[--Aussie--]

Chiudinelli M. - Sirianni J. 6:3 3:6 6:7

[Ozone]

OMG!! How many 3rd set tie-breakers can their be in one tournament!! Tough loss for Chuidinelli and Koubek, I really wanted them to win.

[Ozone]

If alves beats ERV I will be 0/4 in TT Seriously though, has their ever been a challenger with this many 3rd set tie-breakers? I doubt it.

[Ozone]

Alves-ERV score??

[juriga-hadr]

Chiudinelli similar result like Quereshi yesterday. Lose with totaly out of form player. What a f.....g results!

[Ozone]

ERV-Alves score????????? Of course, like yesterday, the scores I want to know most take the longest time.

[theUnheard]

Alves won 3:1 ret.

[Zirconek]

MAIN DRAW

FIRST ROUND

Fabrice Santoro FRA [1/WC] vs. Alexandre Kudryavtsev RUS | 6-2 6-4
Raven Klaasen RSA [WC] vs. Noam Okun ISR [Q] | 6-4 7-6(6)
Björn Rehnquist SWE vs. Jose Checa-Calvo ESP | 6-2 6-1
Nicolas Mahut FRA [6] vs. George Bastl SUI | 7-6(8) 7-6(2)

Thiago Alves BRA [4] vs. Denys Molchanov UKR [Q] | 7-6(3) 6-1
Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA vs. Izak van der Merwe RSA | 4-6 6-2 7-6(4)
Stefan Koubek AUT vs. Woong-Sun Jun KOR [Q] | 6-3 6-7(7) 6-3
Harel Levy ISR vs. Chris Guccione AUS [7] | 7-5 7-6(7)

Karol Beck SVK [8] vs. Michel Koning NED | 6-4 6-4
Nick Lindahl AUS vs. Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi PAK | 3-6 7-6(8) 6-4
Rik de Voest RSA vs. Chris Eaton GBR [Q] | 6-2 4-6 6-1
Carlos Poch-Gradin ESP vs. Benjamin Janse van Rensburg RSA [LL]* | 6-1 6-1

Marco Chiudinelli SUI vs. Michail Elgin RUS [5] | 2-6 6-2 6-4
Joseph Sirianni AUS vs. Sergei Bubka UKR | 6-3 7-6(7)
Fritz Wolmarans RSA [WC] vs. Andrew Anderson RSA [WC] | 6-7(3) 6-3 7-6(5)
Fernando Vicente ESP vs. Gilles Muller LUX [2] | 6-7(4) 6-4 6-2

* Van Rensburg replaces Michael Berrer GER [3]

[Zirconek]

SECOND ROUND

Fabrice Santoro FRA [1/WC] vs. Raven Klaasen RSA [WC]
Björn Rehnquist SWE vs. Nicolas Mahut FRA [6]
Thiago Alves BRA [4] vs. Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA | 3-1 ret.
Harel Levy ISR vs. Stefan Koubek AUT | 7-5 5-7 7-6(10)

Karol Beck SVK [8] vs. Nick Lindahl AUS
Rik de Voest RSA vs. Carlos Poch-Gradin ESP
Joseph Sirianni AUS vs. Marco Chiudinelli SUI | 3-6 6-3 7-6(10)
Fritz Wolmarans RSA [WC] vs. Fernando Vicente ESP | 6-1 6-4

[Zirconek]

DOUBLES DRAW | FIRST ROUND

De Voest & Lipsky [RSA/USA, 1] vs. Koning & Molchanov [NED/UKR] | 7-6(3) 4-6 10-8
Alves & Vicente [BRA/ESP] vs. Chiudinelli & Santoro [SUI/FRA] | 6-2 6-4
Qureshi & Sirianni [PAK/AUS, 3] vs. Andersen & Coertzen [RSA, WC] | 6-3 6-4
Bastl & Guccione [SUI/AUS] vs. Beck & Levinsky [SVK/CZE] | 6-3 6-7(3) 11-9

Levy & Okun [ISR] vs. A. Anderson & Janse van Rensburg [RSA, WC] | 6-3 6-2
Bubka & Muller [UKR/LUX] vs. Jun & Rehnquist [KOR/SWE, Alt]* | 6-3 6-1
Mahut & Roger-Vasselin [FRA] vs. Van der Merwe & Wolmarans [RSA, WC] | 7-6(3) 4-6 10-7
Elgin & Kudryavtsev [RUS, 2] vs. Checa-Calvo & Poch-Gradin [ESP] | 2-6 7-5 10-7


*Jun & Rehnquist replace Berrer & Haggard [GER/RSA, 4]


DOUBLES DRAW | QUARTERFINALS

De Voest & Lipsky [RSA/USA, 1] vs. Alves & Vicente [BRA/ESP]
Qureshi & Sirianni [PAK/AUS, 3] vs. Bastl & Guccione [SUI/AUS]

Levy & Okun [ISR] vs. Bubka & Muller [UKR/LUX]
Elgin & Kudryavtsev [RUS, 2] vs. Mahut & Roger-Vasselin [FRA]

[ImmzB]

Well done Qureshi & Sirianni

[Truc]

Anybody knows the reason why ERV retired? It's not in the draw sheet.

[Zirconek]

Originally Posted by Truc

Anybody knows the reason why ERV retired? It's not in the draw sheet.

foot injury

http://www.supersport.com/tennis/art...weto&id=296288

[Zirconek]

Interesting article about the tournament: "Ashe's dream becomes reality"

http://www.sport24.co.za/Content/Ten...ecomes_reality

[azza]

Joe Sirianni

Nick Lindahl