week |11| Challengers : Sunrise, Salinas, Chi Minh, Sarajevo

[BelgiumDude]

Sunrise 7 WD's
1 Horna, Luis PER 38
2 Volandri, Filippo ITA 42
3 Beck, Karol SVK 43
4 Mayer, Florian GER 44
5 Berdych, Tomas CZE 45
6 Ferrer, David ESP 47
7 Andreev, Igor RUS 48
8 Martin, Alberto ESP 56
9 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 57
10 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 62
11 Kim, Kevin USA 65
12 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 66
13 Muller, Gilles LUX 67
14 Ginepri, Robby USA 69
15 Schalken, Sjeng NED 70
16 Labadze, Irakli GEO 71
17 Hernych, Jan CZE 73
18 Benneteau, Julien FRA 75
19 Wessels, Peter NED 76
20 Ventura, Santiago ESP 77
21 Zib, Tomas CZE 80
22 Calatrava, Alex ESP 81
23 Hanescu, Victor ROM 82
24 Rochus, Christophe BEL 83
25 (WC) Philippoussis, Mark AUS
26 (WC) Hrbaty, Dominik SVK
27 (WC) Gimelstob, Justin USA
28 (WC) Ginepri, Robby USA
29 (Q) Summerer, Tobias GER
30 (Q) Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA
31 (Q) Golmard, Jerome FRA
32 (Q) Simon, Gilles FRA

Alternates
OUT Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 89
OUT Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 94
OUT Enqvist, Thomas SWE 96
IN Sluiter, Raemon NED 102
IN Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 105
IN Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 108
IN Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 109
OUT Clement, Arnaud FRA 110
IN Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 111
IN Phau, Bjorn GER 112
IN Morrison, Jeff USA 113

Salinas 6 WD's
1 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 88
2 Massa, Edgardo ARG 103
3 Garcia, Adrian CHI 118
4 van Scheppingen, Dennis NED 124
5 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 130
6 Saretta, Flavio BRA 132
7 Peya, Alexander AUT 142
8 Guzman, Juan-Pablo ARG 157
9 Armando, Hugo USA 161
10 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 169
11 Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 178
12 Silva, Julio BRA 180
13 Marach, Oliver AUT 184
14 Weiner, Glenn USA 185
15 Vicente, Fernando ESP 186
16 Serra, Florent FRA 189
17 Delgado, Ramon PAR 191
18 Jeanpierre, Julien FRA 204
19 Villagran, Cristian ARG 212
20 Gallardo Valles, Miguel MEX 225
21 Roitman, Sergio ARG 226
22 Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 227
23 Todero, Nicolas ARG 232
24 Ferreiro, Franco BRA 237
25 (WC) Campuzano, Julio César ECU
26 (WC) Cava, Lorenzo ECU
27 (WC) Russell, Ryan JAM
28 (WC) Kerkhoven, Edwin NED
29 (Q) Miranda, Ivan PER
30 (Q) Redondi, Emiliano ARG
31 (Q) Hartfield, Diego ARG
32 (Q) Romero, Yohny VEN

Alternates
IN Vemic, Dusan SCG 244
IN Boeker, Matias USA 250
OUT Levy, Harel ISR 251
OUT Van Gemerden, Melle NED 254
IN Daniel, Marcos BRA 260
OUT Berrer, Michael GER 261
IN Gonzalez King, Ignacio ARG 267
OUT Mergea, Florin ROM 270
IN Alves, Thiago BRA 273
IN Dellatorre, Andres ARG 281 : replaced by (LL) Quintero, Michael COL

Ho Chi Minh 3 WD's + 2
1 Tabara, Michal CZE 79
2 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 101
3 Behrend, Tomas GER 104
4 Gicquel, Marc FRA 174
5 Wang, Yeu-Tzuoo TPE 177
6 Udomchoke, Danai THA 197
7 Snobel, Pavel CZE 200
8 Pless, Kristian DEN 205
9 Faurel, Jean-Christophe FRA 209
10 Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq PAK 214
11 Motomura, Gouichi JPN 216
12 Mamiit, Cecil USA 217
13 Delgado, Jamie GBR 218
14 Greul, Simon GER 235
15 Eschauer, Werner AUT 239
16 Svarc, Ladislav SVK 247
17 Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA 249
18 Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 258
19 Marray, Jonathan GBR 262
20 Pashanski, Boris SCG 264
21 Vik, Robin CZE 266
22 Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 268
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC) Al Ghareeb, Mohammed KUW
26 (WC) Do, Minh Quan VIE
27 (WC) Ngo, Quang Huy VIE
28 (WC) Simpatiaji, Prima INA
29 (Q) Chen, Ti TPE
30 (Q) Op der Heijde, Melvyn NED
31 (Q) Amritraj, Prakash IND
32 (Q) Lindstedt, Robert SWE

Alternates
OUT Terachi, Takahiro JPN 280
IN Kimmich, Marc AUS 284
IN Guccione, Chris AUS 286
IN Sela, Dudi ISR 287
IN Mlynarik, Zbynek AUT 288
IN Bruthans, Victor SVK 289

Sarajvo 4 WD's
1 Vliegen, Kristof BEL 106
2 Mutis, Olivier FRA 107
3 Elseneer, Gilles BEL 128
4 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 170
5 Voltchkov, Vladimir BLR 175
6 Bastl, George SUI 179
7 Parmar, Arvind GBR 183
8 Mertinak, Michal SVK 190
9 Schukin, Yuri RUS 196
10 Azzaro, Leonardo ITA 199
11 Tuksar, Sasa CRO 202
12 Kubot, Lukasz POL 208
13 Prpic, Filip SWE 211
14 Rosset, Marc SUI 213
15 Masson, Jeroen BEL 223
16 Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 229
17 Vacek, Jan CZE 231
18 Ketola, Tuomas FIN 233
19 Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 238
20 Stoppini, Andrea ITA 245
21 Sarstrand, Marcus SWE 248
22 Niemeyer, Frederic CAN 252
23 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 255
24 Moraru, Gabriel ROM 259
25 (WC) Nesterov, Nikolay RUS
26 (WC) Donato, Clay CAN
27 (WC) Althaus, Benjamin GER
28 (WC) Peranec, Gordan CRO
29 (Q) Herm-Zahlava, Jakub GER
30 (Q) Madjarovski, Darko SCG
31 (Q) Bozoljac, Ilia SCG
32 (Q) Uebel, Lars GER

Alternates
IN Berrer, Michael GER 261
IN Cakl, Tomas CZE 271
IN Minar, Jan CZE 278
IN Zovko, Lovro CRO 283

[huhtamaki]

I am surprised to see seven top 50 players in the entry list of the Sunrise-Challenger. Isn' t there an ATP rule that top 50 players have no direct entry to challengers and can play them only with wildcards ???

Just checked the ATP rule book but found nothing. . . . .

Anybody remembers the rule ??

[PatatRiek]

Thanks BelgiumDude

[seb]

[quote="huhtamaki"]I am surprised to see seven top 50 players in the entry list of the Sunrise-Challenger. Isn' t there an ATP rule that top 50 players have no direct entry to challengers and can play them only with wildcards ???
quote]

It use to be a maximum of 2 top 50 players can enter the draw directly, the other have to get WCs... Strange

Cut off 82 Unbeatable record for a challenger. Most of ATP Tourneys don't acheive that. Strange... Even if the event takes place between 2 AMS in USA...

[Patrik77]

I am surprised to see seven top 50 players in the entry list of the Sunrise-Challenger. Isn' t there an ATP rule that top 50 players have no direct entry to challengers and can play them only with wildcards ???

Just checked the ATP rule book but found nothing. . . . .

Anybody remembers the rule ??

You´re right Huhtamaki, this case was in discussion during the Luxembourg challenger in the end of last year, a guest in the forum then said "Because of the ATP rules top 50 players can play in challenger tournaments only with wildcard. No direct entry for them."
Apparently that rule doesn´t exist?!

[Patrik77]

Cut off 82 Unbeatable record for a challenger. Most of ATP Tourneys don't acheive that. Strange... Even if the event takes place between 2 AMS in USA...

Probably many of them will withdraw, only those players who lose in the first and second round in Indian Wells can participate in the Sunrise Challenger, but you´re right, pretty impressive line up!

[Guest]

There is a brief article about the tournament here:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/tenn ... rts-tennis

Unfortunately, it doesn't explain the rule, or lack of it.

[seb]

"Because of the ATP rules top 50 players can play in challenger tournaments only with wildcard. No direct entry for them."
Apparently that rule doesn´t exist?!

I got it:

Play-Up Regulation (Challenger Series Tournaments)

1. Players positioned 1-10 in the ATP Singles Entry Ranking are prohibited from
entering, accepting a wild card and/or competing in a Challenger Series
Tournament. Players who would have been, had they and all other players
entered, a Direct Acceptance on the original Acceptance List for a Grand Slam
are prohibited from entering, accepting a wild card and/or competing in a
Challenger Series Tournament in the first week of the Grand Slam
Tournament.

2. Players positioned 11-50 in the ATP Singles Entry Ranking twenty-one (21)
days prior to the first Monday of the Challenger Series Tournament are prohibited
from entering but may receive an ATP-approved wild card in order to
compete in the Challenger Tournament. The Challenger Supervisor will make
wild card determinations consistent with the limitations outlined below.
Players positioned 11-50 are also prohibited from entering, accepting a wild
card or competing in Challenger Series Tournaments that offer less than
$50,000 in on-site prize money.

3. Challenger Series Tournaments scheduled the same week as an ATP
Tournament may offer wild cards to players positioned 11-50 in the ATP
Singles Entry Ranking who have received approval from the ATP on-site
Supervisor according to the following breakdown:
$125,000 in prize money - up to (2) two wild cards
$ 100,000 in prize money - up to (1) one wild card
$75,000 in prize money - up to (1) one wild card
$50,000 in prize money - up to (1) one wild card
$37,500 in prize money - no wild card
$ 25,000 in prize money - no wild card

4. Challenger Series Tournaments not scheduled in the same week as ATP
Tournaments, or during the 2nd week of a Grand Slam, may offer wild cards
to players positioned 11-50 in the ATP Singles Entry Ranking who have
received approval from the ATP on-site Supervisor according to the following
breakdown:
$ 150,000 in prize money - up to (4) four wild cards
$ 125,000 in prize money - up to (4) four wild cards
$100,000 in prize money - up to (3) three wild cards
$75,000 in prize money - up to (2) two wild cards
$ 50,000 in prize money - up to (1) one wild card
$ 37,500 in prize money - no wild card
$ 25,000 in prize money - no wild card

[tennisnut4]

Because of no atp events during week (besides IW) they have waived rules on who can enter.This is known as super-challenger.They can also offer wildcards to any player that loses in first two rounds of IW.I hope this helps in the confusion over the sunrise enteries.

[Andrew_Derer]

Any updates?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Too early for withdrawals .. None anywhere. Jay

[pozaking]

I have an update Salinas WC´s for Julio César Campuzano(ECU) and Lorenzo Cava(ECU). This is official I read it on the official page of the tournament.

[ToniX]

I have an update Salinas WC´s for Julio César Campuzano(ECU) and Lorenzo Cava(ECU). This is official I read it on the official page of the tournament.

si eres mexicano, hablas español...
te pediria si sabes algo de los challengers q se realizaran en mexico, sobre todo el de san luis de potosi....
gracias...

[pozaking]

ToniX si soy mexicano, pero no se nada de ello todavia. ¿De donde eres?

[pozaking]

Hey Jay any updates?

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Faurel out, Terachi in, at Ho Chi Minh .. No other withdrawals at the four challengers. [Hmm, I need to check if the initial list itself was changed for Ho Chi Minh, form what is posted above.. will do soon]

Jay

[BelgiumDude]

Faurel out, Terachi in, at Ho Chi Minh .. No other withdrawals at the four challengers. [Hmm, I need to check if the initial list itself was changed for Ho Chi Minh, form what is posted above.. will do soon]

Jay

I think they forgot 2 SE-spots in their initial list. (The Kyoto-challenger is played 1 week earlier.) That way Terachi and Kimmich would go from the initial list to nr 1 and 2 alternate.
Can you confirm this Jay?

[ToniX]

ToniX si soy mexicano, pero no se nada de ello todavia. ¿De donde eres?

soy chileno
gracias igual, no te preocupes por la lista, ya esta en el foro
pero en todo caso si tienes noticias acerca de los challenger q se realizaran por alla..
chaoo

[R. Jayakrishnan]

BD -- you are absolutely correct. Same list, but they forgot that there were 2 SE spots, so Terachi and Kimmich were out initially. Terachi has now gone in with Faurel having gone out.

Update: Only that one withdrawal at HoChiMinh. None at the other three in the MAIN or ALT lists.

Jay

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[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

No official withdrawals anywhere, except for one shown above for Ho Chi Minh. That will change in the next 3-4 days, but for now that is where it is.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

BD: It seems that they had a correction in the entry list for Salinas also, along with the the Ho Chi Minh correction. Armando, Hugo USA 161 is in the list and so Vemic is now firt out from the initial entry list.

Jay

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[P Money]

Because of no atp events during week (besides IW) they have waived rules on who can enter.This is known as super-challenger.They can also offer wildcards to any player that loses in first two rounds of IW.I hope this helps in the confusion over the sunrise enteries.

Common Sense- This event has gotten permission from the ATP to accept these players without being Wildcards. Reason being why this has been waived, I would ask the ATP. They're a very interesting group ey? =) Whatever the reason, I think it's it's wonderful for the tournament and if players want to compete in an event and they are overqualified, I think it's great for the tournament. Unfortunately the ATP would like to keep these players in their top ATP Tour events since they put some an emphasis on them since those are the events that make the ATP money. Forget about what's best for the players or the individual tournaments.

[Ale]

I am very anxious to be the Suntinel WDs !!!

[Ale]

...Sunrise WDs by the Sun Suntinel

[pozaking]

Jay any update???

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Quick updates:

Sunrise, Sarajevo -- No withdrawals from main or alt.

Ho Chi Minh -- Faurel OUT, Terachi IN

Salinas -- Gallardo-Valles, Massa (and ven Gemerden from ALT) OUT, Vemic and Boeker IN.

That's it so far .. Strange. I expected more withdrawals, definitely from Ho Chi Minh, by now. I guess not.

Jay

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[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates

Sunrise: (No SE spots)
No withdrawals from MAIN or ALT

Salinas: (No SE spots)
OUT: Gallardo-Valles, Massa (and Van Gemerden from ALT)
IN: Vemic, Boeker
NEXT: Levy, M.Daniel, Berrer, Gonzales-King, Mergea, Alves, Dellatorre, S.Gonzalez

Ho Chi Minh City (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Faurel (and Terachi from ALT)
IN: Kimmich
NEXT: Guccione, Sela, Mlynarik, Bruthans, Healey, OpDerHeijde, T.Chen, P.Lorenzi

Serajevo (No SE spots)
No withdrawals from MAIN or ALT.

Jay

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[Ajacied]

Does anybody now whats wrong with van Gemerden??

[nitsansh]

Harel Levy won't play in Salinas.

Dudi Sela is in Kyoto QF. If he wins tomorrow, he is eligible for SE in Ho Chi Minh City.

BTW... do players who qualify for IW have to withdraw from next week challengers (other than Salinas)?

[Ajax]

Are the qualies Ho chi minh availeble??

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates

Sunrise: (No SE spots)
Still NO withdrawals from MAIN or ALT

Salinas: (No SE spots)
OUT: Gallardo-Valles, Massa, Saretta, Silva (and Levy, Van Gemerden, Berrer from ALT)
IN: Vemic, Boeker, M.Daniel, Gonzales-King
NEXT: Mergea, Alves, Dellatorre, S.Gonzalez, Zovko, Rojer, Gamonal, Miranda

Ho Chi Minh City (2 SE spots to CLEARED)
OUT: Faurel, Eschauer, ashanski (and Terachi, Healey, Lorenzi, Mirnegg, Giorgini, Eitzinger from ALT)
IN: Kimmich, Guccione, Sela, Mlynarik, Bruthans
NEXT: OpDerHeijde, T.Chen, Baccanello, Logtens, Klec, Hemmes Mertl, Economidis, Iwami, Cerovic

Serajevo (No SE spots)
OUT: Kubot, Moraru, Rosset (and Piccari, Petzchner, Lorenzi from ALT)
IN: Berrer, Cakl, J.Minar
NEXT: Zovko, Ivanov-Smolenski, Darcis, Wauters, Zelenay, Baccanello, Logtens, Klec, Giorgini, Petrazzuolo

Jay

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[Ajax]

, good jay.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

By the way, the sunrise qualifying sign-in closes on SUNDAY at 9 pm. The other three challengers close today by 9 pm.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here is the qualifying draw at Ho Chi Minh city --

http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/2/qs.pdf

Jay

[Ajax]

Ok. But where can you find the id number of the tournament??
thx.

[Patrik77]

Ok. But where can you find the id number of the tournament??
thx.

In the factsheet under "2005 Calender/Results", it says: 32 DRAW / # 05 2 where 2 is the ID Number

[Ajax]

Ok thanx man.

[PatatRiek]

Updates

Sunrise: (No SE spots)
Still NO withdrawals from MAIN or ALT

no kidding

[Tennis724]

By the way, the sunrise qualifying sign-in closes on SUNDAY at 9 pm. The other three challengers close today by 9 pm.

Jay

First, I am really surprised to come here and see Sunrise list still intact

Then, to learn that we have to wait till SUNDAY to even learn who will be in quallies. The wait's going to be HELL!!

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Updates

Sunrise: (No SE spots)
Still NO withdrawals from MAIN or ALT

Salinas: (No SE spots)
OUT: Armando, R.Delgado, Gallardo-Valles, Massa, Saretta, Silva (and Levy, Van Gemerden, Berrer, Mergea from ALT)
IN: Vemic, Boeker, M.Daniel, Gonzales-King, Alves, Dellatorre
NEXT: S.Gonzalez, Zovko, Rojer, Gamonal, Miranda, F.Costa, B.Echegaray

Ho Chi Minh City (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Faurel, Eschauer, ashanski (and Terachi, Healey, Lorenzi, Mirnegg, Giorgini, Eitzinger from ALT)
IN: Kimmich, Guccione, Sela, Mlynarik, Bruthans
NEXT: OpDerHeijde, T.Chen, Baccanello, Logtens, Klec, Hemmes Mertl, Economidis, Iwami, Cerovic

Serajevo (No SE spots)
OUT: Kubot, Moraru, Navarro, Rosset (and Piccari, Petzchner, Lorenzi from ALT)
IN: Berrer, Cakl, J.Minar, Zovko
NEXT: Ivanov-Smolenski, Darcis, Wauters, Zelenay, Baccanello, Logtens, Klec, Giorgini, Petrazzuolo, Scherrer

Jay

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[PatatRiek]

ZELENAY, Igor looses QF Futures Lille today, match ends at 6pm ... and he's in the qualie draw of the Sarajevo Challenger (sign in 9pm)

pretty amazing do you really have to show up in person at the site to sign in?

btw Jay, thanks for the updates

regards
King PatatRiek

[Nathaliia]

Well I asked about it at Wroclaw challenger and they told me that's true and they couldn't tell me who would play until everyone eager to play had showed up in person.

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

No change from what I posted above ..

So, I suppose that is the official final list at Sarajevo and Salinas from this afternoon .. There may be some last minute withdrawals that only the onsite supervisors might know.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here is the Sarajevo qualifying draw:

http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/1683/qs.pdf

Jay

[PatatRiek]

Well I asked about it at Wroclaw challenger and they told me that's true and they couldn't tell me who would play until everyone eager to play had showed up in person.

thanks

in that case, Zelenay probably has a privat jet

regards
PatatRiek

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

At Sunrise, the first change!

Schalken OUT; J.Nieminen IN

Jay

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[pozaking]

The last WC´s for Salinas are: Ryan Russell(JAM) and Edwin Kerkhoven(NED)

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[PatatRiek]

Update:

At Sunrise, the first change!

Schalken OUT; J.Nieminen IN

according to the list from BD Rochus, Christophe was the first Alternate

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Sorry, forgot to check above .. Good catch!

BD -- It turns out that Koubec was never in the initial list (or they had him by mistake and took him out). So, Rochus was already the last entry and now Nieminen has gone in.

Jay

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[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here is the Salinas qualifying draw (and saturday scores too, already!)

http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/59/qs.pdf

Jay