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by **smucav** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:16 am

Acapulco
OUT Nalbandian, David ARG 4
2 Coria, Guillermo ARG 9
3 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 10
4 Volandri, Filippo ITA 32
5 Moya, Carlos ESP 35
6 Serra, Florent FRA 37
7 Acasuso, Jose ARG 45
8 Martin, Alberto ESP 49
9 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 51
10 Calleri, Agustin ARG 52
11 Massu, Nicolas CHI 61
12 Montanes, Albert ESP 72
13 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 75
14 Pashanski, Boris SCG 77
15 Horna, Luis PER 81
OUT Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 83
17 Monaco, Juan ARG 85
OUT Saretta, Flavio BRA 86
19 Behrend, Tomas GER 88
20 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 94
21 Daniel, Marcos BRA 95
22 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 96
23 Vanek, Jiri CZE 97
24 Kim, Kevin USA 99
25 (SE)
26 (WC) Gallardo Valles, Miguel MEX
27 (WC) del Potro, Juan Martin ARG
28 (WC) Gonzalez, Santiago MEX
29 (Q) di Mauro, Alession ITA
30 (Q) Almagro, Nicolas ESP
31 (Q) Marin, Juan Antonio CRC
32 (Q) Portas, Albert ESP

Alternates
IN Minar, Ivo CZE 102
OUT Norman, Dick BEL 104
IN Starace, Potito ITA 105
IN Vicente, Fernando ESP 106
IN Sabau, Razvan ROM 107
1. Marin, Juan Antonio CRC 108
2. Almagro, Nicolas ESP 111
OUT Hernandez, Oscar ESP 113
OUT Mantilla, Felix ESP 116
3. Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 117
4. Portas, Albert ESP 118
5. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 119
6. Waske, Alexander GER 122
7. Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 124
8. Marach, Oliver AUT 125

Acapulco Qualifying
OUT Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 94
OUT Minar, Ivo CZE 98
OUT Starace, Potito ITA 101
OUT Vicente, Fernando ESP 102
5 Marin, Juan Antonio CRC 104
6 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 105
OUT Hernandez, Oscar ESP 107
OUT Sabau, Razvan ROM 112
9 Portas, Albert ESP 114
10 Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 115
11 Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 118
12 Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 131
OUT Patience, Olivier FRA 144
14 (WC) Hamui, Johnny USA
15 (WC) Echagaray, Bruno MEX
16 (WC)

Alternates
IN Koellerer, Daniel AUT 148
OUT Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 154
IN Roitman, Sergio ARG 155
IN Ventura, Santiago ESP 162
IN Aldi, Francesco ITA 166
IN Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 171
1. Armando, Hugo USA 176
IN Junqueira, Diego ARG 186
OUT Fraile, Gorka ESP 189
OUT Fruttero, John Paul USA 193
2. Silva, Julio BRA 198
3. Hartfield, Diego ARG 199
4. Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 206
5. Gonzalez, Maximo ARG 208
6. Fleishman, Zack USA 217
7. Russell, Michael USA 220
8. Cuadrado, Carlos ESP 234
9. Lopez, Marc ESP 235
10. Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 237
IN Mirnegg, Marco AUT 244

Dubai
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
3 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5
4 Agassi, Andre USA 7
OUT Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 8
6 Safin, Marat RUS 11
OUT Johansson, Thomas SWE 13
8 Ferrer, David ESP 14
9 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 15
10 Stepanek, Radek CZE 20
11 Berdych, Tomas CZE 23
OUT Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 24
13 Andreev, Igor RUS 26
14 Rochus, Olivier BEL 29
OUT Dent, Taylor USA 31
16 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 33
17 Rusedski, Greg GBR 40
18 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 42
19 Rochus, Christophe BEL 43
20 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 46
21 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 48
22 Seppi, Andreas ITA 56
23 Vik, Robin CZE 58
24 Moodie, Wesley RSA 60
25 (SE)
26 (WC) Bahrouzyan, Omar UAE
27 (WC) Al Ghareeb, Mohammed KUW
28 (WC) Henman, Tim GBR
29 (Q) Tipsarevic, Janko SCG
30 (Q) Klec, Ivo
31 (Q) van Lottum, John NED
32 (Q) el Aynaoui, Younes MAR
(LL) Galimberti, Giorgio ITA (replaces Niemimen)

Alternates
IN Santoro, Fabrice FRA 65
OUT Soderling, Robin SWE 74
OUT Djokovic, Novak SCG 76
OUT Johansson, Joachim SWE 78
OUT Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 79
IN Bracciali, Daniele ITA 80
OUT Pavel, Andrei ROM 82
IN Schuettler, Rainer GER 87
IN Phau, Bjorn GER 91
1. Ascione, Thierry FRA 93
2. Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 98
3. Arthurs, Wayne AUS 100
4. Minar, Ivo CZE 102
5. Norman, Dick BEL 104
6. Starace, Potito ITA 105

Dubai Qualifying
OUT Djokovic, Novak SCG 70
OUT Bracciali, Daniele ITA 77
OUT Schuettler, Rainer GER 99
4 Marach, Oliver AUT 113
5 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 127
OUT Koubek, Stefan AUT 128
7 Lisnard, Jean-Rene MON 134
8 Bastl, George SUI 137
OUT Kubot, Lukasz POL 151
OUT Costa, Albert ESP 157
OUT Tuksar, Sasa CRO 175
OUT Bozoljac, Ilia SCG 180
13 Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 191
14 (WC) Nader, Mahmoud UAE
15 (WC) Magdas, Abdullah KUW
16 (WC) Alayli, Karim LIB

Alternates
OUT Fruttero, John Paul USA 193
OUT Calatrava, Alex ESP 202
OUT Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 237
OUT Bolelli, Simone ITA 241
IN Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 243
IN van Lottum, John NED 244
OUT Amritraj, Prakash IND 249
OUT Joseph, Lesley USA 250
OUT Machado, Rui POR 254
IN Klec, Ivo SVK 255
IN Uebel, Lars GER 258
OUT Mergea, Florin ROM 259
OUT De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 260
OUT Moraru, Gabriel ROM 261
OUT Vacek, Jan CZE 263
OUT Heuberger, Ivo SUI 267
OUT Elsner, Daniel GER 272
IN Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 274
OUT Herm-Zahlava, Jakub GER 278
OUT Ouahab, Lamine ALG 281
OUT Granollers-Pujol
OUT Stoppini
OUT Blanco
IN Bruthans, Victor SVK
OUT Vagnozzi
OUT Minar
OUT Valent
OUT Fogues
OUT Hajek
OUT Balleret
OUT Scherrer
OUT Cerovic
OUT Andujar
OUT Zelenay
OUT Ulihrach
OUT Witten
OUT Kralert
OUT Satschko, Alex GER
1 Qureshi
2 Zovko
IN Zimonjic, Nenad SCG
IN el Aynaoui, Younes MAR

Las Vegas
OUT Roddick, Andy USA 3
2 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 6
OUT Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 12
4 Ginepri, Robby USA 18
5 Robredo, Tommy ESP 19
6 Blake, James USA 22
7 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 25
8 Monfils, Gael FRA 27
9 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 30
10 Mirnyi, Max BLR 34
OUT Hanescu, Victor ROM 38
12 Malisse, Xavier BEL 39
OUT Haas, Tommy GER 41
14 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 44
OUT Novak, Jiri CZE 47
16 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 50
17 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 53
18 Murray, Andy GBR 62
19 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 63
OUT Escude, Nicolas FRA @65
21 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 66
22 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 67
23 Goldstein, Paul USA 68
24 (SE) Benneteau, Julien FRA
25 (SE)
26 (WC) Fish, Mardy USA
OUT (WC) Bryan, Bob USA
28 (WC) Querrey, Sam USA
29 (Q) Pless, Kristian DEN
30 (Q) Capdeville, Paul CHI
31 (Q) Armitraj, Prakesh IND
32 (Q) Sargsian, Sargis ARM
(LL) Luczak, Peter AUS (replaces Haas)
(LL) Vahaly, Brian USA (replaces Bryan)

Alternates
IN Mayer, Florian GER 69
IN Zib, Tomas CZE 70
OUT Muller, Gilles LUX 71
IN Spadea, Vincent USA 73
IN Soderling, Robin SWE 74
IN Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 79
1. Pavel, Andrei ROM 82
OUT Vliegen, Kristof BEL 84
2. Saulnier, Cyril FRA 89
IN Hernych, Jan CZE 90
3. Phau, Bjorn GER 91
OUT Reynolds, Bobby USA 92
4. Ascione, Thierry FRA 93
5. Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 98
6. Arthurs, Wayne AUS 100
7. Minar, Ivo CZE 102

by **martindelp77** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:43 pm

It's almost sure that one of Acapulco's wild cards will be given to Santiago González, while another one could go either to Miguel Gallardo or Bruno Echagaray, the one that will be listed higher at the deadline.

by **Guest** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:28 pm

Yes

Escudé is back !!!!

by **Elina** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:24 pm

Woohoo!!! It feel so great to see Escudé's name in a list again! :Cheers:

by **Patrik77** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:30 am

Interesting to see Agassi choosing Dubai instead of his home tourney in Vegas. Apparently he enjoyed it so much last year that he wanted to come back, the bigger money Dubai offers shouldn´t be the deciding factor in Agassis case. In a schedule point of view it´s strange that players go from US to Dubai and then back to US for Indian Wells....

by **seb** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:13 am

Patrik77 wrote:Interesting to see Agassi choosing Dubai instead of his home tourney in Vegas. Apparently he enjoyed it so much last year that he wanted to come back, the bigger money Dubai offers shouldn´t be the deciding factor in Agassis case. In a schedule point of view it´s strange that players go from US to Dubai and then back to US for Indian Wells....

Yes
Tennis Players are obviously nowadays rather businessmen than sportsmen
I guess he gets a garantee to play there. Very strange ?

by **Guest** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:21 am

agassi will take a lot of money from dubai's tourney...

by **Nathaliia** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:25 am

Maybe it's not very popular what I say now, but I'm more happy with Escude playing where he plays than Agassi playing wherever.

by **martindelp77** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:00 am

Confirmed. Santiago González will take one of Acapulco's wildcards. The others are still undecided.

by **martindelp77** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:02 am

Second wild card goes to Gustavo Kuerten

by **EMiLY** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:21 am

hopefully my login worked this time

could someone please tell me if Olivier Patience is on the alternates list for Acapulco? thanks!

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:16 am

Doubles Intentions (Just an expected list that ATP informally knows; No commitment from the teams)

Acapulco: Fyrstenberg/Matkowski
Dubai: Bhupathi/Moodie, Hanley/Ullyett, Knowles/Nestor
Las Vegas: Aspelin/Perry, Bryan/Bryan, Goldstein/Thomas, Kerr/Parrott, Levinsky/Lindstedt

Jay

by **Guest** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:40 pm

According to the doctors Nalbandian won't can practise the next 3 weeks so he won't play Acapulco .

by **smucav** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:40 pm

Patrick McEnroe mentioned a few times during Davis Cup that Bob Bryan will be playing singles in Las Vegas. Unless he's entering the qualifying, he must have been offered a wild card.

Other players listed on the tournament website who aren't in directly are Mardy Fish & Mark Philippoussis.

Also, James Blake/Thomas Blake are listed as a doubles team. With Thomas Blake's rankings, they would need a wild card to play.

by D » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:57 am

smucav wrote:Patrick McEnroe mentioned a few times during Davis Cup that Bob Bryan will be playing singles in Las Vegas. Unless he's entering the qualifying, he must have been offered a wild card.

Other players listed on the tournament website who aren't in directly are Mardy Fish & Vince Spadea. Spadea is likely to get in from the alternate list, but it's likely that Fish has also been offered a wild card.

I'm sure Fish has. Philippoussis was on the site but since he pulled from Memphis with a back problem, maybe he won't play Vegas and maybe he'll decide early enough for a reallocation of the wild card.

by **tasmanian tiger** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:34 pm

philippoussis is like an old horse. time to shoot him and make raquet string gut out of him :cool:

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:10 pm

Early update:

Acapulco - OUT: None (and Mantilla, ALT #9)
Acapulco Q - OUT: Ramirez Hidalgo; IN: Koellerer
Dubai - OUT: None
Dubai Q - OUT: None (and Fruttero, Eitzinger, Amritraj from ALT)
Las Vegas - OUT: Escude, F.Gonzalez, Novak; IN: Mayer, Zib, Muller

Jay

by **smucav** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:19 pm

R. Jayakrishnan wrote:Las Vegas - OUT: Escude, F.Gonzalez, Novak; IN: Mayer, Zib, Muller

Mayer is already IN. Do you mean Spadea IN?

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:49 am

smucav - my mistake probably. I guess ATP might have modified the initial list earlier and I did not notice. Monfils is listed in the initial list (cut at #68 ) and Mayer had gone to first-out. Now he is in. I made the changes above.

Jay

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:44 am

Early update:

Acapulco - OUT: Zabaleta (and Mantilla, ALT #9) .. IN: I.Minar
Acapulco Q - OUT: I.Minar, Ramirez Hidalgo .. IN: Koellerer, Del Potro
Dubai - OUT: Ljubicic .. IN: Santoro
Dubai Q - OUT: Bozoljac (and Fruttero, Eitzinger, Bolelli, Amritraj from ALT) .. IN: Calatrava
Las Vegas - OUT: Escude, F.Gonzalez, Novak; IN: Mayer, Zib, Muller

Jay

by **Elina** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:13 am

Does anyone know why Escudé withdrew from both Las Vegas and Indian Wells?

Is he just not yet ready for a comeback?

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:41 am

Early update:

Acapulco - OUT: Zabaleta (and Mantilla, ALT #9) .. IN: I.Minar
Acapulco Q - OUT: I.Minar, Ramirez Hidalgo .. IN: Koellerer, Del Potro
Dubai - OUT: Ljubicic .. IN: Santoro
Dubai Q - OUT: Bozoljac, Kubot (and Fruttero, Eitzinger, Bolelli, Amritraj, Heuberger from ALT) .. IN: Calatrava, Lorenzi
Las Vegas - OUT: Escude, F.Gonzalez, Novak; IN: Mayer, Zib, Muller

Jay

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:26 am

update:

Dubai (One SE spot to be cleared)
OUT: Ljubicic
IN: Santoro
NEXT: Soderling, Djokovic, Johansson, Kohlschreiber, Bracciali, Pavel, Schuettler, Phau

Dubai Q (No SE spots)
OUT: Bozoljac, Koubek, Kubot, Tuksar (and Fruttero, Calatrava, Eitzinger, Bolelli, Amritraj, Joseph, Machado, Heuberger from ALT)
IN: Lorenzi, van Lottum, Klec, Uebel
NEXT: Mergea, DeChaunac, Moraru, Vacek, Elsner, Dell'Acqua, Herm-Zahlava, Ouahab

Acapulco (One SE spot to be cleared)
OUT: Zabaleta (and Mantilla, ALT #9)
IN: I.Minar
NEXT: Norman, Starace, Vicente, Sabau, Marin, Almagro, Hernandez, Mazarakis

Acapulco Q (NO SE spots)
OUT: I.Minar, Ramirez Hidalgo
IN: Koellerer, Del Potro
NEXT: Ventura, Aldi, Brzezicki, Armando, Junqueira, Fraile, Fruttero, Silva

Las Vegas (Two SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Escude, Murray, F.Gonzalez, Novak
IN: Mayer, Zib, Muller, Spadea
NEXT: Soderling, Kohlschreiber, Pavel, Vliegen, Saulnier, Hernych, Phau, Reynolds

Jay

by **Fee** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:56 am

How can Murray be out of Las Vegas when he is still playing in Memphis?

[Sorry, it was Roddick, not Murray. I may have misread the list]

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:25 pm

Acapulco Q (NO SE spots)
OUT: I.Minar, Patience, Ramirez Hidalgo
IN: Koellerer, Del Potro, Roitman
NEXT: Ventura, Aldi, Brzezicki, Armando, Junqueira, Fraile, Fruttero, Silva

Dubai Q (No SE spots)
OUT: Bozoljac, Bracciali, Koubek, Kubot, Tuksar (and Fruttero, Calatrava, Eitzinger, Bolelli, Amritraj, Joseph, Machado, Mergea, DeChaunac, Moraru, Vacek, Heuberger from ALT)
IN: Lorenzi, van Lottum, Klec, Uebel, Elsner
NEXT: Dell'Acqua, Herm-Zahlava, Ouahab, Granollers-Pujol, Stoppini, Blanco, Bruthans, Vagnozzi, Minar, Valent

No change in the main draws.

Jay

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:32 pm

update:

Dubai (One SE spot to be cleared)
OUT: Ljubicic (and Soderling from ALT)
IN: Santoro
NEXT: Djokovic, Johansson, Kohlschreiber, Bracciali, Pavel, Schuettler, Phau, Ascione

Dubai Q (No SE spots)
OUT: Bozoljac, Bracciali, Djokovic, Koubek, Kubot, Tuksar (and Fruttero, Calatrava, Eitzinger, Bolelli, Amritraj, Joseph, Machado, Mergea, DeChaunac, Moraru, Vacek, Heuberger, Herm-Zahlava, Ouahab, Granollers-Pujol, Stoppini, Blanco, Vagnozzi from ALT)
IN: Lorenzi, van Lottum, Klec, Uebel, Elsner, Dell'Acqua
NEXT: Bruthans, Minar, Valent, Fogues, Hajek, Balleret

Acapulco (One SE spot to be cleared)
OUT: Zabaleta (and Norman, Mantilla from ALT)
IN: I.Minar
NEXT: Starace, Vicente, Sabau, Marin, Almagro, Hernandez, Mazarakis, Portas

Acapulco Q (NO SE spots)
OUT: I.Minar, Patience, Ramirez Hidalgo
IN: Koellerer, Del Potro, Roitman
NEXT: Ventura, Aldi, Brzezicki, Armando, Junqueira, Fraile, Fruttero, Silva

Las Vegas (Two SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Escude, F.Gonzalez, Novak, Roddick (and Muller, Pavel from ALT)
IN: Mayer, Zib, Spadea, Soderling
NEXT: Kohlschreiber, Vliegen, Saulnier, Hernych, Phau, Reynolds, Ascione, Y-T.Wang

[correction -- Andy Murray did not withdraw from Las Vegas. It was Roddick who withdrew. I corrected the list above]

Jay[/u]

by **EMiLY** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:01 pm

sorry if this is a stupid question but i'm not sure of the ins and outs of all this.

i know olivier patience is out of acapulco qualies since he's in the semis in brazil and can't get an SE into Aca since it's a gold series. I'm not sure if he was on the alternates list for las vegas, but if so, is it possible he could get a special entry in there?

by **Fee** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:06 am

Jay, Roddick is still playing in Memphis too. Isn't there a rule that forbids withdrawing while you are still playing a tournament?

by **Björki** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:11 am

Is Djokovic only out for the qualy or the maindraw too?

by **Patrik77** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:19 am

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:27 am

update:

Dubai (One SE spot to be cleared)
OUT: Ljubicic (and Soderling, J.Johansson from ALT)
IN: Santoro
NEXT: Djokovic, Kohlschreiber, Bracciali, Pavel, Schuettler, Phau, Ascione, Wang

Dubai Q (No SE spots)
OUT: Bozoljac, Bracciali, Costa, Djokovic, Koubek, Kubot, Tuksar (and Fruttero, Calatrava, Eitzinger, Bolelli, Amritraj, Joseph, Machado, Mergea, DeChaunac, Moraru, Vacek, Heuberger, Elsner, Herm-Zahlava, Ouahab, Granollers-Pujol, Stoppini, Blanco, Vagnozzi, J.Minar, Fogues, Hajek, Balleret, Scherrer, Cerovic, Andujar, Zelenay, Ulihrach, Witten, Kralert from ALT)
IN: Lorenzi, van Lottum, Klec, Uebel, Dell'Acqua, Bruthans, Valent
NEXT: Satschko, Qureshi, Zovko

Acapulco (One SE spot to be cleared)
OUT: Nalbandian, Zabaleta (and Norman, Mantilla from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Starace
NEXT: Vicente, Sabau, Marin, Almagro, Hernandez, Mazarakis, Portas, , Ramirez Hidalgo

Acapulco Q (NO SE spots)
OUT: I.Minar, Patience, Ramirez Hidalgo, Starace
IN: Koellerer, Del Potro, Roitman, Ventura
NEXT: Aldi, Brzezicki, Armando, Junqueira, Fraile, Fruttero, Silva, Hartfield

Las Vegas (Two SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Escude, F.Gonzalez, Hanescu, Novak, Roddick (and Muller, Pavel from ALT)
IN: Mayer, Zib, Spadea, Soderling, Kohlschreiber
NEXT: Vliegen, Saulnier, Hernych, Phau, Reynolds, Ascione, Y-T.Wang, Arthurs

Jay

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:26 am

Fiona,

The only thing I can imagine is that Roddick has indeed withdrawn from Memphis itself. He is on today's schedule but may have withdrawn AFTER the schedule was made last night? .. [If I am not mistaken, I got news of the withdrawal from Las Vegas list late thursday; but I am not sure when exactly Roddick was scratched from the list]

I just cannot think of any other way it is possible ... I may be missing something still, I guess.

Jay

by **Guest** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:07 am

R. Jayakrishnan wrote:I just cannot think of any other way it is possible ... I may be missing something still, I guess.

I think there has been a rule change. Acasuso did the same thing last week (withdrew from Costa do Sauipe before he played his last match in Buenos Aires).

by D » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:23 am

Anonymous wrote:I think there has been a rule change. Acasuso did the same thing last week (withdrew from Costa do Sauipe before he played his last match in Buenos Aires).

seems like the only logical answer...

by **Fee** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:46 am

It's in the 2006 rulebook, so unless they made some change after the book was printed it's still a rule. Perhaps the ATP has made a mistake posting Andy's withdrawal. They've made mistakes before (last October when JMG pulled from the Sacto Challenger, they pulled him from the Calabassas Challenger as well and it took them 3-4 days to correct the mistake).

by **Guest** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:59 pm

If Patience is Out for qualy in acapulcu, can is he special exempt, since he play in semi-final in costa de suipe ?

by **smucav** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:08 pm

Dubai qualifying (per drawsheet):
Valent OUT; Satschko IN

wild cards:
Nader
Magdas
Alayli

by **PatatRiek** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:25 pm

Vliegen will get the SE in Las Vegas :cool:

if he needs it

thanks for the updates/draws etc

regards
PatatRiek

by D » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:28 pm

Fiona wrote:It's in the 2006 rulebook, so unless they made some change after the book was printed it's still a rule. Perhaps the ATP has made a mistake posting Andy's withdrawal. They've made mistakes before (last October when JMG pulled from the Sacto Challenger, they pulled him from the Calabassas Challenger as well and it took them 3-4 days to correct the mistake).

But it's odd that the same thing happened last week with Acasuso. Are you saying you think he might still be playing? That'd be a pretty big error, consideirng how much the tourney is relying on him in their press and ads and stuff.

by **Jezzaa** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:17 pm

Seems that Henman may have a WC for Dubai...it has been added to his schedule! Yay!

by **Fee** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:19 pm

No, I doubt that Andy will still play Vegas, too much tennis on his schedule so far this year and leading up to the next DC tie. I'm thinking its possible the ATP has made a mistake. A rule change would make sense tho, since another player on the alt list would get the spot instead of waiting until the main draw is made and giving the spot to a lucky loser.

These lists are 'in-house' and the limited number of internet tennis fans that know about them don't really affect the general tennis buying public. Even if it was posted on the TCO website, there would still be a fair number of people who showed up on Monday expecting Andy to be there. It would have to make the local newspaper, TV, and radio outlets for it to really sink in to the general public (I think).

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:14 pm

update:

Dubai (One SE spot cleared)
OUT: T.Johansson, Ljubicic (and Soderling, Djokovic, J.Johansson, Kohlschreiber from ALT)
IN: Santoro, Bracciali, Pavel
NEXT: Schuettler, Phau, Ascione, Wang

Dubai Q (No SE spots)
OUT: Bozoljac, Bracciali, Costa, Djokovic, Koubek, Kubot, Tuksar (and Fruttero, Calatrava, Eitzinger, Bolelli, Amritraj, Joseph, Machado, Mergea, DeChaunac, Moraru, Vacek, Heuberger, Elsner, Herm-Zahlava, Ouahab, Granollers-Pujol, Stoppini, Blanco, Vagnozzi, J.Minar, Valent, Fogues, Hajek, Balleret, Scherrer, Cerovic, Andujar, Zelenay, Ulihrach, Witten, Kralert from ALT)
IN: Lorenzi, van Lottum, Klec, Uebel, Dell'Acqua, Bruthans, Satschko
NEXT: Qureshi, Zovko

Acapulco (One SE spot to cleared)
OUT: Nalbandian, Saretta, Zabaleta (and Norman, O.Hernandez, Mantilla from ALT)
IN: I.Minar, Starace, Vicente, Sabau
NEXT: Marin, Almagro, Mazarakis, Portas, Ramirez Hidalgo, Waske

Acapulco Q (NO SE spots)
OUT: O.Hernandez, I.Minar, Patience, Ramirez Hidalgo, Sabau, Starace, Vicente (and Del Potro, Fraile, Fruttero,
IN: Koellerer, Roitman, Ventura, Aldi, Brzezicki
NEXT: Armando, Junqueira, Silva, Hartfield, Vassallo Arguello, M.Gonzalez, Fleishman

Las Vegas (Two SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Escude, F.Gonzalez, Hanescu, Novak, Roddick (and Muller, Pavel, Vliegen, Reynolds from ALT)
IN: Mayer, Zib, Spadea, Soderling, Kohlschreiber
NEXT: Saulnier, Hernych, Phau, Ascione, Y-T.Wang, Arthurs

Jay

by **Gamass** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:33 pm

Thomas Johansson out for four months with eye injury

Swede Thomas Johansson will be sidelined for four months after injuring his eye during a training session on Thursday.

Johansson, the world number 13, was preparing for Friday's doubles quarter-final at the Rotterdam World tournament with his playing partner Mario Ancic when a ball hit him in the eye.

The 2002 Australian Open winner had to have surgery at the Dijkzigt hospital in Rotterdam to repair a detached retina.

Tournament doctor Babette Pluim said Johansson would be out of action for four months and cannot fly for three weeks.

The fourth seeded Swede had already lost in the first round of the men's singles to Briton Tim Henman on Wednesday

by **Judio** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:29 am

D wrote:But it's odd that the same thing happened last week with Acasuso. Are you saying you think he might still be playing? That'd be a pretty big error, consideirng how much the tourney is relying on him in their press and ads and stuff.

What a surprise, Roddick lost last night just as Acasuso lost last week.
Do you think they knew they were going to lose which is why they withdrew early???

by **EMiLY** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:46 am

Judio wrote:What a surprise, Roddick lost last night just as Acasuso lost last week.
Do you think they knew they were going to lose which is why they withdrew early???

yeah, i thought the same thing

i also thought they may have tanked these matches, but looking at roddick's score i don't think he did. can't imagine he would want to tank a match like that.

by **Guest** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:56 am

I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life.

by **tasmanian tiger** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:29 am

i'm no roddick fan, but he didnt throw the match. u don't tank a match 7 6 in the third. there must have been a rule change and there should have been. look at andy murray. he's not used to playing matches the whole week on the tour. he won that tourney last week and entered this week. even though he got a wednesday start he was still far from sharp in his matches this week. if a player feels he's deep in the current tourney and will be too fatiqued to play the following week, let him withdraw early so that an alternate gets the spot instead of a lucky loser, which should (in theory) slightly improve the quality of the field.

by **PatatRiek** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:01 am

hmmm ... did they remove Vliegen from the list because he won the SE or did he pull out :-k

regards
PatatRiek

by **Gamass** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:57 am

Acapulco

el Potro (Wild Card) replaced Kuerten (Wild Card)

Guga" Kuerten lamenta no poder asistit al Abierto

Acapulco, 24 de febrero de 2006.- Gustavo ‘Guga’ Kuerten informó esta mañana que lamentablemente no podrá participar en el Abierto Mexicano de Tenis que comienza el Lunes 27 en el Centro Pegaso de Tenis de Acapulco. El brasileño rankeado 286 había recibido un wild card por parte de la organización, y esperaba ansiosamente regresar a Acapulco donde se ha coronado campeón en dos ocasiones.

El tres veces campeón de Roland Garros y ex número 1 del mundo confirmó que no está completamente recuperado para competir. "Siento mucho no ir a Acapulco. La verdad es que esperaba, en este momento, estar más listo de lo que estoy, para competir en alto nivel y me daría pena usar el wild card, que el torneo me dio, si todavía no me encuentro con mis mejores condiciones. Me gustaría agradecer una vez mas el wild card que me ha dado el torneo y ojala esté ahí en el próximo año."

Cabe destacar que el wild card que se le había otorgado a Kuerten lo recibirá Juan Martín del Potro. Este joven argentino, de tan solo 17 años, ocupa el puesto 158 del ranking ATP. En 2005 consiguió meterse en el Top 200 del ranking y, ese mismo año, consiguió la victoria en la Copa Petrobras de Uruguay, uno de los principales torneos del circuito del Challenger del circuito profesional, al vencer en la final al serbio Boris Pashaski. Esta fue su primera victoria en un torneo del ATP Tour.

by **smucav** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:18 am

Acapulco qualifying:
Junqueira, Mirnegg IN

wild cards:
Hamui
Echagaray
bye

Dubai:
Dent, Pavel OUT; Schuettler, Phau IN

wild cards:
Bahrouzyan
Al Ghareeb
Henman

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