All draws up now on the USTA page:

1 94 1 MARTINEZ-GRANADOS CONCHITA ESP
2 222 22 LAMADE BIANKA GER

3 WC 1066 27 ICHIM IRIS USA
4 211 20 VAN EXEL ANOUSJKA NED

5 203 15 AHL LUCIE GBR
6 165 12 SNYDER TARA USA

7 159 10 CZINK MELINDA HUN
8 118 5 CARGILL ANSLEY USA


9 111 3 WASHINGTON MASHONA USA
10 213 21 MATTEK BETHANIE USA

11 207 17 OSTERLOH LILIA USA
12 151 9 SFAR SELIMA TUN

13 209 18 KRIVENCHEVA SVETLANA BUL
14 Q 30

15 Q 31
16 122 6 CAMERIN MARIA ELENA ITA


17 146 8 MOUHTASSINE BAHIA MAR
18 205 16 LLAGOSTERA VIVES NURIA ESP

19 WC 856 26 HAYNES ANGELA USA
20 231 24 BRANDI KRISTINA USA

21 203sr 28 SANJEEV NIRUPAMA IND
22 WC 413 25 LIU AMBER USA

23 161 11 PELLETIER MARIE-EVE CAN
24 117 4 LEE-WATERS LINDSAY USA


25 136 7 KLEINOVA SANDRA CZE
26 Q 32

27 171 14 FAUTH EVELYN AUT
28 Q 29

29 224 23 GRANDIN NATALIE RSA
30 210 19 DUEBBERS NINA GER

31 169 13 NOORLANDER SEDA NED
32 101 2 JIDKOVA ALINA RUS

OMG, I can copy and paste from a PDF-file !!! :D :bounce:

Qualifying draw:

1 WC 79 1 IRVIN MARISSA USA
2 WC NR 30 GARVIN GEE GEE USA

3 343 21 POPADIC LANA CRO
4 266 9 LUZAROVA DOMINIKA CZE

5 WC NR 32 NELSON LINDSEY USA
6 282 11 HOPMANS AMANDA NED

7 295 14 DEKMEIJERE LIGA LAT
8 256 5 PERRY SHENAY USA


9 220 2 DABEK TIFFANY USA
10 329 16 LE BESCOND ELODIE FRA

11 336 18 FITZ CHRISTINA GER
12 301 15 SROMOVA HANA CZE

13 WC NR 31 HODZIC LEJLA USA
14 352 22 KRASTEVITCH DIMANA BUL

15 372 25 KIRILENKO MARIA RUS
16 259 6 LASTRA GABRIELA USA


17 239 3 SCHRUFF JULIA GER
18 366 24 CROOK HELEN GBR

19 289 12 ABRAMOVIC IVANA CRO
20 416 27 CORTEZ JOANA BRA

21 292 13 ALVES MARIA FERNANDA BRA
22 390 26 DOMINGUEZ LINO LOURDES ESP

23 337 19 CASONI GIULIA ITA
24 261 7 RUSSEGGER PETRA AUT


25 254 4 CHAKHNASHVILIMARGALITA GEO
26 468 29 DZIAMIDZENKA NATALLIA BLR

27 334 17 TIENE CARLA BRA
28 339 20 MEUSBURGER YVONNE AUT

29 363 23 DITTY JULIE USA
30 419 28 SITJA ROSA ESP

31 274 10 SASSI VALENTINA ITA
32 265 8 CHI JANE USA

1st round winners:

IRVIN
61 62
LUZAROVA
64 64

HOPMANS
76(4) 75
PERRY
63 62

DABEK
61 61
SROMOVA
62 61

KRASTEVITCH
62 62
KIRILENKO
61 75

SCHRUFF
76(9) 61
ABRAMOVIC
62 60

DOMINGUEZ LINO
64 64
CASONI
61 63

DZIAMIDZENKA
75 75
MEUSBURGER
64 63

SITJA
26 62 64
SASSI
60 76(1)


2nd round winners:

IRVIN
63 61
PERRY
64 64

SROMOVA
64 63
KRASTEVITCH
64 76(5)

SCHRUFF
75 76(9)
CASONI
61 61

MEUSBURGER
63 57 76(4)
SITJA
57 60 64

Helen :sad:

Good luck Lucie and Selima in main draw.

Good luck Helen/Selima in doubles

Lourdes pfff :sad: :sad:

Rosa Mª :)

Vamos Conchita Nuria & Nina

OMG WHERE THE FUCK IS ALLISON? She has semifinal points to defend there! This was basically all she did last year!! Is she even playing this year?!:mad: :sad:

major bummer for whoever gets Marissa Irvin as their opponent. Marissa was a late entrant and had to come through qualies. She is the higest ranked player in teh main draw by nearly 20 places, but wont be seeded.

oh and i wonder if Jay went 2day?

Good question about Allison Bradshaw. I can't see her entered for anything. Can anyone else? I know she had a bad year last year, but I'm sure she has the talent to recover.

Secondly, in the Grenoble 10k, a qualifier, Beltrame IS seeded in the main draw. I suspect that could also happen here with Irvin, unless the USTA rules are different.

it can't. As final qualifying round AND around 10 main draw matches are being played. The draw would have to be totally altered, infact it would just about have to be re-done!

Play should ahve finished by now anyways.

Maria lost to Krastevitch pffffffffff :mad:

good luck
Alinka ;)
Selima :)
Maria Elena :)
Lindsay lee :)
Melinda :)
Bethanie :)
Bianka :)
and to the q ;)

Oh, I agree that makes sense for practical timing reasons Paul, but I don't think the rules would have stopped her being seeded, if the qualifying and main draw were played on separate days, like at most challengers.

Helen :sad:

yeah Johnny, i agree. If main draw began tomorrow then she would of been put in a seeded spot.

Helen still isn't 100% which may explain her folding after a tight first set.

this is so annoying
Bianka get the Topseeded girl :sad:

ooh! Hoppy is back playing!!! :D And she won a match!!! :D

Good luck Anousjka, Seda, Natalie and Bianka!

Main Draw starts tomorrow.

I know that Lilia Osterloh is playing doubles with Caroline Schneider if anyone is interested. Don't know against who tho.

Niru vs Amber :sad:

I'm surprised Stanford even let Amber play here at this time of the year. :eek:
Niru will have her work cut out of her, since Amber's in decent form reaching the final of a NCAA I tourney last week.

Nice to see Jane Chi come out of retirement to play here, but I hope it wasn't just a one-off thing... :sad:

I was at the challenger for a short time today. Here are the Tuesday results (all but the Ahl match)

Main draw:

VAN EXEL ANOUSJKA (NED) d. (WC) ICHIM IRIS (USA), 62 61
SNYDER TARA (USA) leads AHL LUCIE (GBR), 62 10 (when I left)
(5) CARGILL ANSLEY (USA) d. CZINK MELINDA (HUN), 64 61
MATTEK BETHANIE (USA) d. (3) WASHINGTON MASHONA (USA), 64 46 62
(8) MOUHTASSINE BAHIA (MAR) d. LLAGOSTERA VIVES NURIA (ESP), 36 61 63
BRANDI KRISTINA (USA) d. (WC) HAYNES ANGELA (USA), 63 61
(WC) LIU AMBER (USA) d. SANJEEV NIRUPAMA (IND), 76(5) 76(3)
(4) LEE-WATERS LINDSAY (USA) d. PELLETIER MARIE-EVE (CAN), 36 76(1) 61

Final Qualifying:

IRVIN d. PERRY, 64 64
SROMOVA d. KRASTEVITCH, 64 61
CASONI d. SCHRUFF, 63 61
MEUSBURGER d. SITJA, 76(7) 75

Couldn't get there till the evening when Nirupama's match was at the end of the first set. Had to leave in a couple of hours too, but almost all the matches were done by then.

Sorry that I could only watch Lucie for a few minutes. Generally Snyer was all over her at that time.

As for Amber Liu, she played a solid match. Niru is still getting the rust off her game. I thought I saw Niru serve the fastest I have ever seen (now that a 2-year shoulder problem is gone) but only about 30% of first serves were going in. Amber had trouble with her strong first serve but once the ball was in play, she was really solid. Niru was experimenting with a lot of things, just to get the feel back and was making a lot of mistakes too, but I was impressed how well Amber handled some of the unusual things NS was pulling out - drops, high bounces, net-hugging slice returns (she has a stinger of a slice), but Amber send it all back with top spin! .. Solid play from her, especially on the high bounces and lobs. Got a really lucky call go her way late in the first tiebreaker on a ball that was 2 inches out, but she earned the second tiebreaker. Niru was up 4-1 in the second set before Amber steadied herself up and evened it and broke Niru twice to go up 5-4 and serve. She got all nervous for a brief period there, serving two double faults with Niru teeing up on her serve suddenly (Amber needs more sting on her serve; the rest of the game is solid). She wasted two set points and dropped serve for 5-5. Niru had two set points at 6-5 on Amber's serve too, but now Amber had got over her sudden shakiness. Held serve and forced Niru into backhand mistakes in the tiebreaker.

That is the only match report I have. Generally NS's game is coming around, but she admitted that she will need at least another 5-6 matches at this level to get one year of rust off.

Amber was of course quite happy, and was on her cell-phone for a long time, so I couldn't talk to her.

Jay

PS: Not sure if I will have time the whole rest of the week to go; busy week at work. Will try thursday again though. Sorry to be of hardly much use to you all, but at least I got the WTA supervisor to promise emails with scores at the end of the day!

Just got an email from the ITF lady there. Snyder d. Ahl, 62 62.

Here are the qualifier placement in the draw.

(6) Camerin vs (Q) Sromova
(7) Kleinova vs (Q) Irvin
Fauth vs (Q) Casoni
Krivencheva vs (Q) Muesburger

Jay

Amber :)

Maria :sad: :(
Melinda :( :sad: but well done Ansley :)
Iris :(

@jayakris:
will you go today too?
if yes, could you watch out for my Darling Bianka Lamade?

Well done Yvonne and a Svetlana Krivencheva shouldnt be a problem :hearts:

good luck Evelyn will be hard against Giulia :rolleyes:

Petra Russegger :notworthy:

good luck Marissa Irvin, Anousjka, Bahia and Lindsay Lee :bounce:

Lucie :rolleyes: :sad: :fiery:

Helen :(
Lucie :( :(

well done and best of luck to:

*Anousjka Van Exel :D
*Tara Snyder
*Ansley Cargill
*Selima Sfar
*Svetlana Krivencheva
*Maria Elena Camerin
*Kristina Brandi :D
*Lindsay Lee-Waters :D
*Sandra Kleinova
*Nathalie Grandin :D
*Nina Dubbers
*Alina Jidkova :D
*Hana Sromova
*Marissa Irvin

Marie-Eve :( always losing the close ones :(

Mashona :( Iris, Melinda, Nuri :(

too bad aswell for the girls i like who went out in qualies :(

Nuri :sad:

Top seeds Conchi & Alina are pairing together and are top seeded in doubles too :)

In another coincidence, Nuria after losing against Bahia will pair with the Moroccan and play a Q in first round ;)

Matthias:
I am having an unusually busy week at work. Can't go today. But I promise to post the scores as soon as the email comes from the tournament office at night.

Jay

Masha :sad: :mad: :sad: :(

Giulia :D :D


Ansley :bounce: :D :) :D
Bahia :)
Amber :D
Lindsay :)

Good luck Lilia! :)

Thanks for the report, Jay. :wavey:

Do you have any idea where Niru is playing next? :confused:
She's not on the list for Rockford next week...

BTW, she's played only 2 events with her Protected Ranking : US Open & Fullerton. Shouldn't that mean that she has 6 tourneys left, not 5? :confused:

Anyway, it's promising to hear that she's slowly getting her "groove" back. :cool:

Nuria
Rosa Mª

:sad: :sad:

danker -- I was thinking about that. I was sure she said 5 left, but she should have six left. As for where she is playing next, she is not sure yet. She knows she needs the one or two week breaks to do some more training and to work on specifics (and lose a bit of weight too, I think). If she does things too fast, she would end up using all the six events while she is not ready yet. At least the last couple she needs to pick up some 20 odd points at some challenger somehow and position herself for challenger qualies at least. It is tough but I was quite sure that she is serious about doing it till end of 2004 summer and quit only if she is not in the top-175 by then. Her problem now is that she is in the bay area where her husband works, and she is having a tough time finding a good hitting partner around there. If that does not come through she might hit the road faster and may go to the two Indian satellites (doubtful right now, as it is in 3 weeks) - because otherwise she will get rusty again! I think she should get in touch with the Stanford coach and set up something.

Jay

Nuria :fiery:

Why Marissa played the quali??? :confused:

yes Marissa got Sandra :D :)

well done

Bethanie :)
Lindsay Lee ( poor Marie-Eve)
Ansley :)

that's stupid though ... alina now has the top seed in her quarter :rolleyes:

lol @ Eggy. U fixed it ;)

Good luck to:
LAMADE BIANKA GER
9 SFAR SELIMA TUN
6 CAMERIN MARIA ELENA ITA
8 MOUHTASSINE BAHIA MAR
24 BRANDI KRISTINA USA
25 LIU AMBER USA
14 FAUTH EVELYN AUT
and 2 JIDKOVA ALINA RUS!!!!

just a welcome back to Giulia casoni that destroyed all her opponents in qualies....all were ranked higher then her !
I hope this means that she is back to her 1999 and 2000 form !!

Lucie :(

Good luck to Marissa!

Pff at Mashona :rolleyes:

Yay Anousjka! :D

Here are the wednesday results (thanks go to Ms. Missy Malool of ITF for the prompt email at the end of the day):

Singles:

Lamade d. (1) Martinez-Granados 62 36 63
Osterloh d. Sfar, 62 75
Krivencheva d. (Q) Muesberger, 62 76(3)
(6) Camerin d. (Q) Sromova, 64 62
(Q) Irvin d. (7) Kleinova, 61 64
Fauth d. (Q) Casoni, 62 63
Grandin d. Duebbers, 63 64
Noorlander d. (2) Jidkova, 36 63 64

Doubles:
(wc) Ditty/Lastra d. Crook/Sfar 63 76(4)
Luzarova/Sromova d. (wc) Yelsey/Salameda, 61 64
(4) Dekmejere/Lamade d. Alves/Tiene, 61 64
(2) Schmidt/VanExel d. Cargill/Pelletier, 64 63

I see the doubles qualifiers in the draw:
B.Mattek/S.Perry (playing Abramovic/Hopmans)
J.Cortez/ V.Sassi (playing Mouhtassine/Llagostera-Vives)

That is all the news from today.
Three more seeds fall .. Top three seeds all gone .. Good day for Bianka!

Jay

Alinka :sad: :sad: :mad: :(

Maria Elena :)
Bianka :)

Selima :sad: :(

oh well at least Marissa beat ..... ;)

Bianka is back wow - i didn´t expect her to win :bounce:

:hearts: Svetlana :bounce:
good luck against Camerin

well done Evi :bounce:

Yvonne :sad:

Conchita :sad: but Bianka :)

Marissa :bounce:

well done Svetlana, Maria Elena, Marissa, and Nathalie :D

Alinka :fiery:

too bad Nina, Selima, Sandra, and Hana too :(

Go Camerin win this !

Niru :sad: so close

Alinka :( :sad:

good for Bianka :)

Helen/Selima:sad: :confused:

Lilia :)
Giulia :(

Ansley/Mary-Eve :sad:

Originally posted by matthias
this is so annoying
Bianka get the Topseeded girl :sad:

But she won!!!:wavey:

juhu, BIANKA!!!! :bounce:

damn results

Conchita, Sandra, and Alina :sad:

Well done Svetlana and Evelyn :)

Argh

Conchita & Nina :sad: :sad:

GREAT WIN FOR LILIA!!

Seda! :D Bianka! :D

Woeps! Forgot Natalie! :D

Go Marissa!!!!!! :D and Bianka ;)

2nd Round:

Bianka Lamade d. Anousjka Van Exel 6:3 6:1 :) :(
Ansley Cargill(5) d. Tara Snyder 3:6 6:4 6:2 :)
Bethanie Mattek d. Lilia Osterloh 6:1 6:4
Maria Elena Camerin(6) d. Svetlana Krivencheva 6:2 6:4 :)

Bahia Mouhtassine(8) d. Kristina Brandi 7:6[5] ret. :) :sad: :sad:
Lindsay Lee-Waters(4) d. Amber Liu 6:2 6:1
Evelyn Fauth d. Marissa Irvin 5:7 6:4 6:3 :eek: :D :D
Seda Noorlander d. Nathalie Grandin 6:4 6:2 :)

Bianka seems to be playing much better now - good for her

Bethanie is playing really well - continuing the great form from last year

Poor Kristina - not another injury :(

Evelyn :eek: - it seems like skipping AO was a good idea :)

oh and thank you ... www.acemantennis.com :)

OMG Marissa :sad: Well done Bianka :) win the title!

Alina :(

You've got the singles scores already. Here are the Thursday doubles scores (All first round):

(1) Jidkova/ Martinez-Granados d. Sanjeev/ Washington, 67(4) 75 63
(Q) Mattek/ Perry d. Abramovic/ Hopmans, 63 76(5)
Camerin/ Casoni d. (3) Osterloh/ Snyder, 64 62
(Q) Cortez/ Sassi d. Mouhtassine/ Llagostera-Vives, Walkover (inj.)

Ah shoot... So close again for Nirupama ..

Jay

Omg....

Who is the injuried in the Nuria Bahia match... this is getting horrible if it's Nuria.

Congrats Conchita & Jidkova

bad day for lilia :(

Originally posted by rated_next
Bianka seems to be playing much better now - good for her
i´m very surprised about bianks
she was out from july 2002 - nov 2002
and then she lost twice at the 1st round
and now this :eek:

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Marissa :eek:

Rockbottom

Evelyn :eek:
Svetlana :fiery: :sad:
Bethanie, Ansley :D

Marissa :eek: but at least she did her job in 1st rd :)

Ansley :D
Lindsay Lee :):)
Maria Elena :D
Bianka :)
Bethanie :)

Ansley :)

Amber :sad:
Marissa :eek:

i am very quickly starting to hate this tournament :(

well done ansley, maria elena, and lindsay at least :)

too bad for Anousjka, Tara, Svetlana, Kristina, Marissa, and Nathalie :( :( :(

well done Evelyn :hearts:

good luck Lindsay Lee and Bethanie Mattek :D

B-I-A-N-K-A!!!

Ansley :bounce: :D :) Well done girl!!!
Bahia :)
Lindsay :)

Lilia :(
Amber :sad:

Egg! What do you have against you-know-who?

Poor Kristina :sad:
Her luck's gone from bad to worse. :(

Amber can go back to her studies now. ;)

Win this now, Ansley. :D

Originally posted by Randy H
i am very quickly starting to hate this tournament :(

well done ansley, maria elena, and lindsay at least :)

too bad for Anousjka, Tara, Svetlana, Kristina, Marissa, and Nathalie :( :( :(

I do hate it! My 4 faves won in the first round, so of course, they have to play each other in the second round! tss!

Well done Bianka and Seda, :sad: Anousjka and Natalie!

Ansley and Bianka :)

Too bad Marissa :(

Quarter-Finals

Bianka Lamade d. Ansley Cargill 3-6 6-4 7-5 :(
Bethanie Mattek d. Maria Elena Camerin 6-4 6-3 :) :sad:
Lindsay Lee-Waters d. Bahia Mouhtassine 6-2 6-1 :)
Seda Noorlander d. Evelyn Fauth 6-1 6-4

Ansley :(
Bathanie ;)

Well done Bianka - another impressive win

Maria Elena, and Bahia :sad:

bethanie and lindsay :D

Ansley :sad:

Bianka Lamade d. Ansley Cargill 3-6 6-4 7-5 :eek:

this is very impressive
i never thought she could win 3 matches this week

Great to see Bianka back :bounce: :bounce:

I hope she can win the title and start playing events with Patty again :D

Friday doubles QFs:

(Q) Mattek/ Perry d. (1) Jidkova/ Martinez-Granados, Walkover/sick.
Camerin/ Casoni d. (wc) Ditty/ Lastra, 67(3) 62 64
(4) Dekmeijere/ Lamade d. Cortez/ Sassi, 61 61
(2) Schmidt/ VanExel d. Luzarova/ Sromova, 76(4) 75

Jay

and Bianka won in doubles too

:bounce:

Ansley :( :sad:

Bianka, Lindsay and Seda! :D

Seda! :D Bianka! :D :bounce:

Congrats Bethanie :)

Ansley :sad: :( :sad: I thought she could muscle this one out
Bahia :(

Lindsay :)

Bianka :)

Saturday SFs: (courtesy, Missy Malool, ITF supervisor)

Mattek d. Lamade, 62 36 62
Noorlander d. Lee-Waters, 63 64

Mattek/Perry d. Camerin/ Casoni, 26 60 63
Schmidt/ VanExel d. Dekmeijere/ Lamade, walkover (ill).

Bethanie is on a total roll this week, it seems.

Jay

:eek:
Lindsay :sad: :(

Bethanie :) wow :)

It looks like Bethanie is going to have a great year.

Seda - :D :D :D -- very impressive

Bianka :sad:

Too bad Bianka :sad:

Good luck Bethanie :D

Bianka :(
but it was a great Tournament for her :bounce:

Go Bethanie :D

Go Seda

Congrats Bethanie :)
Keep going! :)

good result, BIANKA!

Lindsay :eek: :sad:

Bianka :sad:

Bethanie :) The talent was always there, it was just a matter of showing it.

No results? Should I call? (Free long distance ;))

I just talked with Bethanie's mom. Bethanie won sgls in three sets. she thought the scores were 6-3,3-6,6-2. Also Shenay and Bethanie won dbls in straight sets. Great Job Bethanie !!!!!

Sorry, I had got the email from the tournament office 3 hours back, but I was at a superbowl party ...

Mattek d. Noorlander, 64 36 64
Mattek/ Perry d. Schmidt/ VanExel, 63 62

Great job by Bethanie .. :worship: :worship: :worship:

Jay

congrats Bethanie :) :D

Thanks, jayakris. Congrats, Bethanie! Great win. :)

Jayakris wrote:
Sorry, I had got the email from the tournament office 3 hours back, but I was at a superbowl party ...

Not much of a party since Tampon Bay won. :mad: :( :mad: :( :mad: :( :mad: :( :mad: :( :mad: :(

WD Shenay and Bethanie in doubles :D

WOW, Bethanie!:)

Seda suffered a stomach strain in 1st set

oh no! Seda! :sad: I hope she'll be OK!

Too bad about the injury to Seda's stomach. She must have really dealt with it well to pull out the 2nd set. It must have come back again in the third.