week *48* : Challengers (29/11-5/12)

[BelgiumDude]

Aracaju
1 Ventura, Santiago ESP 100
2 Saretta, Flavio BRA 112
3 Garcia, Adrian CHI 114
4 Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 132
5 Massa, Edgardo ARG 143
6 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 158
7 Guzman, Juan-Pablo ARG 182
8 Robert, Stephane FRA 204
9 Vassallo Arguello, Martin ITA 209
10 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 213
11 Villagran, Cristian ARG 215
12 Ionita, Victor ROM 226
13 Gonzalez King, Ignacio ARG 242
14 Moraru, Gabriel ROM 247
15 Silva, Julio BRA 251
16 Daniel, Marcos BRA 256
17 Ferreiro, Franco BRA 257
18 Gamonal, Hermes CHI 258
19 Dabul, Brian ARG 284
20 Gonzalez, Santiago MEX 287
21 Moyano, Diego ARG 295
22 Costa, Francisco BRA 303
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
1. Dellatorre, Andres ARG 313
2. Marcaccio, Gustavo ARG 332
3. Moser, Frank GER @355
4. Echagaray, Bruno MEX 362
5. Veronelli, Diego ARG 387
6. Quintero, Michael COL 401
7. Melo, Daniel BRA @430
8. Melo, Marcelo BRA 432
9. Fruttero, John Paul USA 444
10. Hartfield, Diego ARG 445
11. Engel, Lucas BRA 458
12. Sorensen, Kevin IRL 459
13. Murray, Andrew GBR 508
14. Stancik, Jan SVK 539
15. Moser, Frank GER 674

Kish Island
1 Behrend, Tomas GER 156
2 Sabau, Razvan ROM 191
3 Puerta, Mariano ARG 232
4 Marach, Oliver AUT 244
5 Fitz, Sebastian GER 260
6 Terachi, Takahiro JPN 270
7 Kubot, Lukasz POL 274
8 Bruthans, Victor SVK 281
9 Ivanov-Smolensky, Kirill RUS 301
10 Chadaj, Adam POL 315
11 Klec, Ivo GER 325
12 Przysiezny, Michal POL 327
13 Kralert, Petr CZE 340
14 Cerovic, Ivan CRO 346
15 Ouahab, Lamine ALG 355
16 Middelkoop, Matwe NED 370
17 Mirnegg, Marco AUT 377
18 Thomann, Nicolas FRA 378
19 Smit, Jasper NED 413
20 Wiltschnig, Herbert AUT 431
21 Cermak, Frantisek CZE 434
22 Tavares, Leonardo POR 435
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
1. Ungur, Adrian ROM 437
2. Neunteibl, Marko AUT 438
3. Urban, Filip POL 449
4. Sorensen, Kevin IRL 459
5. Zay, Marius GER 488
6. Sakai, Toshiaki JPN 493
7. Junaid, Rameez AUS 517
8. Magdincev, Lazar MKD 527
9. Stancik, Jan SVK 539
10. Wassen, Rogier NED 549
11. Montcourt, Mathieu FRA 580
12. Cerda, Juan Ignacio CHI 622
13. Moser, Frank GER 674
14. Colangelo, Fabio ITA 675
15. Popovic, Petar SCG 677

Mauritius
1 Koubek, Stefan AUT 62
2 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 67
3 Sargsian, Sargis ARM 76
4 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 81
5 Hanescu, Victor ROM 89
6 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 94
7 Haehnel, Jerome FRA 96
8 Kim, Kevin USA 102
9 Rochus, Christophe BEL 108
10 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 110
11 Tabara, Michal CZE 113
12 Elseneer, Gilles BEL 116
13 Patience, Olivier FRA 117
14 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 118
15 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 120
16 Kucera, Karol SVK 121
17 Vanek, Jiri CZE 124
18 Wessels, Peter NED 125
19 Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 138
20 Moodie, Wesley RSA 139
21 Okun, Noam ISR 142
22 Phau, Bjorn GER 152
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
1. Vacek, Jan CZE 153
2. Kratochvil, Michel SUI 166
3. Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 171
4. Dancevic, Frank CAN 177
5. Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 179
6. Andersen, Jan Frode NOR 189
7. Waske, Alexander GER 200
8. De Voest, Rik RSA 203
9. Udomchoke, Danai THA 208
10. Prpic, Filip SWE 221
11. Hemmes Jr., Fred NED 234
12. Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 241
13. Kohlmann, Michael GER 259
14. Mergea, Florin ROM 262
15. Bastl, George SUI 266

Milan
1 Starace, Potito ITA 77
2 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 101
3 Carraz, Gregory FRA 107
4 Seppi, Andreas ITA 134
5 Aldi, Francesco ITA 140
6 Baccanello, Paul AUS @144
7 Salzenstein, Jeff USA 147
8 Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 148
9 Karanusic, Roko CRO 150
10 Bracciali, Daniele ITA 154
11 Norman, Dick BEL 159
12 Tenconi, Tomas ITA 164
13 Voltchkov, Vladimir BLR 172
14 Minar, Ivo CZE 175
15 Rosset, Marc SUI 178
16 Kindlmann, Dieter GER 180
17 Summerer, Tobias GER 181
18 Azzaro, Leonardo ITA 183
19 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 194
20 Schukin, Yuri RUS 196
21 Vico, Uros ITA 198
22 Luzzi, Federico ITA 199
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
1. Waske, Alexander GER 200
2. Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 202
3. Golmard, Jerome FRA 206
4. Suzuki, Takao JPN 210
5. Pescosolido, Stefano ITA 212
6. Tuksar, Sasa CRO 217
7. Gimelstob, Justin USA 222
8. Berrer, Michael GER 225
9. Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 228
10. Pequery, Jean-Michel FRA 238
11. Stoppini, Andrea ITA 240
12. Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 241
13. Cakl, Tomas CZE 245
14. Knowle, Julian AUT 248
15. Sela, Dudi ISR 253

[PatatRiek]

thanks BelgiumDude !

Mauritius has a strong field, didn't expect that

take it easy
PatatRiek

[Elina]

Nice to see Haehnel in the Mauritius list. I guess he's getting used to air travel. Hopefully that trip will go well and we'll see him at the Aussie Open.

[PatatRiek]

Niels Desein : WC for qualies in Milano

ciao
PatatRiek

[keope1977]

WC in Milan: Sanguinetti, Pescosolido (it will be the last tournement of his career), Galimberti and another not italian player to be announced.

[keanumil]

Really funny.
We (Italien) have a good young talent Simone BOLELLI and we give the WC to Niels Desein from Belgium..that loose two weeks ago in Belgium in F1 against BOLELLI 60 62!!!
Perhaps that Milan is in Belgium and noone told me anythnig??!!!!

[PatatRiek]

Really funny.
We (Italien) have a good young talent Simone BOLELLI and we give the WC to Niels Desein from Belgium..that loose two weeks ago in Belgium in F1 against BOLELLI 60 62!!!
Perhaps that Milan is in Belgium and noone told me anythnig??!!!!

it's a WC for the qualies Bolelli will not need a WC to make that draw and FYI, the day Niels lost vs Bolelli in Belgium he was very ill

are there some early updates already, Jay?

regards
PR

[keanumil]

Really funny.
We (Italien) have a good young talent Simone BOLELLI and we give the WC to Niels Desein from Belgium..that loose two weeks ago in Belgium in F1 against BOLELLI 60 62!!!
Perhaps that Milan is in Belgium and noone told me anythnig??!!!!

it's a WC for the qualies Bolelli will not need a WC to make that draw and FYI, the day Niels lost vs Bolelli in Belgium he was very ill

are there some early updates already, Jay?

regards
PR

Thanks PataRiek!
In any case i hope that the manager of CH Milan give the WC to a young talent, Italian or foreign not important, sure i would prefer BOLELLI!

[Estevao Rohr]

Brazilian junior Lenoir Ramos got a WC to Aracaju main draw...

[seb]

Attribution of Wild Cards in challengers is allways strange: German/Italian players at Romania and Hungary challengers etc...

And don't forget the Johannes Matschke case: the guy has received more than 10 challenger WCs since 2002 even if he hardly won 1 match in futures qualies, even if he is not a young talent, even if he is not one of the top 800 (!!!) of his coutry...

I want to denunciate him to the ATP Tour because it is a clear corruption case

[keanumil]

Attribution of Wild Cards in challengers is allways strange: German/Italian players at Romania and Hungary challengers etc...

And don't forget the Johannes Matschke case: the guy has received more than 10 challenger WCs since 2002 even if he hardly won 1 match in futures qualies, even if he is not a young talent, even if he is not one of the top 800 (!!!) of his coutry...

I want to denunciate him to the ATP Tour because it is a clear corruption case

Regarding Romania, there is an agreement between Italian Federation and Romania Federation...so could be normal that Italian players receive WC, but some time could be probably that some players pay for a WC, such us in CH in Rome the organization give two WC that loose in first round, and togheter win 2 games on 24....
and they don't play against FEDERER...

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Mauritius (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: None from main draw (but F.Dancevic, Y-T.Wang and J.F.Anderson from ALT)
NEXT: J.Vacek, Kratochvil, Kunitsyn, Waske, DeVoest, Udomchoke, Prpic, Hemmes

Milan-1 (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: One from main draw (none from ALT)
IN: Waske
NEXT: Navarro-Pastor, Golmard, Suzuki, Pescosolido, Tuksar, Gimelstob, Berrer, Galimberti

Aracaju (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Three from main draw (none from ALT)
IN: Dellatorre, Marcaccio, Moser
NEXT: Echegaray, Veronelli, Quintero, D.Melo, M.Melo, Fruttero, Hartfield, Engel

Kish Island (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: One from main draw (and Junaid, Magdincev from ALT)
IN: Ungur
NEXT: Neunteibl, Urban, Sorensen, Zay, Sakai, Stancik, Wassen, Montcourt

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Mauritius (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: One from the main draw (and F.Dancevic, Y-T.Wang and J.F.Anderson from ALT)
IN: J.Vacek
NEXT: Kratochvil, Kunitsyn, Waske, DeVoest, Udomchoke, Prpic, Hemmes, Dell'Acqua

Milan-1 (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: One from main draw (and Navarro-Pastor, Golmard from ALT)
IN: Waske
NEXT: Suzuki, Pescosolido, Tuksar, Gimelstob, Berrer, Galimberti, Pequery, Stoppini

Aracaju (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Seven from main draw (none from ALT)
IN: Dellatorre, Marcaccio, Moser, Echegaray, Veronelli, Quintero, D.Melo
NEXT: M.Melo, Fruttero, Hartfield, Engel, Sorensen, Murray, Stancik

Kish Island (2 SE spots cleared)
OUT: Two from main draw (and Sakai, Junaid, Magdincev from ALT)
IN: Ungur, Neunteibl, Urban, Sorensen
NEXT: Zay, Stancik, Wassen, Montcourt, Cerda, Moser, Colangelo, Popovic

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Nitsansh: You won't be happy hearing the name of the one who withdrew from Mauritius, I am sure.

Jay

[Conan]

Any idea of the Milan SE? Ketola was hoping to get one early this week and now he´s in Prague semifinals. Did his wish come true?

[Estevao Rohr]

More two WCs to Aracaju, so 3 are gone:

Lenoir Ramos (BRA) - 19 years old
Raony Carvalho (BRA) - 17 years old
Luís Henrique Grangeiro (BRA) - 17 years old

[PatatRiek]

qualie draw Milano => http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2004/457/qs.pdf

PatatRiek

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Mauritius (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: One from the main draw (and F.Dancevic, Y-T.Wang and J.F.Anderson from ALT)
IN: J.Vacek
NEXT: Kratochvil, Kunitsyn, Waske, DeVoest, Udomchoke, Prpic, Hemmes, Dell'Acqua

Milan-1 (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: One from main draw (and Navarro-Pastor, Golmard from ALT)
IN: Waske
NEXT: Suzuki, Pescosolido, Tuksar, Gimelstob, Berrer, Galimberti, Pequery, Stoppini

Aracaju (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Eight from main draw (and Fruttero, Sorensen, Stancik from ALT)
IN: Dellatorre, Marcaccio, Moser, Echegaray, Veronelli, Quintero, D.Melo, M.Melo
NEXT: Hartfield, Engel, Murray, Colangelo, Motti, P.Ivanov

Kish Island (2 SE spots cleared)
OUT: Two from main draw (and Sakai, Junaid, Magdincev, Stancik from ALT)
IN: Ungur, Neunteibl, Urban, Sorensen
NEXT: Zay, Wassen, Montcourt, Cerda, Moser, Colangelo, Popovic

Jay

[PatatRiek]

qualie draw Mauritius => http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2004/629/Qs.pdf

it looks like Kratochvil moved into main draw after Qdraw was made

regards
PatatRiek

[PatatRiek]

Milano : SUZUKI, Takao OUT of qualies (replaced by ALT) ==> Moved into Main Draw

msg
PatatRiek

[Guest]

AT least there are no top 20 players playing any challengers this week Gives these guys a chance

[PatatRiek]

AT least there are no top 20 players playing any challengers this week Gives these guys a chance

there is 1 actually, Pavel (ATP 20) got a WC in Mauritius
Kim pulled out there , a LL in

SE in Milano went to the Prague finalists : Ketola & Dlouhy

ciao
PatatRiek

[Peter Smyth]

How do you find Challenger draws before there is a link to them at the ATP site? They all appear to have the form http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2004/???/mds.pdf where ??? is a different number for each tournament so is there a list somewhere that gives the correct number for each tournament?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Aha .. The little trick to find the number is to look into SteveG's calendar page and the fact sheets there. Most of the time you will find a number with the header information there!

Jay