Qualifying Draw

2009 US Open Men's Qualifying Draw

Thomaz Bellucci BRA (1) vs. Giancarlo Petrazzuolo ITA
Grigor Dimitrov BUL vs. Tobias Kamke GER
Michael McClune USA (WC) vs. Todd Widom USA
Scoville Jenkins USA vs. Dominik Hrbaty SVK (30)

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Horacio Zeballos ARG (2) vs. Xavier Malisse BEL
Nick Lindahl AUS vs. Sergei Bubka UKR
Daniel Silva BRA vs. Riccardo Ghedin ITA
Jose Checa-Calvo ESP vs. Stefan Koubek AUT (19)

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Peter Luczak AUS (3) vs. Ivan Dodig CRO
Pablo Santos ESP vs. Carlos Salamanca COL
Raven Klaasen RSA vs. Matthias Bachinger GER
Michael Yani USA vs. Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA (29)

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Adrian Mannarino FRA (4) vs. Simon Stadler GER
Alexandre Kudryavtsev RUS vs. Ricardo Mello BRA
Marsel Ilhan TUR vs. Ryan Harrison USA (WC)
Jorda Cox USA (WC) vs. Sebastian De Chaunac FRA (23)

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Josselin Ouanna FRA (5) vs. Jan Minar CZE
Gaston Gaudio ARG vs. Julian Reister GER
Daniel Evans GBR vs. Julio Silva BRA
Victor Estrella DOM vs. Kevin Anderson RSA (22)

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Frank Dancevic CAN (6) vs. Dominik Meffert GER
Alex Bogdanovic GBR vs. Alexander Peya AUT
Go Soeda JPN vs. Jesse Witten USA
Luigi D'Agord ITA vs. Stephane Bohli SUI (21)

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Rui Machado POR (7) vs. Ricardo Hocevar BRA
Santiago Gonzalez MEX vs. Alexander Domijan USA (WC)
Caio Zampieri BRA vs. Dieter Kindlmann GER
Tim Smyczek USA (WC) vs. Arnaud Clement FRA (20)

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Roko Karanusic CRO (8) vs. George Bastl SUI
Izak Van Der Merwe RSA vs. Eric Gomes BRA
Joseph Sirianni AUS vs. Conor Niland IRL
Prakash Amritraj IND vs. Alejandro Falla COL (31)

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Michael Russel USA (9) vs. David Guez FRA
Peter Polansky CAN vs. Alex Kuznetsov USA
Yannick Mertens BEL vs. Carlos Poch-Gradin ESP
Yuichi Sugita JPN vs. Lukas Lacko SVK (28)

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Michael Berrer GER (10) vs. Sam Warburg USA
Stephane Robert FRA vs. Vincent Millot FRA
Ryler DeHeart USA vs. Kyu Tae Im KOR
Samuel Groth AUS vs. Blaz Kavcic SLO (25)

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Santiago Giraldo COL (11) vs. Martin Fischer AUT
Juan Pablo Brzezicki BRA vs. Tennys Sandgren USA (WC)
Lester Cook USA vs. Inigo Cervantes-Huegun ESP
Michael Lammer SUI vs. Laurent Recouderc FRA (24)

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Lukasz Kubot POL (12) vs. Lukas Dlouhy CZE
Tatsuma Ito JPN vs. Pavel Snobel CZE
Grega Zemlja SLO vs. Rik De Voest RSA
Diego Alvarez ARG vs. Carsten Ball AUS (27)

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Daniel Brands GER (13) vs. Niels Desein GER
Ryan Lipman USA (WC) vs. Illya Marchenko UKR
Marinko Matosevic AUS vs. Ruben Bemelmans BEL
Joao Souza BRA vs. Marco Chiudinellis SUI (32)

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Nicolas Mahut FRA (14) vs. Giovanni Lapentti ECU
Marcel Felder URU vs. Michael Venus USA (WC)
Zack Fleishman USA vs. Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ
James Ward GBR vs. Harel Levy ISR (18)

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Vincent Spadea USA (15) vs. Luka Gregorc SLO
Lukas Rosol CZE vs. Jose De Armas VEN
Marco Crugnola ITA vs. Donald Young USA
Guillermo Olaso ESP vs. Paolo Lorenzi ITA (17)

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Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA (16) vs. Somdev Devvarman IND
Guillermo Canas ARG vs. Joshua Goodall GBR
Jerzy Janowicz POL vs. Andrea Stoppini ITA
Blake Strode USA (WC) vs. Alexandre Sidorenko FRA (26)

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Order Of Play- Tuesday: http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=topnav

Hello. Thinking of paying a trip to the Q first round tomorrow and I am not familiar with the players. Would someone suggest me any matches that possibly a good match? Thanks so much in advance.

GL to :yeah:
Gaston
Dan Evans
Zeballos
Polansky
Thomaz Bellucci
Juampi
Ball

Mannarino & Ouanna not on the OOP for Tuesday.

I know they will probaly play on Wednesday but is it because some-one might be pulling out of the Main Draw and with them as the next ALT, they would get in Directly and there wouldnt be a Lucky Loser spots.

Just a Thought.

Thank you for posting the draw :yeah:

2009 US Open Men's Qualifying Draw


Daniel Brands GER (13) vs. Niels Desein GER
Ryan Lipman USA (WC) vs. Illya Marchenko UKR
Marinko Matosevic AUS vs. Ruben Bemelmans BEL
Joao Souza BRA vs. Marco Chiudinellis SUI (32)


Desein is Belgian :p

Grigor...what a bad draw

Good Luck:

[1] | Grigor Dimitrov, Scoville Jenkins
[2] | Nick Lindahl, Sergei Bubka, Jose Checa-Calvo
[3] | Ivan Dodig, Matthias Bachinger, Edouard Roger-Vasselin
[4] | Adrian Mannarino, Simon Stadler, Ricardo Mello, Marsel Ilhan, Sébastien de Chaunac
[5] | Jan Minar
[6] | Dominik Meffert, Go Soeda, Jesse Witten
[7] | Arnaud Clément
[8] | George Bastl, Izak van der Merwe, Joseph Sirianni, Alejandro Falla
[9] | Peter Polansky, Alex Kuznetsov, Carlos Poch-Gradin, Lukas Lacko
[10] | Michael Berrer, Sam Warburg, Stéphane Robert
[11] | Santiago Giraldo, Martin Fischer, Juan-Pablo Brzezicki, Michael Lammer, Iñigo Cervantes, Laurent Recouderc
[12] | Lukasz Kubot, Lukas Dlouhy
[13] | Daniel Brands, Marco Chiudinelli, Ruben Bemelmans
[14] | Zack Fleishman
[15] | Marco Crugnola
[16] | -

Hello. Thinking of paying a trip to the Q first round tomorrow and I am not familiar with the players. Would someone suggest me any matches that possibly a good match? Thanks so much in advance.

I'm quite envious. Really wish I could go.

I think these matches are quite entertaining:

Scoville Jenkins USA vs. Dominik Hrbaty SVK (30)
Even if they are both not in prime shape, Hrbaty is still capable of showing glances of when he was in his prime, and he remains a fighter. He should be able to step it up in Grand Slams. Scoville, of course, is a local favourite and will want to lose coûte que coûte.
Horacio Zeballos ARG (2) vs. Xavier Malisse BEL
Possibly the best match of the draw. Zeballos has been racking up the wins in Challengers this year, and Malisse has had some good results too. I am expecting the Belgian enfant terrible to win this in straight sets, but it should definitely be an entertaining match, if only for the contrast in game styles, and for Malisse's ever-explosive character.
Adrian Mannarino FRA (4) vs. Simon Stadler GER
Even if Stadler is absolutely dreadful this year, Mannarino's matches are always entertaining. It might well not be the best match of the day, but it's worth going to for a set or so.
Prakash Amritraj IND vs. Alejandro Falla COL (31)
This should be a very good match. Prakash with his serve-and-volley style, and Falla's grinding. Falla is actually a very good hard court player and I am slightly favouring him in this. Should be one of the best matches of the day.
Peter Polansky CAN vs. Alex Kuznetsov USA
An in-form Kuznetsov, in my opinion robbed of a WC, against a good young Canadian. Both have a nice game to watch. I'd watch this, but mostly because most are favourites of mine.
Santiago Giraldo COL (11) vs. Martin Fischer AUT
This is the ultimate contrast in game styles. Giraldo will be pounding the ball; Fischer pushing it. And that's exactly the kind of game that can totally unsettle Giraldo mentally, so you should watch out for his explosive characters if things go awry for him.
Lukasz Kubot POL (12) vs. Lukas Dlouhy CZE
Kubot is a joy to watch when he is in form, and Dlouhy is still a good player even if he barely plays singles these days.
Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA (16) vs. Somdev Devvarman IND
Bogomolov is in form and Devvarman is overhyped, but not at all a bad player, especially on the US hardcourts.
Blake Strode USA (WC) vs. Alexandre Sidorenko FRA (26)
Strode seems one of the most promising young Americans, so use this chance to see him.

Marco on hard, that will be fun :) Good luck anyways... :bounce: And to Łukasz and Gastón too.

I'm quite envious. Really wish I could go.

I think these matches are quite entertaining:

Scoville Jenkins USA vs. Dominik Hrbaty SVK (30)
Even if they are both not in prime shape, Hrbaty is still capable of showing glances of when he was in his prime, and he remains a fighter. He should be able to step it up in Grand Slams. Scoville, of course, is a local favourite and will want to lose coûte que coûte.
Horacio Zeballos ARG (2) vs. Xavier Malisse BEL
Possibly the best match of the draw. Zeballos has been racking up the wins in Challengers this year, and Malisse has had some good results too. I am expecting the Belgian enfant terrible to win this in straight sets, but it should definitely be an entertaining match, if only for the contrast in game styles, and for Malisse's ever-explosive character.
Adrian Mannarino FRA (4) vs. Simon Stadler GER
Even if Stadler is absolutely dreadful this year, Mannarino's matches are always entertaining. It might well not be the best match of the day, but it's worth going to for a set or so.
Prakash Amritraj IND vs. Alejandro Falla COL (31)
This should be a very good match. Prakash with his serve-and-volley style, and Falla's grinding. Falla is actually a very good hard court player and I am slightly favouring him in this. Should be one of the best matches of the day.
Peter Polansky CAN vs. Alex Kuznetsov USA
An in-form Kuznetsov, in my opinion robbed of a WC, against a good young Canadian. Both have a nice game to watch. I'd watch this, but mostly because most are favourites of mine.
Santiago Giraldo COL (11) vs. Martin Fischer AUT
This is the ultimate contrast in game styles. Giraldo will be pounding the ball; Fischer pushing it. And that's exactly the kind of game that can totally unsettle Giraldo mentally, so you should watch out for his explosive characters if things go awry for him.
Lukasz Kubot POL (12) vs. Lukas Dlouhy CZE
Kubot is a joy to watch when he is in form, and Dlouhy is still a good player even if he barely plays singles these days.
Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA (16) vs. Somdev Devvarman IND
Bogomolov is in form and Devvarman is overhyped, but not at all a bad player, especially on the US hardcourts.
Blake Strode USA (WC) vs. Alexandre Sidorenko FRA (26)
Strode seems one of the most promising young Americans, so use this chance to see him.

Thank you so much CoocooCachoo. This is a big help. I hope you could go one day or more than one day. :)

Marco on hard, that will be fun :) Good luck anyways... :bounce: And to Łukasz and Gastón too.

I am a Marco fan also.

Allez Seb and Laurent and Forza Stoppo!

Thank you so much CoocooCachoo. This is a big help. I hope you could go one day or more than one day. :)

No problem. I hope you'll have fun! Please report back, would love to read some of your observations.

:wavey:

First ended match of the day Karanusic beats Bastl 60 60 lol
Lacko beats Sugita 64 61

looks like Cañas is out, Sijsling against Goodall now

what happened to canas?

Was Igor Sijsling on the ALT list?

no

How can he get in then?

i only want this to be an error of us open page

Yeah same...

Wouldnt it be Villagran, Nielsen or Qureshi?

Don't think it's an error cause he's playing right now.

Yeah same...

Wouldnt it be Villagran, Nielsen or Qureshi?

Once the QD has been made, the ALTs depend on who is actually on-site. While the order of the ALT list still applies, those who are not there (e.g. Villagran, Nielsen and Qureshi) will not get the ALT spots, so Sijsling became the first in line.

And Zeballos took out Malisse, so I guess I was wrong :o Good win for the Argentine.

Horacio, Daniel, Thomaz :)
Jão :(

Vamos Zampinha, Hocevar, Mello and Juampi tomorrow :yeah:

Qureshi should of been on site!

He was in New York!

Maybe tommorow if some-1 pulls out!

Once the QD has been made, the ALTs depend on who is actually on-site. While the order of the ALT list still applies, those who are not there (e.g. Villagran, Nielsen and Qureshi) will not get the ALT spots, so Sijsling became the first in line.

So if some-1 withdraws tommorow would it go in that order Villagran, Nielsen and Qureshi and them 3 r on site.
If u sign up 2 be an ALT would it go by who has the higher ranking?

No problem. I hope you'll have fun! Please report back, would love to read some of your observations.

:wavey:

Thanks CooCooCachoo. Saying I had fun would be understatement. It was more than great. First time to the Qualies for me.

From your list, I started my day with Amatraj and Falla's match. I would have stayed for this match if it was up to me but we moved on to Peter Polansky and Alex Kuznetsov. First set was very competitive, but Alex went down too quickly after losing the first set in tie-break. He broke his racquet after the match was over.

I couldn't follow your third match of the day suggestion because I had to see Marco. :) He certainly was the better player of the match. Many of Joao Souza's service game went to , 0-30, deuce or more but Marco only had 1 break in each set to finish it.

Your match of the day choice didn't disappoint in the first set. Malisse is a great character. He was speaking to himself almost entire first set. There was a line call disagreement with the Umpire and with the line girl during the tie break. Right before the second set started, he spit out the gum he was chewing onto the court and he looked at either the line lady (who was responsible for the disputed line call) or the audience before him “Do you want gum? Then he picked it back up and threw it away. :p His concentration went away in second set but somehow he came back to break at 4 all and won the second set. Then I left to go check whether Grigor Dimitrov match had started for 10-15 mins. When I came back to Malisse's match, it wasn't pretty for him. He lost it entirely. Zeballos has some lovely drop shots.

My last match choice was Grigor's. But disappointingly, they had moved the match to a different court and when I found out it was already over. I did get a glimpse of Scoville Jenkins and Hrbaty match. Jenkins really outpowered Hrbaty. And Michael McClune and Todd Widom's first set tiebreak was quite intense..

Saw a few practicing players, Soderling, Llodra, Karlovic, F. Lopez.

Here it is, my trip. Thanks for helping me out. I might come back and ask for your suggestion again next year. :worship:

Why Belucci plays Q if he is 68 ranked
what a bad luck for Dimitrov

Why Belucci plays Q if he is 68 ranked
what a bad luck for Dimitrov

He was 117 at the time the rankings were taken into account for US OPEN. After that he won Gstaad and jumped up. Too late to get directly into the main draw, but enough to be seeded 1 in Q.

wow impressive.