week |44| ATP: Paris (+Q)

[Patrik77]

Masters Series Paris
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
3 Roddick, Andy USA 3
4 Safin, Marat RUS 4
5 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 5
6 Agassi, Andre USA 6
7 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 7
8 Coria, Guillermo ARG 8
9 Nalbandian, David ARG 9
10 Puerta, Mariano ARG 10
11 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 11
12 Gasquet, Richard FRA 12
13 Ferrer, David ESP 13
14 Johansson, Thomas SWE 14
15 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 15
16 Stepanek, Radek CZE 16
17 Robredo, Tommy ESP 17
18 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 18
19 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 19
20 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 20
21 Ginepri, Robby USA 21
22 Dent, Taylor USA 22
23 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 23
24 Ancic, Mario CRO 24
25 Novak, Jiri CZE 25
26 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 26
27 Mirnyi, Max BLR 27
28 Henman, Tim GBR 28
29 Rusedski, Greg GBR 29
30 Canas, Guillermo ARG 30
31 Rochus, Olivier BEL 31
32 Moya, Carlos ESP 32
33 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 33
34 Blake, James USA 34
35 Johansson, Joachim SWE 35
36 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 36
37 Berdych, Tomas CZE 37
38 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 38
39 Haas, Tommy GER 39
40 (WC)
41 (WC)
42 (WC)
43 (Q)
44 (Q)
45 (Q)
46 (Q)
47 (Q)
48 (Q)

Alternates
1 Hanescu, Victor ROM 40
2 Soderling, Robin SWE 41
3 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 42
4 Malisse, Xavier BEL 43
5 Volandri, Filippo ITA 44
6 Monfils, Gael FRA 45
7 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 46
8 Massu, Nicolas CHI 47
9 Beck, Karol SVK 48
10 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 49
11 Pavel, Andrei ROM 50
12 Andreev, Igor RUS 51
13 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 52
14 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 53
15 Rochus, Christophe BEL 54
16 Spadea, Vincent USA 55

Paris Masters Q
1 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 44
2 Massu, Nicolas CHI 45
3 Beck, Karol SVK 46
4 Malisse, Xavier BEL 48
5 Pavel, Andrei ROM 49
6 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 51
7 Rochus, Christophe BEL 53
8 Serra, Florent FRA 54
9 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 55
10 Acasuso, Jose ARG 56
11 Moodie, Wesley RSA 57
12 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 60
13 Spadea, Vincent USA 62
14 Zib, Tomas CZE 63
15 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 64
16 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 66
17 Seppi, Andreas ITA 67
18 Saulnier, Cyril FRA 69
19 Clement, Arnaud FRA 70
20 Murray, Andy GBR 72

Alternates
1. Muller, Gilles LUX 73
2. Minar, Ivo CZE 75
3. Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 76
4. Vik, Robin CZE 77
5. Hernych, Jan CZE 78
6. Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 79
7. Mayer, Florian GER 80
8. Haehnel, Jerome FRA 82
9. Santoro, Fabrice FRA 83
10. Karlovic, Ivo CRO 85
11. Sabau, Razvan ROM 86
12. Djokovic, Novak SCG 87
13. Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 90
14. Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 91
15. Monaco, Juan ARG 92
16. Bracciali, Daniel ITA 93
17. Ascione, Thierry FRA 94

[Elikian]

Weird that both Canas and Johansson appear on the list, where they did not in Madrid.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Added the Paris Qualifying entry list that came out this week, above ...

Jay

[Patrik77]

Perfekt! Thanks Jay!

[PatatRiek]

Main Draw
OUT : Gasquet & Soderling
IN : Niemenen & Malisse

Qualies
OUT : Malisse
IN : Muller

regards
PatatRiek

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
OUT: Canas, Gasquet, J.Johansson (and Soderling from ALT)
IN: Hanescu, J.Nieminen, Malisse
NEXT: Volandri, Monfils, Sanguinetti, Massu, Beck, Melzer, Pavel, Andreev

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Malisse (an Muller from ALT)
IN: I.Minar
NEXT: Tursunov, Vik, Hernych, N.Lapentti, Mayer, Haehnel, Santoro, Karlovic

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Doubles Entry List:

Draw Size = 16 Teams (10 Doubles Acceptances + 4 Singles entries + 2 WC)
Date: 10/31/2005 .. Cut-off: 37 .. Entry System Date: 10/18/2005

1 Jonas Bjorkman (SWE) 1 Max Mirnyi (BLR) 2 3
2 Bob Bryan (USA) 3 Mike Bryan (USA) 3 6
3 Wayne Black (ZIM) 5 Kevin Ullyett (ZIM) 6 11
4 Mark Knowles (BAH) 7 Daniel Nestor (CAN) 8 15
5 Michael Llodra (FRA) 9 Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 12 21
6 Leander Paes (IND) 13 Nenad Zimonjic (SCG) 11 24
7 Wayne Arthurs (AUS) 14 Paul Hanley (AUS) 10 24
8 Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) 15 Martin Damm (CZE) 17 32
9 Jonathan Erlich (ISR) 16 Andy Ram (ISR) 20 36
10 Simon Aspelin (SWE) 18 Todd Perry (AUS) 19 37

Man, a tough cut off for doubles!

Jay

[Paulox (PHM Fan)]

Does the wild card for Paris will be officialised ?

(Sorry for my english!)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates:

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
OUT: Canas, Gasquet, J.Johansson, Moya (and Soderling from ALT)
IN: Hanescu, J.Nieminen, Malisse, Volandri
NEXT: Monfils, Sanguinetti, Massu, Beck, Melzer, Pavel, Andreev, Chela

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Malisse (an Muller from ALT)
IN: I.Minar
NEXT: Tursunov, Vik, Hernych, N.Lapentti, Mayer, Haehnel, Santoro, Karlovic

So hardly any change in the last 9 days or so!

Jay

[lucky]

almost certainly federer will not play bercy.
so monfils is in
next is dado sanguinetti (he is hot)
ciao

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
OUT: Canas, Gasquet, J.Johansson, Moya (and Soderling, Beck, Melzer from ALT)
IN: Hanescu, J.Nieminen, Malisse, Volandri
NEXT: Monfils, Sanguinetti, Massu, Pavel, Andreev, Chela, Mathieu, C.Rochus

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Beck, Malisse (and Muller from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Tursunov
NEXT: Vik, Hernych, N.Lapentti, Mayer, Haehnel, Santoro, Karlovic, Sabau

Jay

[lucky]

OUT FEDERER AND AGASSI
IS SURE
IN MONFILS AND SANGUINETTI
CIAO

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
OUT: Agassi, Canas, Federer, Gasquet, J.Johansson, Moya (and Soderling, Beck, Melzer, Chela from ALT)
IN: Hanescu, J.Nieminen, Malisse, Volandri, Monfils, Sanguinetti
NEXT: Massu, Pavel, Andreev, Mathieu, C.Rochus, Spadea, Srichaphan, Acasuso

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Beck, Carlsen, Malisse, Sanguinetti (and Muller from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Tursunov, Vik, Hernych
NEXT: N.Lapentti, Mayer, Haehnel, Santoro, Karlovic, Sabau, Djokovic, Garcia-Lopez

Jay

[David]

Nadal is also OUT
Massu IN

http://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/20051026_183652Dev.html

[zicofirol]

is safin in or out? he has not made an official stattement right?

[zicofirol]

safin is also out.

[Kinetix]

Yes, Nadal and Safin out.

[Patrik77]

What a blow for the organisers with all those top-ranked players out!

[Seagull]

Have the WC's been announced yet?
Is there any chance of Murray getting one or are they 'reserved' for French players?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
OUT: Agassi, Canas, Federer, Gasquet, J.Johansson, Moya, Nadal, Safin (and Soderling, Beck, Melzer, Andreev, Chela from ALT)
IN: Hanescu, J.Nieminen, Malisse, Volandri, Monfils, Sanguinetti, Massu, Pavel
NEXT: Mathieu, C.Rochus, Spadea, Srichaphan, Acasuso, Serra, Carlsen, Wawrinka

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Beck, Carlsen, Malisse, Massu, Pavel, Sanguinetti (and Muller from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Tursunov, Vik, Hernych, N.Lapentti, Mayer
NEXT: Haehnel, Santoro, Karlovic, Sabau, Djokovic, Garcia-Lopez, Dlouhy, Monaco

Jay

[Guest]

The Frogs will get the WC's.

[ovg]

Are you sure, or are you anti-French?
Of course, Mathieu and Santoro should probably get WC being French and being poplular, but.....
how much do tournament directors think about who can sell tickets? Most tennis fans would be interested in seeing an up-and-comer, like Murray, over some 200 ranked French guy, don't you think? I always wonder exactly how the WC's get decided.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
No changes from above

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Beck, Carlsen, Malisse, Massu, Pavel, Sanguinetti, Moodie, Murray (and Muller, Mayer, Karlovic, Monaco from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Tursunov, Vik, Hernych, N.Lapentti, Haehnel, Santoro, Sabau
NEXT: Djokovic, Garcia-Lopez, Dlouhy, Bracciali, Ascione, Arthurs, Koubek, Simon

Jay

[Patrik77]

Qualifying draw after 9PM local time:

Paris Q - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/352/QS.pdf

Main draw:

Paris - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/352/MDS.pdf (FRI 6.30 pm)

[Guest]

I'm not anti French.The WC's always go to French players in Paris.You only have to read the tournament website to see that.

From a French perspective, Gael Monfils now joins Sebastien Grosjean in the main draw. They should soon be joined by other French players benefiting from wildcards (due to be announced very shortly), while in the event of any further withdrawals, the next in line for direct entry in the main draw is Paul-Henri Mathieu.

[Guest]

Does anyone know when the quallie draw WIld Cards will be announced? And will they all go to young up-and-coming French players too - or maybe to those on the quallie alternate list such as Djokovic or Garcia-Lopez?

[Guest]

The Frogs will get the WC's.

http://www.fft.fr/bnpparibasmasters//?ID=1039

Yep:
- Florent SERRA
- Arnaud CLEMENT
- Fabrice SANTORO

[Guest]

Santoro, Clement and Serra got the main draw WC's.

[Judio]

IN Mathieu

OUT Hewitt

[Guest]

who has a WC for qualy ?

[keope1977]

Volandri OUT
C. Rochus IN

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
OUT: Agassi, Canas, Federer, Gasquet, Hewitt, J.Johansson, Moya, Nadal, Safin (and Soderling, Volandri, Beck, Melzer, Andreev, Chela from ALT)
IN: Hanescu, J.Nieminen, Malisse, Monfils, Sanguinetti, Massu, Pavel, Mathieu, C.Rochus
NEXT: Spadea, Srichaphan, Acasuso, Serra, Carlsen, Wawrinka, Zib, Martin

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Beck, Carlsen, Clement, Malisse, Massu, Mathieu, Moodie, Murray, Pavel, Sanguinetti, C.Rochus, Serra (and Muller, Mayer, Santoro, Dlouhy, Monaco from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Tursunov, Vik, Hernych, N.Lapentti, Haehnel, Karlovic, Sabau, Djokovic, Garcia-Lopez, Bracciali, Ascione,
NEXT: Arthurs, Koubek, Simon, Llodra, Dupuis, Vliegen, Tursunov, Bastl

* I must have made a mistake earlier. Karlovic is still in the list for Q. Santoro was the one who was out instead yesterday.

Jay

[Guest]

Karlovic has to play a doubles match very late tonight in Basel.He may not be in Paris tomorrow.

[pipoun]

There will be 4 WC for qualies, and as 3 french are very close in the qualy list, they should get them. It concerns Simon, Llodra and Dupuis
Last year, 2 young french had successful qualies : Monfils and Tsong (they also won first round in Main)
One year after, Monfils confimed, but Tsonga had a white season (only 7 turnaments because of a shoulder problem) and recently came back with a win in a french Future
May be will he have the last WC ?

[stfletch]

Who controls whether there will be special exempts or not. They seem like a sensible idea to me. Without them, players get punished for doing well in a tournament the previous week.

With three big tournaments the preceeding week you would expect Paris to be an obvious place to have at least one special exempt .

[Guest]

Llodra is involved in the doubles in Lyon still.He may not be able to take a WC.

[valc74]

There will be 4 WC for qualies, and as 3 french are very close in the qualy list, they should get them. It concerns Simon, Llodra and Dupuis
Last year, 2 young french had successful qualies : Monfils and Tsong (they also won first round in Main)
One year after, Monfils confimed, but Tsonga had a white season (only 7 turnaments because of a shoulder problem) and recently came back with a win in a french Future
May be will he have the last WC ?

But Llodra is still in St Pet, isn't he ?

[valc74]

oops sorry, I meant in Lyon. Apparently, yes.

[Jelena]

Who controls whether there will be special exempts or not. They seem like a sensible idea to me. Without them, players get punished for doing well in a tournament the previous week.

With three big tournaments the preceeding week you would expect Paris to be an obvious place to have at least one special exempt .

I think there is a rule that SE spots are only given if there are tournaments of the same level or in case of Masters Series events of MS events or ISG events. So a "normal" ATP-event can give a SE spot to someone who is also in a "normal" ATP-event, a challenger to a challenger and so on....And because there are this week only IS-events and no ISG or MS event, there is no SE spot.

[Guest]

Yes i did not notice Llodra was still in double in Lyon (but lost yesterday in simple against Spadea)

[Guest]

Who controls whether there will be special exempts or not. They seem like a sensible idea to me. Without them, players get punished for doing well in a tournament the previous week.

With three big tournaments the preceeding week you would expect Paris to be an obvious place to have at least one special exempt .

I think there is a rule that SE spots are only given if there are tournaments of the same level or in case of Masters Series events of MS events or ISG events. So a "normal" ATP-event can give a SE spot to someone who is also in a "normal" ATP-event, a challenger to a challenger and so on....And because there are this week only IS-events and no ISG or MS event, there is no SE spot.

Ah, good point. However, I think that the ATP needs to look at their rating of events, because both Basle and St. Petersburg have larger prize pools and more points than nearly all of the ISG events (apart from Dubai and Barcelona).

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Paris Masters Main Draw (no SE spots)
OUT: Agassi, Canas, Federer, Gasquet, Hewitt, J.Johansson, Moya, Nadal, Safin, Youzhny (and Soderling, Volandri, Beck, Melzer, Andreev, Chela from ALT)
IN: Hanescu, J.Nieminen, Malisse, Monfils, Sanguinetti, Massu, Pavel, Mathieu, C.Rochus, Spadea
NEXT: Srichaphan, Serra, Carlsen, Wawrinka, Zib, Martin

Paris Masters Qualifying (no SE spots)
OUT: Acasuso, Beck, Carlsen, Clement, Malisse, Massu, Mathieu, Moodie, Murray, Pavel, C.Rochus, Sanguinetti, Serra, Spadea (and Muller, Vik, Mayer, Santoro, Karlovic, Dlouhy, Monaco, Ascione, Arthurs, Llodra from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Hernych, N.Lapentti, Haehnel, Sabau, Djokovic, Garcia-Lopez, Bracciali, Koubek, Simon, Dupuis, Vliegen, Tursunov, Bastl
NEXT: Gicquel, Lisnard, Benneteau, NavarroPastor, Carraz, Mahut

* Tursunov was listed twice in the Q, with his regular and injury-protected ranking. Now he can play qualies on his regular rank of 125, which placed him at 24th out in the initial ALT list (instead of the PR rank which was 76 at #3 in ALT) ...

Jay

[Björki]

Paris Q
OUT: 16 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 66

[Guest]

Paris Q
OUT: 16 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 66

And Gicquel IN....right?

[smucav]

http://www.fft.fr/bnpparibasmasters..._en.asp?ID=1041

Wild cards for the BNP Paribas Masters 2005

The tournament management has announced the list of wild cards (invitations) admitted to the main draw for the BNP Paribas Masters 2005.

The wild cards
- Florent Serra
- Arnaud Clement
- Fabrice Santoro

[pipoun]

Draw is on http://www.fft.fr/bnpparibasmasters//?id=935# click on
TABLEAU FINAL SIMPLE

It's not yet on the official atp link

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here are the links --

Qualifying: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/352/QS.pdf
Main Draw: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/352/MDS.pdf
Doubles: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/352/MDD.pdf
Order of Play: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/352/OP.pdf

Jay

[anttik]

Hi

Will the main draw alternate players (9) get their rankingpoints mandatary to their ranking if they lose their first round match?

[Judio]

1)If you were ranked high enough to enter on the FIRST list and dont play

eg Youzhny J Johansson then you score a 0 Point

2)If you were on the alternate list and SUCEED in Qualifying
then you score your mandatory Points from this event

3) If you are on the alternate list and EITHER lose in Qualifying OR
Dont play the Main Draw then you do not count this event
as a Mandatory and can add a "Best 6th" from other Tournaments instead

4) Anyone who is in the Main Draw MUST count their points(however low) into
their Entry Ranking

[Judio]

Players who score 0 for Paris

Federer
Nadal
Hewitt
Agassi
Safin
Gasquet
Moya
Henman
Youzhny
J Johansson
Canas