[CooCooCachoo]

Originally Posted by chowdahead25

WARBURG!!!!
Think its his first time playing Wimbledon!
CMON SAM!!!
Some of the people that are skipping are pretty shocking in my opinion.

Definitely not. I watched his final qualifying round match against Kevin Kim in 2007. He won, and went on to lose to Florian Mayer in the MD.

He also played in 2006 (winning only two games against Carlsen) and last year, losing easily to Peya.

[Action Jackson]

Ghem is injured and Luczak on the qualie list is a big joke.

[chowdahead25]

Originally Posted by CooCooCachoo

Definitely not. I watched his final qualifying round match against Kevin Kim in 2007. He won, and went on to lose to Florian Mayer in the MD.

He also played in 2006 (winning only two games against Carlsen) and last year, losing easily to Peya.

Your right.
Kind of an embarassing brain lapse .
It was early

[chowdahead25]

Had it in my head that he had skipped last year because the team tennis matches were semi around the same time. But wrongo

[Dupuis2006]

Originally Posted by CooCooCachoo

I have to disagree.

From the perspective of grass tennis, there are some great players there, as well as some familiar names and good prospects: Ferrero, Stakhovsky, Isner, Rochus, Guccione, Kubot, Anderson, Beck, Mahut, Delic, Hrbaty, Grosjean, Malisse, Waske, Mayer.

I think it will be an interesting year

I agree with Martijn. The list is incredible although I'm a little upset some of the Spanish and South American guys are skipping it especially Ventura, RRH, and Massu.

[CooCooCachoo]

Santi will probably still play doubles. Or at least I hope the fact that he is not obliged to play singles, like last year, does not mean he will skip doubles too. Marcel/Santi had an amazing run last year, reaching the QF.

[PinkFeatherBoa]

Well, it's an entertaining Qualies list from my perspective, too.

Looking forward to it.

[soulage]

Originally Posted by CooCooCachoo

I don't really get why Desein and Mertens are not building up some valuable experience here either. Nor why Ouanna and Kukushkin are skipping.

Ouanna doesn't want to play on the Rohampton courts which he finds more like a potatoes field than a grass court.

[CooCooCachoo]

Originally Posted by soulage

Ouanna doesn't want to play on the Rohampton courts which he finds more like a potatoes field than a grass court.

He didn't look too happy against Qureshi last year. Played like crap too, but didn't expect it to have annoyed him that much that he doesn't want to play at all this year.

[Tzar]

is there a chance that de armas can make it?

[tennis fan474]

Will be a qualifying doubles list? if yes, when?

[CooCooCachoo]

Poor Isner

[DartMarcus]

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
By Jeff Mills
Staff Writer

Instead of hopping on a flight to Paris to hit booming serves on the clay courts of the French Open, John Isner drove home to North Carolina last week.

He scored tickets to Game 4 of the Hurricanes-Penguins NHL playoff series in Raleigh, watched the NBA playoffs on TV and basically took it easy.

Doctors orders.

The 6-foot-9 Page alumnus has mononucleosis. The illness scrubbed his plans for a second trip to the French Open -- he lost in five sets to Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela in the first round last year -- and it puts his trip to Wimbledon in jeopardy, too.

"I'm right on the bubble (for a Wimbledon main-draw invitation) right now," said Isner, 24, who turned pro in 2007 and is ranked No. 114 on the ATP World Tour. "I think I'll get in, but if not I'll be one of the top one, two or three seeds in the qualifier. If I get in, I know I'm not going to be completely fit. But I'm going to just go over there and try to wing it. No one wants to miss Wimbledon."
Isner already has withdrawn from English grass-court tournaments in Queens and Nottingham. He is still entered at Eastbourne's tournament June 13-20, the final Wimbledon warm-up event, but he admits playing there is a long shot.

"If I get the OK from the doctors and I feel like I'm ready, I'm going to go to England to play," Isner said. "It's been frustrating. I was really amped up to go play the clay and the grass back-to-back. I was playing the best I had in a long, long time before I got sick."
The illness showed up at a Challenger tournament in Savannah, Ga. Isner played Alex Kuznetsov in a quarterfinal May 8. Isner won the first set 7-6 (3), blistering 140-mph serves on a 90-degree day. But he lost the next two sets 2-6, 5-7.

"(Isner) looked a little tired in the first set," Kuznetsov told the Savannah Morning News after the match. "I was a little surprised. But he still has some huge weapons with his serve and forehand."

Even with those weapons, Isner was out of gas.

"I knew something wasn't right with me, because I was so fatigued so early in the matches," Isner said. "I just wasn't myself. I chalked it up to something I ate. After that, I had 10 days to practice before leaving for Paris. So I went at that pretty hard, and my body just broke down. I had flu-like symptoms and just felt awful."

The fatigue wouldn't go away, and that worried people close to him.

"Just to please my mom, I went and had a blood test to rule out mono," Isner said. "Well, guess what? She was right. The test came back positive for mononucleosis. It's a good thing I found out when I did. I was getting on a plane for Paris the next day."

Isner hasn't been on a tennis court or in the gym since then.

Meanwhile in France, it's been a wild week at Roland Garros. Defending champ Rafael Nadal didn't reach the quarterfinals. Neither did Andy Roddick. No. 2 Roger Federer is the highest remaining seed, and either Robin Soderling or Fernando Gonzalez will be a finalist.

"I'd rather be injured than sick, you know?" Isner said. "I'd almost rather have a sprained ankle or something. At least then I could work on my upper body or something. But with this, I haven't been allowed to do anything at all. The only cure is rest. And doing nothing is really, really hard.

"But I think I'm on the downside of it now. I feel much, much better. I just got back to Florida, and I'm going to get some more tests done, and I hope to be back practicing in a week or so."

In the meantime, it's just 18 days until Wimbledon.

[Aquarianbabe]

Wish Canas wasn't missing this tournie, but as soon as I saw he wasn't playing in Europe I guessed he would not played SW19. I think he is having too much fun in Miami with his gf.

[CooCooCachoo]

With some of the WCs having been announced, Ferrero, Bogdanovic, Goodall, Ward are in the main draw.

This means that Ghedin, Vicente, Poch-Gradin and Lopez are moved into qualies.