Week 9: Acapulco [Hurtado], Dubai [Drake], Copenhagen [Buur], Meknes [Jerez]

[SirBloody Idiot]

Tournaments to go on the computer this week:
ATP            Challengers
Acapulco        Meknes
Copenhagen
Dubai

Tournaments to fall off from last year:
ATP            Challengers
Acapulco (Kennedy)
Delray Beach (Drake)
Dubai (Hall)

Tournament Name: ABIERTO MEXICANO TELCEL
Location: ACAPULCO, MEXICO
Dates: FEBRUARY 22–27, II (SATURDAY FINAL)
Prize Money: US $955,000
32 DRAW (16 DRAW QUALIFYING)

SITE: The Fairmont Acapulco Princess
Granjas Del Marquez y Plaza Revolcadero S/N
Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero, Mexico
SURFACE: Clay
BALL: Wilson
WEB SITE: Abierto Mexicano TELCEL presentado por HSBC

Qualifying draw: Friday, February 19, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: TBA
Doubles draw: Saturday, February 20, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 500
F: 300
SF: 180
QF: 90
R16: 45
R32: 0
Q: +20
Q8: 10
Q16: 0

Entry deadline: January 11, II
Seeding: February 15, II

Past Finals:
I: Davis Kennedy (CAN) def. Tiago Matías (POR), 7-5, 6-3

Tournament Name: BARCLAYS DUBAI TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Location: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Dates: 22–27 FEBRUARY, II (SATURDAY FINAL)
Prize Money: USD $1,619,500 (USD $2,233,000)
32 MAIN DRAW (16 QUALIFYING)

SITE: The Dubai Tennis Stadium
The Aviation Club, Al Garhoud
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
SURFACE: Decoturf II
BALL: Head ATP
WEB SITE: Tennis - Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships - Home

Qualifying draw: Friday, February 19, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, February 20, 3:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, February 20, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points

W: 500
F: 300
SF: 180
QF: 90
R16: 45
R32: 0
Q: +20
Q8: 10
Q16: 0

Entry deadline: January 11, II
Seeding: February 15, II

Past Finals:
I: Jason Hall (USA) def. David Champion (AUS), 6-3, 6-2

Q. What are the requirements and rules for player participation for an ATP World Tour 500 tournament?
A. Top 30 players (based on '09 year-end ranking) must play a minimum of four 500 level tournaments during the calendar year, including at least one event following the US Open (Monte Carlo Masters 1000 event will count towards the minimum of four and all penalties apply):
-- A 0-pointer for each event less than four played.
-- A 0-pointer for withdrawing from any 500 tournament after the acceptance list is out.
-- A 0-pointer for not playing at least one event after the US Open.
-- A 0-pointer can be appealed by a player to the same tribunal formed to hear 1000 suspension appeals.
-- No suspensions or fines (including no withdrawal and late withdrawal fines).

These players are:

Hall, Jason
Blanco, Daniel Páez
Špidlá, Radek
Daneu, Radivoj
Oxenstierna, Sven
Cowan, Darcy
Olesen, Rasmus
Boros, József
Altman, Illya
Murdoch, Dwayne
Drake, Jefferson
Henson, Rick
Moreno, Juan
Brdar, Miroslav
Charles, Henry
Kennedy, Davis
Varga, Zoltán
Smeltz, Randy
Amato, Carlo
Stewart, Oneil
Pascaul, Patrick
Benaglio, Almen
Micic, Danijel
Matias, Tiago
Hurtado, Diego
Emelio, Sanchez
Champion, David
Zhijun, Sun
Mustard, Jojo
Carter, Morgan

Tournament Name: DENMARK OPEN
Location: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Dates: FEBRUARY 22–28, II
Prize Money: US $442,500
32 DRAW (MD & QUALIFYING)

SURFACE: GREENSET
BALL: Penn/ATP

Qualifying draw: Friday, February 19, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, February 20, 1:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, February 20, 6:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 250
F: 150
SF: 90
QF: 45
R16: 20
R32: 0
Q: +12
Q8: 6
Q16: 0
Q32: 0

Past Finals:
n/a

Morocco Tennis Tour - Meknes
Meknes, Morocco
February 21-28, II
Clay - $35,000+H

ATP Ranking Points
W: 80
F: 48
SF: 29
QF: 15
R16: 6
R32: 3
R64: 0
QR4: 3

 

[Simon]

Not sure if I have to confirm or not but Smeltz will play in Dubai.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Not sure if I have to confirm or not but Smeltz will play in Dubai.

Oh, probably worth an explanation there.

Both Acapulco and Dubai are worth 500 points this week. Those who ended the year inside the top 30 have to play 4 500 tournaments throughout the year, one of which has to come after the US Open.

The ATP 500 series is:

Rotterdam - Memphis - Acapulco - Dubai - Barcelona - Hamburg - Washington - Beijing - Tokyo - Basel - Valencia

So you could stay in South America and play any combination of Costa do Sauípe, Buenos Aires and Acapulco before the Davis Cup week if you want.

 

[Matteh]

Copenhagen

 

[Blewy]

Randy Banks to the Denmark Open

 

[NUFAN]

Bowenburg is pretty keen to participate in Denmark, but will double check that Maxum is available. If so both singles and doubles would be sweet.

 

[Mister Wright]

Dubai for Mustard. Singles & doubles.

 

[Number 11]

Meknes please.

 

[David]

Would like to play doubles in Dubai with Drake if at all possible? If he confirms.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Dubai. Singles & Doubles with El Mustard.

 

[ripper868]

Bowenburg is pretty keen to participate in Denmark, but will double check that Maxum is available. If so both singles and doubles would be sweet.

Confirming this

 

[Mister Wright]

Dubai. Singles & Doubles with El Mustard.

After a two week break it will be good to team up again...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Acapulco. Bit of beaching will be nice.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Would like to play doubles in Dubai with Drake if at all possible? If he confirms.

In

 

[Goughy]

Menkes

 

[Paid The Umpire]

I'll play in COPENHAGEN this week, thanks.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Provisional entry lists for this week:

Acapulco

1 Oxenstierna, Sven FRC 5
2 Altman, Illya UKR 9
3 Moreno, Juan ARG 13
4 Pascaul, Patrick FRA 21
5 Matías, Tiago POR 24
6 Hurtado, Diego COL 26
7 Bachunelli, Antonio ITA 34
8 Genov, Ivan BUL 38
9 L'Estrange, Pierre FRA 39
10 Brookes, Toby AUS 42
11 Joaquín, Sergio ESP 43
12 Depuis, Jean-Alain FRA 49
13 Vuriak, Viktor UKR 53
14 Mandonna, Paolo ARG 54
15 Gorshkov, Gregor RUS 55
16 Santos, Roberto BRA 56
17 Genghini, Jean-Christophe FRA 63
18 Engel, Oliver LUX 66
19 James, Hugh USA 71
20 Dorogan, Roman UKR 73
21 Färkkilä, Lari FIN 74
22 Carretero, Marc ESP 76
23 Denisov, Boris RUS 79
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (Q)
27 (Q)
28 (Q)
29 (Q)
30 (WC)
31 (WC)
32 (WC)

Dubai

1 Hall, Jason USA 1
2 Blanco, Daniel Páez ESP 2
3 Špidlá, Radek CZE 3
4 Daneu, Radivoj SRB 4
5 Cowan, Darcy USA 6
6 Boros, József HUN 7
7 Drake, Jefferson CDR 11
8 Brdar, Miroslav CRO 14
9 Smeltz, Randy FRC 17
10 Micic, Danijel SRB 23
11 Carter, Morgan USA 27
12 Mustard, Jojo FRC 29
13 Davis, Heath FRC 31
14 Sae-ul, Atthaphol THA 45
15 Onwye, Ross MAR 51
16 Midid, Nilikar CRO 52
17 Schmidt, Pascal SUI 58
18 Berg, Maarten NED 59
19 Donaldson, Björn SWE 60
20 Cesljar, Ivan CRO 62
21 Villaneuva, Javier ESP 61
22 Doh, Ninteh JPN 65
23 Alavos, Marcelo PAR 69
24 Hainisch, Heinz AUT 72
25 (SE)
26 (Q)
27 (Q)
28 (Q)
29 (Q)
30 (WC)
31 (WC)
32 (WC)

Copenhagen

1 Olesen, Rasmus USA 8
2 Benaglio, Almen SUI 22
3 Li, Wang CHN 33
4 Bradley, Jason USA 36
5 Vollan, Kim NOR 37
6 Vollan, Tom NOR 44
7 Maxum, Jarkko CDR 57
8 Parmentier, Yves BEL 64
9 Harmel, Mark BEL 67
10 Isaev, Denis BLR 78
11 Henson, Eric USA 80
12 Cordiero, Valter POR 82
13 Navarro, José PER 83
14 Peters, Alex GER 85
15 Boniek, Zbiginiew AUT 86
16 Zakov, Yordan BUL 87
17 Highsmith, Oscar GBR 88
18 Emsis, Ivars LAT 89
19 Day, Julian USA 93
20 Morkel, Haiku NOR 95
21 Fok, Zhenyu CHN 98
22 Maurer, Bogdan ROU 99
23 Juraev, Anvar UZB 102
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (Q)
27 (Q)
28 (Q)
29 (Q)
30 (WC)
31 (WC)
32 (WC)

Loads of time to make changes/additions.

 

[Agent TBY]

Meknes.

 

[Luffers]

Meknes?? Hoping for another big performance.

 

[Johnners]

Dubai for Delev if it isn't too late?