Tennis Week 1

[LilEagle]

ADELAIDE - 31 December 2006 - 7 January 2007 (Outdoor Hard)

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Name	Country	WR	DOB
Nieminen Jarkko	FIN	15	23 July 1981
Djokovic Novak	SRB	16	22 May 1987
Gasquet Richard	FRA	18	18 June 1986
Stepanek Radek	CZE	19	27 November 1978
Hewitt Lleyton	AUS	20	24 February 1981
Hrbaty Dominik	SVK	21	4 January 1978
Clement Arnaud	FRA	42	17 December 1977
Simon Gilles	FRA	45	27 December 1984
Mathieu Paul-Henri	FRA	55	12 January 1982
Mayer Florian	GER	57	5 October 1983
Becker Benjamin	GER	58	16 June 1981
Serra Florent	FRA	61	28 February 1981
Tipsarevic Janko	SRB	65	22 June 1984
Goldstein Paul	<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />USA	72	4 August 1976
Spadea Vincent	USA	74	19 July 1974
Hajek Jan	CZE	76	7 August 1983
Hernych Jan	CZE	77	7 July 1979
Vassallo Arguello Martin	ARG	80	10 February 1980
Dancevic Frank	CAN	87	26 September 1984
Del Potro Juan Martin	ARG	91	23 September 1988
Kunitsyn Igor	RUS	93	30 September 1981
Delic Amer	USA	96	30 June 1982
Dlouhy Lukas	CZE	99	9 April 1983
Vanek Jiri	CZE	102	24 April 1978
Johansson Joachim	SWE	193	1 July 1982

"Adelaide will be the first tournament on the ATP Tour to trial the 32-player round-robin format. The tournament will start with a 16-man play-off involving four qualifiers plus the 12 lowest-ranked direct entrants. The eight winners will go through to a 24-player round-robin draw, involving groups of 3, from which the winners will advance to quarter-finals played under the traditional elimination format." "Recent winners include Florent Serra in 2006, Joachim Johansson (2005), Dominik Hrbaty (2004), Nikolay Davydenko (2003), Tim Henman (2002), Tommy Haas (2001) and Lleyton Hewitt in 1998 & 2000." There is a new surface on the centre court and sources say that is quicker and with a lower bounce on the ball then before. Qatar ExxonMobile Open - Doha - 1 January - 6 January (Outdoor Hard) Davydenko, Ljubicic, Haas, Grosjean, Murray, Baggy, Youzhny, Soderling, Vliegen, Wawrinka and so on.... "Recent winners include Roger Federer in 2005 & 2006, Nicolas Escude (2004), Stefan Koubek (2003), Younes El Eynaoui (2002), Marcelo Rios (2001) and Fabrice Santoro in 2000" Slow courts with high bounce on the ball. You instantly pay for misstakes and it's important to be patient, very hard to predict winners in some games. Chennai Open - 1 January - 6 January (Outdoor Hard) Nadal, Andreev, Nalbandian, Moya, Srichaphan, Malisse, Santaro, Bennetau and so on.......... "Recent winners include Ivan Ljubicic in 2006, Carlos Moya (2004 & 2005), Paradorn Srichaphan (2003), Guillermo Canas (2002), Michal Tabara (2001) and Jerome Golmard in 2000." Quick courts with high bounce and balls tends to fly. All the asian players like it here and they got a great support from the fans. Srichaphan has been in four concecutive finals from 2002-2005. Moya also likes it here and has won 14 of his last 15 matches here at Chennai. Hopman Cup - 30 December 2006 - 5 January 2007 "The Hopman Cup is an ITF sanctioned event in which 2 groups of 4 take part in a round-robin format tournament with the group winners advancing to the final. Each team consists of one male player and one female player. Each match-up between two teams consists of 1 women's singles match, 1 men's singles match and 1 mixed doubles match."

Russia	Spain
Nadia Petrova Dmitry Tursunov	Anabel Medina Garrigues Tommy Robredo
Czech Republic	USA
Lucie Safarova Tomas Berdych	Venus Williams Mardy Fish
Croatia	Australia
Sanja Ancic Mario Ancic	Alicia Molik Mark Philippoussis
Germany	India
Martina Muller Nicolas Kiefer	Sania Mirza Rohan Bopanna

It sounds like a great tournament to waste some money on and the americans like it here.. I'll get back after the draws...

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Re: Tennis Week 1 Kiefer will skip the Hopman Cup. France replaces Germany