[teentodiefows]

*rubs eyes* When I saw Malisse v. Haase on livescores, I initially assumed it was a main draw match... *shakes head sadly at them both*

[anxpuna]

*rubs eyes* When I saw Malisse v. Haase on livescores, I initially assumed it was a main draw match... *shakes head sadly at them both*

Indeed.

[bashansasasasa]

ATP Doubles Draw


(1) Mirnyi, Max/Nestor, Daniel - Bye
WC Naso, Gianluca/Volandri, Filippo vs Ferrer, David/Lopez, Feliciano
Nieminen, Jarkko/Troicki, Viktor vs Bracciali, Daniele/Seppi, Andreas
(7) Bhupathi, Mahesh/Bopanna, Rohan - Bye

(3) Llodra, Michael/Zimonjic, Nenad - Bye
Marrero, David/Verdasco, Fernando vs Almagro, Nicolas/Andujar, Pablo
Granollers, Marcel/Lopez, Marc vs Bolelli, Simone/Fognini, Fabio
(8) Peya, Alexander/Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq - Bye

(6) Fyrstenberg, Mariusz/Matkowski, Marcin - Bye
Isner, John/Querrey, Sam vs Melzer, Jurgen/Petzschner, Philipp
Cabal, Juan Sebastian/Schwank, Eduardo vs Cermak, Frantisek/Polasek, Filip
(4) Lindstedt, Robert/Tecau, Horia - Bye

(5) Paes, Leander/Stepanek, Radek - Bye
Anderson, Kevin/Tomic, Bernard vs Kubot, Lukasz/Tipsarevic, Janko
Gonzalez, Santiago/Kas, Christopher vs WC Cipolla, Flavio/Lorenzi, Paolo
(2) Bryan, Bob/Bryan, Mike - Bye

[anxpuna]

Tournament: Internazionali BNL d'Italia
Dates: May 14 - 20, 2012
Location: Rome, Italy
Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $2,168,400
Surface: Clay/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Sergio Palmieri
Web Site: http://www.internazionalibnlditalia.com/

1. Victoria Azarenka (BLR)
2. Maria Shrapova (RUS)
3. Petra Kvitova (CZE)
4. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
5. Samantha Stosur (AUS)
6. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
7. Marion Bartoli (FRA)
8. Na Li (CHN)
9. Vera Zvonareva (RUS)
10. Serena Williams (USA)
11. Andrea Petkovic (GER)
12. Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
13. Sabine Lisicki (GER)
14. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
15. Julia Goerges (GER)
16. Angelique Kerber (GER)
17. Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
18. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
19. Roberta Vinci (ITA)
20. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
21. Maria Kirilenko (RUS)
22. Anast. Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)
23. Shuai Peng (CHN)
24. Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
25. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
26. Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)
27. Petra Cetkovska (CZE)
28. Monica Niculescu (ROU)
29. Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)
30. Sara Errani (ITA)
31. Jie Zheng (CHN)
32. Christina McHale (USA)
33. Kaia Kanepi (EST)
34. Nadia Petrova (RUS)
35. Ksenia Pervak (KAZ)
36. Polona Hercog (SLO)
37. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
38. Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
39. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)
40. Iveta Benesova (CZE)
41. Marina Erakovic (NZL)
42. Simona Halep (ROU)
43. Timea Bacsinszky (SUI)
44. Qualifier
45. Qualifier
46. Qualifier
47. Qualifier
48. Qualifier
49. Qualifier
50. Qualifier
51. Qualifier
52. Qualifier
53. Qualifier
54. Qualifier
55. Qualifier
56. Qualifier

[anxpuna]

Tournament Name: INTERNAZIONALI BNL D’ITALIA
Location: ROME, ITALY
Dates: Sunday 13 MAY–Sunday 20 MAY 2012
Prize Money: €2,427,975 (Total Financial Commitment €2,950,475)
SITE: FORO ITALICO
VIALE DEI GLADIATORI 31
00135 ROME
SURFACE: RED CLAY
BALL: DUNLOP FORT CLAY COURT
WEB SITE: www.internazionalibnlditalia.it

Qualifying draw: Friday, May 11, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, May 12, tba
Doubles draw: Saturday, May 12, 2:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 1000
F: 600
SF: 360
QF: 180
R16: 90
R32: 45 (Seeds 1-8: 10)
R64: 10 (WC: 0)
Q: +25
Q14: 16
Q28: 0

Entry deadline: April 2, 2012
Seeding: May 7, 2012

1. Novak Djokovic (SRB)
2. Rafael Nadal (ESP)
3. Roger Federer (SUI)
4. Andy Murray (GBR)
5. David Ferrer (ESP)
6. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
7. Tomas Berdych (CZE)
8. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
9. Mardy Fish (USA)
10. Juan Martin del Potro (ARG)
11. John Isner (USA)
12. Nicolas Almagro (ESP)
13. Gilles Simon (FRA)
14. Gael Monfils (FRA)
15. Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
16. Juan Monaco (ARG)
17. Kei Nishikori (JPN)
18. Richard Gasquet (FRA)
19. Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
20. Florian Mayer (GER)
21. Jurgen Melzer (AUT)
22. Alexandr-Dolgopolov (UKR)
23. Marin Cilic (CRO)
24. Radek Stepanek (CZE)
25. Milos Raonic (CAN)
26. Marcel Granollers (ESP)
27. Viktor Troicki (SRB)
28. Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
29. Andy Roddick (USA)
30. Julien Benneteau (FRA)
31. Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)
32. Kevin Anderson (RSA)
33. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)
34. Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)
35. Bernard Tomic (AUS)
36. Carlos Berlocq (ARG)
37. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)
38. Pablo Andujar (ESP)
39. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)
40. Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)
41. Denis Istomin (UZB)
42. Andreas Seppi (ITA)
43. Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)
44. Donald Young (USA)
45. Qualifier
46. Qualifier
47. Qualifier
48. Qualifier
49. Qualifier
50. Qualifier
51. Qualifier
52. Qualifier
53. Qualifier
54. Qualifier
55. Qualifier
56. Qualifier

[anxpuna]

Qualifying Draw - ATP

Ramos, Albert ESP 43
Haase, Robin NED 45
Nalbandian, David ARG 49
Kubot, Lukasz POL 51
Falla, Alejandro COL 53
Giraldo, Santiago COL 54
Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 55
Fognini, Fabio ITA 57
Harrison, Ryan USA 58
Karlovic, Ivo CRO 60
Muller, Gilles LUX 61
Volandri, Filippo ITA 62
Malisse, Xavier BEL 67
Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 68
Montanes, Albert ESP 69
Cipolla, Flavio ITA 70
Ebden, Matthew AUS 72
Soeda, Go JPN 74
Petzschner, Philipp GER 75
Starace, Potito ITA 76
Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 78
Querrey, Sam USA 80
Andreev, Igor RUS 82
Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 84
(WC)
(WC)
(WC)
(WC)

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Qualifying Draw - WTA


CIRSTEA, SORANA
MARTINEZ SANCHEZ, MARIA JOSE
GAJDOSOVA, JARMILA
PASZEK, TAMIRA S
MARTIC, PETRA
KING, VANIA
ARVIDSSON, SOFIA
PEER, SHAHAR
WOZNIAK, ALEKSANDRA
SUAREZ NAVARRO, CARLA
PARMENTIER, PAULINE B
CHAKVETADZE, ANNA
BONDARENKO, KATERYNA
SOLER-ESPINOSA, SILVIA
HSIEH, SU-WEI
LARSSON, JOHANNA J
WILLIAMS, VENUS MDWC
GOVORTSOVA, OLGA
LEPCHENKO, VARVARA
DUSHEVINA, VERA
ARN, GRETA
VESNINA, ELENA
KEOTHAVONG, ANNE
STEPHENS, SLOANE A
TATISHVILI, ANNA
HAMPTON, JAMIE L
RODIONOVA, ANASTASIA
JOVANOVSKI, BOJANA
Qualifing Cutoff Date 4/23/2012

http://www.federtennis.it/pdf/RomeQ2012.pdf

[zzbust]

So this time around Andy should be fined, right? Second masters absence...

[wpFWNoIt]

Maybe he's taking the whole clay season off (give RG a shot) but really save energy for the glass/Olympics/US Open Series?

[teentodiefows]

So this time around Andy should be fined, right? Second masters absence...

I believe he's still officially rehabbing his hamstring?

[zzbust]

I believe he's still officially rehabbing his hamstring?

So there was an "official" reason after all...

[ViagraFeller]

I believe he's still officially rehabbing his hamstring?

So there was an "official" reason after all...

I believe it´s the same kind of thing with Clijsters. I don´t think you can put ¨f*** clay¨ on a report.

[zzbust]

I believe it´s the same kind of thing with Clijsters. I don´t think you can put ¨f*** clay¨ on a report.

LOL! Though I don't get it with Kim. She's been to the final of RG and has the game for it. One would believe she'd love clay with her phenomenal defending abilities.

[peemovvie]

LOL! Though I don't get it with Kim. She's been to the final of RG and has the game for it. One would believe she'd love clay with her phenomenal defending abilities.

Kim's dislike of clay only seemed to surface after the wrist incident. Personally, I've always thought there was a fear factor that accounted in part for her not wanting to be on the surface any more than absolutely necessary. Her surgeons told her there was no guarantee that her wrist would hold up post-surgery, and the heavier ball that comes from clay matches posed a greater threat to its integrity.

[bashansasasasa]

WTA Qualifying Draw

First Round

[1] SUAREZ NAVARRO, Carla ESP vs DULKO, Gisela ARG
LUCIC, Mirjana CRO vs [16] HAMPTON, Jamie USA
[2] MARTIC, Petra CRO vs HLAVACKOVA, Andrea CZE
ORMAECHEA, Paula ARG vs [15] JOHANSSON, Mathilde FRA

[3] WOZNIAK, Aleksandra CAN vs KUDRYAVTSEVA, Alla RUS
WC BURNETT, Nastassja ITA vs [13] LARSSON, Johanna SWE
[4] SOLER-ESPINOSA, Silvia ESP vs DOMINGUEZ LINO, Lourdes ESP
TSURENKO, Lesia UKR vs [9] ARN, Greta HUN

[5] BONDARENKO, Kateryna UKR vs RODIONOVA, Anastasia AUS
CHANG, Kai-Chen TPE vs [10] DUSHEVINA, Vera RUS
[6] PARMENTIER, Pauline FRA vs WC GRYMALSKA, Anastasia ITA
CRAYBAS, Jill USA vs [11] GOVORTSOVA, Olga BLR

[7] HSIEH, Su-Wei TPE vs WC VIRGILI, Alexia ITA
MATTEK-SANDS, Bethanie USA vs [14] STEPHENS, Sloane USA
[8] TATISHVILI, Anna GEO vs CHAKVETADZE, Anna RUS
WC DENTONI, Corinna ITA vs [12] LEPCHENKO, Varvara USA

[zzbust]

So if everything goes as planned this time Milos faces Rafa in Round 2. Yikes

[zzbust]

Aza, A-Rad, SW and Woz all in the same half. Packed.

[enencephoth]

And Serena and Wozniacki in the same 16 again.

[hs6KnlcW]

And azarenka and radwanska in the same half again!

[anxpuna]

For those who are interested the WTA pre qualifying draw looked like this:

Anastasia Grymalska v Alessia Bertoia
Giulia Bruschi v Federica Di Sarra

Nastassja Burnett v Deborah Chiesa
Alice Matteucci v Marina Shamayko


Alexia Virgili v Miriana Tona
Alisa Kleybanova v Alice Savoretti


Corinna Dentoni v Claudia Giovine
Stefania Chieppa v Camilla Rosatello

Qualifying WC's went to Virgili, Burnett, Dentoni and Grymalska.