Topic: 2009 OFFICIAL FRENCH OPEN THREAD - ATP

[kickserve]

who's getting isner's wild card, you guys weren't too happy with him anyway

I think it's too late to re-assign wildcards: most of the candidates who didn't make it will already be in the Qualies draw. Maybe a Lucky Loser?

[conchita]

Qualifying Day 3: Thursday, 21 May

Kevin Anderson RSA (31) d Stephane Robert FRA  36 76(9) 97     
Sebastien De Chaunac FRA d Pablo Santos ESP 67(1) 62 62     
Benoit Paire FRA d Michail Elgin RUS (23) 64 67(4) 75     
Lamine Ouahab ALG (24) d Nicolas Mahut FRA 64  76(3)       
Fabio Fognini ITA (1) d Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ 63 76(4)       
Daniel Brands GER (20) d Scoville Jenkins USA 75 16 63     
Marcos Daniel BRA (3) d Ivan Dodig CRO 75 64       
Lukas Rosol CZE (30) d Ricardo Hocevar BRA 67(6) 62 61     
Paolo Lorenzi ITA d Daniel Munoz-De La Nava ESP 16 63 63     
Ilia Bozoljac SRB (21) d Joseph Sirianni AUS 67(5) 63 64     
Santiago Giraldo COL (19) d Julian Reister GER 76(4) 67(5) 62     
Somdev Devvarman IND (26) d Alex Bogdanovic GBR 62  67(3) 64     
Victor Crivoi ROU (4) d Rajeev Ram USA 64 64       
Flavio Cipolla ITA (8) d Luis Horna PER 64  64       
Leonardo Mayer ARG (2) d Thiemo De Bakker NED 46 61 86     
Jean-Rene Lisnard MON d  Luka Gregorc SLO 62 46 97     

[conchita]

Qualifying Day 4: Friday, 22 May, Final Round!!!

Court 6 11:00 Start
Katie O'brien (GBR)[8] v.   Arantxa Rus (NED)
Rui Machado (POR)[16] v.   Thierry Ascione (FRA)
Sebastien De Chaunac (FRA) v.   Daniel Brands (GER)[20]
Fabio Fognini (ITA)[1] v.   Benoit Paire (FRA)
 
Court 7 11:00 Start   
Santiago Ventura (ESP)[14] v.   Mathieu Montcourt (FRA)[17]
Corinna Dentoni (ITA) v.   Youlia Fedossova (FRA)
Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)[1] v.   Elena Baltacha (GBR)[15]
Leonardo Mayer (ARG)[2] v.   Kevin Anderson (RSA)[31]

Court 8 11:00 Start   
Simon Greul (GER)[10] v.   Pablo Cuevas (URU)[18]
Jiri Vanek (CZE) v.   Dominik Hrbaty (SVK)
Jean-Rene Lisnard (MON) v.   Lamine Ouahab (ALG)[24]
Kathrin Woerle (GER) v.   Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
 
Court 10 11:00 Start   
Amer Delic (USA) v.   Franco Ferreiro (BRA)
Lauren Albanese (USA) v.   Carly Gullickson (USA)[22]
Marcos Daniel (BRA)[3] v.   Somdev Devvarman (IND)[26]
Nina Bratchikova (RUS) v.   Anastasija Sevastova (LAT)[16]
 
Court 14 11:00 Start   
Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)[9] v.   Alexander Flock (GER)
Flavio Cipolla (ITA)[8] v.   Santiago Giraldo (COL)[19]
Carmen Klaschka (GER) v.   Zuzana Ondraskova (CZE)
Victor Crivoi (ROU)[4] v.   Lukas Rosol (CZE)[30]
 
Court 16 11:00 Start   
Peter Polansky (CAN) v.   Olivier Rochus (BEL)[22]
Petra Martic (CRO) v.   Evgeniya Rodina (RUS)[21]
Irina Begu (ROU) v.   Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS)
Polona Hercog (SLO) v.   Mariana Duque Marino (COL)[13]

Court 17 11:00 Start    
Ekaterina Ivanova (RUS) v.   Michelle Larcher De Brito (POR)[20]
Thiago Alves (BRA)[13] v.   Lukasz Kubot (POL)[25]
Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) v.   Ilia Bozoljac (SRB)[21]
Tatjana Malek (GER)[10] v.   Yvonne Meusburger (AUT)[18]

[Emma]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

[Monky]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

she wants him in Roger's half and not Nadal's.

[Dallas]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

she wants him in Roger's half and not Nadal's.

Well I don't care who is in Roger's half as long as he gets to the final again.  You have to beat whoever is on your draw...

[tennis08]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

she wants him in Roger's half and not Nadal's.

Well I don't care who is in Roger's half as long as he gets to the final again.  You have to beat whoever is on your draw...

LOL....Nadal is a heavy favorite at RG.  Falcon is insecure about Nole playing Rafa.

[Emma]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

she wants him in Roger's half and not Nadal's.

Monky!

[Emma]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

she wants him in Roger's half and not Nadal's.

Well I don't care who is in Roger's half as long as he gets to the final again.  You have to beat whoever is on your draw...

LOL....Nadal is a heavy favorite at RG.  Falcon is insecure about Nole playing Rafa.

Not really.  She actually wants a Nole vs Nadal final.

[falcon]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

she wants him in Roger's half and not Nadal's.

Well I don't care who is in Roger's half as long as he gets to the final again.  You have to beat whoever is on your draw...

LOL....Nadal is a heavy favorite at RG.  Falcon is insecure about Nole playing Rafa.

  rafa has never been stretched to 5 sets on RG...I want it to be a Nole-Rafa final so that we can have a better final than the damp squib we had last year. 

[conchita]

we all know Rafa and Nole will be in the same half of the draw. it's obious, mark my words when the draw will be out in less than 9 hours.
KS, it's a conpiracy theory! 

[BGT]

You know what's going to look really funny and fishy? If Nole is in Rafa's half at the FO but then Murray is in Rafa's half at Wimbledon...  Since Nole is considered a bigger threat than Murray at the FO but for some reason Murray is considered the bigger threat at Wimbledon. People are going to start thinking tennis is as corrupt as football.....

Murray is not a bigger thread at W than Nole and that's not me being biased against him for a change. Murray's never won a grass title, never made a final, never even made a semi. Regardless of this being his home slam, I rate Djokovic's chances above Murray's.

[Monky]

I do pray and hope that Nole is in the other half 

I heard that Ancic and Isner are out...

And what other half would that be?

she wants him in Roger's half and not Nadal's.

Monky!

hehe you mean you were joking

[Monky]

You know what's going to look really funny and fishy? If Nole is in Rafa's half at the FO but then Murray is in Rafa's half at Wimbledon...  Since Nole is considered a bigger threat than Murray at the FO but for some reason Murray is considered the bigger threat at Wimbledon. People are going to start thinking tennis is as corrupt as football.....

Murray is not a bigger thread at W than Nole and that's not me being biased against him for a change. Murray's never won a grass title, never made a final, never even made a semi. Regardless of this being his home slam, I rate Djokovic's chances above Murray's.

yeah Murray might have the crowd support but that might be a bunch of extra pressure when like you said, he hasn't won titles on grass yet. I think both are very close though when it comes to grass and it would be very interesting if they were to meet at a tourney before Wimby to put most speculation to rest.

[tain316]

You know what's going to look really funny and fishy? If Nole is in Rafa's half at the FO but then Murray is in Rafa's half at Wimbledon...  Since Nole is considered a bigger threat than Murray at the FO but for some reason Murray is considered the bigger threat at Wimbledon. People are going to start thinking tennis is as corrupt as football.....

Murray is not a bigger thread at W than Nole and that's not me being biased against him for a change. Murray's never won a grass title, never made a final, never even made a semi. Regardless of this being his home slam, I rate Djokovic's chances above Murray's.

yeah Murray might have the crowd support but that might be a bunch of extra pressure when like you said, he hasn't won titles on grass yet. I think both are very close though when it comes to grass and it would be very interesting if they were to meet at a tourney before Wimby to put most speculation to rest.

They won't meet at a grass tournament before Wimbledon (at least this year) since Djoker is scheduled to play in Halle with Federer and Murray is scheduled for Queens Club as usual.

[Monky]

You know what's going to look really funny and fishy? If Nole is in Rafa's half at the FO but then Murray is in Rafa's half at Wimbledon...  Since Nole is considered a bigger threat than Murray at the FO but for some reason Murray is considered the bigger threat at Wimbledon. People are going to start thinking tennis is as corrupt as football.....

Murray is not a bigger thread at W than Nole and that's not me being biased against him for a change. Murray's never won a grass title, never made a final, never even made a semi. Regardless of this being his home slam, I rate Djokovic's chances above Murray's.

yeah Murray might have the crowd support but that might be a bunch of extra pressure when like you said, he hasn't won titles on grass yet. I think both are very close though when it comes to grass and it would be very interesting if they were to meet at a tourney before Wimby to put most speculation to rest.

They won't meet at a grass tournament before Wimbledon (at least this year) since Djoker is scheduled to play in Halle with Federer and Murray is scheduled for Queens Club as usual.

well I hope they don't meet in Wimby

[huntingyou]

When do we get the draw?

[Alex]

When do we get the draw?

tomorrow around 12 (European time)

[TennisVeritas]

When do we get the draw?

My friend,

It should be here:

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/draws/ms/index.html

from 11 AM Paris time (GMT +1, I guess ) 

[huntingyou]

When do we get the draw?

My friend,

It should be here:

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/draws/ms/index.html

from 11 AM Paris time (GMT +1, I guess ) 

thanks a lot.

Three more hours I guess!