week |40| ATP: Metz, Tokyo (+Q)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Metz
1 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6
2 Gasquet, Richard FRA 13
3 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 16
4 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 19
5 El Aynaoui, Younes MAR 27
6 Beck, Karol SVK 36
7 Pavel, Andrei ROM 39
8 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 40
9 Soderling, Robin SWE 41
10 Monfils, Gael FRA 42
11 Acasuso, Jose ARG 43
12 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 44
13 Hanescu, Victor ROM 47
14 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 50
15 Mello, Ricardo BRA 56
16 Andreev, Igor RUS 57
17 Massu, Nicolas CHI 58
18 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 59
19 Zib, Tomas CZE 60
20 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 62
21 Mayer, Florian GER 65
22 Calleri, Agustin ARG 66
23 Blake, James USA 67
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
1. Llodra, Michael FRA 69
2. Seppi, Andreas ITA 70
3. Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 72
4. Serra, Florent FRA 73
5. Santoro, Fabrice FRA 77
6. Sabau, Razvan ROM 81
7. Almagro, Nicolas ESP 84
8. Bracciali, Daniele ITA 88
9. Behrend, Tomas GER 89
10. Clement, Arnaud FRA 92
11. Djokovic, Novak SCG 93
12. Karlovic, Ivo CRO 96
13. Gimelstob, Justin USA 97
14. Arthurs, Wayne AUS 99
15. Haehnel, Jerome FRA 100

Tokyo Outdoor
1 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 3
2 Safin, Marat RUS 5
3 Puerta, Mariano ARG 10
4 Nalbandian, David ARG 11
5 Henman, Tim GBR 12
6 Stepanek, Radek CZE 17
7 Ancic, Mario CRO 23
8 Novak, Jiri CZE 24
9 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 25
10 Dent, Taylor USA 26
11 Haas, Tommy GER 31
12 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 38
13 Ginepri, Robby USA 45
14 Spadea, Vincent USA 46
15 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 49
16 Horna, Luis PER 53
17 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 54
18 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 55
19 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 63
20 Goldstein, Paul USA 64
21 Muller, Gilles LUX 68
22 Kim, Kevin USA 71
23 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 74
24 Saulnier, Cyril FRA 75
25 Minar, Ivo CZE 76
26 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 76
27 Monaco, Juan ARG 79
28 Hernych, Jan CZE 80
29 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 82
30 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 83
31 Vik, Robin CZE 85
32 Koubek, Stefan AUT 86
33 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 90
34 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 91
35 Popp, Alexander GER 91
36 Vanek, Jiri CZE 94
37 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 95
38 Gimelstob, Justin USA 97

Alternates
1. Schuettler, Rainer GER 98
2. Arthurs, Wayne AUS 99
3. Wessels, Peter NED 103
4. Saretta, Flavio BRA 106
5. Phau, Bjorn GER 108
6. Moodie, Wesley RSA 110
7. Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 111
8. Norman, Dick BEL 112
9. Tabara, Michal CZE 113
10. Waske, Alexander GER 114
11. Bastl, George SUI 119
12. Dupuis, Antony FRA 121
13. Murray, Andy GBR 122
14. Ventura, Santiago ESP 123
15. Falla, Alejandro COL 124

Tokyo Qualifying
1 Schuettler, Rainer GER 91
2 Phau, Bjorn GER 96
3 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 100
4 Waske, Alexander GER 110
5 Wessels, Peter NED 115
6 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 122
7 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 129
8 Sluiter, Raemon NED 140
9 Udomchoke, Danai THA 147
10 Karanusic, Roko CRO 151
11 Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 164
12 Pless, Kristian DEN 186
13 Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 200
14 Fruttero, John Paul USA 204
15 Suzuki, Takao JPN 220
16 Mamiit, Cecil USA 230
17 Bruthans, Victor SVK 259
18 Taino, Eric USA 260
19 Amritraj, Prakash IND 267
20 Gremelmayr, Denis GER 268

Alternates
1. Vico, Uros ITA 279
2. Motomura, Gouichi JPN 281
3. Iwabuchi, Satoshi JPN 284
4. Chen, Ti TPE 286
5. Uebel, Lars GER 295
6. Petzschner, Philipp GER 309
7. Klec, Ivo GER 315
8. Soeda, Go JPN 343
9. Kwon, Oh-Hee KOR 350
10. Pospisil, Jaroslav CZE 353
11. Sorensen, Kevin IRL 355
12. Im, Kyu Tae KOR 365
13. Hajek, Jan CZE 366
14. Scherrer, Jean-Claude SUI 368
15. Nielsen, Mark NZL 377
16. Wurtzman, Jeremy USA 405
17. Andersen, Jan Frode NOR 425
18. Gruber, Konstantin Don AUT 428
19. Audouy, Xavier FRA 438
20. Matsui, Toshihide JPN 443

Jay

[Elina]

I guess in Metz Jérôme Haehnel is pretty certain to get a wild card as a defending champion. Unless he makes the main draw otherwise...

[D]

Hmm Hewitt's actually entered in Tokyo? According to the Australian press he is not playing again til Shanghai assuming he qualifies - b/c of the impending borth of his baby.

[Reeco]

It seems that Jerome Haehnel won't defend his title, because he is on the list of the Pons Challenger in Belgium the same week!

Is that the choice of Jerome or the organization won't give him a WC?

[Elina]

It seems that Jerome Haehnel won't defend his title, because he is on the list of the Pons Challenger in Belgium the same week!

Is that the choice of Jerome or the organization won't give him a WC?

I was wondering the same thing when I saw the Mons challenger entry list.

[D]

That would be pretty awful if his home country didn't give him a WC to a tournament where he was defending champion

[ae wowww]

Do we have doubles entry lists for this week?

[smucav]

Tokyo website has a slightly different list than the one posted above:

http://www.jta-tennis.or.jp/aigopen/e/p ... t_men.html

Hewitt OUT (or never IN); Gaudio IN

Safin OUT

Wild cards:
Takahiro Ittogi JPN 1502
Takahiro Terachi JPN 405

Smucav -- Hewitt is very much there in the official ATP list .. Still there .. Not sure what the deal is ... Jay, Sep 28

[nitsansh]

Do we have doubles entry lists for this week?

Too early for this... they usually come 2 weeks before tournaments... but recently they don't come at all

[ae wowww]

Too early for this... they usually come 2 weeks before tournaments... but recently they don't come at all

Okay, thanks. I only asked because I saw a much earlier request for doubles entry for Madrid, W42 - but I guess that's because it is Masters Series. Thanks again for the info

[Guest]

First WC - Metz : Arnaud Clement

[Guest]

Too early for this... they usually come 2 weeks before tournaments... but recently they don't come at all

Okay, thanks. I only asked because I saw a much earlier request for doubles entry for Madrid, W42 - but I guess that's because it is Masters Series. Thanks again for the info

Please......... I would love to know the doubles players list for Metz....
The tournament starts in 10 days... Please!!!!!

[Guest]

Please have you got the Qualification Entry list for Metz

I Think to go... Thank's

[ae wowww]

Jay, do we have an entry list for dubs yet ?

[Patrik77]

Please have you got the Qualification Entry list for Metz

I Think to go... Thank's

There are no qualielists for tournaments like Metz, on Friday at 9PM local time you know who´s gonna be in the qualifying

[diddy]

Doubles advance entry lists for this tournament are available as of 20 Spetember. Here they are. Enjoy.

I'm not sure why the difference in # of doubles acceptances. Maybe the prize money.

Metz - 16 Teams (8 Doubles Acceptances+6 Singles Entries+2WC)
1. Llodra/Santoro
2. Cernak/Friedl
3. Suk/Vizner
4. Garcia/Hood
5. Knowle/Melzer
6. Acasuso/Prieto
7. Hrbaty/Mertinak
8. Beck/Kohlmann

Tokyo = 16 Teams (10 Doubles Acceptances+4 Singles Entries+2WC)
1. Bryan/Bryan
2. Arthurs/Hanley
3. Aspelin/Perry
4. Etlis/Rodriguez
5. Huss/Moodie
6. Allegro/Oliover
7. Bhupathi/Gimelstob
8. Schuettler/Waske
9. Thomas/Wassen
10. Kerr/Parrott

[ovg]

After being able to understand tennis, now I am back to the beginning.
Will one of you who understands this whole way doubles is being ruined explain it to me. For instance on the entry list, which are the doubles entries and which are the singles entries and how does one know?
Why aren't some of the best doubles players on these lists?

[smucav]

After being able to understand tennis, now I am back to the beginning. Will one of you who understands this whole way doubles is being ruined explain it to me. For instance on the entry list, which are the doubles entries and which are the singles entries and how does one know?

The doubles entry system hasn't changed [yet]. All of the direct entries that appear above are doubles teams using combined doubles entry rankings. Singles teams--using singles and/or doubles rankings--enter on site at the tournament.

Why aren't some of the best doubles players on these lists?

Even doubles players can't play every week of the year.

[ovg]

True, doubles is a tough game and not every one can play every week. I was just thinking that right now when everything is changing is a great time for the top doubles players to solidify their rankings so that they don't get bumped by singles players. I thought that some of the doubles players were really upset by this whole turn of events - saw it as an attempt by the ATP to pay less expenses (in other words to get two entries, singles and doubles, out of one hotel room and one car) and to pay less prize money. I thought that they might want to play especially right now and to show how their expertise is valuable - that you can't just stick a singles player in there and expect a good match.
Thanks for your explanation.

[smucav]

I thought that some of the doubles players were really upset by this whole turn of events - saw it as an attempt by the ATP to pay less expenses (in other words to get two entries, singles and doubles, out of one hotel room and one car) and to pay less prize money.

The ATP has proposed some changes to doubles:

Starting in 2006, there won't be spots reserved for doubles teams or singles teams. All places in the draw will be open to teams using either combined singles entry rankings, combined doubles entry rankings, or a combination of the two. The teams with the best combined rankings will get in the draw.

Starting in 2008, there won't be doubles entry rankings, so doubles specialists will have to play singles to have a singles ranking good enough to get in the draw. There will still be some spots reserved for doubles specialists (such as the Bryans) who tournament directors feel bring some added value to the tournament.

During the U.S. Open, 48 doubles specialists filed a suit against the ATP attempting to block these changes (plus the changes to the scoring system that are currently in an experimental phase). In all likelyhood, the changes to the doubles entry system outlined above will not go into effect (at least in their current form) & there will be some sort of compromise (accepting the scoring changes, keeping the current entry system, some reduction of prize money for doubles, etc.).

[Patrik77]

First two WC in Tokyo: Terachi and 16-year old Ittogi

[smucav]

First two WC in Tokyo: Terachi and 16-year old Ittogi

See my post above from 9/17

[Patrik77]

First two WC in Tokyo: Terachi and 16-year old Ittogi

See my post above from 9/17

Well, I was to far behind on this one.....and how could I miss your post...

[Guest]

Hello,

Are there any brazilians in this week's ALT lists, besides Saretta?

Thanx!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Forgot to add the Tokyo qualifying list above, earlier (this had closed over 2 weeks back!) .. added.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Metz: (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Blake, Wawrinka (and Zabaleta, Serra, Bracciali, Karlovic from ALT)
IN: Llodra, Seppi
NEXT: Santoro, Sabau, Almagro, Behrend, Clement, Djokovic, Gimelstob, Arthurs

Tokyo: (No SE spots)
OUT: Goldstein, Hernych, Safin (and Norman, Tabara, Bastl, Dupuis, Murray, Ventura, Falla, Ulihrach, Reynolds from ALT)
IN: Schuettler, Arthurs, Wessels
NEXT: Saretta, Phau, Moodie, Bjorkman, Waske, Tipsarevic, Wang, Lu

Tokyo Q: (No SE spots)
OUT: Amritraj, Lu, Pless, Schuettler, Wessels (and Chen, Uebel, Pospisil, Hajek, Andersen, Gruber, Audouy from ALT)
IN: Vico, Motomura, Iwabuchi, Petzschner, Klec
NEXT: Soeda, Kwon, Sorensen, Im, Scherrer, M.Nielsen, Wurtzman, Matsui

Jay
NEXT:

[Judio]

Why has Wawrinka withdrawn from Metz ???

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Metz: (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Blake, Wawrinka (and Zabaleta, Serra, Bracciali, Karlovic from ALT)
IN: Llodra, Seppi
NEXT: Santoro, Sabau, Almagro, Behrend, Clement, Djokovic, Gimelstob, Arthurs

Tokyo: (No SE spots)
OUT: Goldstein, Henman, Hernych, Nalbandian, Novak, Safin (and Saretta, Norman, Tabara, Bastl, Dupuis, Murray, Ventura, Falla, Ulihrach, Reynolds, Greul from ALT)
IN: Schuettler, Arthurs, Wessels, Phau, Moodie, Bjorkman
NEXT: Waske, Tipsarevic, Wang, Lu, Udomchoke, Karanusic, Gambill, Sluiter

Tokyo Q: (No SE spots)
OUT: Amritraj, Lu, Mamiit, Phau, Pless, Schuettler, Wessels (and Chen, Uebel, Petzschner, Klec, Pospisil, Sorensen, Im, Hajek, M.Nielsen, Wurtzman, Andersen, Gruber, Audouy, Wilson, Vagnozzi from ALT)
IN: Vico, Motomura, Iwabuchi, Soeda, Kwon, Scherrer, Matsui
NEXT: Zovko, Abel, Carry, Satschko, Wolmarans, Ianni, F.Nielsen, Ogawa, L.Gregorc

Jay

[smucav]

Jay: If you can, will you answer my query above (9/17) regarding whether Hewitt and/or Gaudio is/are in the Tokyo draw since there are conflicting versions of the entry list?

[Guest]

WC for Philippoussis in Metz

[Guest]

The last WC in metz will be in french player. May be santoro or haehnel the last winner, or an other ? but who ?

[PatatRiek]

The last WC in metz will be in french player. May be santoro or haehnel the last winner, or an other ? but who ?

not haehnel, he was in the initial entry list for the mons challenger, so has to play there

regards
PatatRiek

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Jay: If you can, will you answer my query above (9/17) regarding whether Hewitt and/or Gaudio is/are in the Tokyo draw since there are conflicting versions of the entry list?

I had actually edited below your above query earlier. I see Hewitt still very much listed in the entry by ATP. I have no idea why the tournament would forget to list the top entry in their list, unless they know for sure that he withdrawing or something. He has not withdrawn yet and has always been there in the list.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Metz: (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Blake, Wawrinka (and Zabaleta, Serra, Bracciali, Karlovic from ALT)
IN: Llodra, Seppi
NEXT: Santoro, Sabau, Almagro, Behrend, Clement, Djokovic, Gimelstob, Arthurs

Tokyo: (No SE spots)
OUT: Goldstein, Henman, Hernych, Nalbandian, Novak, Safin (and Saretta, Bjorkman, Norman, Tabara, Bastl, Dupuis, Murray, Ventura, Falla, Ulihrach, Reynolds, Greul, Labadze, Marach from ALT)
IN: Schuettler, Arthurs, Wessels, Phau, Moodie, Waske
NEXT: Tipsarevic, Wang, Lu, Udomchoke, Karanusic, Gambill, Sluiter, Mertinak,

Tokyo Q: (No SE spots)
OUT: Amritraj, Lu, Mamiit, Phau, Pless, Schuettler, Waske, Wessels (and Chen, Uebel, Petzschner, Klec, Pospisil, Sorensen, Im, Hajek, M.Nielsen, Wurtzman, Andersen, Gruber, Audouy, Wilson, Vagnozzi, Satschko, Wolmarans, Ianni, F.Nielsen, Colangelo, Marshall from ALT)
IN: Vico, Motomura, Iwabuchi, Soeda, Kwon, Scherrer, Matsui, Zovko
NEXT: Abel, Carry, Ogawa, L.Gregorc, Jorquera, Moser, VanHaasteren, Iwami

Jay

[smucav]

Jay: If you can, will you answer my query above (9/17) regarding whether Hewitt and/or Gaudio is/are in the Tokyo draw since there are conflicting versions of the entry list?

I had actually edited below your above query earlier. I see Hewitt still very much listed in the entry by ATP. I have no idea why the tournament would forget to list the top entry in their list, unless they know for sure that he withdrawing or something. He has not withdrawn yet and has always been there in the list.

Jay

Thanks, I see that now. What about Gaudio? He's listed on the official website (with his photo prominently displayed), but not on the list above. Is he a wild card?

[nitsansh]

Hewitt may have told the organizers unofficially that he intends to pull out, but he can't officially withdraw while he still play at Bangkok.
Gaudio or anyone else not on the entry list can only enter the tournament as wild card.

[smucav]

Gaudio or anyone else not on the entry list can only enter the tournament as wild card.

That isn't what I was asking. I was asking if anyone knows whether or not Gaudio received a wild card. Since Jay has confirmed he wasn't on the entry list, it makes no sense that he is so prominently displayed on the tournament website if hasn't received a wild card, yet there is nothing there [in English at least] confirming this.

[Guest]

Gaudio or anyone else not on the entry list can only enter the tournament as wild card.

That isn't what I was asking. I was asking if anyone knows whether or not Gaudio received a wild card. Since Jay has confirmed he wasn't on the entry list, it makes no sense that he is so prominently displayed on the tournament website if hasn't received a wild card, yet there is nothing there [in English at least] confirming this.

Hi, I'm a Japanese tennis fan.
Gaudio entering as a wild card.
At least, the tournament website [ in Japanese version players list] says that. I don't know the reason why.

[Fee]

Sounds like Gaudio pulled an Agassi booboo and forgot to get his entry in on time or something. He probably asked for and received a verbal commitment from the TD ages ago. Problem solved.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yeah, I assume the tournament knows that Hewitt does not intend to play. Pretty honest of them not to keep it under wraps if so ..

Updates:

Metz: (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Blake, Wawrinka (and Zabaleta, Serra, Bracciali, Karlovic from ALT)
IN: Llodra, Seppi
NEXT: Santoro, Sabau, Almagro, Behrend, Clement, Djokovic, Gimelstob, Arthurs

Tokyo: (No SE spots)
OUT: Goldstein, Henman, Hernych, Kiefer, Nalbandian, Novak, Safin (and Saretta, Bjorkman, Norman, Tabara, Bastl, Dupuis, Murray, Ventura, Falla, Ulihrach, Reynolds, Greul, Labadze, Marach from ALT)
IN: Schuettler, Arthurs, Wessels, Phau, Moodie, Waske, Tipsarevic
NEXT: Wang, Lu, Udomchoke, Karanusic, Gambill, Sluiter, Mertinak, Ramirez-Hidalgo

Tokyo Q: (No SE spots)
OUT: Amritraj, Lu, Mamiit, Phau, Pless, Schuettler, Tipsarevic, Waske, Wessels (and Chen, Uebel, Petzschner, Klec, Pospisil, Sorensen, Im, Hajek, M.Nielsen, Wurtzman, Andersen, Gruber, Audouy, Wilson, Vagnozzi, Abel, Carry, Satschko, Wolmarans, Ianni, F.Nielsen, Colangelo, Jorquera, Moser, Marshall from ALT)
IN: Vico, Motomura, Iwabuchi, Soeda, Kwon, Scherrer, Matsui, Zovko, Ogawa
NEXT: L.Gregorc, VanHaasteren, Iwami, Ochiai, Ishii, Chaen

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

It looks like Hewitt did finally withdraw!

Updates:

Metz: (One 2 SE spots cleared)
OUT: Blake, Hanescu, Wawrinka (and Zabaleta, Serra, Bracciali, Karlovic, Haehnel, Starace, Kucera from ALT)
IN: Llodra, Seppi, Santoro, Sabau
NEXT: Almagro, Behrend, Clement, Djokovic, Gimelstob, Arthurs, Ascione, Saretta

Tokyo: (No SE spots)
OUT: Goldstein, Haas, Henman, Hernych, Hewitt, Kiefer, Nalbandian, Novak, Safin (and Saretta, Bjorkman, Norman, Tabara, Bastl, Dupuis, Murray, Ventura, Falla, Ulihrach, Reynolds, Greul, Lu, Labadze, Marach, Mazarakis from ALT)
IN: Schuettler, Arthurs, Wessels, Phau, Moodie, Waske, Tipsarevic, Wang, Udomchoke
NEXT: Karanusic, Gambill, Sluiter, Mertinak, Ramirez-Hidalgo, Daniel, Delic, R.Delgado

Tokyo Q: (No SE spots)
OUT: Amritraj, Lu, Mamiit, Phau, Pless, Schuettler, Suzuki, Tipsarevic, Udomchoke, Y-T.Wang, Waske, Wessels (and Chen, Uebel, Petzschner, Klec, Pospisil, Sorensen, Im, Hajek, Scherrer, M.Nielsen, Wurtzman, Andersen, Gruber, Audouy, Wilson, Vagnozzi, Abel, Carry, Satschko, Wolmarans, Ianni, F.Nielsen, Colangelo, Jorquera, Moser, Marshall, VanHaasteren from ALT)
IN: Vico, Motomura, Iwabuchi, Soeda, Kwon, Matsui, Zovko, Ogawa, L.Gregorc, Iwami, Ochiai, Ishii
NEXT: Chaern, Wassen, Sakai, Miyazaki, T.Kato, Arimoto, Miyao, Allegro

Jay

[Fee]

The Tokyo qualie draw and the Saturday OOP are out:

http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/329/QS.pdf

http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/329/op.pdf

(Jay, you double posted your last post)
Thanks .. Deleted - Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here are all the links:

Tokyo Q -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/329/QS.pdf
Tokyo Main -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/329/MDS.pdf (SUN. Time TBA)
Tokyo Doubles -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/329/MDD.pdf
Tokyo Order of Play -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/329/OP.pdf

Metz Q -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/341/QS.pdf
Metz Main -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/341/MDS.pdf (SAT. 5 pm)
Metz Doubles -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/341/MDD.pdf
Metz Order of Play -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/341/OP.pdf

Jay