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#1 ·
As asked for by hitler ;)
 
#52 ·
it's a tournament held in Barcelona normally in December. It's for the top 8 Spanish guys and the top 8 Spanish girls...last year they couldn't hold it cos they ran out of time...that's why I'm wondering if the same thing will happen again this year since there's the Davis Cup and all...
 
#54 ·
I hope he is training his arse off somewhere getting prepared to run around the court in the Mantilla style and maybe pull of another good run.

I remember he lost a tough match to Schalken in Chennai and he isn't on the list to play there in Jan. His entry ranking was high enough and I wonder where he is going to play pre-Aus Open and if he plays here, he better not play a favourite of mine.
 
#55 ·
Since the Davis Cup final is on this week I thought this would be time to reflect on Felix's great DC performance.

Basically what happened was that Spain were relegated to the Playoffs in 1999 and they were drawn against New Zealand and they played them away on a fast Plexipave surface.

What happened was none of the big guys were prepared to travel to NZ to play this match.

Mantilla volunteered and with a team of Clavet, Balcells and Alonso they got Spain back into the World Group.

Mantilla def Mark Nielsen 6-2 3-6 4-6 7-6(2) 6-3. If it wasn't for him winning that first match and giving confidence to the others they wouldn't have been promoted.

After helping them regain World Group status he was dumped in 2000, then again the team rallied and thanked him for his 1999 efforts.
 
#57 · (Edited)
I saw that Felix is an alternate for Doha, though there are a few above him and he will have to qualify for that tournament.

Then again it's interesting since Chennai had a lower ranking cutoff and Felix could have made the main draw.
 
#59 · (Edited)
~EMiLiTA~ said:
have u seen the Dubai player list yet GWH? if so, where can I see it?
It was actually on the tournament thread, and then I went there to look and it's not there. I will try and look again.

I know Federer and Gaudio are playing.
 
#60 ·
This was the initial list.

Federer, Roger SUI 1
Gaudio, Gaston ARG 10
Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 15
Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 16
Pavel, Andrei ROM 20
Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 22
Lopez, Feliciano ESP 25
El Aynaoui, Younes MAR 27
Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 28
Johansson, Thomas SWE 30
Soderling, Robin SWE 34
Verdasco, Fernando ESP 36
Volandri, Filippo ITA 43
Beck, Karol SVK 45
Ferrer, David ESP 48
Rusedski, Greg GBR 49
Andreev, Igor RUS 50
Nadal, Rafael ESP 51
Santoro, Fabrice FRA 52
Costa, Albert ESP 56
Karlovic, Ivo CRO 59
Arazi, Hicham MAR 60
Koubek, Stefan AUT 62
Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 65
Muller, Gilles LUX 68
 
#62 ·
Alternates
1. Sanchez, David ESP 74
2. Dupuis, Antony FRA 79
3. Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 80
4. Hernych, Jan CZE 83
5. Ulihrach, Bohdan CZE 85
6. Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 92
7. Mantilla, Felix ESP 98
8. Patience, Olivier FRA 120
9. Zib, Tomas CZE 122
10. Vanek, Jiri CZE 126
11. Mahut, Nicolas FRA 129
12. Lisnard, Jean-Rene FRA 130
13. Peya, Alexander AUT 131
14. Karanusic, Roko CRO 132
15. Thomann, Nicolas FRA @132
 
#64 ·
I found it while I was reading the Frenchie section as I was looking at the steveg website as well.
 
#66 ·
I made a mistake and I meant Doha and I don't know the Dubai ones are out yet, that's the same week as Acapulco.
 
#68 ·
Dubai usually gets a very good draw and you are trying to go there in 2005.
 
#70 ·
I saw their site and it says under construction, but for some reason Agassi is on the front of the page. It's not like they couldn't afford him.
 
#72 ·
I thought you will see him in Melbourne, then again he normally plays Dubai.

I know Felix made the final there one year.
 
#74 ·
~EMiLiTA~ said:
yes of course I'll see him in Melbourne but I want to see him in Dubai too ;)
Anyway, you won't have a problem finding me in Melbourne, though I won't always be wearing the Norwegian hat.
 
#76 ·
joeb_uk said:
George, i am curious to see why you go to the AO when its so far away? unless its one of your favourite tournaments is it?
Now I am in Australia and it makes sense, but when I was based at home I used to go there for my work holidays and an excuse to get out of the winter.

It's a great event and I love it.
 
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