I decided that Ivo Minar needs a thread now! He had a good year in 2005, as a qualifier reaching the Final of Sydney, putting on a spirited fight against Hewitt and also he reached the Amersfoort semi finals, losing to Calleri.

I also remember a good match in Dubai against Federer, where Roger won 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(5)

Have a good 2006 Ivo!

Ivo is in the semi final of the dnepropetrovsk challenger playing Raemon Sluiter good luck Ivo!

Ivo lost 3-6 6-7 :sad:

Exxonmobil Open - Qatar

(1) FEDERER, Roger SUI vs (WC) MINAR, Ivo CZE
SANTORO, Fabrice FRA vs Q
KHALFAN, Sultan QAT vs BAGHDATIS, Marcos CYP
HANESCU, Victor ROM vs (8) LOPEZ, Feliciano ESP

(3) GASQUET, Richard FRA vs HENMAN, Tim GBR
HAAS, Tommy GER vs WAWRINKA, Stanislas SUI
YOUZHNY, Mikhai RUS vs BJORKMAN, Jonas SWE
SANGUINETTI, Davide ITA vs (6) ROCHUS, Olivier BEL

(7) MONFILS, Gael FRA vs ZIB, Tomas CZE
MIRNYI, Max BLR vs MOODIE, Wesley RSA
Q vs TURSUNOV, Dmitry RUS
(WC) EL AYNAOUI, Younes MAR vs (4) GROSJEAN, Sebastien FRA

(5) ANDREEV, Igor RUS vs Q
VOLANDRI, Filippo ITA vs Q
PAVEL, Andrei ROM vs VIK, Robin CZE
ROCHUS, Christophe BEL vs (2) DAVYDENKO, Nikolay RUS

nooooo :(

Ivo :crying2:

What about his brother Jan? He is the oldest, but he is worse than Ivo.

Sydney 2008 qualifing 1st round d Victor Hanescu 64 62

I hope he destroys Isner

He won 7-5 7-6(7), didn't face a breakpoint, but converted only one out of 5 or 6.

Another qualifier Alun Jones is waiting for him in the 1st round. Ivo always does well in Sydney so hopefully he will win :yeah:

he won first round
[Q] I Minar (CZE) d [Q] A Jones (AUS) 62 75
but lost 2nd round
E Korolev (RUS) d [Q] I Minar (CZE) 62 63

still good week.

He drew Oscar Hernandez in the 1st round of the AO :lol: Should be an easy job for him.. then Berdych in R2

He drew Oscar Hernandez in the 1st round of the AO :lol: Should be an easy job for him.. then Berdych in R2

:banghead::help:

http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Divers/J_11SE%7E1.GIF

I also notice you didn't mention anything about Stepanek ;)

Ivo play this week in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil
1st round : Ivo Minar (CZE) d (4) Potito Starace (ITA) 64 46 62
2nd round : Ivo Minar (CZE) d Carlos Berlocq (ARG) 63 64
in QF he'll face Fognini

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Ivo has successfully qualified for Monte Carlo :yeah: He beat Benneteau 6-4 6-3 for the first time, and he didn't even take a set off him in their previous 3 meetings :worship:

He can face Haas, Simon, Santoro, Chela, Starace, Nieminen and Ancic in the 1st round. Good luck to him, I hope he doesn't draw Ancic.

EDIT: OMG, he faces Ancic, and then possibly Nadal :shrug:

Well, good luck in Barcelona then.

the worst draw. :(

this week he climbs back to his career high rank, 70. so new career high is not far away.

I just saw Ivo pulled out in poetschach, therefore he will play Dusseldorf World Team Cup

I just saw Ivo pulled out in poetschach, therefore he will play Dusseldorf World Team Cup

Not clever decision. I thought Czech Republic isn't playing Dusseldorf this year :confused:

And he might have pulled out because of his ankle injury which made him retire in Barcelona.

Not clever decision. I thought Czech Republic isn't playing Dusseldorf this year :confused:

And he might have pulled out because of his ankle injury which made him retire in Barcelona.

Czech Rep got the wildcard.. and I can see the reason why he pulled out and he wrote: Dusseldorf WC

OK, that makes sense. Where did he write it?

OK, that makes sense. Where did he write it?

He wrote it in ATP Playerzone...

Ivo is in Hamburg MD despite losing to Horna in qualies:

LOPEZ, Feliciano ESP v (LL) Minar, Ivo CZE [Minar replaces Almagro]

He's then facing Ferrer if he beats Lopez :rolleyes:

Ivo lost to Ferrer 3-6 3-6 but at least showed some fighting in the end. He should reach his new career highest ranking next week, something around 63

Ivo out of Dusseldorf :eek: and gets replaced by Tabara.

I hope he's OK for RG, hopefully he has no serious injury

Final round of qualifying, vs Chardy. Sydney 2009

Anything decided on his suspension yet?