week |35-36| ATP: US Open (+Q)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

The US Open
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 2
3 Nadal, Rafael ESP 3
4 Roddick, Andy USA 4
5 Safin, Marat RUS 5
6 Agassi, Andre USA 6
7 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 7
OUT Canas, Guillermo ARG 8
9 Johansson, Thomas SWE 9
10 Nalbandian, David ARG 10
11 Henman, Tim GBR 11
12 Puerta, Mariano ARG 12
13 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 13
OUT Johansson, Joachim SWE 14
15 Coria, Guillermo ARG 15
16 Robredo, Tommy ESP 16
17 Gasquet, Richard FRA 17
18 Stepanek, Radek CZE 18
19 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 19
20 Ferrer, David ESP 20
21 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 21
22 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 22
23 Novak, Jiri CZE 23
24 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 24
25 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 25
26 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 26
27 El Aynaoui, Younes MAR 27
28 Haas, Tommy GER 27
29 Moya, Carlos ESP 28
30 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 29
31 Dent, Taylor USA 30
32 Kuerten, Gustavo BRA 30
33 Massu, Nicolas CHI 31
34 Ancic, Mario CRO 32
35 Mirnyi, Max BLR 33
36 Volandri, Filippo ITA 34
37 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 35
38 Rochus, Olivier BEL 36
39 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 37
40 Berdych, Tomas CZE 38
41 Soderling, Robin SWE 39
42 Rusedski, Greg GBR 40
43 Pavel, Andrei ROM 41
44 Spadea, Vincent USA 42
45 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 43
46 Acasuso, Jose ARG 44
47 Beck, Karol SVK 45
48 Rochus, Christophe BEL 46
49 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 47
50 Andreev, Igor RUS 48
51 Horna, Luis PER 49
52 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 50
53 Mello, Ricardo BRA 51
54 Martin, Alberto ESP 52
55 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 53
56 Hanescu, Victor ROM 54
57 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 55
58 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 56
59 Zib, Tomas CZE 57
60 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 58
61 Saulnier, Cyril FRA 59
62 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 60
63 Hernych, Jan CZE 61
64 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 62
65 Malisse, Xavier BEL 63
66 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 64
67 Monfils, Gael FRA 65
68 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 66
69 Monaco, Juan ARG 67
70 Fish, Mardy USA 68
71 Kim, Kevin USA 69
72 Llodra, Michael FRA 70
73 Muller, Gilles LUX 71
74 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 72
75 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 73
76 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 74
77 Arthurs, Wayne AUS 75
78 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 76
79 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 76
80 Seppi, Andreas ITA 77
81 Goldstein, Paul USA 78
82 Sabau, Razvan ROM 79
83 Serra, Florent FRA 80
84 Vanek, Jiri CZE 81
85 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 82
86 Mayer, Florian GER 83
87 Montanes, Albert ESP 84
88 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 85
89 Wessels, Peter NED 86
90 Koubek, Stefan AUT 87
91 Mantilla, Felix ESP 88
92 Schuettler, Rainer GER 89
93 Behrend, Tomas GER 90
94 Minar, Ivo CZE 91
95 Popp, Alexander GER 91
96 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 92
97 Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 93
98 Calleri, Agustin ARG 94
99 Starace, Potito ITA 95
100 Djokovic, Novak SCG 96
101 Gimelstob, Justin USA 97
102 Ginepri, Robby USA 98
103 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 99
104 Costa, Albert ESP 100
105 (WC) Baker, Brian USA
106 (WC) Blake, James USA
107 (WC) Gambill, Jan-Michael USA
108 (WC) Jenkins, Scoville USA
109 (WC) Ram, Rajeev USA
110 (WC) Reynolds, Bobby USA
111 (WC) Young, Donald USA (18s Nationals Winner)
112 (WC) Philippopussis, Mark AUS
113 (Q)
114 (Q)
115 (Q)
116 (Q)
117 (Q)
118 (Q)
119 (Q)
120 (Q)
121 (Q)
122 (Q)
123 (Q)
124 (Q)
125 (Q)
126 (Q)
127 (Q)
128 (Q)

Alternates

IN Norman, Dick BEL 101
IN Kucera, Karol SVK 101
1. Sargsian, Sargis ARM 102
2. Draper, Scott AUS 102
3. Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 103
4. Vik, Robin CZE 104
5. Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 105
6. Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 106
IN Blake, James USA 107 - wildcard
8. Haehnel, Jerome FRA 108
9. Tabara, Michal CZE 109
10. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 110
11. Phau, Bjorn GER 111
12. Aldi, Francesco ITA 112
13. Massa, Edgardo ARG 113
14. Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 114
15. Saretta, Flavio BRA 115

The US Open Qualifying
1 Vik, Robin CZE 94
2 Bracciali, Daniele ITA 97
3 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 99
OUT Blake, James USA 101 - To Main Draw (WC)
5 Phau, Bjorn GER 105
OUT Norman, Dick BEL 106 - To Main Draw.
7 Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 109
8 Tabara, Michal CZE 111
9 Simon, Gilles FRA 112
10 Moodie, Wesley RSA 113
11 Bastl, George SUI 114
12 Waske, Alexander GER 115
OUT Aldi, Francesco ITA 116
14 Clement, Arnaud FRA 117
15 Ascione, Thierry FRA 120
16 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 122
17 Saretta, Flavio BRA 123
18 Falla, Alejandro COL 124
19 Vliegen, Kristof BEL 124
20 Dupuis, Antony FRA 126
OUT Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 127
22 Udomchoke, Danai THA 128
23 Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 130
OUT Sluiter, Raemon NED 131
25 Greul, Simon GER 133
26 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 136
27 Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 137
28 Karanusic, Roko CRO 138
29 Mertinak, Michal SVK 139
30 Garcia, Adrian CHI 140
31 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 141
32 Daniel, Marcos BRA 143
OUT Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 144 - To Main Draw (WC)
34 Morrison, Jeff USA 145
35 Benneteau, Julien FRA 146
36 Patience, Olivier FRA 148
OUT Labadze, Irakli GEO 149
38 Sa, Andre BRA 150
39 Delic, Amer USA 151
40 Delgado, Ramon PAR 152
41 Murray, Andy GBR 153
42 Gicquel, Marc FRA 154
43 Carraz, Gregory FRA 155
OUT Reynolds, Bobby USA 157 - To Main Draw (WC)
45 Capdeville, Paul CHI 158
46 Calatrava, Alex ESP 160
47 Okun, Noam ISR 162
48 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 163
49 Summerer, Tobias GER 164
50 Luczak, Peter AUS 165
51 Silva, Julio BRA 167
OUT Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 168
53 Guccione, Chris AUS 171
54 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 172
OUT Baker, Brian USA 173 - To Main Draw (WC)
56 Tuksar, Sasa CRO 174
57 Vahaly, Brian USA 176
58 Parmar, Arvind GBR 177
59 Luzzi, Federico ITA 178
60 Snobel, Pavel CZE 179
61 Dancevic, Frank CAN 180
62 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 183
63 Voltchkov, Vladimir BLR 184
64 Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 185
65 Kubot, Lukasz POL 186
66 Armando, Hugo USA 187
67 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 188
68 Niemeyer, Frederic CAN 189
69 Elseneer, Gilles BEL 190
70 Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 191
71 Squillari, Franco ARG 193
72 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 194
73 Pless, Kristian DEN 195
74 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 196
OUT Salzenstein, Jeff USA 198
76 Alves, Thiago BRA 199
OUT Schalken, Sjeng NED 200
78 Gonzalez, Santiago MEX 201
79 Sela, Dudi ISR 202
80 De Voest, Rik RSA 204
81 Ferreiro, Franco BRA 205
82 Vemic, Dusan SCG 206
OUT Philippoussis, Mark AUS 208 - To Main Draw (WC)
84 Hilton, Mark GBR 209
OUT Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 210
OUT Kendrick, Robert USA 211
87 Suzuki, Takao JPN 212
88 Tenconi, Tomas ITA 213
89 Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 214
OUT Ketola, Tuomas FIN 215
91 Prpic, Filip SWE 216
92 Weiner, Glenn USA 218
93 Rojer, Jean-Julien AHO 219
94 Sherwood, David GBR 220
95 Schukin, Yuri RUS 222
OUT Ram, Rajeev USA 224 - To Main Draw (WC)
97 Peya, Alexander AUT 226
98 Masson, Jeroen BEL 228
99 van Scheppingen, Dennis NED 229
100 Chadaj, Adam POL 230
101 Roitman, Sergio ARG 231
102 Galvani, Stefano ITA 232
103 Bolelli, Simone ITA 233
104 Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 234
OUT Mackin, Alan GBR 234
106 Mamiit, Cecil USA 235
107 Adaktusson, Jacob SWE 236
108 Kimmich, Marc AUS 236
109 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 237
OUT Russell, Michael USA 239
111 Vacek, Jan CZE 239
112 Delgado, Jamie GBR 240
113 Gallardo Valles, Miguel MEX 241
114 Todero, Nicolas ARG 242
115 Healey, Nathan AUS 243
116 Hartfield, Diego ARG 244
117 Op der Heijde, Melvyn NED 245
OUT Minar, Jan CZE 246
OUT Kohlmann, Michael GER 247
120 (WC) Clayton, Alex USA (18s national claycourt champion 2005)
121 (WC) Evans, Brendan USA
122 (WC) Fleishman, Zack USA
123 (WC) Fruttero, John Paul USA
124 (WC) Levine, Jesse USA (Wimbledon junuors doubles champion 2005)
125 (WC) Odesnik, Wayne USA
126 (WC) Querrey, Sam USA (18s Hardcourt Nationals runner-up 2005)
127 (WC) Rettenmaier, Travis USA
128 (WC) Smyczek, Timothy USA (Wimbledon junior semifinalist 2005)

Alternates
IN Villagran, Cristian ARG 248
IN Pequery, Jean-Michel FRA 249
IN Levy, Harel ISR 250
IN Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 251
IN Stoppini, Andrea ITA 252
IN Amritraj, Prakash IND 253
IN De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 254
IN Sarstrand, Marcus SWE 255
IN Lammer, Michael SUI 256
IN Berrer, Michael GER 257
IN Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 258
IN Mankad, Harsh IND 259
OUT Machado, Rui POR 260
IN Bruthans, Victor SVK 262
IN Mlynarik, Zbynek AUT 263
OUT Thomann, Nicolas FRA 264
IN Mergea, Florin ROM 265
IN Gremelmayr, Denis GER 266
OUT Vico, Uros ITA 267
OUT Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 268
IN Miranda, Ivan PER 269
IN Marray, Jonathan GBR 270
IN Smeets, Robert AUS 271
IN Cakl, Tomas CZE 272
OUT Motomura, Gouichi JPN 273
OUT Iwabuchi, Satoshi JPN 277
OUT Mertl, Jan CZE 278
IN Zelenay, Igor SVK 279
1. Logtens, Paul NED 281
OUT Baccanello, Paul AUS 284
OUT Popp, Alexander GER 286
OUT Granollers-Pujol, Marcel ESP 292
2. Chen, Ti TPE 293
3. Odesnik, Wayne USA 294
4. Fitz, Sebastian GER 296
OUT Svarc, Ladislav SVK 298
OUT Auckland, James GBR 299
OUT Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 300
OUT Moyano, Diego ARG 302
5. Widom, Todd USA 303
6. Fruttero, John Paul USA 306
7. Klec, Ivo GER 307
8. Junqueira, Diego ARG 309

Jay

[smucav]

Thanks Jay.

This is the 9th tournament El Aynaoui has entered with his injury protected ranking. Is it possible that the ATP has given him an extra entry (or, more likely, he will be withdrawing from Montreal, Cincinnati, or New Haven)?

[Guest]

[pozaking]

Jay can you write what players have a PR?? Please.

[smucav]

Jay can you write what players have a PR?? Please.

el Aynaoui, Kuerten, Tursunov, Popp (ALT: Kucera, Draper)

[pozaking]

Thank you smucav

[voci nella notte]

pr is popp

[voci nella notte]

popp is pr

[smucav]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-bricktennis24jul24,0,6753824.column?coll=sfla-sports-headlines

Wild times at the U.S. Open

There are going to be some unhappy players, both young and older, when the USTA hands out its eight wild cards for the main draw.

With the dissipation of depth among U.S. men, some well-known American names might have to qualify. Jan-Michael Gambill and Jeff Morrison could be two of them.

If the USTA gives them wild cards into the main draw, it's going to be able to reward only six instead of eight encouraging juniors. And U.S. men's tennis is at a point where the younger players are commanding more attention than the older ones.

With only 104 players straight in, based on the rankings of this past week, at least three veteran Americans (James Blake at No. 107, Morrison at No. 141 and Gambill at No. 150) face the possibility of having to go through qualifying.

Blake, however, probably will get a direct acceptance because you'd expect at least three players to be injured badly enough not to play, and that might include Mardy Fish (No. 68), who quit his match in Indianapolis Thursday with residual pain from his recent wrist surgery.

One wild card automatically goes to the winner of the U.S. Hardcourts at Kalamazoo, Mich. Among the younger players, including juniors, who are under consideration are Donald Young, Tim Neilly (both top 10 ITF juniors), highly regarded junior Sam Querrey, Todd Widom, Rajeev Ram, K.J. Hippenstiel and Scoville Jenkins.

Now what happens with Brendan Evans of Key Biscayne, whose ranking is only 432, but who reached the third and final round of U.S. Open qualifying last year?

There also is Brian Baker, the former Orange Bowl winner who has produced good results in the Challengers. And Hugo Armando of Miami is having his best year.

Some of these players are going to have to take wild cards into the qualifying instead of the main draw.

Gambill and Morrison, in particular, are going to argue that they've given years of service to U.S. tennis and deserve some main-draw consideration from their home country's Grand Slam.

The nine Yanks straight into the main draw (ranking in parentheses): Andy Roddick (4), Agassi (6), Taylor Dent (30), Vince Spadea of Boca Raton (42), Fish, Kevin Kim (69), Paul Goldstein (78), Justin Gimelstob (97), Robby Ginepri (98).

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Added the US Open qualifying list ...

Jay

[smucav]

(Not sure why there are only 119 instead of 120..)

There were 119 direct entrants & 9 wild cards in 2004 qualifying draw:

http://stevegtennis.com/results/2004/q-a-usopen.txt

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yep. I suppose it is 119+9, normally. I guess I never looked closely - and assumed that it was 120+8 !! Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Early Update 1:

USO Main draw: Canas, J.Johansson OUT; Norman, Kucera IN
USO Qualies: Nobody OUT yet.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

USO Qualies: Nobody OUT yet.

well Dick Norman is OUT since he just made the main draw

thanks for the updates Jay

regards
PatatRiek

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Ah. I guess they had not added that in the list I got... Ihad looked quickly at the ALT list, and did not notice that Norman was 6th in there...

Jay

[smucav]

USTA Boys 18 & 16 National Tennis Championship (August 5-14, 2005) results:

US OPEN WILD CARD INFORMATION:

Singles Wild Cards
Donald Young: Boys’ 18 Singles Champion - Singles Main Draw: US Open* and Junior US Open**
Sam Querrey: Boys’ 18 Singles Finalist - Singles Qualifying Draw: US Open*
Schnugg, Nathaniel: Boys’ 16 Singles Champion - Singles Main Draw: Junior US Open

Doubles Wild Card
(Players must play with the same doubles partner to receive the doubles Wild Card)
Kryvonos, Mykyta/Zivkovic, Denis: Boys’ 18 Doubles Champions - Doubles Main Draw: US Open* and Junior US Open**

* Per Grand Slam rules, players under the age of 14 will not be eligible for entry
** Players must be age eligible by ITF Rules to receive the Wild Card for the Junior US Open

[ae wowww]

There is no doubles entry list for this event, right?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Actually I am not sure if there is an early doubles list for US Open. Probably not. If there is, I will get it tomorrow or so..

Jay

[ae wowww]

Nice one Jay

I vaguely remember someone telling me that Grand Slams do not have entry lists, but then-Wimbledon had one, right?

Looking forward to finding out

[smucav]

Nice one Jay

I vaguely remember someone telling me that Grand Slams do not have entry lists, but then-Wimbledon had one, right?

Looking forward to finding out

Wimbledon has a doubles qualifying tournament, so it has to have a doubles entry list so players know whether or not they need to sign-in for the qualifying tournament.

[ae wowww]

Ahh ok interesting call, thanks S. Any reason it chooses to have DQ, while the other Grand Slams don't?

[nitsansh]

Ahh ok interesting call, thanks S. Any reason it chooses to have DQ, while the other Grand Slams don't?

Wimbledon differ from other tournaments in many ways... this is just another one...
Wimby has also best-of-5 sets matches in qualifying final round... and best-of 5 for all doubles main draw matches... and a unique seeding formula... and no play on middle sunday... and "almost entirely" white dress code... the list goes on and on...

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yes, Wimbledon is the only event above the challenger level with a doubles qualifying event (they still do some things right out there in the land of tradition!). So they need an entry list prepared 2 weeks in advance to know who needs to play qualies.

As for the "all white" dress code, there is still another place that insists on that. The Forest Hills Club in New York, which insists on that dress code for all the challenger they conduct there! ... Stated in the fact sheets as something they will "strictly enforce" even for qualifying matches (actually even for using the practice court, I think). Interesting place. Of course they used to hold the US Open there over 25 years back.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Early Update 2:

USO Main draw: Canas, J.Johansson OUT; Norman, Kucera IN
USO Qualies: Tsonga OUT; Villagran IN.

(for some reason the official USO Q list that I have, still lists Norman. But he is OUT to main draw, and Pequery is actually IN already.)

Jay

[ae wowww]

Thank you all for the information

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

USO Main draw: Canas, J.Johansson OUT; Norman, Kucera IN

USO Qualies:
OUT: Kohlmann, Norman, Russell, Sluiter, Tsonga, Ulihrach
IN: Villagran, Pequery, Levy, Galimberti, Stoppini, P.Amritraj
NEXT: DeChaunac, Sarstrand, Lammer, Berrer, Lorenzi, Mankad, Machado, Bruthans, Mlynarik, Thomann

So, some movement today in the qualies list ... The next two main draw withdrawlas will not affect the qualies list, but the main draw wildcards announcement this week will move the qualies list again.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

USO Main draw: Canas, J.Johansson OUT; Norman, Kucera IN

USO Qualies:
OUT: Kohlmann, Norman, Russell, Schalken, Sluiter, Tsonga, Ulihrach
IN: Villagran, Pequery, Levy, Galimberti, Stoppini, P.Amritraj, DeChaunac
NEXT: Sarstrand, Lammer, Berrer, Lorenzi, Mankad, Machado, Bruthans, Mlynarik, Thomann, Mergea

Jay

[Guest]

Do you have WC news?

[smucav]

Women's wild cards were announced today (Thursday).

http://www.usta.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=223287

Men's should be announced tomorrow (Friday).

[R. Jayakrishnan]

USO Qualies:
OUT: Baker, Blake, Gambill, Kohlmann, Norman, Philippoussis, Ram, Reynolds, Russell, Schalken, Sluiter, Tsonga, Ulihrach
IN: Villagran, Pequery, Levy, Galimberti, Stoppini, P.Amritraj, DeChaunac, Sarstrand, Lammer, Berrer, Lorenzi, Mankad, Machado
NEXT: Bruthans, Mlynarik, Thomann, Mergea, Gremelmayr, Vico, Dell'Acqua, Miranda, Marray, Smeets

I don't know if those taken out today are main draw wildcards. Possible.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

The wildcards have all been announced -

http://www.usta.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=223664

Jay

[Guest]

come on more withdrawals plz!

i want smeets into qualies draw!

so 10 to go!

[Björki]

come on three more withdraws.
I want to see Jonas in the MD without playing qualy

[Elikian]

(Not sure why there are only 119 instead of 120..)

Because you missed Sargsian?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Elkian: As smucav said above, there are NINE qildcards in the qualies, not eight.

Sargsian did not enter the qualies list. He is next-in for main draw though, and should make it soon.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

USO Main draw:
OUT: Canas, J.Johansson (none frm ALT)
IN: Norman, Kucera IN

USO Qualies:
OUT: Baker, Blake, Gambill, Ketola, Kohlmann, Mackin, J.Minar, Norman, Philippoussis, Ram, Reynolds, Russell, Schalken, Sluiter, Tsonga, Ulihrach (and Thomann from ALT)
IN: Villagran, Pequery, Levy, Galimberti, Stoppini, P.Amritraj, DeChaunac, Sarstrand, Lammer, Berrer, Lorenzi, Mankad, Machado, Bruthans, Mlynarik, Mergea
NEXT: Gremelmayr, Vico, Dell'Acqua, Miranda, Marray, Smeets, Cakl, Motomura, Iwabuchi, Mertl

Jay

[Tennis724]

Ok, I'm apparently having a memory loss after knowing for years. Is the Quallie Draw supposed to be released on Sunday or Monday? The fact sheet only lists the date for MD.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

USO Main draw: No change from above

USO Qualies:
OUT: Baker, Blake, Chiudinelli, Gambill, Ketola, Kohlmann, Mackin, J.Minar, Norman, Philippoussis, Ram, Reynolds, Russell, Schalken, Sluiter, Tsonga, Ulihrach (and Thomann from ALT)
IN: Villagran, Pequery, Levy, Galimberti, Stoppini, P.Amritraj, DeChaunac, Sarstrand, Lammer, Berrer, Lorenzi, Mankad, Machado, Bruthans, Mlynarik, Mergea, Gremelmayr
NEXT: Vico, Dell'Acqua, Miranda, Marray, Smeets, Cakl, Motomura, Iwabuchi, Mertl, Zelenay

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I see Machado as the top seed in the qualies at Manerbio. He must be aware that he made the USO qualies cut yesterday, but if he qualifies in, I don't see how he can come in by Tuesday to US and play... So, by monday evening, he will probably be gone from the Q list. I am sure the Q list cut will fall another 3-4 spots if not more by the end.

Jay

[nitsansh]

Technically, if someone is eliminated in a European challenger on Monday afternoon, he can fly overnight and get to NY on Tuesday morning... whether he will be too jet-lagged to play is another matter...

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yeah, I know. Technically yes. But practically, I don;t see him flying to US after monday. I found it interesting that he wenmt and signed in for qualies though - I can understand signing in for qualies at New Haven, but not at Manerbio. I assume he has no plans to come to the US, doesn;t have a visa, doesn't have any flight reservation etc ...

On the other hand, he may have decided that if he loses in the qualies on sunday, he could fly overnight, have a day off monday in the US and play the next day.

Also, they can request for a wednesday start - as half the Q1 matches are on wedesday ... So, it is possible he has plans to come to US after a loss at Manerbio.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Ok, I'm apparently having a memory loss after knowing for years. Is the Quallie Draw supposed to be released on Sunday or Monday? The fact sheet only lists the date for MD.

The list wil be finalized Monday after 6 pm based on whether anybody in the Q list is still alove at any of the events fromj the weekend onwards where they played qualies or main draw .. Any such players are removed, the list is finalized and the draw is made monday late evening. Hopefully the US Open site will bring it up at least by 10 pm or so NY time monday.

Jay

[nitsansh]

Where Machado was playing recently???

I suppose he was playing challengers in Europe, and fancies his chances in a challenger like Manerbio more than US Open qualies... and if he fails, he still has the opportunity to fly over to NY...
If he has no plans to go to NY he should have withdrawn by now...

I don't know exactly how players handle their travel arrangements but these guys often have their plans changed at short notice...either the guy made several reservations, or booked the flight of Sunday night and if he goes through to MD he'll stay in Europe anyway... is he commited to any other tournament on weeks 35+36?

[nitsansh]

well... Machado is on the alternate list for Freudenstadt on week 35... I suppose if he plays at Manerbio AND US Open qualies he can't play there as well, isn't it?

[PatatRiek]

I assume he has no plans to come to the US, doesn;t have a visa, doesn't have any flight reservation etc ...

pretty obvious to me ... he'll disappear from US open list soon methinks , probably after ATP calls him to inform him he made the cut for qualies

anyways Jay, thanks a lot for the updates

regards
PatatRiek

[Guest]

I talked with Machado a month ago and he didn't has intention on Manerbio and he expect play in New York. So I think that he prefer US Open Qualie than Manerbio.

[Melvins]

I talked with Machado a month ago and he didn't has intention on Manerbio and he expect play in New York. So I think that he prefer US Open Qualie than Manerbio.

Sorry, I forget the log in.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

No changes from above in the main draw or qualifying list.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update: No changes in the main draw or qualifying list.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

USO Main draw: No change from above

USO Qualies:
OUT: Aldi, Baker, Blake, Chiudinelli, Gambill, Kendrick, Ketola, Kohlmann, Labadze, Mackin, J.Minar, Norman, Philippoussis, Ram, Reynolds, Russell, Schalken, Sluiter, Tsonga, Ulihrach (and Machado, Thomann, Vico, Dell'Acqua, Motomura, Mertl, Popp, Granollers-Pujol, Svarc, Eitzinger, from ALT)
IN: Villagran, Pequery, Levy, Galimberti, Stoppini, P.Amritraj, DeChaunac, Sarstrand, Lammer, Berrer, Lorenzi, Mankad, Bruthans, Mlynarik, Mergea, Gremelmayr, Miranda, Marray, Smeets, Cakl
NEXT: Iwabuchi, Zelenay, Logtens, Baccanello, T.Chen, Odesnik, Fitz, Auckland, Moyano, Widom

So, a good number of changes today in the qualies, without the help of any changes in the main draw. I am surprised that the main draw still has not moved much at all.

Jay