Mons Challenger

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Mons Challenger

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Just to clarify - this challenger is in week 40 (current week is 37)

Sheddie · administrator

Entry list: [In addition to this I hear that Olivier Rochus has got one of the wildcards]

1 Rochus, Christophe BEL 64
2 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 81
3 Sluiter, Raemon NED 85
4 Tipsarevic, Janko SCG 93
5 Vanek, Jiri CZE 95
6 Muller, Gilles LUX 99
7 Korolev, Evgeny RUS 100
8 Norman, Dick BEL 103
9 Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 109
10 Roitman, Sergio ARG 110
11 Falla, Alejandro COL 115
12 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 117
13 Bolelli, Simone ITA 126
14 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 128
15 Kubot, Lukasz POL 129
16 Bozoljac, Ilia SCG 132
17 Minar, Ivo CZE 134
18 Zib, Tomas CZE 140
19 Vinciguerra, Andreas SWE 142
20 Peya, Alexander AUT 143
21 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 144
22 Cakl, Tomas CZE 149
23 (SE)
24 (SE)
25 (WC)
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)
29 (Q)
30 (Q)
31 (Q)
32 (Q)

Alternates
1. Haehnel, Jerome FRA 155
2. Behrend, Tomas GER 165
3. Llodra, Michael FRA 169
4. Lisnard, Jean-Rene MON 170
5. Karanusic, Roko CRO 172
6. Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 174 @
7. Navarro Pastor, Ivan ESP 176
8. Vico, Uros ITA 177
9. Mertl, Jan CZE 179
10. Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 184
11. Eitzinger, Rainer AUT 185
12. Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 188
13. Cipolla, Flavio ITA 189
14. Ascione, Thierry FRA 193
15. Vagnozzi, Simone ITA 194
16. Arazi, Hicham MAR 194 @
17. Klec, Ivo SVK 198
18. El Aynaoui, Younes MAR 199
19. Andujar, Pablo ESP 203
20. Popp, Torsten GER 206

Sheddie · administrator

Apart from the Rochus brothers and Lopez, I can't see anyone else in that entry list who Alex couldn't beat indoors if playing well. If he was on top form and the A game was working, I reckon he'd have a chance of beating Christophe.

I'd be very surprised if Martin Lee, Bloomfield, Goodall, Parmar [and perhaps Baker and Mackin] didn't go for qualifying here.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Completely off topic, but I thought that I'd ask something:

Is Alex fit at this moment? He withdrew from Szczecin.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 19:33, 2006-09-15

Count Zero · Tennis legend

he may not be fully fit yet and has decided to take the time off rather than play on the harsh clay and risk making anything worse. as far as i am aware he will be going to india for the atp mumbai, presumably to qualfiy and that may have effected his decisions. i cant believe he is too bad or he would ahve pulled out v stoppini.

Sheddie · administrator

Playing the Poland challenger would have presented considerable scheduling problems for Alex as Mumbai qualifying starts on Saturday. If Alex got to the quarters or further he'd have had to withdraw from Mumbai. Having withdrawn from Szczecin means that he'll be able to head to India early this week and spend several days there acclimatising and getting used to the courts which will maximise his chances of doing well.

Sheddie · administrator

The qualifying draw for Mons will be made tonight, will be available probably about 10pm GMT on the ATP site.

The interesting thing this weekend will be which players go for Mons qualies and which [if any] go for ATP Metz qualies.

The players who are likely to be attempting qualifying this weekend are:

Martin Lee, Josh Goodall [he's not entered any tournaments for the next few weeks so it looks like he's going to be going for some challenger/ATP qualies], Arvind Parmar [though Arvind surprisingly didn't enter Grenoble qualies last week some maybe he's injured], Alan Mackin [I have a feeling that Alan might go for Metz, he usually enters at least one indoor ATP] and Lee Childs.

Richard Bloomfield isn't playing qualies as he's heading home for a week's break

Sheddie · administrator

No Brits entered the qualies here

Sheddie · administrator

None of them went for ATP Metz qualies either, how bizarre !!!

None of those mentioned are entered for any futures too

Salmon · Tennis legend

And not in Metz either.

Lee has so much to defend in October. Really surprising decision.

Sheddie · administrator

It's very weird that not one of them actually entered, maybe they tried to and something happened like a plane delay and they were all travelling together and missed the cut.

Salmon · Tennis legend

That is possible. So many of our boys just can't take a week off at the same time.

Sheddie · administrator

Greenleaf wrote:

That is possible. So many of our boys just can't take a week off at the same time.

Especially with Lee, Mackin and Childs having just been in France anyway !

Salmon · Tennis legend

Agreed!

Doubt that we will ever get to know the reason.