FRENCH OPEN (Grand Slam) 2009 - MAIN THREAD: 25th May - 7th June

[wolfie]

DOUBLES ENTRY LIST

1 BRYAN Bob (USA) - 1 BRYAN Mike (USA) - 1 2
2 NESTOR Daniel (CAN) - 3 ZIMONJIC Nenad (SRB) 1168 3 6
3 DLOUHY Lukas (CZE) 259 6 PAES Leander (IND) - 5 11
4 BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND) - 9 KNOWLES Mark (BAH) - 8 17
5 SOARES Bruno (BRA) - 14 ULLYETT Kevin (ZIM) - 7 21
6 FYRSTENBERG Mariusz (POL) - 13 MATKOWSKI Marcin (POL) - 12 25
7 MIRNYI Max (BLR) 1190 17 RAM Andy (ISR) - 10 27
8 CUEVAS Pablo (URU) 129 15 HORNA Luis (PER) 175 23 38
9 LOPEZ Feliciano (ESP) 32 60 VERDASCO Fernando (ESP) 8 44 40
10 MELO Marcelo (BRA) - 20 SA Andre (BRA) - 21 41
11 KUBOT Lukasz (POL) 137 18 MARACH Oliver (AUT) 551 27 45
12 COETZEE Jeff (RSA) - 22 KERR Jordan (AUS) - 26 48
13 KNOWLE Julian (AUT) - 24 MELZER Jurgen (AUT) 27 48 51
14 ACASUSO Jose (ARG) 44 126 GONZALEZ Fernando (CHI) 12 238 56
15 CERMAK Frantisek (CZE) 786 29 MERTINAK Michal (SVK) 1001 31 60
16 KUNITSYN Igor (RUS) 39 55 TURSUNOV Dmitry (RUS) 24 41 63
17 PARROTT Travis (USA) - 35 POLASEK Filip (SVK) - 28 63
18 HUSS Stephen (AUS) - 32 HUTCHINS Ross (GBR) 1073 34 66
19 DAMM Martin (CZE) - 51 LINDSTEDT Robert (SWE) - 16 67
20 DE VOEST Rik (RSA) 191 43 FISHER Ashley (AUS) - 25 68
21 PETZSCHNER Philipp (GER) 70 33 PEYA Alexander (AUT) 184 52 85
22 CHARDY Jeremy (FRA) 40 448 GICQUEL Marc (FRA) 50 72 90
23 VEMIC Dusan (SRB) 458 36 ZVEREV Mischa (GER) 55 59 91
24 HERNANDEZ Oscar (ESP) 65 149 MONTANES Albert (ESP) 28 90 93
25 KAS Christopher (GER) - 39 WASSEN Rogier (NED) - 54 93
26 KARLOVIC Ivo (CRO) 25 188 ZOVKO Lovro (CRO) - 69 94
27 GRANOLLERS Marcel (ESP) 90 46 VENTURA Santiago (ESP) 116 49 95
28 FERRER David (ESP) 13 118 GIMENO-TRAVER Daniel (ESP) 83 241 96
29 BOLELLI Simone (ITA) 61 87 SEPPI Andreas (ITA) 36 89 97
30 ASPELIN Simon (SWE) - 37 HANLEY Paul (AUS) - 61 98
31 PAVEL Andrei (ROU) 100* 34* TECAU Horia (ROU) - 70 104
32 RAM Rajeev (USA) 167 56 REYNOLDS Bobby (USA) 87 50 106
33 PHAU Bjorn (GER) 76 190 SCHUETTLER Rainer (GER) 31 114 107
34 BUTORAC Eric (USA) - 45 LIPSKY Scott (USA) 931 62 107
35 MOODIE Wesley (RSA) 1184 30 NORMAN Dick (BEL) 269 79 109
36 KOHLMANN Michael (GER) 1360 85 WASKE Alexander (GER) 632 30* 115
37 GONZALEZ Maximo (ARG) 69 78 MONACO Juan (ARG) 47 74 116
38 BRUNSTROM Johan (SWE) 932 53 ROJER Jean-julien (AHO) - 63 116
39 FRIEDL Leos (CZE) - 49* SKOCH David (CZE) 1123 68 117
40 ALMAGRO Nicolas (ESP) 34 332 NAVARRO Ivan (ESP) 84 194 118
41 CLEMENT Arnaud (FRA) 56 75 DEVILDER Nicolas (FRA) 63 200 119
42 CHELA Juan Ignacio (ARG) 54* 191* SCHWANK Eduardo (ARG) 68 103 122
43 LOPEZ Marc (ESP) 265 106 ROBREDO Tommy (ESP) 17 38 123
44 CERRETANI James (USA) - 47 ISNER John (USA) 112 76 123
45 BOPANNA Rohan (IND) 288 66 ERLICH Jonathan (ISR) - 58 124
46 HERNYCH Jan (CZE) 73 245 ROCHUS Christophe (BEL) 58 574 131
47 ANDREEV Igor (RUS) 30 216 KOROLEV Evgeny (RUS) 102 951 132
48 LEVINSKY Jaroslav (CZE) - 67 ZELENAY Igor (SVK) - 65 132
49 GARCIA-LOPEZ Guillermo (ESP) 77 480 ROITMAN Sergio (ARG) 101 57 134
50 PALA Petr (CZE) - 117 STEPANEK Radek (CZE) 19 209 136
51 LU Yen-Hsun (TPE) 59 - MOSER Frank (GER) - 77 136
52 MURRAY Jamie (GBR) - 64 VIZNER Pavel (CZE) - 73 137
53 PRIETO Sebastian (ARG) - 91 VASSALLO ARGUELLO Martin (ARG) 49 306 140
54 MARTIN David (USA) - 82 QUERREY Sam (USA) 60 236 142
55 ARNOLD KER Lucas (ARG) 1278 40 ZEBALLOS Horacio (ARG) 122 105 145
56 GINEPRI Robby (USA) 64 925 KENDRICK Robert (USA) 82 233 146
57 BECK Andreas (GER) 66 270 SCHERRER Jean-Claude (SUI) 746 80 146
Alternates
58 FOGNINI Fabio (ITA) 72 182 GABASHVILI Teimuraz (RUS) 78 252 150
59 BENNETEAU Julien (FRA) 45 84 MAHUT Nicolas (FRA) 152 130 175
60 JUNAID Rameez (AUS) 430 98 MARX Philipp (GER) - 83 181
61 GREUL Simon (GER) 111 418 MOTTI Alessandro (ITA) 1381 112 223
62 CIPOLLA Flavio (ITA) 114 134 CRUGNOLA Marco (ITA) 188 127 241
63 ALLEGRO Yves (SUI) - 100 CHIUDINELLI Marco (SUI) 239 552 339

[wolfie]

Yes this is the French Open not the Oz Open. I copied and pastied the title from the Oz Open thread and forgot to change the title.

It looks like Huss & Hutchins will get a seeding which will help them defend their 3rd round points from last year.

[JAMES4579]

Good news there then and I think we had realised we're not going back in time!

[RFS]

hopefully they'll have a good few early rounds and get some confidence back

[NorthernLights]

Good luck to them! Let's see them get some points under their belts and start the climb back up the rankings! :swingin:

It says on the home page that Jamie's still in London. He better get on that Eurostar!


ps I'd never noticed Lukasz Kubot until the DC draw was announced. He's number 18 in the dubs ranking and is ranked way above our second best player in the singles. Gulp. Hope you're fit and free Andy!!

[RFS]

oh eek - Friedl/Skoch in 1st round, and then nestor/Zimonjic for the 2nd ... sigh

[Sallydaisy]

Jamie and Pavel have a terrible draw.............. which Rozzie has summed up beautifully!!!

Hutchins/Huss are seeded 13 and face Acasuso/Gonzalez in Round 1 - which on clay is not exactly a pushover!!!

Hey ho.

Here is the Draw (http://www.rolandgarros.com/fr_FR/scores/draws/md/mddraw.pdf)

Will sort out FTM

[Fitzy]

Jamie as expected didn't get into the mixed. But that didn't stop Liezel from signing up with Bob Bryan!!

Draw here (http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/draws/xd/?promo=search).

[jane]

Poor Jamie - he must ber feeling well and truly dumped!!:hugging:

All the best of luck, Jamie to you and Pavel in the mens dubs:thumbup::thumbup:

[JAMES4579]

Wouldn't be the news Jamie would want to hear! you can't be too critical of Liezel mind you I suppose!

[wolfie]

I can't be bothered to look through up teams ranking but I guess Liezel & Jamie didn't make the cut and even if they would have done in the end maybe Liezel didn't want to take the risk of missing the cut so chose Bob.

H&H begin their campaign tomorrow, 4th on court.

[Bardot]

If it is Liezel Huber's decision to bin Jamie then it isn't surprising as she has shown herself to be quite ruthless in the past. In her desperation to play at the Beijing Olympics and having failed to get Cara Black to change her nationality to South African, she obtained US citizenship in double quick time. The Americans were delighted to welcome her and bend the nationalisation rules as they struggled with their Fed Cup teams as the Williams sisters are not always willing to play. There was much criticism of her in South Africa at the time for "misleading" the South African Olympic Organisation.

[jane]

Jamie and Pavel first up on court 8 tomorrow:clap:

BEST OF LUCK, JAMIE AND PAVEL :thumbup::thumbup:

[JAMES4579]

Let's go guys, all the best!

[Joyce]

Go, Guys!!

[lynne]

GOOD LUCK JAMIE & PAVEL!!!!!:clap:

[Michael]

Good Luck Jamie and Pavel

Is court 8 a televised court?

[Sallydaisy]

Here's an update of Doubles match results for Wednesday 27th May; sadly Ross Hutchins (GBR) and Stephen Huss lost in their first round match.

Doubles - First Round
[3] L Dlouhy (CZE) / L Paes (IND) d S de Chaunac (FRA) / B Paire (FRA) 61 63
[5] B Soares (BRA) / K Ullyett (ZIM) d J Chardy (FRA) / M Gicquel (FRA) 76(2) 64
[6] M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) d S Prieto (ARG) / M Vassallo Arguello (ARG) 64 63
W Moodie (RSA) / D Norman (BEL) d [7] Max Mirnyi (BLR) / Andy Ram (ISR) 76(6) 63
[8] P Cuevas (URU) / L Horna (PER) d A Clement (FRA) / N Devilder (FRA) 62 76(2)
I Kunitsyn (RUS) / D Tursunov (RUS) d [10] M Melo (BRA) / A Sa (BRA) 64 75
[12] F Cermak (CZE) / M Mertinak (SVK) d M Gonzalez (ARG) / J Monaco (ARG) 76(5) 63
J Acasuso (ARG) / F Gonzalez (CHI) d [13] S Huss (AUS) / R Hutchins (GBR) 64 62
[15] T Parrott (USA) / F Polasek (SVK) d D Martin (USA) / S Querrey (USA) 75 75
C Kas (GER) / R Wassen (NED) d [16] M Damm (CZE) / R Lindstedt (SWE) 67(6) 76(5) 75
J Knowle (AUT) / J Melzer (AUT) d O Hernandez (ESP) / A Montanes (ESP) 64 61
M Lopez (ESP) / T Robredo (ESP) d J Chela (ARG) / E Schwank (ARG) 46 63 76(4)
D Vemic (SRB) / M Zverev (GER) d M Llodra (FRA) / F Santoro (FRA) 64 64
A Pavel (ROU) / H Tecau (ROU) d R Ram (USA) / B Reynolds (USA) 62 75
J Cerretani (USA) / S Stakhovsky (UKR) d N Almagro (ESP) / I Navarro (ESP) 62 46 62
J Hernych (CZE) / C Rochus (BEL) d A Beck (GER) / J-C Scherrer (SUI) 67(3) 62 64
G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) / S Roitman (ARG) d R Bopanna (IND) / J Erlich (ISR) 64 76(10)
J Benneteau (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA) d J Haehnel (FRA) / F Serra (FRA) 63 57 64

[wolfie]

Doubles final is between Moodie & Norman and Dlouhy & Paes, they knocked out the top two seeds today. Norman is 38, has played on the challenger tour since the dawn of time and decided to switch to doubles specialist this year, what a story!!!

Wish I had a bet on Norman & Moodie today when they were at 40/1 after losing the first set 6-0 to the Bryans.

[janeInScotland]

would you bet on them for the final, wolfie? (you don't do ftm, do you?)

[janeInScotland]

Heather Watson & partner are a set up in the Girls doubles final 6-3 0-0*

later: sadly they lost 36 63 10-8 - but well done Heather for being runners-up :swingin:

[JAMES4579]

yes, it was a great performance and pity they couldn't quite do it! Dhouly and Paes took the men's doubles as I expected really but had to come from behind to beat Norman and Moodie 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. It certainly was a good run for Wesley and Dick though!