week |8| ATP: Costa do Sauipe, Memphis (+Q), Rotterdam (+Q)

[ToniX]

Costa do Sauipe
OUT Coria, Guillermo ARG 8
1 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 10
2 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 18
3 Kuerten, Gustavo BRA 30
4 Volandri, Filippo ITA 32
5 Serra, Florent FRA 38
OUT Acasuso, Jose ARG 42
6 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 46
7 Martin, Alberto ESP 49
8 Calleri, Agustin ARG 51
9 Massu, Nicolas CHI 65
11 Montanes, Albert ESP 71
11 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 79
12 Pashanski, Boris SCG 81
13 Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 84
14 Horna, Luis PER 85
15 Monaco, Juan ARG 86
16 Saretta, Flavio BRA 88
17 Behrend, Tomas GER 90
OUT Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 95
18 Daniel, Marcos BRA 97
19 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 98
20 Starace, Potito ITA 99
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
IN Vanek, Jiri CZE 100
IN Kim, Kevin USA 102
IN Vicente, Fernando ESP 106
IN Sabau, Razvan ROM 107
IN Marin, Juan Antonio CRC 108
OUT Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 110
2. Almagro, Nicolas ESP 111
3. Hernandez, Oscar ESP 113
OUT Mantilla, Felix ESP 116
4. Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 117
5. Portas, Albert ESP 118
6. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 119
7. Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 124
8. Marach, Oliver AUT 125
9. Mello, Ricardo BRA 129

Memphis
1 Roddick, Andy USA 3
2 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 11
3 Ginepri, Robby USA 16
4 Robredo, Tommy ESP 19
5 Blake, James USA 23
6 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 24
7 Mirnyi, Max BLR 33
8 Hanescu, Victor ROM 37
9 Malisse, Xavier BEL 39
10 Haas, Tommy GER 41
11 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 45
12 Novak, Jiri CZE 47
13 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 55
14 Beck, Karol SVK 58
15 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 61
16 Murray, Andy GBR 62
17 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 64
18 Goldstein, Paul USA 66
19 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 67
20 Clement, Arnaud FRA 68
21 Zib, Tomas CZE 69
22 Spadea, Vincent USA 75
23 Johansson, Joachim SWE 76
24 Soderling, Robin SWE 77
25 Pavel, Andrei ROM 82
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
IN Vliegen, Kristof BEL 87
IN Schuettler, Rainer GER 89
IN Saulnier, Cyril FRA 91
IN Phau, Bjorn GER 92
IN Reynolds, Bobby USA 93
IN Arthurs, Wayne AUS 96
IN Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 101
OUT Kim, Kevin USA 102
OUT Sabau, Razvan ROM 107
OUT Lisnard, Jean-Rene MON 109
1. Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 110
OUT Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 112
2. Gimelstob, Justin USA 115
OUT Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 117
OUT Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 119
OUT Berrer, Michael GER 120
OUT Udomchoke, Danai THA 121
OUT Waske, Alexander GER 122
OUT Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 124
OUT Marach, Oliver AUT 125

Memphis Qualifying
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 72
OUT Saulnier, Cyril FRA 84
OUT Phau, Bjorn GER 86
OUT Schuettler, Rainer GER 93
OUT Arthurs, Wayne AUS 97
6 Gimelstob, Justin USA 110
7 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 112
OUT Reynolds, Bobby USA 113
9 Luczak, Peter AUS 116
10 Benneteau, Julien FRA 127
OUT Delgado, Ramon PAR 129
12 Capdeville, Paul CHI 135
OUT Greul, Simon GER 138
14 (WC)
15 (WC)
16 (WC)

Alternates
IN De Voest, Rik RSA 150
OUT Morrison, Jeff USA 153
IN Vahaly, Brian USA 158
IN Pless, Kristian DEN 160
IN Delic, Amer USA 163
IN Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 169
IN Niemeyer, Frederic CAN 174
IN Armando, Hugo USA 178
OUT Koubek, Stefan AUT 179
IN Fruttero, John Paul USA 191
1. Weiner, Glenn USA 193
2. Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 195
3. Okun, Noam ISR 197
4. Ram, Rajeev USA 198
5. Salzenstein, Jeff USA 198
6. Sa, Andre BRA 199
7. Levy, Harel ISR 210
8. Fleishman, Zack USA 218
9. Chadaj, Adam POL 219
10. Russell, Michael USA 220
11. Ungur, Adrian ROM 226
12. Mankad, Harsh IND 228
13. Vemic, Dusan SCG 231
14. Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 236
15. Rojer, Jean-Julien AHO 237

Rotterdam
OUT Federer, Roger SUI 1
1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
2 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6
OUT Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 9
OUT Safin, Marat RUS 12
3 Johansson, Thomas SWE 13
4 Ferrer, David ESP 14
OUT Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 15
OUT Gasquet, Richard FRA 17
5 Stepanek, Radek CZE 20
6 Ancic, Mario CRO 21
7 Berdych, Tomas CZE 22
OUT Monfils, Gael FRA 25
8 Andreev, Igor RUS 26
9 Rochus, Olivier BEL 27
10 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 28
11 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 29
12 Dent, Taylor USA 30
OUT Lopez, Feliciano ESP 34
13 Henman, Tim GBR 36
14 Rusedski, Greg GBR 40
15 Rochus, Christophe BEL 44
OUT @# Verkerk, Martin NED 44
16 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 48
17 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 50
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
IN Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 52
IN Melzer, Jurgen AUT 53
IN Vik, Robin CZE 57
IN Moodie, Wesley RSA 59
IN Seppi, Andreas ITA 60
IN Santoro, Fabrice FRA 63
IN Minar, Ivo CZE 73
IN Hernych, Jan CZE 74
1. Djokovic, Novak SCG 80
2. Bracciali, Daniele ITA 83
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 87
OUT Schuettler, Rainer GER 89
OUT Saulnier, Cyril FRA 91
OUT Phau, Bjorn GER 92
OUT Ascione, Thierry FRA 94
OUT Arthurs, Wayne AUS 96
OUT Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 101
OUT Kim, Kevin USA 102
OUT Sluiter, Raemon NED 104
OUT Norman, Dick BEL 105

Rotterdam Qualifying
OUT Seppi, Andreas ITA 55
OUT Moodie, Wesley RSA 57
OUT Vik, Robin CZE 59
4 Bracciali, Daniele ITA 77
5 Djokovic, Novak SCG 81
OUT Hernych, Jan CZE 85
OUT Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 87
8 Simon, Gilles FRA 89
OUT Marach, Oliver AUT 121
OUT Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 128
11 Lisnard, Jean-Rene MON 132
OUT Van Gemerden, Melle NED 136
13 Bastl, George SUI 137

Alternates
IN Kubot, Lukasz POL 146
OUT Costa, Albert ESP 155
OUT Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 156
OUT Mertinak, Michal SVK 168
OUT Koubek, Stefan AUT 179
OUT Cipolla, Flavio ITA 180
OUT Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 182
OUT Carraz, Gregory FRA 183
OUT Korolev, Evgeny RUS 184
OUT Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 185
OUT Elseneer, Gilles BEL 186
OUT Fruttero, John Paul USA 191
OUT Mertl, Jan CZE 200
IN Calatrava, Alex ESP 201
OUT Summerer, Tobias GER 202
IN Lammer, Michael SUI 209
OUT Snobel, Pavel CZE 212
IN Parmar, Arvind GBR 217
OUT Chadaj, Adam POL 219
OUT Wauters, Stefan BEL 221
OUT Vico, Uros ITA 222
OUT Guez, David FRA 225
OUT Masson, Jeroen BEL 233
IN Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 240
IN Meffert, Dominik GER 241
OUT Uebel, Lars GER 243
OUT Hadad, Amir ISR 244
OUT Bolelli, Simone ITA 247
IN van Scheppingen, Dennis NED
OUT Heuberger, Ivo SUI 254
OUT De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 255
OUT Amritraj, Prakash IND 256
OUT Joseph, Lesley USA 257
1. Delgado, Jamie GBR 258
2. Klec, Ivo SVK 260
3. Vacek, Jan CZE 267
4. Mergea, Florin ROM 268
5. Prpic, Filip SWE 270
6. Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 271
7. Elsner, Daniel GER 274
8. Adjei-Darko, Henry GHA 275

[Patrik77]

Great job ToniX

[Elikian]

I'm going to Rotterdam. What a great lineup!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yeah, that is indeed a great lineup at Rotterdam. Everybody and his uncle is playing there it seems.

Jay

[donkie]

Wildcards in Rotterdam:

Raemon Sluiter
Sjeng Schalken (when fit enough to play)
Peter Wessels (won a wildcard play-off tournament in December)

[smucav]

Memphis wild cards:
http://www.atptennis.com/memphis/news/lookwhoscoming.asp

Also returning to center court will be Mardy Fish and Scoville Jenkins, two more exciting young American players. Both were offered wild cards and both accepted as they have enjoyed playing at the tournament for several years now.

[Guest]

Rastogi and Huta Galung will receive WC for the qualies in Rotterdam.

[seb]

Rastogi and Huta Galung will receive WC for the qualies in Rotterdam.

Why Rastogi

[Guest]

Rastogi earns Rotterdam wildcard

December 04, 2005 20:21 IST
Last Updated: December 04, 2005 21:37 IST


Karan Rastogi retained the ABN Amro Tennis Challenge title after an upset victory over country's number one player Harsh Mankad at the R K Khanna stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.

The 19-year old showed great mental toughness and also proved that last year's win at the same event was not a fluke as he scored a 7-6 (4), 6-2 win against Mankad.

The triumph, under the lights in bitter cold, helped Rastogi get the qualifying draw wild card for the 765,000-euro ATP Tour event in Rotterdam, Holland, in February next year.

The Mumbai lad, who had lost in the first round of the qualifiers at one of the biggest indoor events on the circuit last time, said he hoped to do better this time.

"I think I am more ready this time ... to beat (Rohan) Bopanna and Mankad who have been doing well in the same event gives a lot of confidence," said Rastogi who pocketed USD 4,500 as winner's prize money.

For Mankad, the highest ranked Indian on the ATP circuit at 226, it was a disappointing end, particularly to be beaten by a player who is about 140 places below him in rankings.

Mankad was up 5-3 with a break in the very first game of the first set. But serving for the set at 5-4, the 27-year old made a doublefault and then put a backhand long to face a break point.

Rastogi, who has been his practice partner on the circuit and has been sharing the room this weekend, converted it with a backhand pass, a shot that he has been using as a killer weapon in this tournament.

[seb]

Karan Rastogi retained the ABN Amro Tennis Challenge title after an upset victory over country's number one player Harsh Mankad at the R K Khanna stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.

Yes OK, but what do a Dutch tournament offer a WC to an Indian qualifier ? Is it an Indian sponsor ???

[Guest]

Karan Rastogi retained the ABN Amro Tennis Challenge title after an upset victory over country's number one player Harsh Mankad at the R K Khanna stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.

Yes OK, but what do a Dutch tournament offer a WC to an Indian qualifier ? Is it an Indian sponsor ???

ABN/AMRO is a Dutch bank, but India is a rapidly expanding market and it is a way for the bank to establish a stronger foothold in India. In short, it's a way of differentiating itself from competing banks.

[donkie]

ABN-AMRO is a Dutch bank but I think they want to expand in India and by offering a WC to an Indian player they want to get positive publicity in India. In December they held the ABN-AMRO Tennis Challenge in India for a qualifying wildcard. At that tennis challenge Richard Krajicek, the tournament director of Rotterdam, also played a mixed doubles match in India together with his sister Michaella. They beat Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi.

[Guest]

WC in Costa do Sauipe for Moya

Source : Brazilian press

[Guest]

Does anyone know what time we can expect the doubles entry list for Rotterdam to come out? And more importantly (for me), the qualifying entry list?

Thanks

[R. Jayakrishnan]

There is no doubles entry lists any more (they experimented with it last year and decided to stop that).

They have instead started a "doubles intentions" list which is updated as and when any doubles team tells ATP. There is no official commitment from the players and they do not have to play there, but ATP wants to use the info for any doubles marketing purposes.

As of now, here are the teams who have said they would expect to play at the three events

Costa do Sauipe
Cermak / Friedl

Memphis
Aspelin / Perry
Bryan / Bryan
Goldstein / Thomas
Kerr / Parrott

Rotterdam
Bhupathi / Moodie
Erlich / Ram
Hanley / Ullyett

Jay

[Guest]

Thanks Jay

I guess this is good information. Yoni & Andy are of course expected to defend their title in Rotterdam. If Moodie really partners Bhupathi, we can expect to see him in qualifying.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Well, as Moodies is only 4 out from the main draw, I am pretty sure that he would make it in directly and would not need to play qualies.

Jay

[Fee]

Jay, would you happen to have a 'doubles intentions' list for week 7 (ie, San Jose). Thanks.

[Just posted it in the week7 thread - Jay]

[Frans]

Can somebody write down the whole Alternate list of Rotterdam?

Thank you...

[Patrik77]

Can somebody write down the whole Alternate list of Rotterdam?

Thank you...

As said before it´s totally no sense of doing that. Because of a player being on the alternate list doesn´t mean he´s going there to try to qualify.

[Frans]

hm...ok

But can you indicate how many players are on that list? I think it's not too smart to subscribe to a tournament like Rotterdam when you are the number 367 or something, because you know the cut is usual around 50.

Frans

[Guest]

could someone please tell me if Olivier Patience is on the alternates list for Costa do Sauipe? thanks

[Guest]

sorry that was me above. i thought i was logged in automatically, but obviously i wasn't...

would be very grateful if someone could let me know the above info!

[Guest]

Schalken might not be fit for Rotterdam. In that case, I am guessing they will not give the WC to a Dutch player, but to someone on the ALT list.

Verkerk is also still not fit, having pulled out of Davis Cup and might pull out, meaning Baghdatis would get in.

______________
CooCooCachoo

[Guest]

If Schalken isn't fit, they will give the WC to Verkerk, so he doens't have to use his protected ranking. But Schalken will play at Bergamo in 2 weeks

[Guest]

what about the brazil open qualy list?

[PatatRiek]

what about the brazil open qualy list?

that tournie has no qualie list ... show up at the sign in on friday avo if you are interested in playing there ... hope you'll make the cut :p

regards
PatatRiek

[zicofirol]

what about the brazil open qualy list?

that tournie has no qualie list ... show up at the sign in on friday avo if you are interested in playing there ... hope you'll make the cut :p

regards
PatatRiek

He would of made the cut this week at Viña del mar, which is pathetic to think chile does not have enough players to even fill the qualy of their atp event.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updated Doubles Intentions list (no comitment; just the team's intention communicated to ATP - the teams can change their minds)

Costa do Sauipe - Cermak/Friedl, Fyrstenberg/Matkowski
Memphis - Aspelin/Perry, Bryan/Bryan, Goldstein/Thomas, Kerr/Parrott
Rotterdam - Bhupathi/Moodie, Erlich/Ram, Hanley/Ullyett, Knowles/Nestor

Jay

[Judio]

Swiss teletext announce that Federer has withdrawn

http://www.swisstxt.ch/TSR1/184-00.html

L’équipe suisse de Coupe Davis ne pourra pas compter sur Roger Federer pour le premier tour de la Coupe Davis qui se déroulera du 10 au 12 février et le champion a également donné forfait pour le tournoi ATP à Rotterdam.

Roger Federer a investi beaucoup d’énergie dans le premier grand rendez-vous tennistique de l’année qui s’est achevé sur sa nouvelle consécration à l’Open d’Australie. « Les défis seront encore nombreux cette saison et afin de pouvoir les relever dans les meilleures conditions, je dois gérer mes forces judicieusement. Je profiterai de ce répit pour bien me préparer aux prochains tournois de la série des Masters et au French Open », a expliqué Federer.

Swiss Tennis et l’équipe suisse de Coupe Davis regrettent l’absence de Federer mais comprennent sa décision.

[Guest]

Jarkko Nieminen is going to skip Rotterdam. He will play in Marseille and after that only in Dubai before going to the USA

[Tennis724]

OK...since when is there a separate Quallie list for a weekly tourney? Does this mean that Memphis won't follow the normal Friday sign-in?

And when are the MD WCs expected to be announced?

[Guest]

OK...since when is there a separate Quallie list for a weekly tourney?

All ISG, AMS, & Grand Slams have qualifying entry lists. Only IS & challengers have sign-ins.

And when are the MD WCs expected to be announced?

2/3 have been committed. See smucav's post above.

[Tennis724]

I don't know who you are so I'll wait for confirmation on that first part from a familar username.

I think Alex has only played Memphis once so maybe I just never noticed this separate list. Be nice if he got the remaining WC.

[Guest]

I don't know who you are so I'll wait for confirmation on that first part from a familar username.

Well we all know who you are & why you're asking.

Seriously: read the rulebook once in a while instead of asking obvious questions in every thread & getting pissy when you don't like the [correct] answers.

[Tennis724]

Ok...that was a mature answer. Did I deny anywhere in my post why I was asking? No, I don't believe so. And I don't have to justify to a "guest" nor to any member here why I am asking.

Also...what is this thread for if not to ask "obvious" questions and not have to thumb through a rulebook. I'm not the first and I definitely won't be the last.

And my response was not "pissy," I am not going to believe the posting of a "guest" over any of the regulars. For all I know you are a regular...but just too lazy to log in. Not my problem.

Thank you for reminding me why I don't come here, or any MB for that matter, too often anymore to get info.

[Fee]

Yes, Memphis has a qualie list (like Tokyo and a few other tournaments). There was one posted in the 2005 Tournament forum here. Bummer that its only a 16 spot draw. There is one wildcard left and the competition for it is pretty fierce from what I have been told. It may not be announced until Thursday. Not sure what's happening with the qualie WC's.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Doubles intentions (just an expected list that ATP knows; No commitment for the teams)

Update:

Costa do Sauipe: Cermak/Friedl, Fyrstenberg/Matkowski
Memphis: Aspelin/Perry, Bryan/Bryan, Goldstein/Thomas, Kerr/Parrott, Knowles/Nestor
Rotterdam: Bhupathi/Moodie, Erlich/Ram, Hanley/Ullyett, Levinsky/Lindstedt

Jay

[FvE]

Baghdatis will play in Rotterdam, it is said on the official tournament site:
http://www.abnamrowtt.nl/shownews.asp?i ... verzicht=0

[Guest]

Doubles intentions (just an expected list that ATP knows; No commitment for the teams)

Update:

Costa do Sauipe: Cermak/Friedl, Fyrstenberg/Matkowski
Memphis: Aspelin/Perry, Bryan/Bryan, Goldstein/Thomas, Kerr/Parrott, Knowles/Nestor
Rotterdam: Bhupathi/Moodie, Erlich/Ram, Hanley/Ullyett, Levinsky/Lindstedt

Jay

This new system really allows them to change I wonder if it was Mark or Daniel who preferred to play in Memphis.

[Elikian]

Baghdatis will play in Rotterdam, it is said on the official tournament site:
http://www.abnamrowtt.nl/shownews.asp?i ... verzicht=0

Of course, he was number 1 on the ALT list when Federer dropped out. So it's not really Krajicek's effort that he got him to play

[Patrik77]

Baghdatis will play in Rotterdam, it is said on the official tournament site:
http://www.abnamrowtt.nl/shownews.asp?i ... verzicht=0

Of course, he was number 1 on the ALT list when Federer dropped out. So it's not really Krajicek's effort that he got him to play

Is Federer out of Rotterdam???

[Elikian]

Regrettably, yes

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Early Update:

Costa Do Sauipe - No withdrawals
Memphis - Beck OUT; Vliegen IN
Memphis Q - Vliegen OUT; DeVoest IN
Rotterdam - Federer OUT; Baghdatis IN
Rotterdam Q - No withdrawl from main draw (and Bogdanovic OUT from ALT #3)

Jay

[Fee]

Philippoussis just got the last wildcard for the Memphis main draw. 3 tournaments, 3 wildcards in a row.

[Ben M]

Yeah but he deserves it dont u think? That's the kind of gcharismatic guy every tourney wants to be in.

[Anco]

According to the tournaments' website (www.abnamrowtt.nl), Peter Wessels has pulled out of Rotterdam. His Wild Card goes to Antal van der Duim.

Last qualifying Wild Cards go to Thiemo de Bakker and John van Lottum.

[FvE]

How many WC are there in Rotterdam Q?
I allways thougt 3, but there are 4 people with a wildcard now:

van Lottum, de Bakker, Huta Galung and Rastogi

Anyone know something about this?

[Adolfo]

Fernando González will probably pull out from Memphis. He has had problems with his shoulder since Melbourne and will probably rest for one more week.

[Nathaliia]

Bad info, Feńa. Hopefully nothing too serious to not to beat US in next DC round 8)