Wimbledon

[Annie]

Don't know what my plans are for Wimbledon/Club Med @ Roehampton yet. They're a tenuous 'yes I'll be there for first few days' thing, but no guarantees. I'm waiting for a phone call first before I book my train tickets I won't be there for the 2nd week.
Re: Roehampton >> management couldn't say whether or not Marat will actually put in an appearence at Club Med - it seems it's something he'll decide on after he's arrived in London, and see how he's feeling. If he does play there, I should be able to see him because it's so close to Wimbledon & where I'm (hopefully) staying - just 2 stops on the underground or so.

But as I say, it's not 100% that I'll make it to London - to quote Marat 'we'll see' ;D

BTW, Teresa >> it's Liverpool for 3 guaranteed matches on grass. Nottingham is the arch-enemy of Liverpool ;D *boo hiss*

[Jehaan]

Oh my goodness! I've been living in London all my life and I've never heard of this Club Med thing!! Whereabouts is it and when does it start? Thanx for any help!

Jehaan x

[Jen]

Wimbledon seeds are out, Marat's 19

1. Roger FEDERER (SUI)
2. Andy RODDICK (USA)
3. Guillermo CORIA (ARG)
4. David NALBANDIAN (ARG)
5. Tim HENMAN (GBR)
6. Juan Carlos FERRERO (ESP)
7. Lleyton HEWITT (AUS)
8. Rainer SCHUETTLER (GER)
9. Carlos MOYA (ESP)
10. Sebastien GROSJEAN (FRA)
11. Mark PHILIPPOUSSIS (AUS)
12. Sjeng SCHALKEN (NED)
13. Paradorn SRICHAPHAN (THA)
14. Mardy FISH (USA)
15. Nicolas MASSU (CHI)
16. Jiri NOVAK (CZE)
17. Jonas BJORKMAN (SWE)
18. Feliciano LOPEZ (ESP)
19. Marat SAFIN (RUS)
20. Tommy ROBREDO (ESP)
21. Juan Ignacio CHELA (ARG)
22. Andrei PAVEL (ROM)
23. Max MIRNYI (BLR)
24. Fernando GONZALEZ (CHI)
25. Dominik HRBATY (SVK)
26. Taylor DENT (USA)
27. Robby GINEPRI (USA)
28. Ivan LJUBICIC (CRO)
29. Nicolas KIEFER (GER)
30. Vincent SPADEA (USA)
31. Mikhail YOUZHNY (RUS)
32. Hicham ARAZI (MAR)

[Teresa]

Thanks Jen

God I hate seeing all those 'other' players seeded higher than habibi

[christina]

coria seeded 3....hahaha wat a joke....just so he can lose 2 sum1 low ranked...haahahaha

[Vassily]

I start to hate this seeding system. It's sucks. Everyone knows that MArat deserves better than being the 19th seed.

But I try not to think about this. I realy hope that MArat would forget that he dislikes grass and play in full strenght. He realy should have been atleast to the semis in Wimby. I hope he steps up and plays like he should on grass. Some nice serve and volleying..

[Dee]

I totally agree with you Vass. Marat has all the weapons for grass. Fingers crossed

[Annie]

Jehaan said:

Oh my goodness! I've been living in London all my life and I've never heard of this Club Med thing!! Whereabouts is it and when does it start? Thanx for any help!

Jehaan x

It's in Roehampton, Jeehan. Most of the qualifications for Wimbledon are played there (and are being decided as we speak!) They also do some exhibition matches, which I think is what Marat has his name down for. He's already in the UK now, so there's a chance he may still turn up to the Roehampton thing. The link for the tournament is www.clubmedcup.com

[Jehaan]

Thanks for that Ruth!

Jehaan

[Vassily]

THE DRAW: www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/draws/ms/r1s2.html
Top Half

1 [1] FEDERER, Roger SUI
2 (W) BOGDANOVIC, Alex GBR
3 (Q) QUALIFIER,
4 (Q) QUALIFIER,

5 MARTIN, Alberto ESP
6 SANTORO, Fabrice FRA
7 JOHANSSON, Thomas SWE
8 [29] KIEFER, Nicolas GER

9 [18] LOPEZ, Feliciano ESP
10 (W) BLOOMFIELD, Richard GBR
11 SAULNIER, Cyril FRA
12 LLODRA, Michael FRA

13 ELSENEER, Gilles BEL
14 (W) PARMAR, Arvind GBR
15 KARLOVIC, Ivo CRO
16 [13] SRICHAPHAN, Paradorn THA

17 [9] MOYA, Carlos ESP
18 (Q) QUALIFIER,
19 CORRETJA, Alex ESP
20 STEPANEK, Radek CZE

21 SARGSIAN, Sargis ARM
22 LOPEZ, Marc ESP
23 TURSUNOV, Dmitry RUS
24 [19] SAFIN, Marat RUS

25 [31] YOUZHNY, Mikhail RUS
26 IVANISEVIC, Goran CRO
27 (Q) QUALIFIER,
28 VOLANDRI, Filippo ITA

29 LABADZE, Irakli GEO
30 VLIEGEN, Kristof BEL
31 MELZER, Jurgen AUT
32 [7] HEWITT, Lleyton AUS

33 [3] CORIA, Guillermo ARG
34 MOODIE, Wesley RSA
35 MAYER, Florian GER
36 ARTHURS, Wayne AUS

37 KUCERA, Karol SVK
38 HERNANDEZ, Oscar ESP
39 FERREIRA, Wayne RSA
40 [28] LJUBICIC, Ivan CRO

41 [17] BJORKMAN, Jonas SWE
42 SLUITER, Raemon NED
43 VACEK, Jan CZE
44 LU, Yen-Hsun TPE

45 CLEMENT, Arnaud FRA
46 JOHANSSON, Joachim SWE
47 (Q) QUALIFIER,
48 [14] FISH, Mardy USA

49 [10] GROSJEAN, Sebastien FRA
50 ASCIONE, Thierry FRA
51 ROCHUS, Olivier BEL
52 CARRAZ, Gregory FRA

53 (Q) QUALIFIER,
54 (Q) QUALIFIER,
55 GAMBILL, Jan-Michael USA
56 [23] MIRNYI, Max BLR

57 [27] GINEPRI, Robby USA
58 (Q) QUALIFIER,
59 VERDASCO, Fernando ESP
60 (Q) QUALIFIER,

61 KOUBEK, Stefan AUT
62 ACASUSO, Jose ARG
63 BOUTTER, Julien FRA
64 [6] FERRERO, Juan Carlos ESP


bottom half

65 [5] HENMAN, Tim GBR
66 RAMIREZ HIDALGO, Ruben ESP
67 SARETTA, Flavio BRA
68 (Q) QUALIFIER,

69 FERRER, David ESP
70 HANESCU, Victor ROM
71 (Q) QUALIFIER,
72 [32] ARAZI, Hicham MAR

73 [24] GONZALEZ, Fernando CHI
74 VASSALLO ARGUELLO, Martin ITA
75 ANDREEV, Igor RUS
76 VAN LOTTUM, John NED

77 VERKERK, Martin NED
78 DAVYDENKO, Nikolay RUS
79 (Q) QUALIFIER,
80 [11] PHILIPPOUSSIS, Mark AUS[/color]

81 [16] NOVAK, Jiri CZE
82 MALISSE, Xavier BEL
83 DUPUIS, Antony FRA
84 HAAS, Tommy GER

85 BECK, Karol SVK
86 (W) MARRAY, Jonathan GBR
87 BLAKE, James USA
88 [20] ROBREDO, Tommy ESP

89 [25] HRBATY, Dominik SVK
90 SANCHEZ, David ESP
91 (W) HILTON, Mark GBR
92 COSTA, Albert ESP

93 (Q) QUALIFIER,
94 BERDYCH, Tomas CZE
95 ANCIC, Mario CRO
96 [4] NALBANDIAN, David ARG

97 [8] SCHUETTLER, Rainer GER
98 SODERLING, Robin SWE
99 (W) RUSEDSKI, Greg GBR
100 (Q) QUALIFIER,

101 MANTILLA, Felix ESP
102 PLESS, Kristian DEN
103 (W) REID, Todd AUS
104 [30] SPADEA, Vincent USA

105 [21] CHELA, Juan Ignacio ARG
106 BURGSMULLER, Lars GER
107 ENQVIST, Thomas SWE
108 BLANCO, Galo ESP

109 MARTIN, Todd USA
110 CANAS, Guillermo ARG
111 (W) CHILDS, Lee GBR
112 [12] SCHALKEN, Sjeng NED[/color]

113 [15] MASSU, Nicolas CHI
114 POPP, Alexander GER
115 ULIHRACH, Bohdan CZE
116 MONTANES, Albert ESP

117 CARLSEN, Kenneth DEN
118 (Q) QUALIFIER,
119 (Q) QUALIFIER,
120 [22] PAVEL, Andrei ROM

121 [26] DENT, Taylor USA
122 (Q) QUALIFIER,
123 HORNA, Luis PER
124 VAN SCHEPPINGEN, Dennis NED

125 NADAL, Rafael ESP
126 SALZENSTEIN, Jeff USA
127 (Q) QUALIFIER,
128 [2] RODdick, Andy USA

[Vassily]

I'm very worried about Hewitt in the 4th round... That's VERY difficult. Moya in 3rd ofcourse, but I don't think he's all that dangerous on grass.

Fed in the quarters! OMG

[Teresa]

christina said:

coria seeded 3....hahaha wat a joke....just so he can lose 2 sum1 low ranked...haahahaha

ROTFL ;D

[Teresa]

Does anyone know anything about Tursunov?

Normally I would think this was not a bad draw
even with Moya in the third, cause I think if Marat's confidence is up he should be able to beat Moya, :-*hopefully Peter will help in this regard,
and then Hewitt yeah.....Marat likes a challenge so hopefully he can get passed Hewitt, and if he puts his mind to it he will, Hewitt though has a mind of steel and determination to match and then he will hopefully be pumped to go after Roger. But if Marat's confidence is low, and he keeps thinking how much he hates grass, and how good Alaska or LA is looking, well........I guess once again I won't get to see habibi cause he won't be around long enough for them to televise one of his matches

Marat you can play on grass, you can you can, so go out there and kick arse Good Luck habibi

[MariaV]

Vassily said:

I'm very worried about Hewitt in the 4th round... That's VERY difficult. Moya in 3rd ofcourse, but I don't think he's all that dangerous on grass.

Fed in the quarters! OMG

He has to get past Tursunov first Vass!! Is Tursunov any good at the moment? Any news anyone? He was good last year at the US Open I remember. But our dear Marat can screw it up just with anyone on a bad day so I try to take it cool, stress on "TRY"! I read Moyke has shoulder problems, too bad!!!!!! I hope my dear Carlos can still play at Wimby!

[Vassily]

I predict a score of 6-4 6-3 6-2 against Tursunov. In the second round ther should also be just a 3 setter. Moya can be dangerous, but if Marat plays well he can handle him in tough 4 sets. The 4th round with Hewitt is sure to go all the 5 sets.