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by **BelgiumDude** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:46 am

Doha 4 WD's
1 Federer, Roger SUI 1
2 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 10
3 Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 15
4 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 16
5 Pavel, Andrei ROM 20
6 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 22
7 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 25
8 El Aynaoui, Younes MAR @27
9 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 28
10 Johansson, Thomas SWE 30
11 Soderling, Robin SWE 34
12 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 36
13 Volandri, Filippo ITA 43
14 Beck, Karol SVK 45
15 Ferrer, David ESP 48
16 Rusedski, Greg GBR 49
17 Andreev, Igor RUS 50
18 Nadal, Rafael ESP 51
19 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 52
20 Costa, Albert ESP 56
21 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 59
22 Arazi, Hicham MAR 60
23 Koubek, Stefan AUT 62
24 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 65
25 Muller, Gilles LUX 68
26 (WC) Monfils, Gael FRA
27 (WC) Lopez, Marc ESP
28 (WC) Abdullah, Mohammed QAT
29 (Q) Vico, Uros ITA
30 (Q) Chiudinelli, Marco SUI
31 (Q) Stakhovsky, Sergey UKR
32 (Q) Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI

Alternates
IN Sanchez, David ESP 74
OUT Dupuis, Antony FRA 79
OUT Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 80
IN Hernych, Jan CZE 83
IN Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 85
OUT Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 92
OUT Mantilla, Felix ESP 98
OUT Patience, Olivier FRA 120
OUT Zib, Tomas CZE 122
OUT Vanek, Jiri CZE 126
IN Mahut, Nicolas FRA 129

Adelaide 4 WD's
1 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 3
2 Johansson, Joachim SWE 12
3 Kiefer, Nicolas GER 21
4 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 26
5 Ancic, Mario CRO 29
6 Dent, Taylor USA 32
7 Stepanek, Radek CZE 33
8 Mayer, Florian GER 35
9 Horna, Luis PER 38
10 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 39
11 Llodra, Michael FRA 41
12 Berdych, Tomas CZE 44
13 Mirnyi, Max BLR 46
14 Malisse, Xavier BEL 47
15 Saulnier, Cyril FRA 53
16 Schalken, Sjeng NED 57
17 Calleri, Agustin ARG 58
18 Ginepri, Robby USA 61
19 Benneteau, Julien FRA 64
20 Martin, Alberto ESP 67
21 Rochus, Olivier BEL 71
22 Enqvist, Thomas SWE 73
23 Sargsian, Sargis ARM 75
24 Starace, Potito ITA 76
25 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 77
26 (WC) Kimmich, Marc AUS
27 (WC) Bacanello, Paul AUS
28 (WC) Reid, Todd AUS
29 (Q) Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA
30 (Q) De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA
31 (Q) Clement, Arnaud FRA
32 (Q) Delic, Amer USA

Alternates
IN Dupuis, Antony FRA 79
OUT Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 80
IN Sluiter, Raemon NED 82
OUT Hernych, Jan CZE 83
IN Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 92
OUT Haehnel, Jerome FRA 96
IN Arthurs, Wayne AUS 97

Chennai 5 WD's
1 Moya, Carlos ESP 5
2 Srichaphan, Paradorn THA 27
3 Schuettler, Rainer GER 42
4 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 69
5 Calatrava, Alex ESP 81
6 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA @85
7 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 86
8 van Scheppingen, Dennis NED 87
9 Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 89
10 Morrison, Jeff USA 91
11 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 93
12 Kim, Kevin USA 99
13 Ventura, Santiago ESP 101
14 Popp, Alexander GER 102
15 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 103
16 Mutis, Olivier FRA 105
17 Gimelstob, Justin USA @107
18 Carraz, Gregory FRA 111
19 Rochus, Christophe BEL 112
20 Vliegen, Kristof BEL 114
21 Garcia, Adrian CHI 115
22 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 116
23 Elseneer, Gilles BEL 117
24 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 118
25 Tabara, Michal CZE 119
26 (WC) Amritraj, Prakash IND
27 (WC) Paes, Leander IND
28 (WC) Rastogi, Karan IND
29 (Q) Baghdatis, Marcos CYP
30 (Q) Devilder, Nicolas FRA
31 (Q) Mankad, Harsh IND
32 (Q) Knowle, Julian AUT

Alternates
IN Patience, Olivier FRA 120
IN Zib, Tomas CZE 122
IN Vanek, Jiri CZE 126
IN Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 128
OUT Mahut, Nicolas FRA 129
OUT Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 130
OUT Peya, Alexander AUT 131
OUT Karanusic, Roko CRO 132
OUT Thomann, Nicolas FRA @132
OUT Aldi, Francesco ITA 134
OUT Moodie, Wesley RSA 136
OUT Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 138
IN Okun, Noam ISR 139

by **Guest** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:09 pm

Nice looking fields... glad Roddick isn't playing Doha again for the big cash, guess they got Fedster this year. they seem to be able to chump out enough cash for one big player every year lol

by **Tennis724** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:38 am

Not too happy with Alex choosing not to play Adelaide (or any tourney in the first week). Hopefully he'll play Sydney though 8-[

by **Fee** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:13 pm

Sydney's cutoff last year was #48. If he's playing there, he would have to qualify.

What's up with Tursunov being on the alternate lists? He's out for another 3 months at least with this back injury.

by **Tennis724** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:43 pm

Fiona wrote:Sydney's cutoff last year was #48. If he's playing there, he would have to qualify.

I'm aware of that but I didn't think that I would have to specify it. It's a given. He's 123 right now (same as he was when he quallified for Sydney last year). He lost in the 1st round of quallies in Adelaide last year so there's no big loss there. Like I said, hope he starts with Sydney and not the AO quallies.

by **Fee** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:01 am

Jay,
I believe you possess 'edit' powers? Can you put the cities in the thread titles as we did last year, thanks.

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:04 am

BD has now added the City names. So we are set. Jay

by **BelgiumDude** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:18 am

Prakash Amritraj has received the first wildcard in Chennai.

by **Guest** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:03 am

Leander Paes is also playing singles as a WC in Chennai.

by **Guest** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:27 am

Karan Rastogi got the 3rd WC for Chennai.

by **Bjorkman_Girl** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:58 pm

Thanks for the info BD

Time for me to start making a list of the people I'm looking out for in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne

Kristen

by **zikmat** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:13 am

Marc Kimmich (n°308, 21 y.o.), an australian, has won one of the WC for the Australian Open. He won a tournament which was set up by the Aus Federation rewarding the winner with a main draw WC to the AO.
He has also been given a WC for Adelaïde main draw.

by **Alex71** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:09 am

Koubek is out for tree months, ahi ahi ahi! :oops:

by **Tennis724** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:55 pm

I heard back today. Alex will be playing quallies in Adelaide. A little confused as to why he's not on the alternate list because he apparently knew that he was going to stick to the same schedule. That's the impression I got anyway.

by **Master** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:52 am

Hermes Gamonal is in chennai qualyfing list??

by **Karex** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:18 pm

Hi BD or Jay.

Can any of you tell me if Kristain Pless is in the Qualifying list of Chennai, and if he made the cut for the qualies ?

Thanks in advance.

by **Fee** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:33 am

I think both BD and Jay are away for a few days, so I'll try to answer your question. They can tell you if Pless is on any of the alternate lists, but we won't know for sure who is in the qualifying draw until its posted. Players have until 9 pm Friday night to show up and sign in for qualifying, and you never know for sure who will do that until they actually get there (which is why you sometimes see Doubles players in qualie draws at optional events, there was room for them). Only grand slams (and a few select other tournaments) post qualie lists a few weeks in advance.

by **Guest** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:53 am

The city of Chennai aslo known as Madras has been one of the zones affected by the earthquake and tidal wawe, and there are victims in this City.

I was wondering that maybe this tournament finally can be suspended or something similar.

What do you think ??

by **Alex71** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:00 am

Wayne Arthurs has the second wild card for Adelaide main draw.

by **Alex71** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:23 am

Chennai is in centre of the disaster, i think will not play there!

by **Guest** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:09 am

well i will contact atp right now but i very much doubt that the chennai event will go ahead next week, likely to be cancelled all together or maybe postponed till later on in the year

wonder if players will be allowed to enter any other events?

maybe a new venue can be found!

also a report on tennis australia site said arthurs is only 5 out from main draw so we must have had a couple of withdrawals!

by **Alex71** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:29 am

From ATP:

"Chennai Tournament to Proceed on Schedule

The Chennai Open has been unaffected by the tsunami which devastasted much of South-East Asia, including parts of Chennai itself. Flights in and out of Chennai also remain unaffected."

by **Fee** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:55 pm

Anonymous wrote:well i will contact atp right now but i very much doubt that the chennai event will go ahead next week, likely to be cancelled all together or maybe postponed till later on in the year

wonder if players will be allowed to enter any other events?

maybe a new venue can be found!

also a report on tennis australia site said arthurs is only 5 out from main draw so we must have had a couple of withdrawals!

This is one of the reasons I dislike unsigned posts. I have been in contact with someone in Chennai who works at the tournament. There was never any discussion of cancelling it because the tournament site and the tournaments hotels were not affected by the quake or the tsunami. There was some concern about the airport, but everything is fine. I would bet the people of Chennai are understandably shaken up by all of this and perhaps this tournament will bring some form of emotional relief to the area.

I personally will believe only signed posts from people who have built up their credibility around here....

by **BelgiumDude** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:05 am

Todd Reid received the third and final wild card for Adelaide.
The 3 wildcards for Chennai are also confirmed.
Anyone knows the wild cards for Doha?

Greetings
BD

by **westaussie** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:08 am

HEY BD

ANY CHANGES OR WITHDRAWALS ANYWHERE MATE?

by **westaussie** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:23 am

i just found out that

mirnyi and horna are out of adelaide main draw
tursunov is off alt list!

qualies cut at this stage is expected to be around 210

by **Alex71** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:32 am

OUT Soederling

IN Ulihrach

1° Alternate Kohlschreiber

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:39 pm

Well, first of all, a prayer for all those who lost so much in the devastation in Asia. (My family, thankfully, are a few miles inwards from the coast and were unaffected).

Yes, the Chennai event will go forward. In fact, compared to other coastal areas in south India, Chennai was relatively less affected, except right at the Beach which is quite a big one (about 20 km long and very wide, normally filled with a bi9g crowd in the evenings - had this happened in the evening, it would have been much much worse there). Earthquake tremors caused some small damage at the airport I believe but everything is operational in Chennai. There was no plans to postpone the event at all.

Updates:

Adelaide (no SE spots)
OUT: Horna, Mirnyi (and Tursunov from ALT)
IN: Dupuis, Sluiter
NEXT: Hernych, Kohlschreiber, Haehnel, Arthurs, Amagro, Clement, Gasquet, Patience, Zib, Reid

Chennai (no SE spots)
OUT: Elseneer, Morrison, Popp, Mutis
IN: Patienc e, Zib, Vanek, Garc ia-Lopez
NEXT: Mahut, Lisnard, Peya, Karanusic, Thomann, Aldi, Moodie, Chiudinelli, Okun, Lopez

Doha (no SE spots)
OUT: Arazi, Koubek, Soderling (and Dupuis, Tursunov from ALT)
IN: D.Sanchez, Hernych, Ulihrach
NEXT: Kohlschreiber, Mantilla, Patience, Zib, Vanek, Mahut, Lisnard, Peya, Karanusic, Thomann

Jay

by **PatatRiek** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:21 pm

Hey Jay ... glad to hear you & your family are OK

and thanks for the update 8) i'm sorry to see Elseneer OUT of Chennai, but I kinda expected it cos he didn't sign in for the qualies of the Aussie Open ... i wonder what's wrong with him :roll:

anyway, take it easy

ciao!
PatatRiek

by **Fee** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:35 pm

Thanks Jay. I'm glad to hear that things are good for your family and that the tournament seems to be on track. I know you are busy, but hopefully you and Jay can catch up with the lists and updates to week 6. I guess I didn't realize how dependent I had become on the two of you until the routine was interrupted.

by **Tennis724** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:06 pm

You and me both

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:08 am

Thanks friends, for the kind thoughts to folks back home in South Asia.

Updates:

Adelaide (no SE spots)
OUT: Horna, Mirnyi, Llodra (and Tursunov, Hernych, Gasquet from ALT)
IN: Dupuis, Sluiter, Kohlschreiber
NEXT: Haehnel, Arthurs, Amagro, Clement, Patience, Zib, Reid, Vanek, Mahut, Lisnard

Chennai (no SE spots)
OUT: Elseneer, Morrison, Popp, Mutis, Calatrava (and Mahut, Lisnard, Peya, Karanusic, Thomann, Moodie, Salzenstein, Varlet, Phau from ALT)
IN: Patience, Zib, Vanek, Garcia-Lopez, Aldi
NEXT: Chiudinelli, Okun, Lopez, DiMauro, Weiner, Hippensteel, Baghdatis, Behrend, Tsonga, Armando

Doha (no SE spots)
OUT: Arazi, Koubek, Soderling (and Dupuis, Tursunov, Kohlschreiber, Patience, Lisnard from ALT)
IN: D.Sanchez, Hernych, Ulihrach
NEXT: Mantilla, Zib, Vanek, Mahut, Peya, Karanusic, Thomann, Aldi, Seppi, Moodie

So, the cuts dropping a bit now, with a day to go..

Jay

by **Patrik77** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:25 am

Soderling pulled out from Doha because of a light knee injury, he wanted to rest one more week and will be back in Sydney according to himself

by **Guest** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:33 am

mario ancic is a late withdrawal from adelaide as he rolled his ankle at practice on thursday

plz one more withdrawal so arthurs can hand back his wildcard and baccanello can take it

by **Guest** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:57 am

NASA have an image showing tsunami damage to Chennai
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... g_id=12649

by **keope1977** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 7:49 am

Francesco Aldi withdraws in Chennai.

by **Guest** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:31 am

Aldi, Mahut and Thomann out from main draw
Lopez, Di Mauro out from alternate

by **PatatRiek** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:46 am

the qualie draws are probably out everywhere, but i cannot find them :roll:

oh well, i better party now ... and will check back in tha new year

happy new year to everyone out there :cool:

PatatRiek

by **R. Jayakrishnan** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:03 pm

Final Updates:

Adelaide (no SE spots)
OUT: Horna, Mirnyi, Llodra, Ancic (and Tursunov, Hernych, Haehnel, Gasquet, Patience, Zib, Vanek, Mahut from ALT)
IN: Dupuis, Sluiter, Kohlschreiber, Arthurs
NEXT: Almagro, Clement, Reid, Lisnard

Chennai (no SE spots)
OUT: Elseneer, Morrison, Popp, Mutis, Calatrava (and Mahut, Lisnard, Peya, Karanusic, Thomann, Aldi, Moodie, Chiudinelli, Lopez, Salzenstein, DiMauro, Weiner, Varlet, Hippensteel, Phau, Behrend from ALT)
IN: Patience, Zib, Vanek, Garcia-Lopez, Okun
NEXT: Baghdatis, Tsonga, Armando

Doha (no SE spots)
OUT: Arazi, Koubek, Soderling, El Aynaoui (and Dupuis, Tursunov, Kohlschreiber, Mantilla, Patience, Zib, Vanek, Lisnard, Karanusic from ALT)
IN: D.Sanchez, Hernych, Ulihrach, Mahut
NEXT: Peya, Thomann, Aldi, Seppi, Moodie

Jay

by **BelgiumDude** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:31 pm

i'm completely drunk, I have to admit!!!
happy newyear everybody !!!!!!!!!!!!! yiiiieeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
olééééééééé olaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
let's build a party, jieeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaa

greetings
BD

by **Fee** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:58 pm

Happy New Year everyone!

Thanks for the laugh BD. You know you're a bona fide tennis freak when you find a way to post on your favorite message board no matter what! Considering all the work that you have done for us this year, I would gladly have bought one of those drinks for you.

by **Nathaliia** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:37 am

Great that you had a nice New Year's welcoming, BD

I wanted to say that the quallifying draw to Doha is already announced on the official tournament site and the players who are through are: Ulihrach, Voltchkov, Hantschk and Heuberger - if someone suffers of hangover and feels to bad to check all links

I wonder when Steve will publish all of this on the site
greetz,
Natalia

by **Guest** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:14 am

Those were the Qualifying results from 2004.

by **Nathaliia** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:00 am

lol !!! I guess that's why those names and results sounded so familiar :lol:

Is it what I tried to call a "hangover"

?. Anyways, I'm against too long holiday for all site admins.

by **PatatRiek** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:13 am

hmm i can't open those attachments

not that i need them, meanwhile the draws can be found on the offical tournament websites

ciao
PatatRiek

by **Patrik77** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:54 pm

Kasia: How come Fyrstenberg doesn´t try to qualify more often for the singles in tournaments? Of course when he does good doubles results there is no time to try to qualify but for example this week in Doha he could have just entered the qualifying and at least tried....The few times he plays singles he "does to much OK" results for not trying to play more....

by **BelgiumDude** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:10 am

I have finalised the entry-lists.
Including Wild Cards, Qualifiers, and the top-3 players who just missed the cut.

by **Kasia** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:45 am

Kasia: How come Fyrstenberg doesn´t try to qualify more often for the singles in tournaments? Of course when he does good doubles results there is no time to try to qualify but for example this week in Doha he could have just entered the qualifying and at least tried....The few times he plays singles he "does to much OK" results for not trying to play more....

Well, as far as Doha is concerned, I think he didn't know that there were still free spots in the quallies. And they both, with Matkowski, flew to Doha on Sunday, so I guess it was too late to sign in. It was a pity indeed, 'cos there aren't many occasions to try singles in ATP tour for him, and from what I saw at his Davis Cup match last year, he's become pretty good at singles, too. I think he's concentrating 100% on doubles now, since there are really good chances that they will succeed, and as far as single is concerned, the future doesn't seem that bright.

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