Week |52| CH: Doha

[ToniX]

Doha 6 WD's
1 Tomas Zib CZE 59
2 Ivo Minar CZE 74
3 Tomas Behrend ALE 90
4 Razvan Sabau ROM 112
5 Alexander Waske ALE 116
6 Oliver Marach AUT 127
7 Simon Greul ALE 130
8 Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS 132
9 Nicolas Mahut FRA 134
10 Lukasz Kubot POL 139
11 Janko Tipsarevic SCG 140
12 Melle Van Gemerden NED 143
13 Adrian Garcia CHI 149
14 Oliver Patience FRA 151
15 Kristian Pless DEN 161
16 Gilles Elseneer BEL 163
17 Julien Benneteau FRA 165
18 Nicolas Devilder FRA 174
19 Stefan Koubek AUT 182
20 Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR 184
21 John Paul Fruttero USA 186
22 Nicolas Thomann FRA 193
23 Denis Gremelmayr ALE 197
24 Jean-Christophe Faurel FRA 205

Alternantes
OUT Mertl, Jan CZE 206
IN Vico, Uros ITA 209
IN Chadaj, Adam POL 220
IN Voltchkov, Vladimir BLR 224
IN @ van Lottum, John NED 244
IN @ Prodon, Eric FRA 256
OUT Bopanna, Rohan IND 275
OUT Crivoi, Victor ROM 276
OUT Adaktusson, Jacob SWE 277
OUT Chen, Ti TPE 281
OUT Dorsch, Benedikt GER 284
OUT Beck, Andreas GER 288
OUT Klec, Ivo GER 296
IN Ouahab, Lamine ALG 298
OUT Schukin, Yuri RUS 300
OUT Ionita, Victor ROM
OUT Motomura, Gouichi JPN
OUT Nielsen, Mark NZL 312
IN Minar, Jan CZE 324
OUT Zelenay
OUT Jaziri, Malek TUN 332

[ToniX]

Any Update??????????

[omar25]

probably a wildcard to Hicham Arazi, he's back !! and maybe one for Younès El Aynaoui who will get one for sure in the Doha Atp Event.
Come ON

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Early update, Doha Challenger

OUT: Elseneer
IN: Mertl

No other changes.

Jay

[guest1]

stefan koubek is out of doha as he mentioned in his online diary bc he has been ill the last week and will continue to prepare for australia instead of playing the doha challenger and the atp tournament. he will start either sydney qualies or australian open qualies.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: Elseneer, A.Garcia
IN: Mertl, Vico
NEXT: Chadaj, Voltchkov, van Lottum, Prodon, Bopanna, Crivoi, Adaktusson, T.Chen

Koubec hasn't officially withdrawn yet..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: Elseneer, A.Garcia, Waske (and Mertl, T.Chen from ALT)
IN: Vico, Chadaj, Voltchkov
NEXT: van Lottum, Prodon, Bopanna, Crivoi, Adaktusson, Dorsch, Beck, Klec

Jay

[Marc]

Hopefully Van Lottum gets in as well. A briliant player who had a lot of injury problems last year. This year is comeback time...

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: A.Garcia, Elseneer, Sabau, Waske (and Mertl, T.Chen from ALT)
IN: Vico, Chadaj, Voltchkov, van Lottum
NEXT: Prodon, Bopanna, Crivoi, Adaktusson, Dorsch, Beck, Klec, Ouahab

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: A.Garcia, Elseneer, Sabau, Waske (and Mertl, Adaktusson, T.Chen, Dorsch, Beck from ALT)
IN: Vico, Chadaj, Voltchkov, van Lottum
NEXT: Prodon, Bopanna, Crivoi, Klec, Ouahab, Schukin, Motomura, Ionita

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: A.Garcia, Elseneer, Koubec, Sabau, Waske (and Mertl, Adaktusson, T.Chen, Dorsch, Beck, Schukin from ALT)
IN: Vico, Chadaj, Voltchkov, van Lottum, Prodon
NEXT: Bopanna, Crivoi, Klec, Ouahab, Motomura, Ionita, M.Nielsen, J.Minar

So Koubec did withdraw ..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: A.Garcia, Elseneer, Fruttero, Koubec, Sabau, Waske (and Mertl, Adaktusson, T.Chen, Dorsch, Beck, Schukin from ALT)
IN: Vico, Chadaj, Voltchkov, van Lottum, Prodon, Bopanna
NEXT: Crivoi, Klec, Ouahab, Motomura, Ionita, M.Nielsen, J.Minar, Zelenay

Jay

[Patrik77]

The Links from ATP:

Doha Q - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/3405/QS.pdf
Doha Singles- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/3405/MDS.pdf (SAT 7PM)
Doha Doubles - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/3405/MDD.pdf

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: A.Garcia, Elseneer, Fruttero, Koubec, Sabau, Thomann, Waske (and Mertl, Bopanna, Crivoi, Adaktusson, T.Chen, Dorsch, Beck, Klec, Schukin, Motomura from ALT)
IN: Vico, Chadaj, Voltchkov, van Lottum, Prodon, Ouahab, Ionita
NEXT: M.Nielsen, J.Minar, Zelenay, Jaziri, Hajek, Meniane, Olejniczak, Iwabuchi

That may be pretty much the final list, as we are a couple of hours away from the qualifying draw.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - Doha Challenger (no SE spots)

OUT: A.Garcia, Elseneer, Fruttero, Koubec, Sabau, Thomann, Waske (and Mertl, Bopanna, Crivoi, Adaktusson, T.Chen, Dorsch, Beck, Klec, Schukin, Motomura, Ionita, M.Nielsen, Zelenay, Hajek, Olejniczak, from ALT)
IN: Vico, Chadaj, Voltchkov, van Lottum, Prodon, Ouahab, J.Minar
NEXT: Jaziri, Meniane, Iwabuchi, Im, E.Nunez, Hammer, Balleret, Rastogi

That is the final list!

Jay

[Nathaliia]

Thank you Jay
It was a lot of updating!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yeah, tell me about it .. People just wouldn't stop withdrawing!

Jay

[Patrik77]

Does anybody know how serious Arazi is with his comeback? And why did he stop playing? Injury or just lack of motivation? I´m surprised of his result in the Doha Challenger, not that he lost but how he lost, to big scoreline for loosing against a player mostly being on the futurelevel! I hope he´s serious with his comeback because he´s a classy player to watch!!

[seb]

Does anybody know how serious Arazi is with his comeback? And why did he stop playing? Injury or just lack of motivation?

Lack of motivation, definitely...

Maybe he earned some garanties to play in Doha as arabic player...

[Patrik77]

Also very strange that El Aynaoui didn´t get a WC to the main draw! Maybe he decided late to come and all the WC´s were already given away..

[pggtips2]

Monfils is playing doubles at the Doha Challenger with Hicham Arazi and have won their first match.
I have to say this guy has really impressed me with how much he has learned since making the transition from juniors to the main tour. This is just another example, he wouldn't have been as motivated if he'd played both singles and doubles, or even singles on its own, this is an excellent strategy in order to get himself in good shape both for Doha ATP and the Aussie Open.

[Karex]

Any one have the draws from Doha or a link to them ?

[Karex]

Any one have the draws from Doha or a link to them ?

[Patrik77]

Any one have the draws from Doha or a link to them ?

Look above and you´ll find them

[Karex]

Brilliant...Thanks Pat.

[Nathaliia]

Does anybody know how serious Arazi is with his comeback? And why did he stop playing? Injury or just lack of motivation? I´m surprised of his result in the Doha Challenger, not that he lost but how he lost, to big scoreline for loosing against a player mostly being on the futurelevel! I hope he´s serious with his comeback because he´s a classy player to watch!!

Hi Pat,

Arazi has a wrist injury, he even withdrew from doubles. I don't know if he can be back on high level, perhaps not... Maybe he wants to have a goodbye tour, like Younes. When I talked to Younes in Aachen he said he really believed he could be back to top 20. The challenger in Dnepropetrovsk showed like kind of a step was made, but now this hopeless failure to Kloer... embarassing... I know Kloer is already in the quaterfinal, but I don't see any fun in travelling and losing to different Kloers around the globe.

By the way I wonder if a wrist injury can be spreaded like a virus. I have a bad long-term wrist injury, and so do / did my fave players: Nalbandian, Canas (right handed), Rios, Arazi and even the guy from my siggy (lefties).