week |3-4| ATP: Australian Open (+Q)

[Kinetix]

Australian Open

1. Federer, Roger SUI 1
OUT Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
3. Roddick, Andy USA 3
4. Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 4
5. Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5
6. Nalbandian, David ARG 6
OUT Agassi, Andre USA 7
8. Coria, Guillermo ARG 8
9. Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 9
10. Gaudio, Gaston ARG 10
11. Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 11
OUT Puerta, Mariano ARG 12
OUT Safin, Marat RUS 13
14. Johansson, Thomas SWE 14
15. Ferrer, David ESP 15
16. Ginepri, Robby USA 16
17. Gasquet, Richard FRA 17
18. Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 18
19. Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 19
20. Robredo, Tommy ESP 20
21. Stepanek, Radek CZE 21
22. Ancic, Mario CRO 22
23. Kiefer, Nicolas GER 23
24. Blake, James USA 24
25. Berdych, Tomas CZE 25
26. Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 26
27. Andreev, Igor RUS 27
28. Rochus, Olivier BEL 28
29. Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 29
30. Dent, Taylor USA 30
31. Monfils, Gael FRA 31
32. Moya, Carlos ESP 32
33. Verdasco, Fernando ESP 33
34. Lopez, Feliciano ESP 34
35. Mirnyi, Max BLR 35
36. Hanescu, Victor ROM 36
37. Henman, Tim GBR 37
OUT Rusedski, Greg GBR 38
39. Volandri, Filippo ITA 39
40. Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 40
41. Acasuso, Jose ARG 41
42. Rochus, Christophe BEL 42
43. Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 43
OUT Verkerk, Martin NED 44
45. Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 44
46. Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 45
47. Haas, Tommy GER 46
48. Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 47
49. Malisse, Xavier BEL 48
OUT Novak, Jiri CZE 49
51. Serra, Florent FRA 50
52. Martin, Alberto ESP 51
53. Calleri, Agustin ARG 52
54. Melzer, Jurgen AUT 53
OUT Johansson, Joachim SWE 54
56. Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 55
57. Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 56
OUT Beck, Karol SVK 57
59. Santoro, Fabrice FRA 58
60. Zib, Tomas CZE 59
61. Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 60
62. Vik, Robin CZE 61
63. Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 62
64. Murray, Andy GBR 63
65. Moodie, Wesley RSA 64
66. Massu, Nicolas CHI 65
67. Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 66
68. Goldstein, Paul USA 67
69. Seppi, Andreas ITA 68
70. Clement, Arnaud FRA 69
71. Karlovic, Ivo CRO 70
72. Montanes, Albert ESP 71
73. Bracciali, Daniele ITA 72
74. Mayer, Florian GER 73
75. Minar, Ivo CZE 74
76. Hernych, Jan CZE 75
77. Spadea, Vincent USA 76
78. Muller, Gilles LUX 77
OUT Soderling, Robin SWE 78
80. Djokovic, Novak SCG 79
81. Berlocq, Carlos ARG 80
82. Pavel, Andrei ROM 81
83. Pashanski, Boris SCG 82
84. Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 83
85. Horna, Luis PER 84
86. Monaco, Juan ARG 85
87. Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 86
OUT Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 87
89. Phau, Bjorn GER 88
90. Schuettler, Rainer GER 89
91. Behrend, Tomas GER 90
92. Saulnier, Cyril FRA 91
93. Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 92
94. Norman, Dick BEL 93
95. Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 94
96. Reynolds, Bobby USA 95
97. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 96
98. Daniel, Marcos BRA 97
99. Ascione, Thierry FRA 98
100. Arthurs, Wayne AUS 99
101. Vanek, Jiri CZE 100
102. Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 101
103. Kim, Kevin USA 102
OUT Canas, Guillermo ARG 103
105. (WC) Delic, Amer USA - USTA/TennisAustralia Reciprocal WC
106. (WC) Llodra, Michael FRA - FFT/TennisAustralia Reciprocal WC
107. (WC) Istomin, Dnnis UZB - Asian WC
108. (WC) Guccione, Chris AUS - Kia Pro Circuit WC
109. (WC) Kimmich, Marc AUS - AO Training Camp Playoff WC
110. (WC) Philippoussis, Mark AUS - TennisAustralia at-large WC
111. (WC) Luczak, Peter AUS - TennisAustralia at-large WC
112. (WC) Healey, Nathan AUS - TennisAustralia at-large WC
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 Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 104
IN Gimelstob, Justin USA 105
IN Starace, Potito ITA 106
IN Sluiter, Raemon NED 107
IN Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 108
OUT Saretta, Flavio BRA 109
IN Vicente, Fernando ESP 110
IN Mello, Ricardo BRA 111
IN Sabau, Razvan ROM 112
IN Marin, Juan Antonio CRC 113
IN Almagro, Nicolas ESP 114
IN Hernandez, Oscar ESP 115
IN Waske, Alexander GER 116
1. Costa, Albert ESP 117
2. Mantilla, Felix ESP 118
3. Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 119
4. Portas, Albert ESP 120
5. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 121
6. Udomchoke, Danai THA 122
7. Gicquel, Marc FRA 123

Australian Open Qualifying
OUT Starace, Potito ITA 105(to main draw)
OUT Sluiter, Raemon NED 106(to main draw)
OUT Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 107(to main draw)
OUT Norman, Dick BEL 108(to main draw)
OUT Vicente, Fernando ESP 110(to main draw)
OUT Mello, Ricardo BRA 111(to main draw)
OUT Sabau, Razvan ROM 112(to main draw)
OUT Almagro, Nicolas ESP 114(to main draw)
1 Udomchoke, Danai THA 121
OUT Waske, Alexander GER 122(to main draw)
2 Gicquel, Marc FRA 123
3 Simon, Gilles FRA 124
4 Berrer, Michael GER 126
5 Marach, Oliver AUT 127
6 Greul, Simon GER 130
7 Delgado, Ramon PAR 131
OUT Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 132
OUT Enqvist, Thomas SWE 133
8 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 134
9 Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 138
10 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 139
11 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 141
OUT Kubot, Lukasz POL 142
12 Van Gemerden, Melle NED 143
13 Wessels, Peter NED 144
OUT Luczak, Peter AUS 145(WC to main draw)
14 Capdeville, Paul CHI 148
15 Garcia, Adrian CHI 149
16 Dupuis, Antony FRA 150
17 Patience, Olivier FRA 151
OUT Alves, Thiago BRA 152
18 Darcis, Steve BEL 153
OUT Vahaly, Brian USA 156
OUT Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 157
19 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 158
OUT Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 159
20 Pless, Kristian DEN 160
OUT Karanusic, Roko CRO 161
21 Mertinak, Michal SVK 162
OUT Elseneer, Gilles BEL 163
22 Benneteau, Julien FRA 165
23 Aldi, Francesco ITA 166
24 Carraz, Gregory FRA 167
25 Sela, Dudi ISR 170
26 Tabara, Michal CZE 172
OUT Silva, Julio BRA 174
27 Tuksar, Sasa CRO 175
28 Niemeyer, Frederic CAN 176
29 Luzzi, Federico ITA 177
30 Cakl, Tomas CZE 180
31 De Voest, Rik RSA 181
32 Koubek, Stefan AUT 182
33 Cipolla, Flavio ITA 183
34 Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 184
35 Fruttero, John Paul USA 186
36 Dancevic, Frank CAN 188
37 Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 190
OUT Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 191
38 Thomann, Nicolas FRA 193
OUT Arazi, Hicham MAR 194
39 Okun, Noam ISR 194
40 Ram, Rajeev USA 195
41 Gremelmayr, Denis GER 197
OUT Gonzalez, Santiago MEX 198
42 Salzenstein, Jeff USA 198
OUT Galvani, Stefano ITA 199
43 Weiner, Glenn USA 200
44 Parmar, Arvind GBR 201
OUT Calatrava, Alex ESP 202
45 Faurel, Jean-Christophe FRA 203
46 Mertl, Jan CZE 204
47 Vico, Uros ITA 207
48 Mamiit, Cecil USA 209
49 Levy, Harel ISR 211
OUT Gonzalez, Maximo ARG 212
50 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 214
51 Bozoljac, Ilia SCG 215
52 Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 217
53 Vinciguerra, Andreas SWE 218
54 Hartfield, Diego ARG 219
55 Lammer, Michael SUI 220
56 Mankad, Harsh IND 222
57 Voltchkov, Vladimir BLR 223
58 Chadaj, Adam POL 224
59 Ungur, Adrian ROM 227
60 Snobel, Pavel CZE 229
61 Ryderstedt, Michael SWE 233
62 Junqueira, Diego ARG 234
63 Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 234
64 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 236
65 Fleishman, Zack USA 238
66 Taino, Eric USA 240
OUT Healey, Nathan AUS 241 (WC to main draw)
67 Jones, Alun AUS 243
68 Prpic, Filip SWE 244
69 van Lottum, John NED 244
70 Wauters, Stefan BEL 245
71 Montcourt, Mathieu FRA 247
72 Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 248
73 Uebel, Lars GER 249
74 Bolelli, Simone ITA 250
75 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 252
76 Mergea, Florin ROM 253
77 Joseph, Lesley USA 254
78 Marray, Jonathan GBR 255
79 Russell, Michael USA 256
80 Delgado, Jamie GBR 257
81 Widom, Todd USA 258
OUT Vacek, Jan CZE 260
82 Moraru, Gabriel ROM 261
OUT Jenkins, Scoville USA 263
83 Odesnik, Wayne USA 265
84 Bopanna, Rohan IND 266
85 Amritraj, Prakash IND 267
86 Crivoi, Victor ROM 269
87 Smeets, Robert AUS 270
88 Suzuki, Takao JPN 272
89 Herm-Zahlava, Jakub GER 273
90 Elsner, Daniel GER 274
91. (WC)
92. (WC)
93. (WC)
94. (WC)
95. (WC)
96. (WC)
97. (WC)
98. (WC)
99. (WC)

Alternates
IN Adaktusson, Jacob SWE 276
IN Marrero, David ESP 277
OUT Adjei-Darko, Henry GHA 278
IN Granollers-Pujol, Marcel ESP 280
IN Meffert, Dominik GER 281
IN Dorsch, Benedikt GER 282
IN Romero, Yohny VEN 283
IN Saoudi, Slimane ALG 284
IN Auckland, James GBR 288
OUT Patriarca, Damian ARG 289
IN Bloomfield, Richard GBR 290
OUT Ouahab, Lamine ALG 292
IN Klec, Ivo GER 293
IN Op der Heijde, Melvyn NED 295
IN Rettenmaier, Travis USA 296
IN Schukin, Yuri RUS 299
IN Bruthans, Victor SVK 30
IN Soeda, Go JPN 302
IN Pedrini, Marco ITA 303
OUT Mackin, Alan GBR 304
IN Motomura, Gouichi JPN 308
OUT Ionita, Victor ROM 309
IN Nielsen, Mark NZL 311
IN Fogues, Francisco ESP 313
OUT Tarantino, Agustin ARG 317
IN Rieschick, Sebastian GER 319
OUT Todero, Nicolas ARG 321
IN Minar, Jan CZE 323
OUT Melo, Marcelo BRA 324
OUT Engel, Lucas BRA 328
IN Zemlja, Grega SLO 329
OUT Simmonds, Phillip USA 331
OUT Chen, Ti TPE 332
IN Bourgeois, Luke AUS 333
OUT Sun, Peng CHN 334
OUT Baccanello, Paul AUS 336
IN Troicki, Viktor SCG 337
IN Olejniczak, Dawid POL 340
OUT Aranguren, Juan-Martin ARG 341
IN Iwabuchi, Satoshi JPN 343
IN Im, Kyu Tae KOR 345
IN Echagaray, Bruno MEX 346
OUT Balleret, Benjamin MON 348
OUT Nunez, Eric USA 351
OUT Yani, Michael USA 353
OUT Cerovic, Ivan CRO 355
OUT Rastogi, Karan IND 356
OUT Hammer, Philipp GER 357
OUT Popp, Thorsten GER 359
OUT Vagnozzi, Simone ITA 360
IN Lipsky, Scott USA 362
OUT Kedriouk, Alexey KAZ 365
OUT Sarstrand, Marcus SWE 368
OUT Matsui, Toshihide JPN 371
OUT Scherrer, Jean-Claude SUI 375
OUT Koning, Michel NED 378
OUT Trujillo-Soler, Gabriel ESP 379
IN Villagran, Cristian ARG 380
1. Meniane, Trystan FRA 381
2. Sugiyama, Norikazu JPN 382
OUT Clarke, Peter IRL 388
3. Parada, Felipe CHI 389
4. El Aarej, Mounir MAR 396
5. Magdincev, Lazar MKD 397
6. Gonzalez, Pablo COL 398

[Eric49]

Can you please tell me where the dutch players are in the list?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Thanks for posting the list, kinetix. I am delayed this week... Jay

[Kinetix]

Your welcome Jay

Eric: The only dutch player in the list is Sluiter (second in the alternate list).

[Eric49]

Your welcome Jay

Eric: The only dutch player in the list is Sluiter (second in the alternate list).

Really? players like van gemerden en van scheppingen won't play then?

[Guest]

agassi is probably out for australian open

[Kinetix]

Your welcome Jay

Eric: The only dutch player in the list is Sluiter (second in the alternate list).

Really? players like van gemerden en van scheppingen won't play then?

Probably they are in the Qualy List (and Wessels too).

[Eric49]

Your welcome Jay

Eric: The only dutch player in the list is Sluiter (second in the alternate list).

Really? players like van gemerden en van scheppingen won't play then?

Probably they are in the Qualy List (and Wessels too).

ok

[Super-Fabio]

Thanks !

[Rob & Stephen]

Its been reported in the British press that Greg Rusedski will miss the Australian Open to be back in the UK with his wife, Lucy, due to the upcoming birth of their first child. He will play however in Doha, and then return home. He will return to the circuit sometime in later February, possibly at Rotterdam.

[smucav]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/columnists/sfl-brickten11dec11,0,622386.column?coll=sfla-sports-col

The USTA and Tennis Australia have an agreement to give one wild card to each other at their Grand Slams. Mark Philippoussis took Australia's into the U.S. Open this year, but the USTA is holding an eight-man knockout tournament this week to determine who gets the wild card into the Aussie Open with no players allowed to enter who are over 23. I like this concept. ...

[GeorgeWH]

Rusedski won't play and Saretta has opted to stay in South America and play those events instead of playing the Aus Open.

[Elikian]

Good news for Sluiter, having just reached 3 Challenger finals, winning 1. He's on the way back!

[Mixoxa]

Almost can't wait for the new season to start.

Oh and Hi to elikian.

[Patrik77]

Söderling OUT of AO due to a knee injury. He´ll be back for the Heilbronn Challenger instead and will play the Zagreb tournament as well

[kennycalhoo]

Delic gets the US WC.

[smucav]

Marc Kimmich won the Australian Open men's wildcard playoff:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/tennis/dokic-wins-open-wildcard/2005/12/19/1134840783530.html

[westaussie]

Any other withdrawals other than:

Rusedski
Soderling
Saretta

[seb]

Marc Kimmich won the Australian Open men's wildcard playoff:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/tennis/dokic-wins-open-wildcard/2005/12/19/1134840783530.html

I read another version with victory over Junaid: http://www.australianopen.com.au/pages/ ... andlerId=1

[Guest]

Are the qualifying entries not yet known? I thought they were due out on the 19th.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I was expecting it yesterday, but it has not come out yet. I suppose we might get it today.

Jay

[Björki]

OUT: Puerta

[smucav]

I read another version with victory over Junaid: http://www.australianopen.com.au/pages/ ... andlerId=1

That was last year (2005).

[westaussie]

I was expecting it yesterday, but it has not come out yet. I suppose we might get it today.

Jay

hope soon i am interested to see if any aussies make qualies directly!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

No sign of a Q entry list yet ..

Jay

[Guest]

Puerta out with ban...

[Guest]

Puerta out with ban...

Sorry, didn't notice previous post.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Still no sign of a qualifying entry list from ATP ..

In the main draw,
OUT: Canas, Puerta (and Saretta, #6 from ALT list)
IN: Lisnard, Gimelstob
NEXT: Starace, Sluiter, HT.Lee, Vicente, Mello, Sabau, Marin, Almagro

Jay

[Patrik77]

In the list above Lisnard and Gimelstob are already in and Canas isn´t on the list, is that an "unofficial" list

[seagull]

I thought Lisnard and Gimelstob were already in?

[Elikian]

And I still wonder where Joachim Johansson is in this list?
I don't think he has officially withdrawn yet.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I thought Lisnard and Gimelstob were already in?

And I still wonder where Joachim Johansson is in this list?
I don't think he has officially withdrawn yet.

It is possible that ATP had made some corrections on the list that was first released, which kinetix posted. I can't remember if I cross-checked the list carefully at first..

In any event, I edited the list above, and it now matches what ATP officially shows.

Puerta is in the official initial entry list (and now OUT). Also in the initial list are J.Johansson and Martin Verkerk who were not in our list at first. I added those three above. One name that was on our list as an injury protected player, was Alex Popp. It turns out that Alex is now in the official list only as the 132nd ALT with #235 ranking (and he is already OUT from ALT too) ... So, those changes have all been made above.

Jay

[westaussie]

Thanks Jay

wonder whats happening with the qualies list?

also:

Carsten Ball has recieved a wildcard into qualifying for the 2006 Aussie Open.
He won our national 18's tournament this week beating Brydan Klein in the final.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Strange that the Australian Qualies list has still not been released by ATP... No news yet.

Jay

[Padde]

Robin Söderling is out with a knee problem and won't come back til Zagreb.

Verkerk and J.Johansson won't be playing here either.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Finally, the qualifying list comes out, about three days late! .. I have added that at the top.

There may have been some mistake in the entry deadline at the ATP's entry site - it seems they had shown 26th as the entry deadline by mistake for a while, though they corrected it in the end just before the 19th and had put in a reminder to the players. I wonder if some players still missed out on entering. In general, the cut seems to be at least 10-15 spots lower than you would expect in a Grand Slam qualies week with no challengers. My guess is that ATP probably waited a couple of extra days to see if anybody contacts them, before releasing the list .. Anyway, it is above.

Jay

[PatatRiek]

thanks Jay

but why is Big Dick (Norman) in the qualie list he is also in the original entry list for the main draw

kinda strange

regards
PatatRiek

ps : enjoy yr Xmas

[D]

Verkerk .... won't be playing here either.

You sure? he got a WC into qualifying for Auckland - why would he make the trip down there if he wasn't gonna play AO

[Patrik77]

It´s the usual "never trust a guest", people just spreading rumours without any base in it. Been a lot of those during the years. It´s like Jay said: If you say something than say the source as well, in this case Paddy: Where have you read that Verkerk is not playing AO?

[Eric49]

I'm sure he won't play. He said he wasn't ready to play a best of five.

ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN (ANP) - Martin Verkerk ziet af van een rentree bij de Australian Open. Het gaat weliswaar goed met het herstel van zijn slepende schouderblessure, maar het grandslamtoernooi in januari komt nog te vroeg voor de tennisser uit Alphen aan den Rijn.

"We zijn op dit moment de training nog aan het opbouwen", lichtte zijn coach Nick Carr toe. "Een rentree in februari is daarom een realistischer doel. Bovendien wordt er op een grandslam om de best-of-five-sets gespeeld. Meteen zo'n belasting is niet goed voor zijn schouder."


It says he is not going to play at AO but is recovering is going ok. He thinks a rentree in february is a more realistic goal and he doesn't think he is able to play a best of five.

[Patrik77]

Thanks Eric

[Eric49]

But......I found the other news about the wildcard and it came out yesterday way after the news that he wasn't going to play AO, so he might be playing though....

[Patrik77]

Ok, time will tell us then....

[R. Jayakrishnan]

..but why is Big Dick (Norman) in the qualie list he is also in the original entry list for the main draw. kinda strange

I went and checked.. Yeah, he is in both lists .. I guess we should expect some corrections later in the list(s).

Jay

[Guest]

1 WC for the french player Llodra.

[Guest]

Any news on withdrawals?

[Guest]

I noticed Dick Norman is on 2 lists, he is on the main draw list and he is in the qualifying list as well.

[ToniX]

Del Potro (ARG) OUT

[pukanaka]

Is Del Potro out from Melbourne from injury o what?

[Guest]

rusedski, verkerk, novak, johansson, beck, soderling are Out or not for the australian open ?
nadal, agassi, safin probably or not ?