week |22-23| ATP: Roland Garros (+Q)

[ToniX]

Roland Garros
1 Federer, Roger SUI
2 Nadal, Rafael ESP
3 Nalbandian, David ARG
4 Roddick, Andy USA
5 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO
6 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS
7 Blake, James USA
8 Gaudio, Gaston ARG
OUT Coria, Guillermo ARG
OUT Agassi, Andre USA
11 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS
12 Stepanek, Radek CZE
13 Kiefer, Nicolas GER
14 Johansson, Thomas SWE
15 Ferrer, David ESP
16 Ginepri, Robby USA
17 Ancic, Mario CRO
18 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA
19 Robredo, Tommy ESP
20 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN
21 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI
22 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP
23 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK
24 Berdych, Tomas CZE
25 Haas, Tommy GER
26 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP
27 Gasquet, Richard FRA
OUT Andreev, Igor RUS
29 Rochus, Olivier BEL
30 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG
31 Verdasco, Fernando ESP
32 Monfils, Gael FRA
33 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS
34 Moya, Carlos ESP
35 Acasuso, Jose ARG
36 Massu, Nicolas CHI
37 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA
38 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS
39 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA
40 Lopez, Feliciano ESP
41 Malisse, Xavier BEL
42 Volandri, Filippo ITA
43 Horna, Luis PER
44 Rochus, Christophe BEL
45 Murray, Andy GBR
46 Rusedski, Greg GBR
47 Santoro, Fabrice FRA
48 Serra, Florent FRA
49 Safin, Marat RUS
50 Mirnyi, Max BLR
51 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA
52 Calleri, Agustin ARG
53 Hanescu, Victor ROM
54 Seppi, Andreas ITA
55 Karlovic, Ivo CRO
56 Clement, Arnaud FRA
57 Vliegen, Kristof BEL
58 Pashanski, Boris SCG
59 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI
60 Almagro, Nicolas ESP
61 Goldstein, Paul USA
62 Soderling, Robin SWE
63 Henman, Tim GBR
OUT Dent, Taylor USA
65 Melzer, Jurgen AUT
66 Martin, Alberto ESP
67 Djokovic, Novak SCG
68 Bracciali, Daniele ITA
69 Simon, Gilles FRA
70 Moodie, Wesley RSA
71 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE
72 Vik, Robin CZE
73 Phau, Bjorn GER
74 Spadea, Vincent USA
75 Mayer, Florian GER
76 Schuettler, Rainer GER
77 Muller, Gilles LUX
78 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE
79 Starace, Potito ITA
80 Berlocq, Carlos ARG
81 Pavel, Andrei ROM
82 Benneteau, Julien FRA
83 Daniel, Marcos BRA
84 Hernych, Jan CZE
85 Mahut, Nicolas FRA
86 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER
87 Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP
88 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE
89 Montanes, Albert ESP
90 Saretta, Flavio BRA
91 Monaco, Juan ARG
92 Ramirez-Hidalgo, Ruben ESP
93 Di Mauro, Alessio ITA
94 Waske, Alexander GER
95 Sluiter, Raemon NED
96 Novak, Jiri CZE
97 Gimelstob, Justin USA
98 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU
99 Marin, Juan Antonio CRC
100 Vanek, Jiri CZE
101 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG
102 Capdeville, Paul CHI
103 Sabau, Razvan ROM
104 Zib, Tomas CZE

Alternates
IN Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 105
IN Portas, Albert ESP 106
IN Vicente, Fernando ESP 107
IN Marach, Oliver AUT 108
5. Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 109
6. Massa, Edgardo ARG 109
7. Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 110
8. Minar, Ivo CZE 111
9. Delgado, Ramon PAR 112
10. Greul, Simon GER 113
11. Udomchoke, Danai THA 114
12. Reynolds, Bobby USA 115
13. Kim, Kevin USA 116
14. Norman, Dick BEL 117
15. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 118
16. Koubek, Stefan AUT 119
17. Gicquel, Marc FRA 120
18. Fish, Mardy USA 121
19. Hernandez, Oscar ESP 122
20. Berrer, Michael GER 123

Qualy
OUT Vicente, Fernando ESP 85
Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 96
OUT Portas, Albert ESP 100
Greul, Simon GER 102
Delgado, Ramon PAR 103
Norman, Dick BEL 104
OUT Minar, Ivo CZE 106
OUT Zib, Tomas CZE 107
Massa, Edgardo ARG 109
Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 109
Reynolds, Bobby USA 111
OUT Marach, Oliver AUT 112
OUT Gicquel, Marc FRA 113
Kim, Kevin USA 115
Koubek, Stefan AUT 119
Hernandez, Oscar ESP 120
Van Gemerden, Melle NED 122
Berrer, Michael GER 123
Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 124
Kubot, Lukasz POL 125
OUT Llodra, Michael FRA 127
Roitman, Sergio ARG 128
Saulnier, Cyril FRA 130
Dancevic, Frank CAN 131
Gremelmayr, Denis GER 132
Alves, Thiago BRA 133
Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 134
Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 135
Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 136
De Voest, Rik RSA 137
OUT Ascione, Thierry FRA 138
OUT Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 139 (Inj.Prot)
Behrend, Tomas GER 139
Devilder, Nicolas FRA 140
Luczak, Peter AUS 141
OUT Patience, Olivier FRA 142
Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 143
Dupuis, Antony FRA 144
Pless, Kristian DEN 145
OUT Faurel, Jean-Christophe FRA 146
Lisnard, Jean-Rene MON 147
Burgsmuller, Lars GER 148
Falla, Alejandro COL 149
Korolev, Evgeny RUS 150
Mello, Ricardo BRA 151
Bastl, George SUI 152
Haehnel, Jerome FRA 153
Cipolla, Flavio ITA 154
Fleishman, Zack USA 155
Junqueira, Diego ARG 156
Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 157
Elseneer, Gilles BEL 158
Gonzalez, Santiago MEX 159
Sela, Dudi ISR 160
Tuksar, Sasa CRO 161
Bozoljac, Ilia SCG 162
Cakl, Tomas CZE 163
Koellerer, Daniel AUT 165
Karanusic, Roko CRO 168
Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 169
Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 171
Bolelli, Simone ITA 172
Guzman, Juan-Pablo ARG 173
Aldi, Francesco ITA 173
Wessels, Peter NED 174
Becker, Benjamin GER 175
Beck, Andreas GER 176
Armando, Hugo USA 177
Labadze, Irakli GEO 178
Calatrava, Alex ESP 179
Delic, Amer USA 180
Eschauer, Werner AUT 181
OUT Healey, Nathan AUS 182
Sa, Andre BRA 183
OUT El Aynaoui, Younes MAR 184
Luzzi, Federico ITA 185
Istomin, Denis UZB 186
Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 187
Kindlmann, Dieter GER 187
Mertl, Jan CZE 188
Darcis, Steve BEL 190
Vico, Uros ITA 192
Carraz, Gregory FRA 193
Prpic, Filip SWE 194
Arthurs, Wayne AUS 195
Jones, Alun AUS 196
Thomann, Nicolas FRA 197
Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 198
Guccione, Chris AUS 199
Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 200
Gonzalez, Maximo ARG 201
Parmar, Arvind GBR 202
Silva, Julio BRA 203
Vahaly, Brian USA 204
OUT Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 205
Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 207
Meffert, Dominik GER 208
Pequery, Jean-Michel FRA 209
Snobel, Pavel CZE 210
Niemeyer, Frederic CAN 211
Galvani, Stefano ITA 212
Russell, Michael USA 213
Witten, Jesse USA 214
Okun, Noam ISR 215
OUT Montcourt, Mathieu FRA 216
Fraile, Gorka ESP 217
Balleret, Benjamin MON 218
Hartfield, Diego ARG 219
Vacek, Jan CZE 220
Adaktusson, Jacob SWE 221
Hajek, Jan CZE 222
Mertinak, Michal SVK 223
Wauters, Stefan BEL 224
Charpentier, Marcelo ARG 226 (Inj.Prot)
Ventura, Santiago ESP 226
Klec, Ivo SVK 227
Levy, Harel ISR 229
Dorsch, Benedikt GER 230
Simmonds, Phillip USA 231

Alternates
IN Lammer, Michael SUI 232
IN Troicki, Viktor SCG 233
IN Rojer, Jean-Julien AHO 234
IN Weiner, Glenn USA 236
IN Mamiit, Cecil PHI 237
IN Robert, Stephane FRA 238
IN Economidis, Konstantinos GRE 240
IN Taino, Eric PHI 241
IN Jenkins, Scoville USA 243
IN Bopanna, Rohan IND 244
IN van Lottum, John NED 244
IN Crivoi, Victor ROM 245
OUT Gil, Frederico POR 246
IN Vemic, Dusan SCG 247
IN Cuadrado, Carlos ESP 248
OUT Ungur, Adrian ROM 249
OUT Amritraj, Prakash IND 251
IN Saoudi, Slimane ALG 253
19. Stoppini, Andrea ITA 254
OUT Joseph, Lesley USA 255
21. Odesnik, Wayne USA 256
22. Prodon, Eric FRA 256
23. Widom, Todd USA 257
24. Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 258
25. Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 259
26. Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 260
27. Lee, Martin GBR 261

[Kinetix]

Verkerk did not use PR?

[Fee]

No and neither did Johansson. The alternates are in the other thread Toni. I put them there earlier today.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Added the ALTs above .. Jay

[Anco]

Maybe Verkerk is hoping for a Wild Card, or is he still injured?

[CooCooCachoo]

When will the qualifying list for this come out?

Thank you

[Patrik77]

When will the qualifying list for this come out?
Thank you

Week 18

[CooCooCachoo]

When will the qualifying list for this come out?
Thank you

Week 18

Thank you! Not long to go then!

[decrepitude]

No sign of the qualifying list yet?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Qualifying list expected today (tuesday May 2) or tomorrow.. Jay

[EddieV]

Bad/sad news: Gustavo Kuerten, three times Roland Garros champion won't play this year. He said he would like to be fit for the Grand Slam, and only would play if playing some tournament before. So...

[Elina]

Poor Guga....

[smucav]

Subject should read "weeks 22-23" to match the formatting of the other threads.

[zicofirol]

Bad/sad news: Gustavo Kuerten, three times Roland Garros champion won't play this year. He said he would like to be fit for the Grand Slam, and only would play if playing some tournament before. So...

he wont play RG but will play after Rg right?

[Super-Fabio]

Qualifying entry list is out:

http://portal.tennisteen.it/modules.php ... e&sid=1255

[EddieV]

I've read an article that says he wouldn't play because he would like to play another tournament before. However, he doesn't confirm:

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/espo ... 0690.shtml


I can't find the article I said before... I remember something about playing Sttutgart and another clay tournament after Rolland Garros, but there wont be able time to play at RG. He says he isn't thinking about retirement. He will come back. I don't know if he can't get good results, he 'll retire soon as expected (180 million people, at least, don't want it)

PLUS: one wild-card will go to an Australian player (and won't be Philipoussis):
http://www2.uol.com.br/tenisbrasil/diaa ... u27247.htm
Philly is not going to play the "tournament" which champion will receive the wild-card

[smucav]

Jay: Can you tell me which of these players have protected rankings?

Aldi, Francesco ITA 173 or Guzman, Juan-Pablo ARG 173
Kindlmann, Dieter GER 187 or Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 187

Anyone else other than Massa?

[Fee]

Doesn't the RG qualie list go in the same week as the Portschach tournament?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Jay: Can you tell me which of these players have protected rankings?

Aldi, Francesco ITA 173 or Guzman, Juan-Pablo ARG 173
Kindlmann, Dieter GER 187 or Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 187

Anyone else other than Massa?

Massa, Guzman, Kindlemann from main draw and VanLottum, Prodon from ALT have protected rankings...

Jay

[EddieV]

Guga isn't going to play at Paris, as expected:

http://esporte.uol.com.br/tenis/ultimas ... 17357.jhtm


He hired the physioterapist of Ronaldo (currently playing at Real Madrid); he said he wish to come back at July.

[smucav]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/t ... .withd.ap/

Wild cards:
Marc Gicquel
Michael Llodra

[JG]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/tennis/05/10/bc.ten.frenchopen.withd.ap/

Wild cards:
Marc Gicquel
Michael Llodra

And here we learn that Igor Andreev withdrew too...

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Early update:

French Open Q -- OUT: Gicquel, Llodra, Portas .. IN: Lammer, Troicki, Rojer
French Open MD -- OUT: Agassi, Andreev .. IN: Carlsen, Portas

Jay

[smucav]

Jay: In the above Q list, Lammer & Troicki were direct entries. Was there a change in the list that bumped them to alternates (now IN)?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Good catch. Yes, indeed there was a correction. Two injury ranked players were added - Ulihrach and Charpentier! .. I have corrected the list above..

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Early update:

French Open Q -- OUT: Gicquel, Llodra, Portas, Vicente .. IN: Lammer, Troicki, Rojer, Weiner
French Open MD -- OUT: Agassi, Andreev .. IN: Carlsen, Portas

Jay

[liwmh]

Zib appeared in direct entry and qualifying list. think there is a mistake.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

That is correct. But that is how the official lists have it now. I am sure Zib will be taken out from the Q list soon.

Jay

[seb]

FFT
16/05 - 17h23
D'autres wild-cards pour Roland-Garros

- Thierry ASCIONE (FRA)
- Jérémy CHARDY (FRA)
- Mathieu MONTCOURT (FRA)

(+ Marc GICQUEL and Mickael LLODRA)

>>> where are Nicolas Devilder and JC Faurel who performed well this year ???

3 wild cards are still available, one is for an Australian player...

[PatatRiek]

French Open MD -- OUT: Agassi, Andreev, Dent IN: Carlsen, Portas, Vicente

[EMiLY]

i hope olivier patience and nicolas devilder get the other 2 WCs...i'm a bit scared that they won't, especially olivier

[R. Jayakrishnan]

PatatRiek -- The Dent withdrawal is technically not official yet .. but that is coming soon, I think Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update - No changes from above, in MAIN or QUAL.

Jay

[zicofirol]

Coria out of RG and any tournament after that for 6 weeks he returns July 10 for Bastad or Gstaad tournaments. The excuse he give is tendonitis in his elbow but its just really to solve his various issues.

http://www.ole.clarin.com/jsp/v4/pagina.jsp?pagId=1199130

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

French Open MD
OUT: Agassi, Andreev, Coria, Dent
IN: Carlsen, Portas, Vicente, Marach
NEXT: H-T.Lee, Massa (inj.prot), Kunitsyn, I.Minar, Delgado, Greul, Udomchoke, Reynolds

French Open Q
OUT: Ascione, Gicquel, Llodra, Marach, I.Minar, Montcourt, Portas, Vicente (and Gil from ALT)
IN: Lammer, Troicki, Rojer, Weiner, Mamiit, Robert, Economidis, Taino
NEXT: Jenkins, Bopanna, van Lottum, Crivoi, Vemic, Cuadrado, Ungur, Amritraj

Jay

[nugget]

Does anyone know who won the Australian wildcard for the French Open.
There was a 4 man playoff. Arthurs beat Guiccionne and Healey beat Luczak but I haven't heard who won the wildcard between Arthurs and Healey

[Adolfo]

Haas will probably resign too - at least that's what the doctors are recommending. He is suffering from an acute pollen allergy. In his 1st round match in Hamburg he panicked and gave up.
The doctors said he should sleep as much as possible for the next 2 weeks...

[nugget]

May 19, 2006 - Paris, May 21 - Nathan Healey progressed to his first French Open main draw today after beating Wayne Arthurs 6-4 6-4 6-4 in the wildcard play-off.

[seb]

i hope olivier patience and nicolas devilder get the other 2 WCs...i'm a bit scared that they won't, especially olivier

After his victory in San Remo, I guess Patience will get one of the 2 remaining wild cards. The other one will go to Devilder, Faurel, Saulnier or Haehnel (probably to Devilder who won 2 challengers in Italy recently)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

French Open MD
OUT: Agassi, Andreev, Coria, Dent
IN: Carlsen, Portas, Vicente, Marach
NEXT: H-T.Lee, Massa (inj.prot), Kunitsyn, I.Minar, Delgado, Greul, Udomchoke, Reynolds

French Open Q
OUT: Ascione, El Aynaoui, Faurel, Gicquel, Healey, Llodra, Marach, I.Minar, Montcourt, Patience, Portas, Ulihrach, Vicente, Zib (and Gil, Amritraj from ALT)
IN: Lammer, Troicki, Rojer, Weiner, Mamiit, Robert, Economidis, Taino, Jenkins, Bopanna, van Lottum, Crivoi, Vemic, Cuadrado
NEXT: Ungur, Saoudi, Stoppini, Joseph, Odesnik, Prodon, Widom, Lorenzi

Jay

[EMiLY]

so from that i'm guessing patience and faurel got the last 2 WC???

[R. Jayakrishnan]

That seems like a good guess. Not sure. Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

French Open MD - No change

French Open Q
OUT: Ascione, El Aynaoui, Faurel, Gicquel, Healey, Llodra, Marach, I.Minar, Montcourt, Patience, Portas, Roger-Vasselin, Ulihrach, Vicente, Zib (and Gil, Amritraj, Ungur, Joseph, from ALT)
IN: Lammer, Troicki, Rojer, Weiner, Mamiit, Robert, Economidis, Taino, Jenkins, Bopanna, van Lottum, Crivoi, Vemic, Cuadrado, Saoudi
NEXT: Stoppini, Odesnik, Prodon, Widom, Lorenzi, Tsonga, Stakhovsky, M.Lee

Jay

[PatatRiek]

the qualie draw is out

http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/520/QS.pdf

OR

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/score ... index.html

OR

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/score ... qsdraw.pdf

enjoy

[PatatRiek]

i remember vaguely that the lucky loser rule changed for grand slams tournaments can someone inform me if this is true? can't find anything in the ATP Rules online, maybe it is just a dream

tia

[PatatRiek]

i remember vaguely that the lucky loser rule changed for grand slams tournaments can someone inform me if this is true? can't find anything in the ATP Rules online, maybe it is just a dream

tia

it's ok ... found it myself

2006OFFICIAL GRAND SLAM RULE BOOK

[smucav]

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/news/ ... 40100.html

Lucky losers need even more luck

The rule regarding lucky losers in Grand Slam tournaments has changed this year. Previously, should a player in the tournament itself declare forfeit after the start of the qualifiers, the highest-ranked loser in the last qualifying round automatically got through. From now on, however, once the qualifiers have been completed, there will be a draw among the four highest-ranked losers of the final qualifying round to define the order in which lucky losers will replace those dropping out, should more than one player declare forfeit. If there are more than four forfeits, then the fifth-highest ranked player will go through, as was the case in the past.

[fran]

Hew dunnit?
Lleyton Hewitt may not be able to take part in this year's French Open. The former world number one sprained his ankle this Monday in a first round match at Pörtschach against Brazil's Marcos Daniel. Hewitt went down 3-6 6-3 7-6, and will have to wait for the results of an MRI to see how serious the injury is. "The initial signs are that the ligaments haven't been damaged," said Hewitt's manager Rob Aivatoglou. "We are cautiously optimistic, but we will have to wait for the results of the scan."

[daryl]

Sorry for this question...
Edgardo Massa is second in the MD ALT list, but he's playing the quallies. If 2 players withdraw (say... Hewitt and.... Nadal ) Is he in? (even if he loses, which i hope is not the case)

[buddyholly]

My understanding is that once quallies start, no more alternates get in, so Massa will have to qualify. (See smucav above). He could conceivably be a LL, but that is virtually impossible unless hardly anyone ranked above him wins in the next round, although strange things can happen, given the number of seeds that fell in the first round.