comes out in a day, I think.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

thanks for giving me some hope Jay

according to info on steve's site main draw in stockholm & st petersburg comes out later today. the basel main draw will be done on monday