St. Petersburg challenger qualifying August 9-15, 2004 Singles Seeds: (cut: NR) 1. Laurent Recouderc 2. Sunil Kumar Sipaeya 3. Dmitri Vlasov 4. Dmitri Sitak 5. Andrei Cherkasov 6. Alexander Hartman 7. Michael Zverev 8. Michael Ouvarov First Round (1)Laurent Recouderc (FRA) d. (WC)Ilya Drozdov (RUS) 6-2 6-1 Oleg Ogorodov (UZB) d. Stanislav Chirkov (RUS) 6-3 6-2 Denis Istomin (UZB) d. Artur Djabarov (RUS) 6-3 6-2 (7)Michael Zverev (GER) d. Artem Vlasenko (RUS) 6-4 6-1 (2)Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) d. Andrei Somov (RUS) 7-5 6-1 Dmitry Dudko (RUS) d. (WC)Ivan Iliachenko (RUS) w/o Alexei Belov (RUS) d. Alexey Gavrilov (RUS) 6-7(3) 6-4 6-3 (5)Andrei Cherkasov (RUS) d. Alexander Sikanov (RUS) 4-6 6-3 6-1 (3)Dmitri Vlasov (RUS) d. (WC)Georgy Tchoukhleb (RUS) 6-1 6-3 Semen Siarkin (RUS) d. (WC)Gregory Muzil (RUS) 6-4 6-3 (WC)Valery Rudnev (RUS) d. Valentine Dunenkov (RUS) 6-1 6-1 (6)Alexander Hartman (SWE) d. Dmitry Ivanchenko (RUS) 6-0 6-0 (4)Dmitri Sitak (RUS) d. Nikolay Mishin (RUS) 6-4 6-4 Konstantin Kremeshkov (RUS) d. Andrei Volodin (RUS) 6-0 6-0 Pavel Lobanov (RUS) d. (WC)Ilia Chkonia (RUS) 6-1 6-0 Alexandre Koudriavtsev (RUS) d. (8)Michael Ouvarov (GBR) 6-2 6-4 Second Round Oleg Ogorodov (UZB) d. (1)Laurent Recouderc (FRA) 0-6 7-5 6-1 Denis Istomin (UZB) d. (7)Michael Zverev (GER) 6-4 7-6(4) (2)Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) d. Dmitry Dudko (RUS) 6-0 6-0 (5)Andrei Cherkasov (RUS) d. Alexei Belov (RUS) 4-6 6-1 6-3 (3)Dmitri Vlasov (RUS) d. Semen Siarkin (RUS) 6-0 6-2 (6)Alexander Hartman (SWE) d. (WC)Valery Rudnev (RUS) 6-3 6-1 (4)Dmitri Sitak (RUS) d. Konstantin Kremeshkov (RUS) 0-6 7-6(2) 6-3 Pavel Lobanov (RUS) d. Alexandre Koudriavtsev (RUS) 6-2 6-1 Qualifying Round Denis Istomin (UZB) d. Oleg Ogorodov (UZB) 4-6 7-6(4) 6-1 (2)Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) d. (5)Andrei Cherkasov (RUS) 7-6(5) 6-3 (3)Dmitri Vlasov (RUS) d. (6)Alexander Hartman (SWE) 7-6(3) 6-3 (4)Dmitri Sitak (RUS) d. Pavel Lobanov (RUS) 6-3 6-2