week |39| ATP : Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh, Palermo

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Bangkok
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Safin, Marat RUS 4
3 Henman, Tim GBR 12
4 Gasquet, Richard FRA 15
5 Haas, Tommy GER 28
6 Spadea, Vincent USA 42
7 Soderling, Robin SWE 44
8 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 45
9 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 53
10 Ginepri, Robby USA 58
11 Muller, Gilles LUX 59
12 Horna, Luis PER 63
13 Kim, Kevin USA 74
14 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 76
15 Minar, Ivo CZE 77
16 Vik, Robin CZE 85
17 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 87
18 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 93
19 Djokovic, Novak SCG 97
20 Gimelstob, Justin USA 99
21 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 100
22 Kucera, Karol SVK 101
23 Saretta, Flavio BRA 105
24 Norman, Dick BEL 109
25 Bastl, George SUI 113
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
1. Ventura, Santiago ESP 123
2. Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 124
3. Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 127
4. Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 128
5. Reynolds, Bobby USA 129
6. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 133
7. Greul, Simon GER 135
8. Mertinak, Michal SVK 137
9. Udomchoke, Danai THA 138
10. Karanusic, Roko CRO 139
11. Ryderstedt, Michael SWE 140
12. Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 142
13. Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 143
14. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 145
15. Labadze, Irakli GEO 146

Ho Chi Minh
1 Puerta, Mariano ARG 9
2 Johansson, Thomas SWE 13
3 Stepanek, Radek CZE 16
4 Novak, Jiri CZE 23
5 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 38
6 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 54
7 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 64
8 Goldstein, Paul USA 67
9 Saulnier, Cyril FRA 69
10 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 79
11 Monaco, Juan ARG 82
12 Hernych, Jan CZE 86
13 Popp, Alexander GER 91
14 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 94
15 Wessels, Peter NED 95
16 Vanek, Jiri CZE 96
17 Arthurs, Wayne AUS 98
18 Schuettler, Rainer GER 101
19 Phau, Bjorn GER 107
20 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 108
21 Moodie, Wesley RSA 112
22 Waske, Alexander GER 114
23 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 119
24 Dupuis, Antony FRA 122
25 Falla, Alejandro COL 124
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
1. Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 127
2. Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 128
3. Reynolds, Bobby USA 129
4. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 133
5. Sluiter, Raemon NED 134
6. Greul, Simon GER 135
7. Mertinak, Michal SVK 137
8. Karanusic, Roko CRO 139
9. Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 142
10. Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 143
11. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 145
12. Labadze, Irakli GEO 146
13. Benneteau, Julien FRA 147
14. Daniel, Marcos BRA 150
15. Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 152

Palermo
1 Ferrer, David ESP 19
2 Robredo, Tommy ESP 21
3 Massu, Nicolas CHI 31
4 Berdych, Tomas CZE 36
5 Volandri, Filippo ITA 37
6 Pavel, Andrei ROM 40
7 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 43
8 Monfils, Gael FRA 46
9 Hanescu, Victor ROM 47
10 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 48
11 Rochus, Christophe BEL 49
12 Andreev, Igor RUS 50
13 Acasuso, Jose ARG 52
14 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 56
15 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 57
16 Zib, Tomas CZE 60
17 Martin, Alberto ESP 62
18 Calleri, Agustin ARG 66
19 Mayer, Florian GER 68
20 Seppi, Andreas ITA 71
21 Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 75
22 Serra, Florent FRA 76
23 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 78
24 Sabau, Razvan ROM 80
25 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 84
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
1. Montanes, Albert ESP 88
2. Bracciali, Daniele ITA 90
3. Behrend, Tomas GER 92
4. Starace, Potito ITA 102
5. Costa, Albert ESP 103
6. Mantilla, Felix ESP 104
7. Sanchez, David ESP 106
8. Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 115
9. Vicente, Fernando ESP 121
10. Ventura, Santiago ESP 123
11. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 125
12. Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 127
13. Marin, Juan Antonio CRC 130
14. Aldi, Francesco ITA 131
15. Greul, Simon GER 135

Jay

[Terremoto]

PALERMO WC confirmed:

#1 ALDI, Francesco ITA
#2 FERRERO, Juan Carlos ESP

[Guest]

Ventura will be out of courts in principle several months ( he would return the next season ) due to a slipped disc , then he isn't a " real " alternate for Bangkok

Source : spanish press.

[EMiLY]

I guess Marat won't be playing here due to his injury?
i've also heard from several people including a French journalist that Gasquet won't be there either.
anyone heard anything further?

[nitsansh]

Do we have doubles entry lists for this week?

[seb]

Gasquet is OUT of Bangkok (elbow injury)

[Björki]

Bangkok

WC Hewitt (?)
WC Phillippoussis

it was posted on MTF, not sure about Hewitt.

[rhubarb]

Hewitt is playing in Bangkok?

Guess they wanted to spend what they saved on Safin's appearance money on another big name. No wonder the tournament won't break even until 2008.

[ae wowww]

Do we have doubles entry lists for this week?

[marianb]

Pavel and Hanescu out of Palermo

[Patrik77]

Henman OUT in Bangkok

[Guest]

Tim Henman has been forced to withdraw from the Thailand Open in Bangkok after suffering an injury setback while practising.
The British number one had recently returned to the practice court after suffering with a stiff back during his last event in New York, the US Open.

"I'm bitterly disappointed," explained the 31-year-old.

"Things were going well and I was really looking forward to getting back on the match court.

"I'd eased back into it and I was playing and training hard and then suddenly I suffered an adverse reaction on Tuesday and my back stiffened up completely.

"This has happened occasionally in the past and the frustrating thing is that I don't really get any indication when it might happen.

"I was all set to travel out to Thailand and I was really looking forward to competing again with a clean bill of health.

"Unfortunately, that's not going to be the case now and I don't think it would be very wise for me to travel given the circumstances.

"It's tough enough trying to compete at the highest level when fully fit and it's almost impossible to do so when impaired.

"I've just got to be patient and try and regain my fitness over here before venturing out onto the match court again.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Bangkok (no SE spots)
OUT: Djokovic, Gasquet, Henman, Safin (and Ulihrach, Lisnard, Reynolds, Y-H.Lu, Greul, Mertinak, Gambill, G.Lapentti, Benneteau, Delic, R.Delgado from ALT)
IN: Ventura, Y-T.Wang, Udomchoke, Karanusic
NEXT: Ryderstedt, Ramirez Hidalgo, Labadze, Calatrava, Daniel, Brzezicki, Tuksar, Gabashvili

Ho Chi Minh City (no SE spots)
OUT: Falla, Goldstein, J.Novak (and Ulihrach, Lisnard, Reynolds, Mertinak, Karanusic, Gambill, G.Lapentti, Ramirez Hidalgo, Benneteau, Delic, R.Delgado from ALT)
IN: Y-H.Lu, Sluiter, Greul
NEXT: Labadze, Daniel, Brzezicki, Tuksar, Gabashvili, Garcia, Sela, Pashanski

Palermo (no SE spots)
OUT: Hanescu, Pavel (and Vliegen, G.Lapentti from ALT)
IN: Montanes, Bracciali
NEXT: Behrend, Starace, Costa, Mantilla, Sanchez, Di Mauro, Vicente, Ventura

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here are the doubles entry lists (The sum of ranks are at the end of the lines):

Palermo
Draw Size = 16 Teams (8 Doubles Acceptances+ 6 Singles entries + 2 WC)
Date: 9/26/2006 Cut Off: 157 Entry System Date: 9/13/2005

1 Frantisek Cermak (CZE) 24 Leos Friedl (CZE) 19 43
2 Cyril Suk (CZE) 22 Pavel Vizner (CZE) 23 45
3 Martin Garcia (ARG) 51 Mariano Hood (ARG) 25 76
4 Julian Knowle (AUT) 40 Michael Kohlmann (GER) 46 86
5 Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) 65 Marcin Matkowski (POL) 62 127
6 Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG) 93 Sebastian Prieto (ARG) 43 136
7 Andrei Pavel (ROM) 41 Gabriel Trifu (ROM) 106 147
8 Danielle Bracciali (ITA) 78 Giorgio Galimberti (ITA) 79 157


Ho Chi Minh
Draw Size = 16 Teams (8 Doubles Acceptances+ 6 Singles entries + 2 WC)
Date: 9/26/2006 Cut Off: 229 Entry System Date: 9/13/2005

1 Stephen Huss (AUS) 30 Wesley Moodie (RSA) 31 61
2 Jordan Kerr (AUS) 53 Travis Parrot (USA) 47 100
3 Jiri Novak (CZE) 50 Petr Pala (CZE) 55 105
4 Paul Goldstein (USA) 91 Jim Thomas (USA) 33 124
5 Ashley Fisher (AUS) 72 Robert Lindstedt (SWE) 73 145
6 Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) 101 Rainer Schuettler (GER) 49 150
7 Uros Vico (ITA) 83 Lovro Zovko (CRO) 122 205
8 Jason Marshall (USA) 115 Jean-Claude Scherrer (SUI) 114 229


Bangkok
Draw Size = 16 Teams (8 Doubles Acceptances+ 6 Singles entries + 2 WC)
Date: 9/26/2006 Cut Off: 170 Entry System Date: 9/13/2005

1 Paul Hanley (AUS) 10 Leander Paes (IND) 13 23
2 Jonathan Erlich (ISR) 17 Andy Ram (ISR) 18 35
3 Simon Aspelin (SWE) 20 Todd Perry (AUS) 21 41
4 Gaston Etlis (ARG) 28 Martin Rodriguez (ARG) 27 55
5 Yves Allegro (SUI) 37 Graydon Oliver (USA) 32 69
6 Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) 11 Justin Gimelstob (USA) 69 80
7 Jeff Coetzee (RSA) 74 Chris Haggard (RSA) 85 159
8 Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) 104 Rogier Wassen (NED) 66 170

Jay

[Super-Fabio]

Palermo WC :

Francesco Aldi
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Alessio Di Mauro or Simone Bolelli or Giorgio Galimberti

[Patrik77]

The links where ATP will post the qualifying draws right after 9 pm local time Friday

Bangkok Q -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/1720/QS.pdf
Ho Chi Minh Q -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/890/QS.pdf
Palermo Q -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/325/QS.pdf

Here are their links for the main draws with the local time when they will be made

Bangkok -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/1720/MDS.pdf (SAT)
Ho Chi Minh -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/890/MDS.pdf (SAT, 2PM)
Palermo -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/325/MDS.pdf (SAT, 1PM)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Bangkok (no SE spots)
OUT: Djokovic, Gasquet, Henman, Safin, Saretta, Spadea (and Ventura, Ulihrach, Lisnard, Reynolds, Y-H.Lu, Greul, Mertinak, Ryderstedt, Gambill, G.Lapentti, Ramirez-Hidalgo, Benneteau, Delic, R.Delgado, Carraz, Marach, Gicquel, Elseneer from ALT)
IN: Y-T.Wang, Udomchoke, Karanusic, Labadze, Calatrava, Daniel
NEXT: Brzezicki, Tuksar, Gabashvili, Garcia, Sela, Pashanski, Mazarakis, Chiudinelli

Ho Chi Minh City (no SE spots)
OUT: Falla, Goldstein, Hernych, Kiefer, J.Novak (and Ulihrach, Lisnard, Reynolds, Mertinak, Karanusic, Gambill, G.Lapentti, Ramirez Hidalgo, Labadze, Benneteau, Daniel, Delic, R.Delgado, Carraz, Marach, Gicquel, Elseneer from ALT)
IN: Y-H.Lu, Sluiter, Greul, Brzezicki, Tuksar,
NEXT: Gabashvili, Garcia, Sela, Pashanski, Mazarakis, Chiudinelli, Navarro-Pastor, Guzman

Palermo (no SE spots)
OUT: Acasuso, Hanescu, Mathieu, Pavel (and Starace, Costa, Mantilla, Vliegen, G.Lapentti from ALT)
IN: Montanes, Bracciali, Behrend, Sanchez
NEXT: Di Mauro, Vicente, Ventura, Ulihrach, Marin, Aldi, Greul, Portas

Those may be the final offcial lists.

Jay

[Guest]

PALERMO WC confirmed:

#1 ALDI, Francesco ITA
#2 FERRERO, Juan Carlos ESP

#3 NASO, Gianluca ITA