T7: Bergamo, Kalkuta, Quimper 2014

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Tydzień 7:

Data startu: 10 lutego

- Bergamo (Włochy)

Typ: $42,500+H
Zwycięzca 2013: Michał Przysiężny
Nawierzchnia: twarda (hala)

- Kalkuta (Indie)

Typ: $50,000
Zwycięzca 2013: Turniej nie był rozgrywany.
Nawierzchnia: twarda

- Quimper (Francja)

Typ: 42,500+H
Zwycięzca 2013: Marius Copil (Rumunia)
Nawierzchnia: twarda

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Kalkuta - lista zgłoszeń:

Nedovyesov, Aleksandr KAZ 94
Soeda, Go JPN 112
Donskoy, Evgeny RUS 114
Albot, Radu MDA 160
Marchenko, Illya UKR 162
Bhambri, Yuki IND 171
Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 172
Guez, David FRA 176
Fabbiano, Thomas ITA 179
Rola, Blaz SLO 185
Menendez-Maceiras, Adrian ESP 190
Pouille, Lucas FRA 193
Diez, Steven CAN 196
Munoz-De La Nava, Daniel ESP 200
Wu, Di CHN 203
Safwat, Mohamed EGY 207
Velotti, Agustin ARG 215
Granollers, Gerard ESP 222
Samper-Montana, Jordi ESP 228
Kudryavtsev, Alexander RUS 237
Bozoljac, Ilija SRB 239
Michon, Axel FRA 248

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Bergamo - lista zgłoszeń:

Brown, Dustin GER 101
Struff, Jan-Lennard GER 105
Berankis, Ricardas LTU 128
Cecchinato, Marco ITA 163
Viola, Matteo ITA 164
Bachinger, Matthias GER 166
Kravchuk, Konstantin RUS 177
Fucsovics, Marton HUN 182
Ilhan, Marsel TUR 186
Beck, Andreas GER 187
Dzumhur, Damir BIH 188
Cipolla, Flavio ITA 189
Fischer, Martin AUT 194
Desein, Niels BEL 198
Dustov, Farrukh UZB 208
Arnaboldi, Andrea ITA 212
Pospisil, Jaroslav CZE 214
Mecir , Miloslav SVK 224
Krajicek, Austin USA 226
Hernych, Jan CZE 233
Giustino, Lorenzo ITA 235
Pavic, Ante CRO 236

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Quimper - lista zgłoszeń:

Ungur, Adrian ROU 121
Gicquel, Marc FRA 126
Rufin, Guillaume FRA 134
Copil, Marius ROU 137
Martin, Andrej SVK 148
Evans, Daniel GBR 150
Herbert, Pierre-Hugues FRA 152
Ward, James GBR 165
Gombos, Norbert SVK 195
Mertl, Jan CZE 202
Teixeira, Maxime FRA 205
Rochus, Olivier BEL 209
Schoorel, Thomas NED 211
Serra, Florent FRA 219
Burquier, Gregoire FRA 220
Laaksonen, Henri SUI 230
Krajinovic, Filip SRB 234
Gigounon, Germain BEL 241
Puetz, Tim GER 243
Basic, Mirza BIH 247
Olivetti, Albano FRA 250
Ouahab, Lamine MAR 251

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Kalkuta - drabinka:

[1] Aleksandr NEDOVYESOV (KAZ) vs QUALIFIER
Daniel COX (GBR) vs [WC] Sanam SINGH (IND)
Jordi SAMPER-MONTANA (ESP) vs Gerard GRANOLLERS (ESP)
Ze ZHANG (CHN) vs [8] David GUEZ (FRA)

[4] Go SOEDA (JPN) vs Theodoros ANGELINOS (GRE)
Ilija BOZOLJAC (SRB) vs QUALIFIER
Daniel MUNOZ-DE LA NAVA (ESP) vs Axel MICHON (FRA)
Agustin VELOTTI (ARG) vs [5] Blaz ROLA (SLO)

[6] Illya MARCHENKO (UKR) vs Marco CHIUDINELLI (SUI)
QUALIFIER vs [WC] Vishnu VARDHAN (IND)
Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) vs QUALIFIER
[WC] Saketh MYNENI (IND) vs [3] Evgeny DONSKOY (RUS)

[7] Radu ALBOT (MDA) vs Steven DIEZ (CAN)
Thomas FABBIANO (ITA) vs Adrian MENENDEZ-MACEIRAS (ESP)
Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS) vs Lucas POUILLE (FRA)
Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY) vs [2,WC] Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND)

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Bergamo - drabinka:

[1] Dustin BROWN (GER) vs Marsel ILHAN (TUR)
Jan HERNYCH (CZE) vs [WC] Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA)
Laurynas GRIGELIS (LTU) vs [WC] Andrea FALGHERI (ITA)
QUALIFIER vs [5] Marco CECCHINATO (ITA)

[3] Damir DZUMHUR (BIH) vs Lorenzo GIUSTINO (ITA)
Jaroslav POSPISIL (CZE) vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs [WC] Simone BOLELLI (ITA)
Niels DESEIN (BEL) vs [6] Matthias BACHINGER (GER)

[7] Matteo VIOLA (ITA) vs QUALIFIER
Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) vs Farrukh DUSTOV (UZB)
Marton FUCSOVICS (HUN) vs Egor GERASIMOV (BLR)
Martin FISCHER (AUT) vs [4] Ricardas BERANKIS (LTU)

[8] Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS) vs [WC] Matteo DONATI (ITA)
Austin KRAJICEK (USA) vs Andreas BECK (GER)
Ante PAVIC (CRO) vs Miloslav MECIR (SVK)
Flavio CIPOLLA (ITA) vs [2] Jan-Lennard STRUFF (GER)

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Quimper - drabinka:

[1] Adrian UNGUR (ROU) vs [WC] Josselin OUANNA (FRA)
Gregoire BURQUIER (FRA) vs Germain GIGOUNON (BEL)
Toni ANDROIC (CRO) vs QUALIFIER
Maxime AUTHOM (BEL) vs [6] James WARD (GBR)

[4] Andrej MARTIN (SVK) vs Mirza BASIC (BIH)
Lamine OUAHAB (MAR) vs Albano OLIVETTI (FRA)
Filip KRAJINOVIC (SRB) vs Vincent MILLOT (FRA)
Olivier ROCHUS (BEL) vs [5] Guillaume RUFIN (FRA)

[7] Pierre-Hugues HERBERT (FRA) vs QUALIFIER
Florent SERRA (FRA) vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs Thomas SCHOOREL (NED)
Maxime TEIXEIRA (FRA) vs [3] Marius COPIL (ROU)

[8] Norbert GOMBOS (SVK) vs [WC] Gilles MULLER (LUX)
[WC] Jonathan EYSSERIC (FRA) vs QUALIFIER
Jan MERTL (CZE) vs [WC] Quentin HALYS (FRA)
Henri LAAKSONEN (SUI) vs [2] Marc GICQUEL (FRA)

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Kalkuta - 1 runda:

[1] Aleksandr NEDOVYESOV (KAZ) d. [Q] Rui MACHADO (POR) 6-2 6-4
Daniel COX (GBR) d. [WC] Sanam SINGH (IND) 1-6 7-5 6-4
Gerard GRANOLLERS (ESP) d. Jordi SAMPER-MONTANA (ESP) 6-3 6-1
[8] David GUEZ (FRA) d. Ze ZHANG (CHN) 7-6(1) 6-0

[4] Go SOEDA (JPN) d. Theodoros ANGELINOS (GRE) 6-3 3-6 7-5
Ilija BOZOLJAC (SRB) d. [Q] Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) 6-3 6-2
Daniel MUNOZ-DE LA NAVA (ESP) d. Axel MICHON (FRA) 6-3 6-3
Agustin VELOTTI (ARG) d. [5] Blaz ROLA (SLO) 7-6(3) 6-4

Marco CHIUDINELLI (SUI) d. [6] Illya MARCHENKO (UKR) 7-6(3) 6-4
[Q] Ti CHEN (TPE) d. [WC] Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 6-3 6-2
Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) d. [Q] Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) 4-6 6-3 6-1
[3] Evgeny DONSKOY (RUS) d. [WC] Saketh MYNENI (IND) 6-4 6-2

[7] Radu ALBOT (MDA) d. Steven DIEZ (CAN) 6-2 3-6 6-4
Adrian MENENDEZ-MACEIRAS (ESP) d. Thomas FABBIANO (ITA) 6-4 6-2
Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS) d. Lucas POUILLE (FRA) 6-3 6-1
[2,WC] Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND) d. Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY) 6-4 6-4

[DUN I LOVE]

Fucsovics pokonał Bernakisa w Bergamo. Dziś wieczorem Hernych - Quinzi.

[Rroggerr]

W pierwszym meczu od pół roku Hernych zbajglował nadzieję włoskiego tenisa.

W sumie to od 8 miesięcy.

[Mario]

Mógł jechać na golden swing, przynajmniej swobodnie można by go krytykować za tego typu porażki, bo w hali to raczej nigdy nie będzie błyszczał. Choć z drugiej strony ma chyba na koncie finał juniorskiego Wimbledonu, więc coś o grze na szybszych kortach wie...

[DUN I LOVE]

Choć z drugiej strony ma chyba na koncie finał juniorskiego Wimbledonu, więc coś o grze na szybszych kortach wie...

A nawet końcowy triumf.

[Mario]

Jeszcze lepiej...

[Rroggerr]

On raczej nie jest takim typowym ziemniakiem, tzn. jak na leworęcznego południowca, ubóstwiającego Nadala, mocno wyrywa się z konwenansów.

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ATP CHALLENGER TOUR 2014
ATP CHALLENGER TOUR DISPATCH: KOLKATA
Chennai, India

Players assemble for the welcome ceremony of the ATP Challenger Tour event in Kolkata.

Spoiler:

Veteran tennis writer Robert Davis will be following the ATP Challenger Tour circuit this year and will write a series of reports. This week, he is at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Kolkata, India.

We are now in Kolkata for the State Bank of India ATP Challenger. The second leg of the India Challenger circuit. Last week we were in Chennai and to get here we flew 843 miles (1,356 kilometers) north up the coast over the Bay of Bengal. It took us just two hours and ten minutes of flying time to arrive in the city that was once considered the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. Many of you readers might recognize it by its former name, Calcutta.

The guys are playing this week at the Bengal Tennis Center, which has 6 Deco Turf hard courts laid out in a row parallel to each other. The courts are playing medium fast and when the wind kicks up a thin layer of dust can settle over the courts making the ball skid a bit off the bounce. So far, I have not heard any complaints about the courts or balls. Court number 1 has been converted into a makeshift seating area with a VIP section and shaded block for fans. Match courts are 2, 4 and 6 with the practice courts 3 and 5 tucked in between. It can get a bit crowded out there but the players understand the situation and those practising take extra care not to shank balls onto the match courts during play.

The tennis center lies in the shadows of the mammoth Salt Lake City Football Stadium. Home of the Kingfisher East Bengals. What makes this stadium unique is it is the largest soccer stadium in India and the second largest in the world with a capacity for 120,000 people. On the first day of the qualifying round it was often hard for the players to hear the linesmen and chair umpires over the roar of the crowd, who were wildly cheering during a domestic league cup tournament.

Here in Kolkata they certainly love their sport. For the opening ceremony of this tournament they spared no expense to make the guys feel welcome. A red carpet was even rolled out and players and coaches were requested to join in. The chief guest was the Governor of Kolkata, followed by VIPs and distinguished former tennis players. The tennis center got a fresh coat of paint and dressed up with colorful sponsor banners and potted plants.

When the Governor walked out onto the court a marching band struck up smartly. Say what you will, but India sure knows how to put on a show. During the speeches references were made often to the ‘iconic’ Leander Paes. Leander is Kolkata’s favorite son. Holder of 14 Grand Slam titles, one Olympic bronze medal and just about every India Davis Cup record from most years played to most singles and doubles wins, Leander stands tall here in Kolkata.

A little back story on Leander involves his father, Vece Paes, who as the captain for the Indian national field hockey team, won the bronze medal in the 1972 Olympics. And Vece Paes also served as the lead consultant for the hit Hollywood movie, City of Joy. The movie was based on the novel, City Of Joy, by Dominique Lapierre (1985). When it was released the movie did for Kolkata what Slumdog Millionaire did for Mumbai; it showed the good, bad and ugly, but in the end kindness trumped evil.

Read Chennai Challenger Dispatch

For readers who might not be familiar with the details of an ATP Challenger event, let me explain. Just like on the ATP World Tour, players compete for prize money and points. The winner of this event will net US$7,200. Even with the full lot of expenses (travel, accommodation plus coach) that is a good sum for a week of work. But what most players admit is that their primary goal is not the money, but the points.

For a professional tennis player, Emirates ATP Rankings points are as good as gold. The points not only determine your ranking and your position in the race to the ATP Challenger Tour Finals, but in an odd sort of way they also determine your identity. Nearly every week a player is introduced by his ranking not only on the court but off the court as well. Even when a player hangs up his racquet he cannot escape the constant question: What was your highest ranking?

Each tournament has a ‘cut’ or a last direct acceptance into the main draw. Last week in Chennai, the cut was the number 276 player in the world. This week the cut is higher at 255, and the last player to enter the main draw by ranking was Theodoros Angelinos from Greece. Now, some of you might think that 276 does not sound very good. But consider , that if you are the top 400 football player in the world you are in the NFL or English Premier League. That might help to put it in perspective.

The ATP Challenger Tour is full of some very good tennis players and this week is no exception. According to the players this is a very tough tournament. To give you an idea, the top seed is Aleksandr Nedovyesov of Kazakhstan, who is ranked 97. And there are seven players here who played in the Davis Cup competition two weeks ago. A few players in the draw this week have been ranked inside or just on the edge of the Top 100 singles players in the world.

India’s No. 1 Somdev Devvarman got as high as 62 and Switzerland’s Marco Chiudinelli reached a career-best 52 and was the 2010 ATP Comeback Player of the Year. Iliya Bozoljac of Serbia could not have been closer back in 2007 when he climbed to 101. Many fans might remember him as ‘Bozo The Beast’ for his 2013 Davis Cup heroics against the Bryan brothers when he and Nenad Zimonjic won 15-13 in the final set. Go Soeda of Japan has been ranked 47 and just last week helped Japan to a historic win in the Davis Cup World Group over Canada. Heck, even Soeda’s coach, Davide Sanguinetti was a top 50 player.

Ask just about any tennis player what their goal is when they begin to play the ATP Challengers and nearly every one of them to a man will say to reach the Top 100 of the Emirates ATP Rankings. A world ranking of 100 is the magic number for an up and coming tennis player. Why you might ask? A Top 100 ranking allows you to play in select Tour events and also direct entry into the Grand Slams. You could say 100 is the Mount Everest for many a tennis player. However, once you get there the fight gets even tougher because not only is the competition stiffer but a player has to defend from the surge of all those other hungry tennis players thrusting up from below.

Here in Kolkata the winner of the singles tournament will get 80 points. That is a lot of points and for the third seed, Evgeny Donskoy of Russia, it would mean a jump from current 132 to inside the Top 100. You can be sure that he is well aware of that fact.

Every year a few players burst onto the scene like Pablo Carreno Busta and Jiri Vesely did in 2013. They had to earn their places the hard way - by winning lots of tennis matches out here. Each week on the ATP Challenger Tour gladiator-like battles are fought all over the world from exotic cities like Noumea, Kyoto and Samarkand.

The Challenger Circuit is also chock full of savvy veterans who have spent time under the bright lights of the ATP World Tour. And they are in a hurry to get back there. Some of these veterans have slipped because of injury and others because of age, but they can still play the game at a very high level. One thing a young man learns quickly on the ATP Challenger Tour is that you do not get Emirates ATP Rankings points for sympathy. You have to win that last point no matter how hard you worked or how good you played. And that tennis fans is what makes the ATP Challenger Tour so fascinating to a be a part of; the drama and intrigue of men working and fighting and giving all they’ve got to give for a dream and those precious ATP points.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis ... lkata.aspx

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Bergamo - 1 runda:

[1] Dustin BROWN (GER) d. Marsel ILHAN (TUR) 6-7(4) 7-5 6-4
Jan HERNYCH (CZE) d. [WC] Gianluigi QUINZI (ITA) 7-6(6) 6-0
Laurynas GRIGELIS (LTU) d. [WC] Andrea FALGHERI (ITA) 7-6(7) 7-5
[Q] Edward CORRIE (GBR) d. [5] Marco CECCHINATO (ITA) 7-6(8) 6-3

Lorenzo GIUSTINO (ITA) d. [3] Damir DZUMHUR (BIH) 6-3 2-6 6-4
Jaroslav POSPISIL (CZE) vs [Q] Matteo TREVISAN (ITA)
[WC] Simone BOLELLI (ITA) d. [Q] Federico GAIO (ITA) 6-3 6-4
[6] Matthias BACHINGER (GER) d. Niels DESEIN (BEL) 6-4 6-4

[7] Matteo VIOLA (ITA) d. [Q] Karol BECK (SVK) 7-6(7) 6-3
Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) d. Farrukh DUSTOV (UZB) 7-6(5) 6-4
Marton FUCSOVICS (HUN) d. Egor GERASIMOV (BLR) 6-3 7-6(3)
[4] Ricardas BERANKIS (LTU) d. Martin FISCHER (AUT) 7-5 6-3

[8] Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS) d. [WC] Matteo DONATI (ITA) 6-4 7-6(7)
Andreas BECK (GER) d. Austin KRAJICEK (USA) 6-2 6-4
Miloslav MECIR (SVK) d. Ante PAVIC (CRO) 6-4 7-6(9)
[2] Jan-Lennard STRUFF (GER) d. Flavio CIPOLLA (ITA) 6-3 6-3

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Quimper - 1 runda:

[WC] Josselin OUANNA (FRA) d. [1] Adrian UNGUR (ROU) 7-6(4) 6-4
Gregoire BURQUIER (FRA) d. Germain GIGOUNON (BEL) 6-1 ret'd
[Q] Mathieu RODRIGUES (FRA) d. Toni ANDROIC (CRO) 7-5 7-6(3)
Maxime AUTHOM (BEL) d. [6] James WARD (GBR) 6-2 6-2

Mirza BASIC (BIH) d. [4] Andrej MARTIN (SVK) 7-6(3) 4-6 7-5
Albano OLIVETTI (FRA) d. Lamine OUAHAB (MAR) 7-6(5) 6-3
Vincent MILLOT (FRA) d. Filip KRAJINOVIC (SRB) 6-3 6-3
[5] Guillaume RUFIN (FRA) d. Olivier ROCHUS (BEL) 6-3 6-4

[7] Pierre-Hugues HERBERT (FRA) d. [Q] Jules MARIE (FRA) 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3
Florent SERRA (FRA) d. [LL] Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) 6-3 7-5
[Q] Rudy COCO (FRA) d. Thomas SCHOOREL (NED) 7-6(5) 6-7(1) 6-4
[3] Marius COPIL (ROU) d. Maxime TEIXEIRA (FRA) 4-6 6-4 7-6(6)

[WC] Gilles MULLER (LUX) d. [8] Norbert GOMBOS (SVK) 6-4 6-4
[WC] Jonathan EYSSERIC (FRA) d. [Q] Gleb SAKHAROV (FRA) 6-3 6-7(2) 6-2
Jan MERTL (CZE) d. [WC] Quentin HALYS (FRA) 7-6(5) 6-1
Henri LAAKSONEN (SUI) d. [2] Marc GICQUEL (FRA) 6-4 6-1

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Kalkuta - 2 runda:

[1] Aleksandr NEDOVYESOV (KAZ) d. Daniel COX (GBR) 6-3 4-6 6-4
[8] David GUEZ (FRA) d. Gerard GRANOLLERS (ESP) 7-5 6-3
Ilija BOZOLJAC (SRB) d. [4] Go SOEDA (JPN) 6-4 6-3
Agustin VELOTTI (ARG) d. Daniel MUNOZ-DE LA NAVA (ESP) 6-3 6-2

[Q] Ti CHEN (TPE) d. Marco CHIUDINELLI (SUI) 7-5 6-7(0) 6-3
[3] Evgeny DONSKOY (RUS) d. Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) 6-3 6-4
Adrian MENENDEZ-MACEIRAS (ESP) d. [7] Radu ALBOT (MDA) 6-4 7-6(3)
[2,WC] Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND) d. Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS) 6-3 6-3

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Bergamo - 2 runda:

[1] Dustin BROWN (GER) d. Jan HERNYCH (CZE) 1-6 7-5 6-3
Laurynas GRIGELIS (LTU) d. [Q] Edward CORRIE (GBR) 7-5 6-7(7) 6-4
[Q] Matteo TREVISAN (ITA) d. Lorenzo GIUSTINO (ITA) 4-6 6-3 6-2
[WC] Simone BOLELLI (ITA) d. [6] Matthias BACHINGER (GER) 6-3 6-4

Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) d. [7] Matteo VIOLA (ITA) 7-6(8) 6-2
Marton FUCSOVICS (HUN) d. [4] Ricardas BERANKIS (LTU) 6-3 6-4
Andreas BECK (GER) d. [8] Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS) 7-6(5) 7-6(5)
[2] Jan-Lennard STRUFF (GER) d. Miloslav MECIR (SVK) 6-3 6-7(7) 7-6(4)

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Quimper - 2 runda:

Gregoire BURQUIER (FRA) d. [WC] Josselin OUANNA (FRA) 7-6(4) 7-6(3)
[Q] Mathieu RODRIGUES (FRA) d. Maxime AUTHOM (BEL) 6-3 2-1 ret'd
Albano OLIVETTI (FRA) d. Mirza BASIC (BIH) 6-3 7-6(3)
Vincent MILLOT (FRA) d. [5] Guillaume RUFIN (FRA) 6-4 7-6(4)

[7] Pierre-Hugues HERBERT (FRA) d. Florent SERRA (FRA) 6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(4)
[3] Marius COPIL (ROU) d. [Q] Rudy COCO (FRA) 4-6 7-5 6-3
[WC] Gilles MULLER (LUX) d. [WC] Jonathan EYSSERIC (FRA) 6-1 6-7(5) 6-1
Jan MERTL (CZE) d. Henri LAAKSONEN (SUI) 6-4 6-4