week |21| ATP: Poertschach

[ToniX]

St. Pölten
1 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6
2 Hewitt, Leyton AUS 12
3 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 26
OUT Andreev, Igor RUS 28
5 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 31
6 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 32
7 Rochus, Christophe BEL 42
8 Horna, Luis PER 45
9 Hanescu, Victor ROM 46
10 Seppi, Andreas ITA 54
OUT Calleri, Agustin ARG 55
12 Pashanski, Boris SCG 58
13 Martin, Alberto ESP 60
OUT Dent, Taylor USA 62
OUT Goldstein, Paul USA 64
16 Moodie, Wesley RSA 67
17 Phau, Bjorn GER 71
18 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 72
19 Muller, Giles LUX 73
20 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 74
21 Schuettler, Rainer GER 75
22 Spadea, Vincent USA 76
OUT Verkerk, Martin NED (PR)
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
IN Almagro, Nicolas ESP 77
IN Berlocq, Carlos ARG 79
IN Starace, Potito ITA 80
IN Mahut, Nicolas FRA 81
OUT Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 82
IN Daniel, Marcos BRA 84
OUT Hernych, Jan CZE 85
IN Simon, Gilles FRA 86
IN Pavel, Andrei ROM 87
8. Zib, Tomas CZE 88
9. Novak, Jiri CZE 89
10. Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 90
11. Monaco, Juan ARG 91
12. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP
13. Montanes, Albert ESP 93

[smucav]

The tournament moved to Pörtschach:
http://www.atptennis.com/en/tournaments/profile/306.asp

[bass]

And that's the link for the website
http://www.atppoertschach.info

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Added the alternates .. Jay

[buddyholly]

Dent is off the entry list at the tournament website.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Dent and Andreev are both OUT. Almagro and Berlocq IN.

Jay

[Rosie]

I think it unlikely that Agustin Calleri will play here. According to this article http://www.ole.clarin.com/jsp/v4/pagina ... Id=1194855 he is suffering from a reoccurance of the back poblems that kept him off the circuit a long time last year, and may not even make Roland Garros - so I don't think he will risk anything here.

[smucav]

http://www.atppoertschach.info/english/index.html

Austrians on the starting list:
Eitzinger, R (AUT)
Gruber, D (AUT)
Koubek, S (AUT)
Marach, O (AUT)
Melzer, J (AUT)
Mirnegg, M (AUT)
Wiltschnig, H (AUT)

Only Melzer is a direct entry so it appears that the other six may be the main draw/qualifying wild cards.

[fran]

I think it unlikely that Agustin Calleri will play here. According to this article http://www.ole.clarin.com/jsp/v4/pagina ... Id=1194855 he is suffering from a reoccurance of the back poblems that kept him off the circuit a long time last year, and may not even make Roland Garros - so I don't think he will risk anything here.

I attended Future #5 in the Vilas Racket Club a few weeks ago and I saw Calleri training. As you well said he is still injured and working on to be back for the French Open. This is his second year in a row with a long term injury that does not allow him to play his best tennis.

Kind regards,

F

[lucky71]

out calleri , goldstein, verkerk
in starace mahut di mauro
http://portal.tennisteen.it/modules.php ... e&sid=1206
ciao

[Rosie]

I think it unlikely that Agustin Calleri will play here. According to this article http://www.ole.clarin.com/jsp/v4/pagina ... Id=1194855 he is suffering from a reoccurance of the back poblems that kept him off the circuit a long time last year, and may not even make Roland Garros - so I don't think he will risk anything here.

I attended Future #5 in the Vilas Racket Club a few weeks ago and I saw Calleri training. As you well said he is still injured and working on to be back for the French Open. This is his second year in a row with a long term injury that does not allow him to play his best tennis.

Kind regards,

F

Thanks for the update Fran. Agustin is one of my favourite players - I am sad to see him suffering such problems which could well be career-threatening at his age and stage of his career

[Gamass]

Poertschach: Richard Gasquet joue les qualifs (wild card)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Sorry for being late this week for updates. Lots of changes in the last couple of days.

Poertschach (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Andreev, Calleri, Dent, Goldstein, Verkerk (and Di Mauro, Hernych from ALT)
IN: Almagro, Berlocq, Starace, Mahut, Daniel, Simon, Pavel
NEXT: Zib, Novak, Wang, Monaco, Ramirez Hidalgo, Montanes

Jay

[guest1]

confirmed wild cards:

main draw: Stefan Koubek(AUT)
Oliver Marach(AUT)
Nicolas Lapentti(ECU)

qualies:Richard Gasquet(FRA)
Jerome Chardy(FRA)

source:www.tennisweb.at, www.atppoertschach.info

[D]

Gasquet is going to try to qualify????

[fran]

I think it unlikely that Agustin Calleri will play here. According to this article http://www.ole.clarin.com/jsp/v4/pagina ... Id=1194855 he is suffering from a reoccurance of the back poblems that kept him off the circuit a long time last year, and may not even make Roland Garros - so I don't think he will risk anything here.

I attended Future #5 in the Vilas Racket Club a few weeks ago and I saw Calleri training. As you well said he is still injured and working on to be back for the French Open. This is his second year in a row with a long term injury that does not allow him to play his best tennis.

Thanks for the update Fran. Agustin is one of my favourite players - I am sad to see him suffering such problems which could well be career-threatening at his age and stage of his career

I agree with you. I admire him too and it´s a pity that he´s suffering these injuries at the end of his career. But he is fighter and will not give up that easy. I think he will remain on the tour for a few years more.
If you need any information about Argentine tennis or players feel free to contact me.

[Rosie]

I think it unlikely that Agustin Calleri will play here. According to this article http://www.ole.clarin.com/jsp/v4/pagina ... Id=1194855 he is suffering from a reoccurance of the back poblems that kept him off the circuit a long time last year, and may not even make Roland Garros - so I don't think he will risk anything here.

I attended Future #5 in the Vilas Racket Club a few weeks ago and I saw Calleri training. As you well said he is still injured and working on to be back for the French Open. This is his second year in a row with a long term injury that does not allow him to play his best tennis.

Thanks for the update Fran. Agustin is one of my favourite players - I am sad to see him suffering such problems which could well be career-threatening at his age and stage of his career

I agree with you. I admire him too and it´s a pity that he´s suffering these injuries at the end of his career. But he is fighter and will not give up that easy. I think he will remain on the tour for a few years more.
If you need any information about Argentine tennis or players feel free to contact me.

I hope you are right that he will continue. Amd thanks

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Poertschach (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Andreev, Calleri, Dent, Goldstein, Hanescu, Pashanski, Verkerk (and Di Mauro, Mahut, Hernych from ALT)
IN: Almagro, Berlocq, Starace, Daniel, Simon, Pavel, Zib, Novak, Y-T.Wang
NEXT: Monaco, Ramirez Hidalgo, Montanes, Garcia-Lopez, Sluiter, Marin, N.Lapentti, Gimelstob

Jay

[smucav]

Q -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/306/QS.pdf
Singles -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/306/MDS.pdf (Friday, 6:00 p.m.)
Doubles -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/306/MDD.pdf
OOP -- http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/306/OP.pdf

[buddyholly]

According to the tournament website the singles draw is at 10am local time on SATURDAY.

[fran]

confirmed wild cards:



qualies: Jerome Chardy(FRA)

source:www.tennisweb.at, www.atppoertschach.info

Keep your eyes on this young French player. I saw him playing with Nalbandian in Estoril and plays really well.

[Gamass]

Poertschach:
OUT Schuettler
IN Gasquet (LL)

[ovg]

Just looked at main draw on the ATP site and Scheuttler is still listed.
Also how come Gasquet had to play the qualies at this tournament.

[Rosie]

Just looked at main draw on the ATP site and Scheuttler is still listed.
Also how come Gasquet had to play the qualies at this tournament.

Gasquet was offered a Wild Card into the Main Draw, but turned it down because he wanted to get more match practice and felt that going through quallies was the best way to do that. And Schuettler is definately OUT (he had a fever and pulled out this morning) - the Site is just very slow to update.