[jayakris]

Here is the entry list that came out yesterday -
http://dps.altdc3.va.twimm.net/usta_master/usta/doc/content/doc_13_3251.pdf

Wow, the cut was #225 (it was something like 330 last year). Everybody I like is in the qualies, it seems

Jay

 

[jayakris]

..and here is the tournament web site:

http://www.tennischallenger.com/

How did they get such a nice website URL? .. I guess they were among the first to set up a challenger website .. This has always been a well-conducted challenger for many years, I am told.

Jay

 

[jirobkk]

Thanks Jay for the link.

Best of luck to Pik and Lu.(Hope both of them get well recovery from injury soon.)

Takao-kun, Tera-kun !!! Gambatte ne !!!!!

 

[jirobkk]

Official Acceptance List for Binghamton as of 7/21/03

Main Draw Ranking

1 MELLO, Ricardo BRA 111
2 VACEK, Jan CZE 130
3 PESCOSOLIDO, Stefano ITA 138
4 RAM, Andy ISR 139
5 TAINO, Eric USA 144
6 ELSENEER, Gilles BEL 150
7 ILIE, Andrew AUS 151
8 KARLOVIC, Ivo CRO 154
9 THOMANN, Nicolas FRA 160
10 BACCANELLO, Paul AUS 171
11 UDOMCHOKE, Danai THA 179
12 DE VOEST, Rik RSA 180
13 BENNETEAU, Julien FRA 182
14 SERRA, Florent FRA 200
15 PARMAR, Arvind GBR 205
16 BACHELOT, Jean-Francois FRA 211
17 TURSUNOV, Dmitri RUS 213
18 LU, Yen-Hsun TPE 219
19 CADART, Rodolphe FRA 222
20 VOSLOO, Louis RSA 223
21 KIM, Kevin USA 225
22 LEE, Martin GBR 226

Alternates

23 BRASINGTON, Jack USA 229
24 SIMONI, Alexandre BRA 230
25 MULLER, Gilles LUX 235
26 TERACHI, Takahiro JPN 239
27 FLEISHMAN, Zack USA 244
28 SUZUKI, Takao JPN 245
29 KARANUSIC, Roko CRO 246
30 CLARKE, Peter IRL 247
31 REID, Todd AUS 255
32 HADAD, Amir ISR 257
33 JONES, Alun AUS 262
34 JOYCE, Michael USA 266
35 IWABUCHI, Satoshi JPN 268
36 MOTOMURA, Gouichi JPN 271
37 VICO, Uros ITA 280
38 IWAMI, Tasuku JPN 284
39 PEDROSO, Andres USA 290
40 BOGDANOVIC, Alex GBR 291
41 BOHABOY, Doug USA 300
42 BLAKE, Thomas USA 306
43 BOPANNA, Rohan IND 315
44 TODERO, Nicolas ARG 323
45 BOURGEOIS, Luke AUS 329
46 AGAEV, Emin AZE 330
47 BOEKER, Matias USA 341
48 CHILDS, Lee GBR 352
49 AMADOR, Marcelo MEX 381
50 WEINER, Glenn USA 390
51 QURESHI, Aisam PAK 391
52 AMRITRAJ, Prakash USA 394
53 PHILLIPS, Tripp USA 399
54 FALLA-RAMIREZ, Alejandro COL 410
55 ERLICH, Jonathan ISR 450
56 BAKER, Brian USA 472
57 RAM, Rajeev USA 483
58 FRUTTERO, John-Paul USA 484
59 FLOCK, Alexander GER 507
60 WASHINGTON, Mashiska USA 520
61 MASUDA, Kentaro JPN 524
62 IONITA, Victor ROM 595
63 KING, Phillip USA 600
64 HARPER-GRIFFITH, Levar USA 635
65 RUSSELL, Ryan JAM 651
66 MIRZADEH, Hamid USA 763
67 COLANGELO, Fabio ITA 813

 

[RaVeR]

Jack Brasington (USA) d. (1)(WC)Brian Vahaly (USA) 3-6 6-4 6-1
Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) d. (WC)Bo Hodge (USA) 6-1 7-5
(WC)Brian Baker (USA) d. (q)Bobby Reynolds (USA) 7-6(5) 6-4
(8)Ivo Karlovic (CRO) d. Gilles Muller (LUX) 6-1 6-1

(4)Ricardo Mello (BRA) d. (LL)Tasuku Iwami (JPN) 6-2 6-2 [Iwami replaces Louis Vosloo]
Paul Baccanello (AUS) vs Danai Udomchoke (THA)
Julien Benneteau (FRA) d. (LL)Satoshi Iwabuchi (JPN) 6-4 3-6 6-3 [Iwabuchi replaces Jean-Francois Bachelot]
Zack Fleishman (USA) d. (6)Stefano Pescosolido (ITA) 6-4 3-6 7-6(3)

(7)Jan Vacek (CZE) vs Arvind Parmar (GBR)
(q)Lee Childs (GBR) d. (SE)Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) 7-5 6-4
Andy Ram (ISR) d. Kevin Kim (USA) 6-0 6-2
Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) d. (3)Gilles Elseneer (BEL) 3-6 6-3 6-4

Florent Serra (FRA) d. (5)Eric Taino (USA) 6-3 6-2
(WC)Jeff Salzenstein (USA) d. Takahiro Terachi (JPN) 6-2 6-2
Rik de Voest (RSA) d. (q)Lesley Joseph (USA) 6-3 6-4
(2)Nicolas Thomann (FRA) d. (q)Phillip King (USA) 6-4 6-2

 

[nave]

Andy Ram (ISR) d. Kevin Kim (USA) 6-0 6-2

 

[RaVeR]

2nd Round

Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) def. Jack Brasington (USA) 6-4,6-3
(8)Ivo Karlovic (CRO) def. (WC)Brian Baker (USA) 7-6,7-6
(4)Ricardo Mello (BRA) vs. Paul Baccanello (AUS)
Julien Benneteau (FRA) vs. Zack Fleishman (USA)

Arvind Parmar (GBR) vs. (q)Lee Childs (GBR)
Andy Ram (ISR) vs. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
Florent Serra (FRA) vs. (WC)Jeff Salzenstein (USA)
(2)Nicolas Thomann (FRA) def. Rik de Voest (RSA) 6-2,7-5

 

[lin]

Yen-Hsun finally he reachs QF again get revenge over Ivo from last year next rd

Brian

 

[Yoel etc.]

Vamos Andy

 

[jirobkk]

2nd Round

Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) def. Jack Brasington (USA) 6-4,6-3
(8)Ivo Karlovic (CRO) def. (WC)Brian Baker (USA) 7-6,7-6
(4)Ricardo Mello (BRA) vs. Paul Baccanello (AUS)
Julien Benneteau (FRA) vs. Zack Fleishman (USA)

Arvind Parmar (GBR) vs. (q)Lee Childs (GBR)
Andy Ram (ISR) vs. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
Florent Serra (FRA) vs. (WC)Jeff Salzenstein (USA)
(2)Nicolas Thomann (FRA) def. Rik de Voest (RSA) 6-2,7-5

Hello [email protected]

Danai Udomchoke(THA) d. Paul Baccanello (AUS) 7-5,7-6(2)

Updated 2nd round draw / Result:

Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) def. Jack Brasington (USA) 6-4,6-3
(8)Ivo Karlovic (CRO) def. (WC)Brian Baker (USA) 7-6,7-6
(4)Ricardo Mello (BRA) vs. Danai Udomchoke(THA)
Julien Benneteau (FRA) vs. Zack Fleishman (USA)

Arvind Parmar (GBR) vs. (q)Lee Childs (GBR)
Andy Ram (ISR) vs. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
Florent Serra (FRA) vs. (WC)Jeff Salzenstein (USA)
(2)Nicolas Thomann (FRA) def. Rik de Voest (RSA) 6-2,7-5

Well done Pik, Lu.

 

[nave]

good luck Andi!.

 

[DeadRubber]

First Round Result missed off the list.

Arvind Parmar (Gbr) bt (7) Jan Vacek (Cze) 6-4 6-3

Thats Arvind's sixth win in a row!

Arvind vs Lee next in another all british encounter.

 

[jirobkk]

http://biz.stny.com/tennischallenger/

Ivo with 19 Aces

It was a tough day for Americans at the Binghamton Challenger. Jack Brasington started the trend, losing to Yen-Hsun Lu, 6-4,6-3. Jack got down early, but fought back from 1-4 to tie it at 4 and was serving. It looked like he might do the same thing as Monday (when he trailed 5-1 against Vahaly in the 1st, and came back to win the match). But Lu then broke serve to go up 5-4 and then closed out the first set and continued to break to a 3-0 lead in the second. At 4-2, Brasington had Lu at Love-30 and looked to be making another attempt at a comeback, but it sizzled with Lu holding and kept on serve the rest of the match. Looked like that Love-30 was the opportunity and he couldn't capitalize. Jack didn't look like he did the other night, he was seeing the trainer later in the day... wonder if he wasn't 100%.

Brian Baker had a tight one against Ivo Karlovic, as expected. It was a match with easy serving on both ends, Karlovic serving 19 aces. Karlovic broke at 3-3 to go up 4-3 in the 1st. At 3-5, Baker broke back and held to tie it up at 5-5. The second set remained on serve through to the tie break and Ivo showed that he had a slight advantage with his booming serve. A bummer to see Baker go out, he does look like he'll be doing pretty well and would be nice to say he had a great start right here in Binghamton. Very poised and was continually able to dig out of any hole he might get on his own serve and realized the very few opportunities in Ivo's serve. He even mixed it up pretty well with some serve and volleying. He took Ivo to tie breaks, gotta be happy. All he needed was a little hole, but Ivo didn't give it to him today. So the big Wimbledon star returns to the Quarterfinals, where he left off last year.

Nicolas Thomann of France, the top remaining seed, beat Rik De Voest of South Africa, 6-2,7-5. The second set stayed close and got tight in the last game, at 6-5, with Thomann having 4 deuces before he could close it out.

Danai Udomchoke beat Paul Baccanello, 7-5, 7-6(2) in one of 2 first round matches postponed from yesterday. Danai came back in both sets, from 2-4 in the 1st and 2-5 in the 2nd. With good reason, Paul was pretty upset with himself.

Arvind Parmar, who won a Challenger last week in Denver, beat Jan Vacek, 6-4,6-3 in his first round match. Do you give the advantage to the guy who won the Challenger last week? What was Jan talking to the chair umpire about? He talked quite a bit, pretty quiet about it to... was it the ball kids?

Jeff Salzenstein split sets with Florent Serra before play was suspended at 7:10p due to darkness ... huh? Guess they didn't want to start a set and not be able to finish it. Jeff was having a hard time with the first serve, and in the 9th game Jeff had 4 first serve faults (out of 5 points) to get broken and settle the first set, 6-3. In the 2nd set, Jeff's first serve % was 56, with it being 41% in the first 3 service games. In the tiebreak, Jeff's percentage was 50%, but he managed to come up big at the end with his other weapons. On at 8-9, Jeff had a drop volley that Serra couldn't get to, to even it 9-9. At 9-10, Jeff said "Let's see if I can get a 1st serve" and he did to get to 10-10, then Serra hit 2 errors to close out the breaker, 12-10. This match will resume at 2pm tomorrow. When asked if he would have preferred to play on in the evening, "I would have played, but it doesn't matter… I go with the flow."

Almost forgot Ace with Pace, Andrew Colombo won the fastest serve coming in at 122 and Andy Ram was 2nd fastest at 119. Marcelo Amador won the aces category with 3 out of 3 and Travis Rettenmaier was 2nd with 2 out of 3.

Good stuff tomorrow... Fleishman-Benneteau is the match of the day. Thursday already.

 

[jirobkk]

Doubles First Round

(1)Jonathan Erlich/Andy Ram (ISR) d. (WC)Nick Crowell/Zack Fleishman (USA) 6-4 6-3
Gilles Elseneer/Stefano Pescosolido (BEL/ITA) d. Eric Taino/Dmitry Tursunov (USA/RUS) 4-6 6-4 7-5

(3)Diego Ayala/Brandon Coupe (USA) vs (WC)Brian Baker/Bobby Reynolds (USA)
Yen-Hsun Lu/Danai Udomchoke (TPE/THA) d. Josh Goffi/Jason Marshall (USA) 6-4 6-4

(WC)Andrew Colombo/Travis Rettenmaier (USA) d. (q)Julien Benneteau/Florent Serra (FRA) 6-4 6-4
(4)Stephen Huss/Myles Wakefield (AUS/RSA) d. (LL)Akshay-Vishal Rao/Bradley Sherwood (IND/USA) 6-2 6-2

Paul Baccanello/Nathan Healey (AUS) d. Raphael Durek/Anthony Ross (AUS) 3-6 6-4 6-3
(2)David Adams/Rik de Voest (RSA) d. Ivo Karlovic/Ricardo Mello (CRO/BRA) 6-4 6-4

 

[Darran]

Well done Arvind keep up the good form.

 

[Yoel etc.]

Andy Ram d. Dmitry Tursunov 7:6 6:3

 

[jirobkk]

Updated 2nd round draw / Result:

Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) def. Jack Brasington (USA) 6-4,6-3
(8)Ivo Karlovic (CRO) def. (WC)Brian Baker (USA) 7-6,7-6
Danai Udomchoke(THA) def. (4)Ricardo Mello (BRA) 6-4,6-3
Julien Benneteau (FRA) vs. Zack Fleishman (USA)

Arvind Parmar (GBR) vs. (q)Lee Childs (GBR)
Andy Ram (ISR) def. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 7:6 6:3
Florent Serra (FRA) vs. (WC)Jeff Salzenstein (USA)
(2)Nicolas Thomann (FRA) def. Rik de Voest (RSA) 6-2,7-5

Congrats Pik, Lu
Good luck in double as well.

 

[lin]

well done Andy and Danai

 

[croat123]

Re: Re: $50K Binghamton (NY). Aug 4.

this tournament has KARLOVIC written all over it

 

[nave]

Andi&Yoni no gemas tonight but they Semifinal.