Topic: 2009 OFFICIAL FRENCH OPEN THREAD - ATP

[swish]

Looks like Djokovic is causing a typhoon here. Where is he gonna be put? That doesn't matter at all. Look, the same scenario occured last year. Djokovic was on the verge of beating Nadal at Hamburg and on edge of the number two ranking and he almost did it. Everyone said it was close and maybe the next time he'll beat him.
They were drawn together in Paris and we all expected a tough encounter like Hamburg. Instead Nadal won in straight. So lets forget where he's going to drop.

And guys here are underestimating Murray. Mind you there's only about 1000 points difference between Federer and Murray and Murray went out last year in the early stages so there's a lot of points he can collect.

Murray can even think of the number 1 spot. Yeah imagine Nadal loosing first round or more realisic he had to retire. He'll lose 2000 points bringing him to 12000 and also imagine Murray winning the French Open and gains 2000 points adding to his total to get 11000 points. So Murray starts big thinking.
Maybe all what I've written is rubbish. Sorry for taking your time.

It does show the #1 ranking must be guarded constantly or can be lost.

[sid]

It’s safe to say the two best players on clay behind Nadal are Nole and Roger.  Since Nadal and Roger will be on the opposite side of the draw, I don’t think neither of them(and their fans) want Nole to be on their side.

I have a feeling if Nole ends up in Rafa half again, some of his fans will say the organizers favors Roger and want to see him in the final again.  It’s all about money driven b/c Nadal/Roger final attracts the most viewers.

People were previously complaining that Murray was always on Nadal's side.  Regardless of how things pan out, fans of all players will find ample reasons to complain into the void of the internet, because they can. 

On that note, if Rainer Schüttler is on Federer's side I am going to be pissed. 

Hi Cowboy,this year Murray been in Nadals side more than Feds.However the draw goes someone will have to beat Nadal to lift RG,tall order that will be for anyone.Both Murray & Djokovic will want 2 be in Feds side,more chance of beating Roger than Nadal.

[swish]

It’s safe to say the two best players on clay behind Nadal are Nole and Roger.  Since Nadal and Roger will be on the opposite side of the draw, I don’t think neither of them(and their fans) want Nole to be on their side.

I have a feeling if Nole ends up in Rafa half again, some of his fans will say the organizers favors Roger and want to see him in the final again.  It’s all about money driven b/c Nadal/Roger final attracts the most viewers.

People were previously complaining that Murray was always on Nadal's side.  Regardless of how things pan out, fans of all players will find ample reasons to complain into the void of the internet, because they can. 

On that note, if Rainer Schüttler is on Federer's side I am going to be pissed. 

Hi Cowboy,this year Murray been in Nadals side more than Feds.However the draw goes someone will have to beat Nadal to lift RG,tall order that will be for anyone.Both Murray & Djokovic will want 2 be in Feds side,more chance of beating Roger than Nadal.

I would like to see Fed vs Nole. I wouldn't give Nole too much chance though.

[Dallas]

QUALIFYING DRAW IS OUT! 

Fabio Fognini ITA [1] vs. Kyu-Tae Im KOR
Victor Estrella DOM vs. Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ
Giovanni Lapentti ECU vs. Benoît Paire FRA [WC]
Robert Smeets AUS vs. Michail Elgin RUS [23]

Leonardo Mayer ARG [2] vs. George Bastl SUI
Thiemo de Bakker NED vs. Marsel Ilhan TUR
Santiago Gonzalez MEX vs. Stéphane Robert FRA
Brydan Klein AUS vs. Kevin Anderson RSA [31]

Marcos Daniel BRA [3] vs. Prakash Amritraj IND
Ivan Dodig CRO vs. Caio Zampieri BRA
Ryler DeHeart USA vs. Alex Bogdanovic GBR
João Souza BRA vs. Somdev Devvarman IND [26]

Victor Crivoi ROU [4] vs. David Marrero ESP
Rajeev Ram USA vs. Julien Obry FRA [WC]
Ricardo Hocevar BRA vs. Tobias Kamke GER
Andre Miele BRA vs. Lukas Rosol CZE [30]

Guillermo Cañas ARG [5] vs. Paolo Lorenzi ITA
Daniel Muñoz-De la Nava ESP vs. Martin Alund ARG
Joseph Sirianni AUS vs. Martin Fischer AUT
Jonathan Dasnières de Véigy FRA [WC] vs. Ilija Bozoljac SRB [21]

Brian Dabul ARG [6] vs. Pablo Santos ESP
Grega Zemlja SLO vs. Sébastien de Chaunac FRA
Sergei Bubka Jr. UKR vs. Scoville Jenkins USA
Alejandro Falla COL vs. Daniel Brands GER [20]

Frank Dancevic CAN [7] vs. Jean-René Lisnard MON
Luka Gregorc SLO vs. Dick Norman BEL
Boris Pashanski SRB vs. Nicolas Mahut FRA
Niels Desein BEL vs. Lamine Ouahab ALG [24]

Flavio Cipolla ITA [8] vs. Dominik Meffert GER
Luis Horna PER vs. Pere Riba ESP
Julian Reister GER vs. Todd Widom USA
David Guez FRA [WC] vs. Santiago Giraldo COL [19]

Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR [9] vs. Rik de Voest RSA
Stéphane Bohli SUI vs. Ryan Sweeting USA
Alexander Flock GER vs. Adrian Ungur ROU
Peter Luczak AUS vs. Chris Guccione AUS [27]

Simon Greul GER [10] vs. Mathieu Rodrigues FRA [WC]
Dieter Kindlmann GER vs. Michael Lammer SUI
Karol Beck SVK vs. Michel Koning NED
Tomas Tenconi ITA vs. Pablo Cuevas URU [18]

Roko Karanusic CRO [11] vs. Ricardo Mello BRA
Peter Polansky CAN vs. Fernando Vicente ESP
Antonio Veic CRO vs. Marinko Matosevic AUS
Mariano Zabaleta ARG vs. Olivier Rochus BEL [22]

Michael Berrer GER [12] vs. Filippo Volandri ITA
Joshua Goodall GBR vs. Amer Delic USA
Simon Stadler GER vs. Franco Ferreiro BRA
Yuri Schukin KAZ vs. Jesse Huta Galung NED [29]

Thiago Alves BRA [13] vs. Jaroslav Pospisil CZE
Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA vs. Adrian Cruciat ROU
Bruno Echagaray MEX vs. Björn Rehnquist SWE
Axel Michon FRA [WC] vs. Lukasz Kubot POL [25]

Santiago Ventura ESP [14] vs. Michael Russell USA
Marc López ESP vs. Tsung-Hua Yang TPE [WC]
Matthias Bachinger GER vs. Eric Prodon FRA
Brendan Evans USA vs. Mathieu Montcourt FRA [17]

Horacio Zeballos ARG [15] vs. Ruben Bemelmans BEL
Jiri Vanek CZE vs. Jonathan Eysseric FRA [WC]
Dominik Hrbaty SVK vs. Alessio Di Mauro ITA
Riccardo Ghedin ITA vs. Olivier Patience FRA [32]

Rui Machado POR [16] vs. Marco Crugnola ITA
Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen ESP vs. Giancarlo Petrazzuolo ITA
Thierry Ascione FRA [WC] vs. Juan-Pablo Brzezicki ARG
Sebastian Decoud ARG vs. Jesse Levine USA [28]

Some interesting names in the qualifying draw...

[sid]

It’s safe to say the two best players on clay behind Nadal are Nole and Roger.  Since Nadal and Roger will be on the opposite side of the draw, I don’t think neither of them(and their fans) want Nole to be on their side.

I have a feeling if Nole ends up in Rafa half again, some of his fans will say the organizers favors Roger and want to see him in the final again.  It’s all about money driven b/c Nadal/Roger final attracts the most viewers.

People were previously complaining that Murray was always on Nadal's side.  Regardless of how things pan out, fans of all players will find ample reasons to complain into the void of the internet, because they can. 

On that note, if Rainer Schüttler is on Federer's side I am going to be pissed. 

Hi Cowboy,this year Murray been in Nadals side more than Feds.However the draw goes someone will have to beat Nadal to lift RG,tall order that will be for anyone.Both Murray & Djokovic will want 2 be in Feds side,more chance of beating Roger than Nadal.

I would like to see Fed vs Nole. I wouldn't give Nole too much chance though.

I would give Nole a good chance on clay maybe fav @ RG.Grass,then i think Roger is better & becomes fav.Murray might end up in same half yet.If im 2 pick Murray in Rogers half then it wimby of the 2 slams.

[swish]

It’s safe to say the two best players on clay behind Nadal are Nole and Roger.  Since Nadal and Roger will be on the opposite side of the draw, I don’t think neither of them(and their fans) want Nole to be on their side.

I have a feeling if Nole ends up in Rafa half again, some of his fans will say the organizers favors Roger and want to see him in the final again.  It’s all about money driven b/c Nadal/Roger final attracts the most viewers.

People were previously complaining that Murray was always on Nadal's side.  Regardless of how things pan out, fans of all players will find ample reasons to complain into the void of the internet, because they can. 

On that note, if Rainer Schüttler is on Federer's side I am going to be pissed. 

Hi Cowboy,this year Murray been in Nadals side more than Feds.However the draw goes someone will have to beat Nadal to lift RG,tall order that will be for anyone.Both Murray & Djokovic will want 2 be in Feds side,more chance of beating Roger than Nadal.

I would like to see Fed vs Nole. I wouldn't give Nole too much chance though.

I would give Nole a good chance on clay maybe fav @ RG.Grass,then i think Roger is better & becomes fav.Murray might end up in same half yet.If im 2 pick Murray in Rogers half then it wimby of the 2 slams.

A lot of people make it Nadal, Nole then Fed @RG.
I just figured Fed will continue to fine tune his serve and bring the percentage up some.
I can't really argue against Nole, he is really dangerous.
Looks like Nole has been working on his fitness, we'll see in the 5 setters @RG.


At Wimby it's Fed then Nadal. The others are somewhat behind.

[sid]

It’s safe to say the two best players on clay behind Nadal are Nole and Roger.  Since Nadal and Roger will be on the opposite side of the draw, I don’t think neither of them(and their fans) want Nole to be on their side.

I have a feeling if Nole ends up in Rafa half again, some of his fans will say the organizers favors Roger and want to see him in the final again.  It’s all about money driven b/c Nadal/Roger final attracts the most viewers.

People were previously complaining that Murray was always on Nadal's side.  Regardless of how things pan out, fans of all players will find ample reasons to complain into the void of the internet, because they can. 

On that note, if Rainer Schüttler is on Federer's side I am going to be pissed. 

Hi Cowboy,this year Murray been in Nadals side more than Feds.However the draw goes someone will have to beat Nadal to lift RG,tall order that will be for anyone.Both Murray & Djokovic will want 2 be in Feds side,more chance of beating Roger than Nadal.

I would like to see Fed vs Nole. I wouldn't give Nole too much chance though.

I would give Nole a good chance on clay maybe fav @ RG.Grass,then i think Roger is better & becomes fav.Murray might end up in same half yet.If im 2 pick Murray in Rogers half then it wimby of the 2 slams.

A lot of people make it Nadal, Nole then Fed @RG.
I just figured Fed will continue to fine tune his serve and bring the percentage up some.
I can't really argue against Nole, he is really dangerous.
Looks like Nole has been working on his fitness, we'll see in the 5 setters @RG.


At Wimby it's Fed then Nadal. The others are somewhat behind.

Nole been looking good on clay.One thing whoever he plays @ RG,i question if its a very hot day.Nole of late has not liked the heat or played great init.

[conchita]

Qualifying Day 1: Tuesday, 19 May
 Benoit Paire FRA d Giovanni Lapentti ECU 63 64 
 Leonardo Mayer ARG (2) d George Bastl SUI 64 64       
 Paolo Lorenzi ITA d Guillermo Canas ARG (5) 64 76(7)
 Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR (9) d Rik De Voest RSA 46 63 86             
 Eric Prodon FRA d Matthias Bachinger GER 64 60       
 Riccardo Ghedin ITA d Olivier Patience FRA (32) 76(6) 64         
 Fabio Fognini ITA (1) d Kyu tae Im KOR 64 61                     
 Stephane Robert FRA d Santiago Gonzalez MEX 63 60     
 Nicolas Mahut FRA d Boris Pashanski SRB 61 75     
 Olivier Rochus BEL (22) d Mariano Zabaleta ARG 67(3) 64 64     
 Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA d Adrian Cruciat ROU 63 62             
 Thierry Ascione FRA d  Juan Pablo Brzezicki ARG 61 62       
 Victor Crivoi ROU (4) d David Marrero ESP 46 75 63     
 Jean-Rene Lisnard MON d Frank Dancevic CAN (7) 76(2) 64     
 Roko Karanusic CRO (11) d Ricardo Mello BRA 46 62 1210     
 Jiri Vanek CZE d Jonathan Eysseric FRA 62 61       
 Sebastian Decoud ARG  d Jesse Levine USA (28) 16  63 108     
 Kevin Anderson RSA (31) d Brydan Klein AUS 76(7) 60           
 Scoville Jenkins USA d Sergei Bubka UKR 76(5) 46 64         
 Ryan Sweeting USA d Stephane Bohli SUI 64 16 75       
 Peter Polansky CAN d Fernando Vicente ESP 63 62       
 Jesse Huta Galung NED (29) d Yuri Schukin KAZ 64 64       
 Alex Bogdanovic GBR d Ryler Deheart USA 46 75 63 
 Somdev Devvarman IND (26) d Joao Souza BRA 62 26 75     
 Ilia Bozoljac SRB (21) d Jonathan Dasnieres De Veigy FRA 64 62       
 Marinko Matosevic AUS d  Antonio Veic CRO 75 20 ret       
 Horacio Zeballos ARG (15) d  Ruben Bemelmans BEL 76(2) 64       
 Rui Machado POR (16) d Marco Crugnola ITA 26 75 75             
 Michail Elgin RUS (23) d Robert Smeets AUS 67(5) 63 75   
 Alexander Flock GER d  Adrian Ungur ROU 64 57 97     
 Thiemo De Bakker NED d Marsel Ilhan TUR 64 62       
 Pablo Santos ESP d Karol Beck SVK (33) 61 63     
 Amer Delic USA d Joshua Goodall GBR 64 64       
 Santiago Ventura ESP (14) d Michael Russell USA 60 63       
 Lukas Rosol CZE (30) d Andre Miele BRA 36 63 63     
 Joseph Sirianni AUS d Martin Fischer AUT 76(1) 64       
 Dieter Kindlmann GER d Michael Lammer SUI 75 26 63     
 Franco Ferreiro BRA d Simon Stadler GER 64 63       
 Tsung-Hua Yang TPE d Marc Lopez ESP 63 46 64     
 Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ d Victor Estrella DOM 75 64       
 Marcos Daniel BRA (3) d Prakash Amritraj IND 64 63       
 Daniel Brands GER (20) d Alejandro Falla COL 46 75 61     
 Santiago Giraldo COL (19) d David Guez FRA 64 61       
 Simon Greul GER (10) d Mathieu Rodrigues FRA 63 64       
 Filippo Volandri ITA d Michael Berrer GER (12)  76(5) 60       
 Ricardo Hocevar BRA d Tobias Kamke GER 57 76(7) 63     
 Daniel Munoz-De La Nava ESP d Martin Alund ARG 76(6) 75       
 Julian Reister GER d  Todd Widom USA 64 61       
 Michel Koning NED d Diego Alvarez ARG  64 63       
 Thiago Alves BRA (13) d Jaroslav Pospisil CZE 67(2) 61 64     
 Luka Gregorc SLO d  Dick Norman BEL 76(5) 64       
 Flavio Cipolla ITA (8) d Dominik Meffert GER 67(4) 62 86     
 Dominik Hrbaty SVK d Alessio Di Mauro ITA 64 26 62     
 Giancarlo Petrazzuolo ITA d Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen ESP 64 46 64     
 Rajeev Ram USA d Julien Obry FRA 64 62       
 Sebastien De Chaunac FRA d Grega Zemlja SLO 36 75 75     
 Peter Luczak AUS d  Chris Guccione AUS (27) 76(6) 67(6) 64     
 Lukasz Kubot POL (25) d Axel Michon FRA 64 63       
 Mathieu Montcourt FRA (17) d Brendan Evans USA 67(6) 62 62     
 Ivan Dodig CRO d Caio Zampieri BRA 63 62       
 Lamine Ouahab ALG (24) d Niels Desein BEL 76(7) 75       
 Luis Horna PER d Pere Riba-Madrid ESP 76(6) 26 108     
 Pablo Cuevas URU (18) d Tomas Tenconi ITA 76(3) 60       
 Bjorn Rehnquist SWE d Bruno Echagaray MEX 62 75       
 

[Babblelot]

Rajeev Ram USA vs. Julien Obry FRA [WC] Go 'lini! 
Sergei Bubka Jr. UKR vs. Scoville Jenkins USA 
Luka Gregorc SLO vs. Dick Norman BEL He's 38!!!
Mariano Zabaleta ARG vs. Olivier Rochus BEL [22]  omg, horrible draw for both. Go Ollie!!
Michael Berrer GER [12] vs. Filippo Volandri ITA Welcome back, Filippo!
Joshua Goodall GBR vs. Amer Delic USA Go 'lini!

[conchita]

Qualifying Day 2: Wednesday, 20 May

Court 6  
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Thierry Ascione (FRA) v.   Sebastian Decoud (ARG)
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Marinko Matosevic (AUS) v.   Olivier Rochus (BEL)[22]
 
Court 7  
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Thiago Alves (BRA)[13] v.   Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Eric Prodon (FRA) v.   Mathieu Montcourt (FRA)[17]
 
Court 8
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Franco Ferreiro (BRA) v.   Jesse Huta Galung (NED)[29]
 
Court 9    
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Alexander Flock (GER) v.   Peter Luczak (AUS)
 
Court 10 
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Bjorn Rehnquist (SWE) v.   Lukasz Kubot (POL)[25]
 
Court 11   
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Simon Greul (GER)[10] v.   Dieter Kindlmann (GER)
 
Court 12    
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Michel Koning (NED) v.   Pablo Cuevas (URU)[18]
 
Court 13   
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Rui Machado (POR)[16] v.   Giancarlo Petrazzuolo (ITA)
 
Court 14  
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Filippo Volandri (ITA) v.   Amer Delic (USA)
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Roko Karanusic (CRO)[11] v.   Peter Polansky (CAN)

Court 15    
Not Before 14:00
5 Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)[9] v.   Ryan Sweeting (USA)

Court 16
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Horacio Zeballos (ARG)[15] v.   Jiri Vanek (CZE)
 
Court 17  
Not Before 14:00
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Dominik Hrbaty (SVK) v.   Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)
Men's Qual. Singles - 2nd Rnd.
Santiago Ventura (ESP)[14] v.   Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)

[Dallas]

Qualifying Day 1: Tuesday, 19 May
 Paolo Lorenzi ITA d Guillermo Canas ARG (5) 64 76(7)  
Jean-Rene Lisnard MON d Frank Dancevic CAN (7) 76(2) 64     
Jiri Vanek CZE d Jonathan Eysseric FRA 62 61       
 Sebastian Decoud ARG  d Jesse Levine USA (28) 16  63 108     
 Santiago Ventura ESP (14) d Michael Russell USA 60 63       
 Mathieu Montcourt FRA (17) d Brendan Evans USA 67(6) 62 62      

Some interesting results...

[huntingyou]

At Wimby it's Fed then Nadal. The others are somewhat behind.

This is when you get slap in the hand.

First Fed then Nadal? 

Good one!

[Pamqnx]

My coach's brother is through to the 2nd round...good ! (Even though I have never seen him ^^ )

[Dallas]

My coach's brother is through to the 2nd round...good ! (Even though I have never seen him ^^ )

And what's his name?

[Lugburz]

OUT Nalbandian, David ARG 15
OUT Gasquet, Richard FRA 23
OUT Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 27
OUT Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 50
OUT Moya, Carlos ESP 51
OUT Nishikori, Kei JPN 94

IN Darcis, Steve BEL 102
IN Koellerer, Daniel AUT 103
IN Kim, Kevin USA 104
IN Golubev, Andrey KAZ 105
IN Dabul, Brian ARG 106

[OSU Buckeye]

What happened to the Fighting Finn? 

[conchita]

Nieiminen retired in his semifinal match in the challenger of Tunis vs Gaudio.
to undergo surgery for wrist injury and to be sidelined for three months, thus avoiding participation at Roland Garros.
his wife, Anu Nieminen is currently Finland's top ranked badminton women's single player as her husband is in men's tennis.

[ovg]

Qualifying Day 1: Tuesday, 19 May
 Paolo Lorenzi ITA d Guillermo Canas ARG (5) 64 76(7)  
Jean-Rene Lisnard MON d Frank Dancevic CAN (7) 76(2) 64     
Jiri Vanek CZE d Jonathan Eysseric FRA 62 61       
 Sebastian Decoud ARG  d Jesse Levine USA (28) 16  63 108     
 Santiago Ventura ESP (14) d Michael Russell USA 60 63       
 Mathieu Montcourt FRA (17) d Brendan Evans USA 67(6) 62 62      

Some interesting results...

Certainly the Canas and Dancevic results are disappointing to say the least. Good win for Delic.

[OSU Buckeye]

Nieiminen retired in his semifinal match in the challenger of Tunis vs Gaudio.
to undergo surgery for wrist injury and to be sidelined for three months, thus avoiding participation at Roland Garros.
his wife, Anu Nieminen is currently Finland's top ranked badminton women's single player as her husband is in men's tennis.

Wow, that is crazy!  Thanks for the info. 

[Pamqnx]

My coach's brother is through to the 2nd round...good ! (Even though I have never seen him ^^ )

And what's his name?

Stephane ROBERT

He won 6/3 6/0. I don't think he is playing today.