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Post by Mrs. Fabregas on Apr 13, 2007 21:40:33 GMT 3
I know it's a little soon, but I want to come in the right mood for it, so.......... Here's the Hamburg Masters 2007 thread! Place : Hamburg, Germany Where : Rothenbaum Tennis Centre Centre Court Capacity : 13.300 Date : 12-20 May Draw size : 56 Surface : Claycourt Price money : €1.870.000 Defending Champion : Tommy Robredo (ESP) (def. Stephanek) Tournament Director : Walter Knapper Ticket Hotline : +49 40 411 78 411 Website : www.dtb-tennis.de/AmRothenbaum_en/ar.phpSingles Schedule : All information with reservation Saturday, 12th May: Qualifications Sunday, 13th May: Qualifications Monday, 14th May: Round 1 Tuesday, 15th May: Round 1 Wednesday, 16th May: Round 2 Thursday, 17th May: Round 3 Friday, 18th May: Quarterfinal Saturday, 19th May: Semifinal Sunday, 20th May: Final DoublesSaturday, 19th May: Semifinal Sunday, 20th May: Final Ladies Day ;D : Tuesday, 15th May |
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Post by Mrs. Fabregas on Apr 13, 2007 21:40:56 GMT 3
Tennis Classic : Your favourites are back on court! Don't miss it!
From May 17th to 20th the BlackRock Tour of Champions comes to Hamburg. Enjoy legendary tennispros fighting the world most important tournament series for former tennisstars!
Champions Tour point distribution
Winner: 400
Runner-up: 250
3rd place: 200
4th place: 125
No. 5-6: 80
No. 7-8: 60 points
Champions Tour format
The Champions Tour tournaments run over a minimum of 4 days. The players are split into two groups of four. During the first three days of competition, each player faces off the other three players in his group in a round robin format. The top player from each group contest in the final, while the two players who finish second in each group play off for third and fourth places respectively.
Matches are contested over the best of three sets, with the deciding set taking the form of a Champions tie-break. The Champions tie-break is an expanded version of the conventional professional tennis tie-break, whereby the winner is the first player to reach 10 points by a margin of 2.
To be eligible to compete on the ATP Champions Tour, players must have been either a World No. 1 during their competitive playing careers, a Grand Slam singles finalist, or a singles player in a victorious Davis Cup team; and they should have retired from the ATP circuit. Each event can also invite two players of its choice to take wild cards.
Players compete for points throughout the year to qualify for The Champions Masters. The Masters takes place at the Royal Albert Hall in London at the end of the year.
To be eligible to compete on the BlackRock Tour of Champions, players must have been either the World No.1 during their competitive playing careers, a Grand Slam singles finalist or champion, a singles player on a victorious Davis Cup team or voted onto the Special Exempt list by the BlackRock Tour of Champions Board. All players must also have been retired from ATP competition for at least two years. Each event can also offer two wild cards.
Players competing the BlackRock Tennis Classic Hamburg 2007 are
- Boris Becker (GER)
- Michael Stich (GER)
- Goran Ivanisevic (CRO)
- Thomas Muster (AUT)
- Henri Leconte (FRA)
- Cedric Pioline (FRA)
- Sergi Bruguera (ESP)
- Karel Novacek (CZE) (WC)
The players field for the German stage of the BlackRock Tour of Champions is complete. The former German Tennis-Pro Boris Becker now added to the field of the first BlackRock Tennis Classic at Hamburg. “I am happy to come back to Hamburg Rothenbaum that I keep in fond memories. It's always been special to play in Hamburg where I reached the semifinals several times, and once even played the final.
I even got involved with the tournament as Chairman”, says Becker who won Wimbledon three times during his career, when asked about his Tennis Classic participation. “It will be a great experience to compete with former colleagues like Michael Stich, Thomas Muster or Goran Ivanisevic in Hamburg again”.
Becker became a Tennis-Pro in 1984 and won 49 tournaments on the ATP circuit until retiring in 1999.
Keen on fighting Boris Becker is the former Wimbledon-Winner Goran Ivanisevic. “I am looking forward to Hamburg. I played at Rothenbaum so often. I like remembering the final versus Andrei Medvedev in 1995. The match against Boris in May will be something very special to me, because I really would like to beat him once more. It will be our twentieth match and at the moment the score is 10:9 for Boris” affirms the Croatioan Tennis-Idol his ambition for the BlackRock Tennis Classic Hamburg 2007.
“Together they won 11 Grand Slam titles! It will be a fantastic tournament” says Carl-Uwe Steeb, tournament director of the first ATP Champions Event in Hamburg.
To attend the BlackRock Tennis Classic visitors do not need additional tickets. According to „One ticket – two tournaments“tickets for the Masters Series Hamburg 2007 presented by E.ON Hanse include access to the Tennis Classic as well.
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Post by Mrs. Fabregas on Apr 13, 2007 21:46:03 GMT 3
Hamburg - World No. 1 and three-times defending champion Roger Federer returns to the Tennis Center Rothenbaum to play the Masters Series Hamburg presented by E.ON Hanse. Talking to tournament director Walter Knapper on-site Crandon Park Tennis Center on Key Biscayne (Miami) Federer renewed his promise to serve in May 2007.
“Why do you ask? Of course I am playing!” stated Federer surprised when getting the information about Knappers retirement after this years tournament. “I want to be present at your farewell”. “I have been knowing Roger a long time and I hold him in high regard as a fantastic athlete and open-hearted man. Although I assumed that he keeps his promise to play at Rothenbaum this year I was happy to hear his confirmation”. Walter Knapper congratulated Federer on winning the Masters Series Hamburg title three times since 2002 (2002, 2004, 2005). On May 20, 2007, Knapper will attend the award ceremony for the last time to hand out prices to the champions. As from 2008 the former German tennis-pro Carl-Uwe Steeb will be in charge for the players and tournament at Rothenbaum.
In addition to Federer Worlds No. 8 and 2006 Masters Cup finalist James Blake wants to descend on the Rothenbaum Tennis Center in May. His constant compagnon, elder brother Thomas Blake Jr., recently told on Walter Knapper: “James enjoyed Hamburg a lot. This year he wants to do better in chasing the title.” In 2006 the US American Top-player lost to Mario Ancic (CRO) in the round of sixteen.
Moreover, Novak Djokovic (SER) promised to play at Hamburg Rothenbaum after winning the Miami Masters Series title on Key Biscane a week ago. The shootingstar who also played the final in Indian Wells declared: “Of course I am coming to Hamburg. I am looking forward to play and meet Walter Knapper again. I got to know him at the Black Forest Open in Freudenstadt".
With Federer, Djokovic and Blake already five ATP Tour stars affirmed their attendance in the men's single field at the Masters Series Hamburg, to be held May 12-20, 2007, at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center. The Croatian No. 1 Ivan Ljubicic and titleholder Tommy Robredo told Walter Knapper about their plans for Hamburg in Indian Wells already.
Especially defending champion Tommy Robredo is keen on playing Hamburgs tournament. "I am very proud to win this title. And I look forward to defending it next year" Robredo declared after winning last years single final in 2006.
After winning the German Championships in Seeburg near Berlin in December 2006 the young German Tennis Master Tobias Summerer got the first Wild Card for the Masters Series Hamburg 2007.
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Post by davis on Apr 13, 2007 23:01:13 GMT 3
Don't know why we jumped a tournament yet again (Rome is before Hamburg, girls...), but anyway...  The entry deadline for Hamburg was 2 weeks ago, the entry list is therefore already available - this being a Masters Series Event, theTop 40 players all signed up. The only one sure to be missed is Mario Ancic  ; aside from that the field as of today looks as follows: ATP Ranking Points/ATP Race PointsW: 500/100 F: 350/70 SF: 225/45 QF: 125/25 R16: 75/15 R32: 35/7 (Seeds 1-8: 5/1) R64: 5/1 (WC: 0/0) Q: +15/+3 Q14: 8/0 Q28: 0/0 Entry deadline: April 2, 2007
Seeding: May 7, 20071 Federer, Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 3 Roddick, Andy USA 3 4 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 4 5 Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 5 6 Robredo, Tommy ESP 6 7 Djokovic, Novak SRB 8 8 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 8 9 Blake, James USA 9 10 Haas, Tommy GER 10 11 Murray, Andy GBR 11 12 Nalbandian, David ARG 12 13 Berdych, Tomas CZE 14 14 Gasquet, Richard FRA CZE 15 15 Ferrer, David ESP 16 16 Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 17 17 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 18 18 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 19 19 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 20 20 Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 21 21 Fish, Mardy USA 22 22 Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 23 23 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 24 24 Hrbaty, Dominik SVK 25 25 Stepanek, Radek CZE 26 26 Safin, Marat RUS 27 ;D 27 Andreev, Igor RUS @27 28 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 28 29 Canas, Guillermo ARG 29 30 Soderling, Robin SWE 30 31 Almagro, Nicolas ESP 31 32 Malisse, Xavier BEL 32 33 Calleri, Agustin ARG 33 34 Moya, Carlos ESP 34 35 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 35 36 Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 36 37 Acasuso, Jose ARG 37 38 Rochus, Olivier BEL 38 39 Simon, Gilles FRA 39 40 Bjorkman, Jonas SWE 40 41 Mayer, Florian GER 41 42 Benneteau, Julien FRA 42 43 Gaudio, Gaston ARG 43 44 Becker, Benjamin GER 44 45(SE) 46 (Q) 47 (Q) 48 (Q) 49 (Q) 50 (Q) 51 (Q) 52 (Q) 53 (WC) Summerer, Tobias GER 54 (WC) 55 (WC) 56 (WC) Alternates1. Verkerk, Martin NED @44 2. Monfils, Gael FRA 45 3. Ginepri, Robby USA 46 4. Gicquel, Marc FRA 47 5. Henman, Tim GBR 48 6. Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 49 7. Clement, Arnaud FRA 50 8. Vliegen, Kristof BEL 51 9. Monaco, Juan ARG 52 10. Volandri, Filippo ITA 53 11. Mirnyi, Max BLR 54 12. Massu, Nicolas CHI 55 13. Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 56 14. Santoro, Fabrice FRA 57 15. Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 58 16. Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 59 17. Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 60 18. Ramirez Hidalgo, Ruben ESP 61 19. Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 62 Expect Nicolas Kiefer to receive a Wild Card if he is fit in time, Kohlschreiber will probably get in by Wild Card as well.
Qualifying draw: Friday, May 11, 2007, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, May 12, 2:30 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, May 12, 6:00 p.m.Alya10 doesn't know it yet, but she'll be at the main draw (we gotta go, girl, I've never been to one before...  ) |
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Post by Annie on Apr 13, 2007 23:04:04 GMT 3
wow that sure is an impressive lineup, let's hope it stays that way ;D
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Post by davis on Apr 13, 2007 23:06:35 GMT 3
wow that sure is an impressive lineup, let's hope it stays that way ;D You know it won't, but a girl can have her dreams... ;D |
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Post by Alya10 on Apr 13, 2007 23:31:42 GMT 3
Qualifying draw: Friday, May 11, 2007, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, May 12, 2:30 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, May 12, 6:00 p.m.Alya10 doesn't know it yet, but she'll be at the main draw (we gotta go, girl, I've never been to one before... ) Honey, I only arrive at 5pm, so how can I be at the draw at 2.30pm?!?!? I wish I could though LOL. I can make it to the doubles draw if we go straight from the airport LMAO ;D I'm starting to have the jitters ;D, only 4 weeks to go !!!!! |
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Post by Mrs. Fabregas on Apr 13, 2007 23:37:00 GMT 3
Don't know why we jumped a tournament yet again (Rome is before Hamburg, girls...), but anyway... I know, I know........ But I couldn't wait anymore/ any longer I'm starting to have the jitters ;D, only 4 weeks to go !!!!! Me too here, Alex..... Already counting back the days ;D |
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Post by davis on Apr 13, 2007 23:44:09 GMT 3
Qualifying draw: Friday, May 11, 2007, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, May 12, 2:30 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, May 12, 6:00 p.m.Alya10 doesn't know it yet, but she'll be at the main draw (we gotta go, girl, I've never been to one before... ) Honey, I only arrive at 5pm, so how can I be at the draw at 2.30pm?!?!? I wish I could though LOL. I can make it to the doubles draw if we go straight from the airport LMAO ;D Oops, mixed up the days - in my mind the stupid draw happens on Sunday ;D ;D ;D But Saturday is good, too, I can go from there straight to the Airport to pick you up.  |
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Post by davis on Apr 15, 2007 13:48:48 GMT 3
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Post by Mrs. Fabregas on Apr 15, 2007 14:45:12 GMT 3
Nice pictures, Annette...... ;D!
Sounds very wonderful! Especially the Alster Lake run (YAAAAAY!)
And 27'C!!!! It's that hot here too! Pretty nice.... And only April yet....
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Post by GG on Apr 15, 2007 23:20:15 GMT 3
This is so cool!! Reading all of this makes me nervous allready. I'm really looking forward to attending this tournament and spending time in Hamburg. The photos are beautiful. Thanks Annette. Hopefully we will have the same temperature in may. That would be great.
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Post by Alya10 on Apr 16, 2007 14:08:35 GMT 3
I suppose no one can tell we are going to be there, can they? ;D We are hogging the thread already and there are still 4 weeks to go LOL. Anyway, yesterday I went digging up an old video from last year Aaaah, the scenary, the antecipation and the boys..... LOL www.youtube.com/watch?v=q16pnNQfYYQkisses |
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Post by Mrs. Fabregas on May 8, 2007 11:39:27 GMT 3
Philipp Kohlschreiber receives Rothenbaum Wildcard
Hamburg - those Hamburg tennis fan may look forward with the Rothenbaum tournament to a freshbaked German tournament winner. BMW open Triumphator Philipp Kohlschreiber from Augsburg receives a Wildcard for Masters the Series Hamburg 2007 presented by to E.ON Hanse, of 12. to 20. May.
The 23 year old, won its first tournament victory on the ATP route with the international tennis championships of Bavaria by a 2:6, 6:3, 6:4 against Mikhail Youzhny from Russia. “I am whole by the wind, but I am overjoyed”, said “Kohli” after its success at the resident of Munich Aumeister.
In the coming week, the up-to-date 2nd best German on the ATP World rankingslist , can prove its form also at the Hamburg Rothenbaum. The Davis Cup player received the Wildcard for the main field from director of tournament Walter Knapper.
“The past week in Munich was simply outstanding for me.And I hope naturally that I can take this positive momentum also to Hamburg. I play very gladly in Germany and am pleased on a mad week at the Rothenbaum, particularly since I am direct due to the Wildcard this year in the main field"
This was a Kohlschreiber to its appearance in the Hanseatic city.
I translated it twith Worldlingo (The original message was in German), so sorry if there are some grammar faults ;D
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Post by Mrs. Fabregas on May 11, 2007 0:03:57 GMT 3
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; aside from that the field as of today looks as follows:
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