week |24| ATP: Halle, London/Queen's Club

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Halle
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
OUT Nalbandian, David ARG 4
OUT Coria, Guillermo ARG 9
4 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 13
5 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 20
6 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 22
7 Berdych, Tomas CZE 24
8 Haas, Tommy GER 25
9 Gasquet, Richard FRA 26
10 Rochus, Olivier BEL 30
11 Rochus, Christophe BEL 38
12 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 40
13 Serra, Florent FRA 48
14 Safin, Marat RUS 49
15 Novak, Jiri CZE @49
16 Vliegen, Kristof BEL 50
17 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 52
18 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 54
OUT Hanescu, Victor ROM 55
20 Seppi, Andreas ITA 56
21 Soderling, Robin SWE 57
22 Simon, Gilles FRA 58
23 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 59
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (WC) Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER
27 (WC) Waske, Alexander GER
28 (WC) Pavel, Andrei ROM
29 (Q) Becker, Benjamin GER
30 (Q) Bopanna, Rohan IND
31 (Q) Bastl, George SUI
32 (Q) Chiudinelli, Marco SUI
(LL) Pless, Kristian DEN (replaces Kiefer)

Alternates
IN Clement, Arnaud FRA 60
IN Pashanski, Boris SCG 63
IN Phau, Bjorn GER 69
IN Mayer, Florian GER 75
IN Schuettler, Rainer GER 76
1. Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 86
OUT Vanek, Jiri CZE 90
2. Waske, Alexander GER 91
3. Portas, Albert ESP 100
OUT Delgado, Ramon PAR 103
4. Norman, Dick BEL 104
OUT Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 105
OUT Minar, Ivo CZE 106
OUT Zib, Tomas CZE 107
5. Sluiter, Raemon NED 108

London/Queen's Club
1 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
2 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 3
3 Roddick, Andy USA 5
4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6
5 Blake, James USA 7
6 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 10
7 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 14
8 Agassi, Andre USA 15
9 Stepanek, Radek CZE 16
10 Johansson, Thomas SWE 17
11 Ginepri, Robby USA 18
OUT Ancic, Mario CRO 19
13 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 23
OUT Andreev, Igor RUS 27
15 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 33
16 Monfils, Gael FRA 35
17 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 36
18 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 37
19 Murray, Andy GBR 44
OUT Almagro, Nicolas ESP 46
21 Rusedski, Greg GBR 47
22 Bracciali, Daniele ITA 51
23 Goldstein, Paul USA 61
24 Mirnyi, Max BLR 62
OUT Dent, Taylor USA 66
26 Henman, Tim GBR 67
OUT Djokovic, Novak SCG 68
28 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 70
29 Muller, Gilles LUX 71
30 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 72
31 Moodie, Wesley RSA 73
32 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 78
33 Vik, Robin CZE 79
OUT Hernych, Jan CZE 80
35 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 81
OUT Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 83
37 Benneteau, Julien FRA 84
38 Vicente, Fernando ESP 85
39 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 87
40 Udomchoke, Danai THA 95
41 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 96
42 Gimelstob, Justin USA 97
43 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 98
44 Sabau, Razvan ROM 99
45 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 101
46 (SE)
47 (SE)
48 (WC) Lopez, Feliciano ESP
49 (WC) Fish, Mardy USA
50 (WC) Philippoussis, Mark AUS
51 (WC) Bogdanovic, Alex GBR
52 (WC) Baker, Jamie GBR
53 (Q) Verdasco, Fernando ESP
54 (Q) Dupuis, Antony FRA
55 (Q) Lee, Martin GBR
56 (Q) Dancevic, Frank CAN

Alternates
IN Greul, Simon GER 102
IN Delgado, Ramon PAR 103
IN Norman, Dick BEL 104
IN Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 105
IN Minar, Ivo CZE 106
IN Zib, Tomas CZE 107
IN Sluiter, Raemon NED 108
IN Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 109
IN Reynolds, Bobby USA 111
OUT Marach, Oliver AUT 112
OUT Gicquel, Marc FRA 113
1. Fish, Mardy USA 114
2. Kim, Kevin USA 115
3. Pavel, Andrei ROM 116
4. Capdeville, Paul CHI 121
5. Berrer, Michael GER 123
Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 124
Roitman, Sergio ARG 128

[R. Jayakrishnan]

I think ATP must have had a small mistake in the first list that we posted above earlier. Now Bjorkman is in the Queens list and Greul is first out. I have made the correction above.

Jay

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3 Wild Crads for Queens awarded to;

Former Wimbledon finalist Mark Philippoussis has been handed a wild card entry to the Stella Artois Championships next month.

Organisers said the 29-year-old Australian, who won the grasscourt event at Queen's Club in London in 1997, had been invited to take part in the June 12-18 tournament together with American Mardy Fish and Spain's Feliciano Lopez.

[Björki]

Lopez? he should have signed in.

[tasmanian tiger]

i guess that means no wild card for british tennis legend jamie delgado!

[PatatRiek]

was surprised Malisse didn't sign up for any of the tournaments found out why, he's playing an exhibition tournament in london that week if you have info on that exhibition let me know. thanks in advance

[smucav]

was surprised Malisse didn't sign up for any of the tournaments found out why, he's playing an exhibition tournament in london that week if you have info on that exhibition let me know. thanks in advance

http://www.liverpooltennis.co.uk/

[decrepitude]

I don't suppose it really matters to anybody (except those playing!), but Liverpool isn't in London. It is in the North-West of England.

[Patrik77]

Lopez? he should have signed in.

If I was British I would be very disappointed on the organizers giving a WC to Lopez instead of a Brittish player. He hasn´t achieved anything that could be worth giving him a WC because he was lazy and didn´t sign in!

[GWH]

Lopez? he should have signed in.

If I was British I would be very disappointed on the organizers giving a WC to Lopez instead of a Brittish player. He hasn´t achieved anything that could be worth giving him a WC because he was lazy and didn´t sign in!

LaLo only got a WC, because he is there to attract the female bretheren to the tennis.

To be honest, he should be tried in a court for impersonating a tennis player.

[Rosie]

Lopez? he should have signed in.

If I was British I would be very disappointed on the organizers giving a WC to Lopez instead of a Brittish player. He hasn´t achieved anything that could be worth giving him a WC because he was lazy and didn´t sign in!

Well I am British - and personally I would rather see a quality player like Lopez, rather than some of the low ranked no-hopers that make up British tennis when you get past Henman, Rusedski and Murray. Having said that - my aversion to grass means I live virtually in walking distance of Queens and I won't be going there - so maybe I am not the right person to comment.

[Anco]

I don't suppose it really matters to anybody (except those playing!), but Liverpool isn't in London. It is in the North-West of England.

We all know Liverpool

[NukeD]

Lopez? he should have signed in.

If I was British I would be very disappointed on the organizers giving a WC to Lopez instead of a Brittish player. He hasn´t achieved anything that could be worth giving him a WC because he was lazy and didn´t sign in!

Well I am British - and personally I would rather see a quality player like Lopez, rather than some of the low ranked no-hopers that make up British tennis when you get past Henman, Rusedski and Murray. Having said that - my aversion to grass means I live virtually in walking distance of Queens and I won't be going there - so maybe I am not the right person to comment.

You go girl!

I think its also better to provide wildcards to the non english players, I mean they are a waste of time otherwise with the WC. The majority of the brits offer nothing to the tournament, and always get beaten easily. You are right about using the term "no hopers" Although, I agree lopez should have sorted himself out, because there are probably better options for a wc.

[Count Zero]

but surely if queens acts like this then all tournmanets should? how many other events give their wc's to deserving players reather then locals?
how many wc's has donald young had now, and how many matches has he won as a result.
phlilpiussis has had wc's for the about the last 3 years at queens i think, if he was still good enough he would have made his way back to atp tour proper by now.
also consisering britain only has 3 atp events a year its not often out players get to try at tghat level

[m-j-d]

Well I am British - and personally I would rather see a quality player like Lopez, rather than some of the low ranked no-hopers that make up British tennis when you get past Henman, Rusedski and Murray. Having said that - my aversion to grass means I live virtually in walking distance of Queens and I won't be going there - so maybe I am not the right person to comment.

I would question your real nationality and true interest in tennis!
If you are not interested in Queens I wonder why you are even visiting this forum!

Remember just over a year ago Murray was ranked over 400 and losing futures and remember too - without losers there would be no winners!

[Anco]

Most tournaments give their wildcards to players that attract a great public. In most cases, people want to see their 'local heroes' play, rather than some big international talents. It's a pity, but a lot of people who visit these tournaments don't know anything about tennis.

[tasmanian tiger]

i disagree with several opinions here. first of all people shouldn't be bitching about lopez getting a wild card as much as they should about philippoussis. he's been getting wild cards everywhere for about 2 years now (based on his results 6 or 7 years ago) into countless tourneys he doesn't belong in. secondly, giving one wild card to a player like feliciano lopez (who is ranked high but didn't enter before the deadline) or a legitimate world renouned player who has fallen on hard times, is one thing, but three???????? as a british atp tourney, i think you have an obligation to give at least 3 wildcards to promising british players. a 2nd or 3rd round showing for such a player could boost their ranking tremendousley. i don't think england needs to pin all their tennis hopes on andy murray. so many young men grow up in england playing tennis, give them an opportunity to make it.

[m-j-d]

i disagree with several opinions here. first of all people shouldn't be bitching about lopez getting a wild card as much as they should about philippoussis. he's been getting wild cards everywhere for about 2 years now (based on his results 6 or 7 years ago) into countless tourneys he doesn't belong in. secondly, giving one wild card to a player like feliciano lopez (who is ranked high but didn't enter before the deadline) or a legitimate world renouned player who has fallen on hard times, is one thing, but three???????? as a british atp tourney, i think you have an obligation to give at least 3 wildcards to promising british players. a 2nd or 3rd round showing for such a player could boost their ranking tremendousley. i don't think england needs to pin all their tennis hopes on andy murray. so many young men grow up in england playing tennis, give them an opportunity to make it.

Well spoken tiger - my thoughts entirely!

[EddieV]

Maybe Phillipoussis gets wild cards at Queen's because he is also a vassal of the royalty...
And I expect players and news staff going to the right Halle this year...

[Rosie]

Well I am British - and personally I would rather see a quality player like Lopez, rather than some of the low ranked no-hopers that make up British tennis when you get past Henman, Rusedski and Murray. Having said that - my aversion to grass means I live virtually in walking distance of Queens and I won't be going there - so maybe I am not the right person to comment.

I would question your real nationality and true interest in tennis!
If you are not interested in Queens I wonder why you are even visiting this forum!

Remember just over a year ago Murray was ranked over 400 and losing futures and remember too - without losers there would be no winners!

Well I cannot prove to you my nationality - but I can say that in the last 18 months alone I have visited the following tournaments live.......Marseilles, Rotterdam, Monte Carlo Masters, Hamburg Masters, Rome Masters (twice), Munich (twice) French Open (twice), Paris Bercy, Madrid Masters, and Stockholm - so I think that goes someway to prove my interest in tennis and my reason for visiting this Forum. I am just not the typical Brit who thinks that tennis only lasts for 4 weeks a year and begins and ends with Wimbledon and the stuff that happens on the grass. In fact I totally DISLIKE grass court tennis - which is a personal preference and means that instead of visiting Queens I am more than likely to be found on the beautiful clay courts of Lugano during that week. As for Andy Murray - who IS a good player I agree - I have been following the careers of people like Juan Martin de Potro and Edgardo Massa since their very, very early days - so I do know what goes on outside the Top 100. So to question my "real nationality and true interest in tennis" is damn well rude and disrespectful to someone you have never met - just because I don't happen to agree with you does not make me wrong or a liar.

Anyway - as Jay has said before on this Board - these are not threads to argue and get personal - but to post specific news on tennis entry lists etc -there are other threads here and also places like MTF to carry on any further discussions.

[m-j-d]

OK Rosie, point taken about the tennis - Please accept my apologies for speaking out of turn and out of context within these forums, I am sorry if I offended, you are quite correct - tennis only.

You are very fortunate to have seen so much top level tennis so I can understand that Queens would be disappointing to you, as is Wimbledon no doubt as a grasscourt event.
For those less fortunate Queens is about as good as it gets and the majority would prefer to see W/Cs given to national players at whatever level than to foreign players, especially those elegible for MD who didnt bother to apply hence depriving others and to he who has had 15 WC entries into his last 16 events.

Being patriotic I guess that I just 'saw red' with your criticism of British events and British players and was too quick to reply - In future I will just take another blood pressure tablet and move on to another forum.

Fini.

[Rosie]

OK Rosie, point taken about the tennis - Please accept my apologies for speaking out of turn and out of context within these forums, I am sorry if I offended, you are quite correct - tennis only.

You are very fortunate to have seen so much top level tennis so I can understand that Queens would be disappointing to you, as is Wimbledon no doubt as a grasscourt event.
For those less fortunate Queens is about as good as it gets and the majority would prefer to see W/Cs given to national players at whatever level than to foreign players, especially those elegible for MD who didnt bother to apply hence depriving others and to he who has had 15 WC entries into his last 16 events.

Being patriotic I guess that I just 'saw red' with your criticism of British events and British players and was too quick to reply - In future I will just take another blood pressure tablet and move on to another forum.

Fini.

Thanks m-j-d for your gracious apology. Let's forget it and move on

[EddieV]

Who said once: "the grass is for the cows"? It was Villas or Ríos? Or both? (then, of course, Villas is the original author)

[Patrik77]

I´m sure Bogdanovic is pretty disappointed not getting any WC, he´s had a good year and has won a couple of Challengers and with a great chance to win a match with a decent draw. He would deserve the WC more than Lopez I think.

[Count Zero]

there are still 2 wc's left, maybe boggo will get one of those. [/quote]

[daryl]

[quote="EddieV"]Who said once: "the grass is for the cows"? It was Villas or Ríos? Or both? (then, of course, Villas is the original author)[/quote]

It was Vilas (i dont know if Rios said that later).
As as have been said before Coria is taking a break, so even if he's not officialy out, there's a strong indication it will be.

[smucav]

There's a story (in German) on the Halle website, that states--if I'm translating correctly--that Rainer Schuettler received a wild card, Bjorn Phau will receive a wild card if he doesn't get in off the alternate list, and that Florian Mayer, Alexander Waske, & Philipp Kohschreiber are the candidates for the other wildcard (two if Phau doesn't use one).

[Super-Fabio]

Ancic is OUT from queen's

[smucav]

Alex Bogdanovic and Jamie Baker receive the two remaining wildcards:
http://www.stellaartoistennis.com/news/news.asp

[Fee]

QUEEN'S CLUB (both SE spots cleared)

OUT: Almagro, Ancic, Andreev, Dent (and Marach, Cicquel, Gabashvili from ALT)
IN: Greul, Delgado, Norman, Carlsen, Minar, Zib
NEXT: Sluiter, Kunitsyn, Reynolds


HALLE (Both SE spots cleared)

OUT: Coria (and Vanek from ALT)
IN: Clement, Pashanski, Phau
Next: Mayer, Schuettler, Kohlschreiber, Waske

I can't do another update until Thursday evening.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Thanks Fiona .. I was *very* busy for 2-3 days .. I will take it from here.

Halle (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Coria (and Vanek from ALT)
IN: Clement, Pashanski, Phau
Next: Mayer, Schuettler, Kohlschreiber, Waske, Portas, Greul, R.Delgado, Norman

Queen's (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Almagro, Ancic, Andreev, Dent, Di Mauro, Hernych (and Marach, Cicquel, Gabashvili, Roitman from ALT)
IN: Greul, Delgado, Norman, Carlsen, Minar, Zib, Sluiter, Kunitsyn
NEXT: Reynolds, Fish, Kim, Pavel, Capdeville, Berrer, Kubot, Llodra

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Halle (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Coria (and Vanek, R.Delgado from ALT)
IN: Clement, Pashanski, Phau
Next: Mayer, Schuettler, Kohlschreiber, Waske, Portas, Greul, Norman

Queen's (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Almagro, Ancic, Andreev, Dent, Di Mauro, Hernych (and Marach, Cicquel, Gabashvili, Roitman from ALT)
IN: Greul, Delgado, Norman, Carlsen, Minar, Zib, Sluiter, Kunitsyn
NEXT: Reynolds, Fish, Kim, Pavel, Capdeville, Berrer, Kubot, Llodra

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Halle (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Coria, Hanescu (and Vanek, R.Delgado, Carlsen, I.Minar, Zib from ALT)
IN: Clement, Pashanski, Phau, Mayer
Next: Schuettler, Kohlschreiber, Waske, Portas, Greul, Norman

Queen's (Both SE spots cleared) - No change from above

Jay

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Halle
Qualifying draw: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/500/QS.pdf
Singles draw: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/500/MDS.pdf (Saturday, 7:00 p.m.)
Doubles draw: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/500/MDD.pdf
OOP: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/500/OP.pdf

Queen's Club
Qualifying draw: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/311/QS.pdf
Singles draw: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/311/MDS.pdf (Saturday, 4:00 p.m.)
Doubles draw: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/311/MDD.pdf
OOP: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/311/OP.pdf

[Rosie]

According to BBC Radio in England, and also several posters on MTF, David Nalbandian will not play in Halle because of the abdominal injury that forced him to withdraw from today's semi final in Roland Garros. It seems his participation at Wimbledon is also rumoured to be in doubt.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Halle (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Coria, Hanescu, Nalbandian (and Vanek, R.Delgado, Carlsen, I.Minar, Zib from ALT)
IN: Clement, Pashanski, Phau, Mayer, Schuettler
Next: Kohlschreiber, Waske, Portas, Greul, Norman

Queen's (Both SE spots cleared)
OUT: Almagro, Ancic, Andreev, Dent, Di Mauro, Djokovic, Hernych (and Marach, Cicquel, Gabashvili, Roitman from ALT)
IN: Greul, Delgado, Norman, Carlsen, Minar, Zib, Sluiter, Kunitsyn, Reynolds
NEXT: Fish, Kim, Pavel, Capdeville, Berrer, Kubot, Llodra

I think those are the final lists..

Jay

[Judio]

Verdasco and Karlovic are in Queen's Qualies

[decrepitude]

How come Fish is now first on the alternate list for Queens, when he got a wildcard?

[PatatRiek]

How come Fish is now first on the alternate list for Queens, when he got a wildcard?

if another player pulls out before qualies begin they can give his wildcard to another (problably british) player

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Halle:
Kiefer OUT; lucky loser Pless IN