Nadal, Puerta, Coria, Kuerten, Robredo, Ferrero, Moya, Ljubicic...

also coming Ivan Ljubičic, Carlos Moya, Rafael Nadal and Juan Carlos Ferrero :worship:

what a claycourt field:eek: :cool:

pretty impressive

Guga:worship: GOOOOOOO GUGAAAAAAAA:banana:!!!!!!

damit lol..this was going to be easy W for Ljubo. lol...Umag isa nice place....playing tennis on the beach...

I think the site is around there. up in the right cornerhttp://www.croatia.hr/photo/slikeBaza/b0c3ddb4-3288-408a-8514-2b1ccfe9a33b/jpeg%20velika%20(750,550).jpg

http://www.travel-tourist.com/pictures/1/01/01/0013/1.jpg

If Rochus can take out Ljubicic, I see no reason to mention his name as part of a dominant clay field.

If Rochus can take out Ljubicic, I see no reason to mention his name as part of a dominant clay field.

I do..playing at home in front of crowd.will help him big time..and knowing how Croats are. the player that plays Ivan will get alot of shit...yelling horns and good stuff like that on serve.

I watched Umag on tv the year Moya and Volandri played the final, lots of great matches.

If Rochus can take out Ljubicic, I see no reason to mention his name as part of a dominant clay field.


Ivan is useless in clay :bigcry:

he is not that bad

Of course he's not, some people seem to be thinking big serve = useless on clay when in fact he reached the SFs in Hamburg last year, beating both Pavel and Youzhny from a set down, before losing in three to Coria (the man whom he happened to beat on clay - yes, you heard it right - in Rome the year before when he made the QFs and lost to the eventual champion, Mantilla, in three sets).

ivan has only played one match on clay this year and people are already saying that he is useless :o

Ljubicic defeated Coria and ferrero on clay (in Rome). Not so bad

all commited to the Croatian Open :eek:

Players committed (from an article on sport.hrt.hr)

Nadal
Puerta
Coria
Kuerten
Robredo
Ferrero
Moya
Ljubicic
Ferrer
Mantilla
Martin
Vicente
Volandri
Novak
Montfils

one WC will be awarded to a Davis Cup member by Pilic
another will likely go to Marin Cilic (RG junior champ)
the third is given out by the Slovenian Tennis Association

what a field :eek:

as a comparison, in prior year, players ranked in the 60-70 range were seeded. this year, they won't be seeded in qualifying...

When is the tournament held?

last week in july

Great for Marin Cilic to make his debut. His run to the RG junior title was impressive! I'm anxious to see how he can handle himself when facing the big boys!

Juanqui should pull out of this and attend a more easily in stead of ,IMO....

nope, he shouldn't :p this is the first step for the tournament director to make a case for moving this tournament into the middle of the claycourt season

Very impressive entry list, it should be great:D!!!!!

GOOOOOO GUGAAAAAAAA:banana:!!!!!!!

Oh, I just hope Guga can win some matches. Vamos!

A lot of RG titles in that field. A big kick in the pants to anybody who mocks the post Wimbledon clay season :yeah:

Still, I wish Rafa would just focus on the hardcourts after Wimbledon so that he can do well in Montreal.

So Puerta has at least one more tournament to play in this year.

NIce field there! I'm surprised that Nadal will be there since I thought he would be concentrating on the hardcourts. He stilll has points to pick up for two more "best 5" little tournaments and more points can't hurt.

well, (according too rasberger, umag tour director) it's not sure that cilic and another croatian player will get WC..
first will for sure get vicente (best carlos moya friend) and second will go to kuerten who is under the "cutt-off" line right now (talk about quallity of the tournament ;))!
the third WC will go to either sasa tuksar (who managed to get into RG through q, just to get his ass kicked by davydenko ;)) or cilic.. this one will be on pilic to decide.

so no WC for slovenians, why would be.. they dont know what tennis is ;)

What about Ancic?

well, (according too rasberger, umag tour director) it's not sure that cilic and another croatian player will get WC..
first will for sure get vicente (best carlos moya friend) and second will go to kuerten who is under the "cutt-off" line right now (talk about quallity of the tournament ;))!
the third WC will go to either sasa tuksar (who managed to get into RG through q, just to get his ass kicked by davydenko ;)) or cilic.. this one will be on pilic to decide.

so no WC for slovenians, why would be.. they dont know what tennis is ;)
there is always a slovenian wc. the slovenian tennis association usually buys one

i doubt vicente will get a wc, he'll have to qualify

A lot of RG titles in that field. A big kick in the pants to anybody who mocks the post Wimbledon clay season :yeah:

Still, I wish Rafa would just focus on the hardcourts after Wimbledon so that he can do well in Montreal.

I think Rafa has some good memories of UMAG :cool:

there is always a slovenian wc. the slovenian tennis association usually buys one

i doubt vicente will get a wc, he'll have to qualify


there is no doubt that he will get one. you should read yesterdays sport news, its all black on white ;)

btw name a few slovenians which got WC in umag... i cant think of any!?

Holy cow. 4 RG champs. Impressive. Is this a Tier I?

Great list :)

Let's hope the Slovenian Tennis Association doesn't give one to the likes of Osabnik or Tkalec :help:

Yes it's great list I hope that Mario'll be here too!!

well Mario is playing in Indianapolis the week before so not sure if he'll be coming back to Umag or not...he never plays there though for some reason..

good field otherwise though!

Holy cow. 4 RG champs. Impressive. Is this a Tier I?

unfortunatelly not:sad::sad:

400.000 $

This is a great field. I've heard wonderful things about this tournament over the years - hope everyone who goes has a fantastic time.

Tommy has a much less chance to win this tournament,but I really hope he will beat some top10s like he did in French open. :angel: That match was so wonderful. :D

GO GUGA!!!!!! :banana:

VAMOS NADAL!!!!! :worship: Hope they'll win.

i gotta chose between this and davis cup...maybe both? lots of tennis in croatia this summer. there's also fed cup in bol...

well Mario is playing in Indianapolis the week before so not sure if he'll be coming back to Umag or not...he never plays there though for some reason..

good field otherwise though!
he doesn't play cause he's much better on hardcourts

Vamos Carlos! :bounce:
He loves this tourney so much :hearts:

Guga and Moya and OPuerta :bounce: