week |24| Challengers : Braunschweig, Cuenca

[BelgiumDude]

Braunschweig 4 WD's
1 Mayer, Florian GER 54
2 Horna, Luis PER 59
3 Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 63
4 Starace, Potito ITA 64
5 Schuettler, Rainer GER 65
6 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 76
7 Calatrava, Alex ESP 85
8 Behrend, Tomas GER 89
9 Tabara, Michal CZE 92
10 Di Mauro, Alessio ITA 98
11 Hernandez, Oscar ESP 101
12 Montanes, Albert ESP 103
13 Serra, Florent FRA 116
14 Minar, Ivo CZE 117
15 Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 120
16 Aldi, Francesco ITA 126
17 Saretta, Flavio BRA 132
18 Sanchez, David ESP 138
19 Ascione, Thierry FRA 144
20 Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 146
21 Tenconi, Tomas ITA 147
22 Armando, Hugo USA 152
23 (SE) Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS
24 (SE) Greul, Simon GER
25 (WC) Di Pasquale, Arnaud FRA
26 (WC) El Aynaoui, Younnes MOR
27 (WC) Bachmann, Matthias GER
28 (WC) Rieschick, Sebastian GER
29 (Q) Tuksar, Sasa CRO
30 (Q) Serrano, Oscar ESP
31 (Q) Abel, Maximilian GER
32 (Q) Machado, Rui POR

Alternates
OUT Squillari, Franco ARG 170
OUT Corretja, Alex ESP 174
IN Berlocq, Carlos ARG 191
IN Elsner, Daniel GER 194
IN Portas, Albert ESP 213
IN Blanco, Galo ESP 232

Cuenca 1 WD + 2
1 Sabau, Razvan ROM 121
2 Pashanski, Boris SCG 249
3 Russell, Michael USA 263
4 Fruttero, John Paul USA 331
5 Dabul, Brian ARG 335
6 Soares, Bruno BRA 343
7 Redondi, Emiliano ARG 351
8 Cha, Bo Ram KOR @360
9 Melo, Marcelo BRA 378
10 Patriarca, Damian ARG 391
11 Tavares, Leonardo POR 415
12 Engel, Lucas BRA 424
13 Witten, Jesse USA 442
14 Ghem, Andre BRA 448
15 Marcaccio, Gustavo ARG 461
16 Brizzi, Alberto ITA 462 : replaced by (LL) Gonzalez, Santiago MEX
17 Junqueira, Diego ARG 481
18 Davis, Tres USA 491
19 Recouderc, Laurent FRA 500
20 Monroe, Nick USA 509
21 Matsui, Toshihide JPN 512
22 Fabbri, Alejandro ARG 520
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC) Gonzalez, David ECU
26 (WC) Fulford-Jones, Amadeus GBR
27 (WC) Russell, Ryan JAM
28 (WC) Ciarrochi, Federico ARG
29 (Q) Avellan, Carlos ECU
30 (Q) Alvarez, Diego ARG
31 (Q) Fleishman, Zack USA
32 (Q) Washington, Mashiska USA

Alternates
IN Kwon, Chris USA 521
OUT Flock, Alexander GER 522
IN Felder, Marcel URU 534
IN Aranguren, Juan-Martin ARG 544

[Enano]

Wildcard for Alex Corretja

[Guest]

Wildcard for Alex Corretja

Where? in Braunschweig?

[Enano]

Yeah, Braunschweig. Sorry for the confusion

[R. Jayakrishnan]

BD,

ATP corrected the Cuenca Challenger list. Added
Cha, Bo Ram KOR 360

So Kwon was first out.

Now they have already cleared the two SE spots. So Kwon and Flock are IN now!

Jay

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[nitsansh]

How come they have already cleared the SE????

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Corretja OUT from the qualies at Braunshweig. No other changes at either challenger, from above.

Jay

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[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Braunschweig (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Horna (and Corretja from ALT)
IN: Squillari
NEXT: Berlocq, Elsner, Portas, Blanco, Mlynarik, Fraile, Levy, Vassalo-Arguello

Cuenca (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Recouderc (and Flock, Hadad, Colangelo from ALT)
IN: Kwon, Felder, Aranguren
NEXT: Fleishman, Romero, Noviski, Fass, D.Alvarez, Avallen, Gonzalia, Motti

Jay

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[Guest]

Braunschweig
WC Younces El Aynaoui
WC Hicham Arazi
WC Sebastian Rieschick

[Guest]

Is it a joke ?

This is the first time I see only 3 players from TOP 300 in the challenger.
Nobody wants to play there or what happened ? If so , the quality of tournament will be very low. Maybe ATP have rather to cancel this tournament, when they saw that players have no interest.

I suppose the most of higher ranked players will rather try Wimbledon qualifying, where they get more money instead of playing here.

[Guest]

Any Australians in the Alt lists? Thx

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Braunschweig (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Horna, Tabara (and Corretja from ALT)
IN: Squillari, Berlocq
NEXT: Elsner, Portas, Blanco, Mlynarik, Fraile, Levy, Vassalo-Arguello, Chadaj

Cuenca (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Recouderc (and Flock, Hadad, Colangelo from ALT)
IN: Kwon, Felder, Aranguren
NEXT: Fleishman, Romero, Noviski, Fass, D.Alvarez, Avellan, Gonzalia, Motti

Jay

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[nitsansh]

Is it a joke ?

This is the first time I see only 3 players from TOP 300 in the challenger.
Nobody wants to play there or what happened ? If so , the quality of tournament will be very low. Maybe ATP have rather to cancel this tournament, when they saw that players have no interest.

I suppose the most of higher ranked players will rather try Wimbledon qualifying, where they get more money instead of playing here.

That's right... most players between 100 and 250 are in Wimbledon qualies this week... guys between 250 and 300 may hope to get into qualifying as well... probably others are trying to qualify in Nottingham and Rosmalen where the absence of the 100-250 players make it easier... and if they fail they can still enter Wimby qualies...
Add to that the cost of travel to Ecuador for European-based players...

[nitsansh]

I'm surprised that Sabau is going to Cuenca... with his ranking he could enter Braunschweig or be seeded at Wimby qualies...

[Marian]

Sabau likes to travel a lot and I believe he goes to Cuenca to win the tournament and get into the first 100......

[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Braunschweig (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Horna, I.Minar, Tabara (and Squillari, Corretja from ALT)
IN: Berlocq, Elsner, Portas
NEXT: Blanco, Mlynarik, Fraile, Levy, Vassalo-Arguello, Chadaj, Klec, Moyano

Cuenca (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Recouderc (and Flock, Hadad, Colangelo from ALT)
IN: Kwon, Felder, Aranguren
NEXT: Fleishman, Romero, Noviski, Fass, D.Alvarez, Avellan, Gonzalia, Motti

Jay

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[Guest]

Braunschweig WC (update): A.Calleri(ARG), D.Elsner(GER) , Y.El Aynaui(MAR), S.Riesick(GER)
(from turnament website 09.06.05 5.00 pm)

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[R. Jayakrishnan]

Update:

Braunschweig (2 SE spots to be cleared)
OUT: Horna, I.Minar, Tabara, Zabaleta (and Squillari, Corretja from ALT)
IN: Berlocq, Elsner, Portas, Blanco
NEXT: Mlynarik, Fraile, Levy, Vassalo-Arguello, Chadaj, Klec, Moyano

Cuenca (2 SE spots CLEARED)
OUT: Recouderc (and Flock, Hadad, Colangelo from ALT)
IN: Kwon, Felder, Aranguren
NEXT: Fleishman, Romero, Noviski, Fass, D.Alvarez, Avellan, Gonzalia, Motti

I don't think Elsner needs the wildcard, because he is already in the main list directly!

Jay

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[R. Jayakrishnan]

Here are the links for the draws -

Braunschweig Q - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/526/QS.pdf
Cuenca Q - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/3341/QS.pdf

Main draws:

Braunschweig - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/526/MDS.pdf (SUN. time TBA)
Cuenca - http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2005/3341/MDS.pdf (SAT. 1 pm)

The Cuenca list has not moved for a couple of days. That still has some 4-5 more hours to change. The Braunschweig qualies draw will be outr any moment now, I guess.

Jay

[R. Jayakrishnan]

The Braunschweig main draw is still not posted anywhere, but if I am reading the German blurb at the tournament website correctly, Calleri did not pick up on the wildcard and Elsner made direct entry, thus clearing two WCs in the last minute.

It looks like DiPasquale and Matthias Bachmann got the last minute wildcards.

Jay

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[Normanfan222]

How do players go about buying these wildcards? Do they have to be a certain standard or can anyone who has an ipin go and buy one?

Fulford-jones must of bought one, but where would he of bought it from???

[nitsansh]

Wild cards are given at the discretion of the tournament directors. They can give them to anyone they wish. Only exception (I think) is that players who are on entry list in another tournament, or played in qualifying, are not eligible for WC.

[Normanfan222]

Oh i see. That makes sense seeing that neither Ryan Russel or Amedes Fulford-Jones were on the list or any other lists, thanks

[R. Jayakrishnan]

When nitsansh said "in the entry list of another tournament", he meant "wit hin the entry cut" .. Somebody on an ALt list can be given a wildcard at another tournament.

There are also some exceptions, like during the week before grand slam, when the qualifying event can be counted as a different week's event. This week for instance, Mark Philippoussis was inside the cut in the qualifying list for Wimbledon, but he was given a wildcard at the Rosmalen ATP. His name was cut out from the qualies list for wimbledon. I think that was allowed only because Wimbledon qualies can be counted as an event for next week and Rosmalen for this week.

Jay

[nitsansh]

Didn't Philipousis get a WC for Wimbledon MD, so he was out of the qualifying list?

[Pete]

According to ATP website Bo-Ram Cha plays under protected ranking in Cuenca. Are they correct ? And is his PR 360 then ? I haven´t noticed mark @ beside his ranking in the entry list above.

[i]edit BD - yes, I forgot the @ in the list above. Have corrected it now[/i]