week *42* : Challengers (18-24/10)

[BelgiumDude]

Burbank
1 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 93
2 Goldstein, Paul USA 123
3 Kim, Kevin USA 132
4 Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 141
5 Salzenstein, Jeff USA 142
6 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 149
7 Armando, Hugo USA 162
8 Kendrick, Robert USA 163
9 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 174
10 Baker, Brian USA 183
11 Delic, Amer USA 196
12 Phau, Bjorn GER 200
13 Sa, Andre BRA 202
14 Dancevic, Frank CAN 206
15 Mamiit, Cecil USA 207
16 Vemic, Dusan SCG 213
17 Hippensteel, KJ USA 216
18 Gimelstob, Justin USA 224
19 Delgado, Jamie GBR 230
20 Miranda, Ivan PER 236
21 Pashanski, Boris SCG 239
22 Mackin, Alan GBR 240
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

Alternates
IN Svarc, Ladislav SVK 242
IN Todero, Nicolas ARG 247
IN Taino, Eric USA 250
1. Prpic, Filip SWE 254
2. Soares, Bruno BRA 256
3. Vahaly, Brian USA 259
4. Sela, Dudi ISR 266
5. Hernandez, Alejandro MEX 268
6. Reynolds, Bobby USA 271
7. Widom, Todd USA 273
8. Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 274
9. Browne, Federico ARG 285
10. Mergea, Florin ROM 286
11. Ram, Rajeev USA 287

Bolton
1 Sluiter, Raemon NED 94
2 Elseneer, Gilles BEL 101
3 Ventura, Santiago ESP 110
4 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 112
5 Wessels, Peter NED 120
6 Vacek, Jan CZE 139
7 Karanusic, Roko CRO 140
8 Bracciali, Daniele ITA 147
9 Kratochvil, Michel SUI 157
10 Levy, Harel ISR 169
11 Moodie, Wesley RSA 175
12 Vico, Uros ITA 182
13 De Voest, Rik RSA 186
14 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 191
15 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 193
16 Berrer, Michael GER 195
17 Robert, Stephane FRA 197
18 Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 198
19 Pequery, Jean-Michel FRA 201
20 Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq PAK 203
21 Serra, Florent FRA 211
22 Snobel, Pavel CZE 214
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

Alternates
IN Ketola, Tuomas FIN 218
1. Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 222
2. Waske, Alexander GER 225
3. Niemeyer, Frederic CAN 226
4. Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 227
5. Ryderstedt, Michael SWE 235
6. Svarc, Ladislav SVK 242
7. Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 244
8. Minar, Jan CZE 245
9. Marray, Jonathan GBR 252
10. Marach, Oliver AUT 255
11. Sarstrand, Marcus SWE 260
12. Pless, Kristian DEN 269

[Tennis724]

I guess no need for me to ditch class and risk my attendance standing and my spot in the program to go out to Burbank

[ae wowww]

I am going Bolton

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Burbank
OUT: three from the main draw.
IN: Svarc, Boeker, Todero.
NEXT: Taino, Prpic, Soares, Vahaly, Sela, A.Hernandez, Reynolds, Widom

Bolton
No change. No withdrawals from main draw or ALT from above.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Burbank
OUT: three from the main draw.
IN: Svarc, Boeker, Todero.
NEXT: Taino, Prpic, Soares, Vahaly, Sela, A.Hernandez, Reynolds, Widom

Bolton
No change. No withdrawals from main draw or ALT from above.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Burbank (two special exempt spots to be cleared)
OUT: three from the main draw (and Boeker from ALT list)
IN: Svarc, Todero, Taino.
NEXT: Prpic, Soares, Vahaly, Sela, A.Hernandez, Reynolds, Widom, Mazarakis

[I believe Prpic was in the USA F29 list for next week and withdrew only a day late on Tuesday Oct 5th -- so he probably will not be allowed to play Burbank next week .. Not sure of the rule .. Widom is listed for uSA F29]

Bolton (two special exempt spots to be cleared)
OUT: One from main draw (and Ionita, Luzzi from ALT)
IN: Ketola
NEXT: Roger-Vasselin, Waske, Niemeyer, Dell'Acqua, Ryderstedt, Svarc, Gabashvili, Minar.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update -- No change as of now, but I suspect we will see some changes in the next few hours..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I think one SE spot at Burbank will go to the winner of the Hemmes-Chadaj match today at Tiburon.

I am not sure if Portas (winner of QF at Barcelona) will take an SE spot at the Bolton CH.

Looks like one SE spot will get freed up at Burbank.

Jay.

[Tennis724]

It should be given to a certain someone who's being forced to play quallies. They could, at least, have given him a WC

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Burbank (1 special exempt spots cleared; one to go)
OUT: three from the main draw (and Boeker from ALT list)
IN: Svarc, Todero, Taino, Prpic
NEXT: Soares, Vahaly, Sela, A.Hernandez, Reynolds, Widom, Mazarakis

[I believe Prpic was in the USA F29 list for next week and withdrew only a day late on Tuesday Oct 5th -- so I think he should not be allowed to play Burbank .. ATP doesn't seem to have noticed?]

Bolton (TWO special exempt spots cleared)
OUT: 4 rom main draw (and Ketola, Ionita, Luzzi, Waske, Niemeyer, Svarc from ALT)
IN: Roger-Vasselin, Dell'Acqua, Ryderstedt, Gabashvili, Minar, J.Marray
NEXT: Marach, Sarstrand, Pless, Dlouhy

[Marach is listed for one of the futures .. So Sarstrand is next]

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here are the links for the ATP draws for the challenger qualies.

Burbank Qualies: http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/Trac ... /86/qs.pdf (the draw is up)

Bolton Qualies: http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/Trac ... 428/qs.pdf (not up yet but once they do that, this link will work)

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I simply cannot believe that the Burbank guys would make #100 ranked Alex Bogomolov play qualies. That is absolutely unpardonable.

I mean, we are talking about a guy who would be TOP SEED in the main draw! ... Come on, this is crazy. It is not like they have a whole bunch of top-100 players there. Rather than give the guy a wildcard and make a signboard saying "come watch top-100 players in the world", they make that guy play qualies?

Pathetic!

In small protest, I am dropping my normal policy of not talking about who withdrew in the challengers - and saying it a couple of days before the official draw comes out .. #90 Yen-Hsun Lu, #194 Amer Delic, and #243 Alan Mackin withdrew.

With the original top seed Lu having withdrawn, the top seed would be #124 Goldstein (unless Alex qualifies in, which he should)

Jay

[Tennis724]

I guess I, of all people, don't need to tell you how much I agree with you. I'm even more ticked now knowing that the top seed withdrew in plenty of time for Alex to get a WC.

He's been here since Thursday!! Plenty of time. I'll be there tomorrow.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yes, Lu had withdrawn like a week or more back. Wow, that is even worse if Alex had contacted them early enough.

Jay

[focus]

oh please Jay could you 'widen' your protest just a bit more and tell us whos out from the MD in BOLTON? please, please, please!!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

[quote]oh please Jay could you 'widen' your protest just a bit more and tell us whos out from the MD in BOLTON? please, please, please!![/quote}

.. Now that the main draw will be out within a day, why not? - Karanusic, Navarro-Pastor, Tipsarevic and Tsonga were the withdrawals at Bolton.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

Thanks Jay, cool protest

regards
PR

[Guest]

oh please Jay could you 'widen' your protest just a bit more and tell us whos out from the MD in BOLTON? please, please, please!![/quote}

.. Now that the main draw will be out within a day, why not? - Karanusic, Navarro-Pastor, Tipsarevic and Tsonga were the withdrawals at Bolton.

Jay

thanks a lot... you ARE the king! any info on why the guys withdrew?

[focus]

it was ME above... thanks again!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Well, the Bolton Challenger list did not close till Saturday evening, as the qualies are on Sunday and monday. So an update:

Bolton (TWO special exempt spots cleared)
OUT: Karanusic, Tipsarevic, Navarro-Pastor, Tsonga (and Ketola, Ionita, Luzzi, Waske, Niemeyer, Svarc, Minar, Marach from ALT)
IN: Roger-Vasselin, Dell'Acqua, Ryderstedt, Gabashvili, J.Marray, Sarstrand
NEXT: Pless, Dlouhy, Scherrer, Childs, Zovko

The qualifying draw must have been made by Saturday evening, but no sign of it at the ATP or LTA sites.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

The qualifying draw must have been made by Saturday evening, but no sign of it at the ATP or LTA sites.

the qually draw is now up @ LTA