week |22| Challengers : Furth, Prost., Sas., Surbiton, Yuba

[BelgiumDude]

Furth 4 WD's + 2
1 Rochus, Christophe BEL 68
2 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 73
3 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 87
4 Behrend, Tomas GER 92
5 Vanek, Jiri CZE 95
6 Phau, Bjorn GER 102
7 Ascione, Thierry FRA 122
8 Djokovic, Novak SCG 142
9 Tenconi, Tomas ITA 144
10 Ryderstedt, Michael SWE 148
11 Armando, Hugo USA 152
12 Garcia, Adrian CHI 153
13 Vicente, Fernando ESP 157
14 Galvani, Stefano ITA @166
15 Karanusic, Roko CRO 169
16 Peya, Alexander AUT 176
17 Portas, Albert ESP 182
18 Silva, Julio BRA 183
19 Labadze, Irakli GEO 184
20 Lopez, Marc ESP 185
21 Summerer, Tobias GER 188
22 Elsner, Daniel GER 191
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC) Zimmerman, Marcel GER
26 (WC) Zietsman, Jean GER
27 (WC) Rieschick, Sebastian GER
28 (WC) Steinberger, Peter GER
29 (Q) Delgado, Ramon PAR
30 (Q) Kralert, Petr CZE
31 (Q) Hadad, Amir ISR
32 (Q) Di Pasquale, Arnaud FRA

Alternates
OUT De Voest, Rik RSA 197
IN Schukin, Yuri RUS 200
OUT Tuksar, Sasa CRO 204
OUT Ferreiro, Franco BRA 207
OUT Koellerer, Daniel AUT 216
IN Berrer, Michael GER 228
IN Darcis, Steve BEL 234
OUT Alves, Thiago BRA 238
OUT Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 239
IN Blanco, Galo ESP 240
IN Andersen, Jan Frode NOR 241
IN Masson, Jeroen BEL 242

Prostejov 7 WD's + 1
1 Zib, Tomas CZE 61
2 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 65
3 Ventura, Santiago ESP 72
4 Koubek, Stefan AUT 75
5 Hernych, Jan CZE 76
6 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 80
7 Calatrava, Alex ESP 83
8 Haehnel, Jerome FRA 88 : replaced by (LL) Minar, Jan CZE
9 Mantilla, Felix ESP 89
10 Tabara, Michal CZE 97
11 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 100
12 Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 101 : replaced by (LL) Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR
13 Montanes, Albert ESP 104
14 Minar, Ivo CZE 106
15 Calleri, Agustin ARG 107
16 Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 108
17 Simon, Gilles FRA 114
18 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 115
19 Lapentti, Giovanni ECU 118
20 Saretta, Flavio BRA 119
21 Serra, Florent FRA 120
22 Falla, Alejandro COL @124
23 (SE) Dell'Acqua, Massimo ITA
24 (SE)
25 (WC) Hrbaty, Dominik SVK
26 (WC) Beck, Karol SVK
27 (WC) Berdych, Tomas CZE
28 (WC) Novak, Jiri CZE
29 (Q) Zelenay, Igor SVK
30 (Q) Marcaccio, Gustavo ARG
31 (Q) Svarc, Ladislav SVK
32 (Q) Pospisil, Jaroslav CZE

Alternates
IN Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 128
OUT Sanchez, David ESP 135
IN Luczak, Peter AUS 141
IN Vik, Robin CZE 149
IN Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 154
IN Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 159
OUT Corretja, Alex ESP 167
OUT De Voest, Rik RSA 197
IN Tuksar, Sasa CRO 204
IN Ferreiro, Franco BRA 207
IN Koellerer, Daniel AUT 216

Sassuolo 3 WD's + 2
1 Starace, Potito ITA 60 : replaced by (LL) Petrazzuolo, Giancarlo ITA
2 Burgsmuller, Lars GER 91
3 Aldi, Francesco ITA 137
4 Sabau, Razvan ROM 147
5 Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 165
6 Guzman, Juan-Pablo ARG 175
7 Luzzi, Federico ITA 181
8 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 187
9 Snobel, Pavel CZE 192
10 Ionita, Victor ROM 193
11 Marach, Oliver AUT 195
12 Daniel, Marcos BRA 199
13 Pless, Kristian DEN 202
14 Greul, Simon GER 203
15 Kubot, Lukasz POL 214
16 Villagran, Cristian ARG 224
17 Capdeville, Paul CHI 229
18 Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 230
19 Cakl, Tomas CZE 232
20 Azzaro, Leonardo ITA 233
21 Mazarakis, Vasilis GRE 236
22 Russell, Michael USA 237
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC) Galimberti, Giorgio ITA
26 (WC) De Sanctis, Marco ITA
27 (WC) Docche, Fabio ITA
28 (WC) Figliomeni, Filippo ITA
29 (Q) Cipolla, Flavio ITA
30 (Q) Lammer, Michael SUI
31 (Q) Fogues, Francisco ESP
32 (Q) Fraile, Gorka ESP

Alternates
IN Alves, Thiago BRA 238
OUT Galimberti, Giorgio ITA 239
OUT Blanco, Galo ESP 240
OUT Andersen, Jan Frode NOR 241
OUT Masson, Jeroen BEL 242
OUT Mergea, Florin ROM 243
OUT Gonzalez King, Ignacio ARG 244
OUT Golmard, Jerome FRA 251
IN Stoppini, Andrea ITA 252
OUT Svarc, Ladislav SVK 253
OUT Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 255
IN Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 256
IN Roitman, Sergio ARG 257
IN Todero, Nicolas ARG 258

Surbiton 7 WD's + 2
1 Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 57
2 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 77
3 Hanescu, Victor ROM 79
4 Schalken, Sjeng NED 93
5 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 94
6 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 98
7 Morrison, Jeff USA 111
8 Dupuis, Antony FRA 112
9 Carraz, Gregory FRA 117
10 Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 121
11 Moodie, Wesley RSA 127
12 Bracciali, Daniele ITA 130
13 Norman, Dick BEL 132
14 Mertinak, Michal SVK 133
15 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 136 : replaced by (LL) Mahut, Nicolas FRA
16 Waske, Alexander GER 139
17 Heuberger, Ivo SUI 140
18 Bastl, George SUI 143
19 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 145
20 Dancevic, Frank CAN 146
21 Delic, Amer USA 150
22 Okun, Noam ISR 151
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC) Rusedski, Greg GBR
26 (WC) Delgado, Jamie GBR
27 (WC) Marray, Jonathan GBR
28 (WC) Mackin, Alan GBR
29 (Q) Motomura, Gouich JPN
30 (Q) Mankad, Harsh IND
31 (Q) Niemeyer, Frederic CAN
32 (Q) Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq PAK

Alternates
OUT Bogomolov Jr., Alex USA 154
IN Sa, Andre BRA 162
OUT Blake, James USA 164
IN Suzuki, Takao JPN 166
IN Elseneer, Gilles BEL 168
IN Baker, Brian USA 179
IN Philippoussis, Mark AUS 186 : replaced by (LL) Rettenmaier, Travis USA
IN Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 189
IN Weiner, Glenn USA 190
IN De Voest, Rik RSA 197
OUT Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 206
IN Parmar, Arvind GBR 208

Yuba City 4 WD's + 2
1 Gimelstob, Justin USA 116
2 Goldstein, Paul USA 131
3 Hippensteel, KJ USA 170
4 Vahaly, Brian USA 174
5 Reynolds, Bobby USA 177
6 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 178
7 Salzenstein, Jeff USA 194
8 Kendrick, Robert USA 198
9 Udomchoke, Danai THA 225
10 Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE @234
11 Mamiit, Cecil USA 235
12 Vemic, Dusan SCG 254
13 Miranda, Ivan PER 276
14 Amritraj, Prakash IND 292
15 Hartfield, Diego ARG 298
16 Gonzalez, Santiago MEX 306
17 Adaktusson, Jacob SWE 310
18 Widom, Todd USA 313
19 Ram, Rajeev USA 319
20 Fruttero, John Paul USA 321
21 Vlaski, Aleksandar SCG 325
22 Dabul, Brian ARG 333
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC) Warburg, Sam USA
26 (WC) Lipsky, Scott USA
27 (WC) Morton, Thomas USA
28 (WC) Joseph, Lesley USA
29 (Q) Anderson, Roger RSA
30 (Q) Newport, Ryan USA
31 (Q) De Armas, Jose VEN
32 (Q) Felder, Marcel URU

Alternates
IN Echagaray, Bruno MEX 338
IN Odesnik, Wayne USA 340
IN Cerovic, Ivan CRO 345
IN Bloomfield, Richard GBR 376
IN Soares, Bruno BRA 380
OUT Gremelmayr, Denis GER 384
IN Taino, Eric USA 388

[NukeD]

Thanks for the lists with alternates

[Fee]

Yes, thank you very much. I am relieved to see Alex entered into Surbiton for that week.

[PatatRiek]

Thanks BelgiumDude

regards
PatatRiek

[Tennis724]

I see that Alex is on the alt. list for both Prostejov & Surbiton. Because these are alternate lists that means that he can choose either tourney without some sort of penalty, correct?

I would hope that he would choose Prostejov but it looks like he make get into Surbiton first.

[NukeD]

Yes, thank you very much. I am relieved to see Alex entered into Surbiton for that week.

Fiona, i have heard you will be attending surbiton?

[Fee]

Not unless someone gives me a free plane ticket . I'll probably go up to Yuba City for a day or two, maybe more.

[NukeD]

You can have a free plane ticket, and a free stay at my home?

[NukeD]

How likely do you think it is, that sa or suzuki will get into the main draw?

[PatatRiek]

I see that Alex is on the alt. list for both Prostejov & Surbiton. Because these are alternate lists that means that he can choose either tourney without some sort of penalty, correct?

that is correct Tennis724

regards
PatatRiek

[Fee]

You can have a free plane ticket, and a free stay at my home?

Why? What do you need?

To be in England during grass season would be a dream for me - Surbiton, Queens, Notts, Wimbledon, maybe even the Liverpool exo. I would do them if I had the chance. Perhaps next year....

[NukeD]

Please mix in abit of wta? eastbourne or maybe birmingham? maybe wimbledon qualies?

[NukeD]

A dream for me is the claycourt season! grass is my least favourite surface, i only attend because its the only surface uk has i wish we had some indoor, hard or clay but its all damn grass

[Tennis724]

A dream for me is the claycourt season!

Right there with you!! An entire year of clay court tournaments would be my dream . I'm dreading the 5 weeks of hell that is grasscourt tournaments. At least there are a few Challengers on clay to follow . If Alex does play Surbiton, I will be forced to make that my #1 tourney to follow that week

[Tennis724]

that is correct Tennis724

regards
PatatRiek

Thank you

[jirobkk]

Thanks BD as usual.

Could you please take a look at Sonchat Ratiwatana and Sanchai Ratiwatana of Thailand if their name are appearing in Altrenate Lists in FURTH or not.

Many thanks in advance.

Jiro

[NukeD]

A dream for me is the claycourt season!

Right there with you!! An entire year of clay court tournaments would be my dream . I'm dreading the 5 weeks of hell that is grasscourt tournaments. At least there are a few Challengers on clay to follow . If Alex does play Surbiton, I will be forced to make that my #1 tourney to follow that week

Good man! you can always tell who has clay in their veins
I think there is a bournemout event on clay here, but its like a 10k event lol (future). Monfils won it in 2004 i think. But not really what i would say as a real claycourt event, like we need here!

[NukeD]

PS does anyone know any players who have said (or you know) will play surbiton qualies?

[ToniX]

Hey BD any chilean in the alternate lists ???

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Hey Tonix -- do you have like an automated program that comes in every week and asks this question to BD? ..

But really, as you know by now, there is no point in knowing if anybody is in any ALT lists unless they are close enough to the cut, ie, in the list that BD posts. Otherwise, there is really not much chance at all that the player would be going to the event at all.

Jay

[jirobkk]

Hey Tonix -- do you have like an automated program that comes in every week and asks this question to BD? ..

But really, as you know by now, there is no point in knowing if anybody is in any ALT lists unless they are close enough to the cut, ie, in the list that BD posts. Otherwise, there is really not much chance at all that the player would be going to the event at all.

Jay

Hello Jay,
Thanks for the explanation.
Please let me know how can I check the players who will play only double but their names are not appearing in ALT Lists (posting by BD) because their low ranking in single.

I made a question asking BD to check the players from Thailand ( Sonchat and Sanchai Ratiwatana ) who are ranked about 1000 on ATP singles but they are ranked 133 in doubles.

Jiro

[ToniX]

Hey Tonix -- do you have like an automated program that comes in every week and asks this question to BD? ..

But really, as you know by now, there is no point in knowing if anybody is in any ALT lists unless they are close enough to the cut, ie, in the list that BD posts. Otherwise, there is really not much chance at all that the player would be going to the event at all.

Jay

YES... AND.... WHATS UP.....??'
JAJAJJAJAJA

[D]

I'm sure this is a question that gets asked all the time and I apologize in advance, but if SE spots are not needed and they are cleared, do people just get in off the alt list?

Thank you

[PatatRiek]

I'm sure this is a question that gets asked all the time and I apologize in advance, but if SE spots are not needed and they are cleared, do people just get in off the alt list?

yep

regards
PatatRiek

[NukeD]

Hopefully this happens for surbiton, there are quite a few alternates i would like to see (although, if they play qualies thats even better!).

Anyone going to surbiton?

[D]

yep

regards
PatatRiek

Thank youuuuu!

[BelgiumDude]

ATP forgot Ionita, Victor ROM 193 in Sassuolo.
Alves is now OUT and ALT 1. (He's also ALT8 in Fürth now)

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Early update:

No change at Prostejov, Furth, Surbiton.

Yuba City: Hippensteel OUT, B.Echegaray IN.

Sassuolo: M.Russel OUT. Alves IN.

Jay

Check

[NukeD]

Thanks for that update, glad to see no updates for surbiton

[PatatRiek]

thanks for the updates Jay

just found a cool passage about Surbiton in a Dick Norman interview :

Dick Norman outlined yesterday his anathema of Surbiton, where he is entered for the tournament next week. "I don't like to go there," the 34-year-old Belgian said, "First of all, a lot of top-100 players are there. Second, the hotel is bad; the [racket] stringer is bad; the meal is bad. Try it yourself if you don't believe me."

Norman, best remembered for defeating Stefan Edberg en route to the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1995, was addressing the Belgian media after defeating Jean-René Lisnard, of France, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4, as a lucky loser. If his luck runs out this week, he can expect a warm welcome in Surrey.

regards
PatatRiek

[NukeD]

We are glad the big dick will hopefully not be at surbiton! dont bother playing if its that bad

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Yeah, its is like the Bronx challenger just before the US Open. Many players are left with no option but to go there, and they all complain ... I didn't know if Surbiton is hated as universally as Bronx is.

Interesting comments from Dick Norman. Mentioning even the racquet stringer is funny! .. And the food - well, the British are not known for any excellence beyond fish and chips on that department anyway, no? ....

Jay

PS: My being an Indian, I am allowed to poke some fun at the British

[Fee]

My mother was English and she was a wicked good cook. Her worst crime was overspicing things, especially that yellow curry powder. Took me years to get over that and develop my own appreciation for real Indian food. The comments about English food have always perplexed me growing up because I never had a problem with it, especially the things that the Brits do right like Shepherd's Pie, etc. I'm getting hungry just thinking about a traditional Sunday roast beef with potatoes, veggies, yorkshire pudding, gravy... or even a full English breakfast with bacon, sausages, eggs, toast and tea. The real problem with English food is that it will kill you by the time you are 50 if you aren't careful!

[NukeD]

The so called english foods that all non brits complain about is the crap that english people dont actually eat! It depends how you eat i suppose, i am english and i wont eat crap like fish and chips, shephards pie etc (i like to eat alot of fish and vegetables ).

Does anyone know when the qualies draw/entry list will come out?

[Fee]

Does anyone know when the qualies draw/entry list will come out?

Well, most of the Challengers have Friday night at 9 pm sign ins for qualies, so it would be after that. If Surbiton isn't starting the men's qualies until Sunday, they might have a Saturday evening sign-in. Look at the fact sheet I guess.

[PatatRiek]

Does anyone know when the qualies draw/entry list will come out?

Well, most of the Challengers have Friday night at 9 pm sign ins for qualies, so it would be after that. If Surbiton isn't starting the men's qualies until Sunday, they might have a Saturday evening sign-in. Look at the fact sheet I guess.

Surbiton is a saturday avo sign in ; main draw starts on tuesdag

regards
PatatRiek

PS : FYI, all the challengers this week have a saturday avo qualie sign in

[NukeD]

Cheers

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

No change at Prostejov and Surbiton.

Furth: C.Rochus OUT, DeVoest IN.
Yuba City: Hippensteel OUT, B.Echegaray IN.
Sassuolo: M.Russel OUT, Alves IN.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update: (No SE spots released yet anywhere)

Prostejov: Hernych, Ventura OUT. Ramirez-Hidalgo, Sanchez IN.
Furth: Djokovic, C.Rochus OUT. DeVoest, Schukin IN.
Surbiton: Tursunov OUT. Bogomolov IN.
Yuba City: Hippensteel OUT, B.Echegaray IN.
Sassuolo: M.Russel OUT, Alves IN.

Jay

Check

[Tennis724]

Thanks, Jay. I was just going to ask.

[NukeD]

There only a few players in the maindraw currently at rg:
hanescu
lee
waske

so these 3 may withdraw if they dont lose in the next round or so (hanescu and lee in singles) and waske in doubles.

[Andrew_Derer]

Could anyone tell me if there are any Australians in the Alt lists for any of these draws thanks

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update: (No SE spots released yet anywhere)

Prostejov: Hernych, Ventura OUT. Ramirez-Hidalgo, Sanchez IN.
Furth: Djokovic, C.Rochus OUT. DeVoest, Schukin IN.
Surbiton: Tursunov OUT. Bogomolov IN.
Sassuolo: M.Russel OUT, Alves IN.

Yuba City:
OUT: Hippensteel, Salzenstein, Widom (and Sorensen, Gruber, Hasek, Oudouy from ALT)
IN: B.Echegaray, Odesnik, Cerovic
NEXT: Bloomfield, Soares, Gremelmayr, Taino, Joseph, R.Anderson, Lipsky, DeArmas, Matsui

Jay

Check

[Tennis724]

OK, I'm sure this situation happened before but I didn't pay attention to the reply, I'm sure.

It looks like Alex has yet to pull his name from the Alt. list for Prostejov. What's going to happen if two more people pull and he's in the MD there as well? Will he get penalized by one tourney for choosing the other?

[PatatRiek]

It looks like Alex has yet to pull his name from the Alt. list for Prostejov. What's going to happen if two more people pull and he's in the MD there as well? Will he get penalized by one tourney for choosing the other?

Alex can decide where he wants to play, he'll probably go for the tournament with the highest price money. watch the updates provided by Jay, sooner or later Alex will disappear from a list.

no penalty. being on the alternates list doens't mean anything, only when you're on the original entry list (as provided by BD) you will get a penalty for not showing up.

regards
PatatRiek

[Tennis724]

no penalty. being on the alternates list doens't mean anything, only when you're on the original entry list (as provided by BD) you will get a penalty for not showing up.

regards
PatatRiek

Thank You. That's what I needed to know

[PatatRiek]

We are glad the big dick will hopefully not be at surbiton! dont bother playing if its that bad

no worries mate, he's not going to come... i'm surprised actually that Jay hasn't comfirmed his withdrawal yet

regards,
PatatRiek

[NukeD]

Thanks for that news

Any idea what time the qualy draw would most likely be out, i want to see the wta list today but dont know when it will come out.

[PatatRiek]

Any idea what time the qualy draw would most likely be out.

the sign in closes at 9pm on saturday, the draw should be available shorty after that

regards
PatatRiek

[NukeD]

hmmm i doubt if the site/atp site will put it up that first, i guess ill have to wait till i get to the event to see whos in