Austrian Open dropped from ATP tour calendar

VIENNA (AP)—The Austrian Open—a 65-year-old clay-court tournament—has been dropped from the ATP World Tour calendar after a legal dispute with local authorities over the tennis stadium in Kitzbuehel.

The ATP said Friday that the tournament rights have now been moved to Nice, France, for at least the next five seasons.

According to tournament director Ronnie Leitgeb, the local city council of Kitzbuehel refused to sign an agreement on the terms of use of the stadium.

Leitgeb, who also manages Nikolay Davydenko and Jurgen Melzer, said a main sponsor for the tournament had already been found.

The traditional event in Kitzbuehel has been won by players like Pete Sampras, Thomas Muster, Goran Ivanisevic and Juan Martin del Potro.

It’s the second tournament in Austria in as many years to disappear from the calender after Poertschach was dropped last year. The BA Tennis Trophy in Vienna remains the country’s only event on the ATP World Tour.

http://www.tennis.com/news/news.aspx?id=192796

Tak wiĂŞc sprawa jest przesÂądzona ,turniej w Kitzbuhel przechodzi do historii na przynajmniej najbliÂższe 5 lat. Od 2010 roku w jego miejsce wchodzi turniej w Nicea ktĂłrego ostatnia edycja byÂła w roku 1995.TrochĂŞ szkoda bo zostanie juÂż tylko jesienny turniej w Wiedniu jeÂśli chodzi o AustriĂŞ..

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis … -2010.aspx

Serbia IN

Serbia To Defend Dusseldorf Title

Serbia is the first country to confirm its participation at the ARAG ATP World Team Championship, which will take place at the Dusseldorf Rochusclub on 16-22 May, 2010.

Representing the defending champion will be Viktor Troicki, Janko Tipsarevic and Nenad Zimonjic - the three players who defeated Germany in last year’s final to win the title for Serbia for a third time.

Speaking at the Australian Open, where he will contest the doubles final with Canadian partner Daniel Nestor on Saturday, Zimonjic said: “I’m really looking forward to playing in Dusseldorf. We want to defend our title.”

Tipsarevic and Troicki also spoke highly of the tournament. “There’s a very special and unique atmosphere during the ARAG ATP World Team Championship at the Dusseldorf Rochusclub,” said World No. 36 Tipsarevic. “Our World Championship title was really celebrated back home in Serbia and this is why we are ready to launch into action in order to defend our title successfully.”

“The week in Dusseldorf was simply fantastic,” added the No. 30-ranked Troicki. “The victory at the ARAG ATP World Team Championship last year was a truly awesome experience. Of course we’ll be back and of course we’ll fight hard for the title.”

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis … ldorf.aspx

Kohlschreiber i Beck bĂŞdÂą reprezentowaĂŚ NiemcĂłw w Dusseldorfie.

http://www.kicker.de/news/tennis/starts … eiber.html

Nicea

Robin Soderling IN
http://www.eurosport.se/tennis/atp-tour … tory.shtml

http://www.as.com/tenis/articulo/rafal- … sten_3/Tes

As podaje, Âże Nadal bĂŞdzie graÂł w Nicei, dziĂŞki dzikiej karcie.

Nic w przyrodzie nie ginie, punkty rankingowe takÂże.

Szkoda tylko, Âże AS czĂŞsto Âściemnia.

Dusseldorf - SkÂłady

Czechy - Radek Stepanek, Tomas Berdych, Jan Hajek

USA - Sam Querrey, John Isner, Bob, Mike Bryan

Francja - Jeremy Chardy, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Nicolas Mahut

Niemcy - Philipp Kohlschreiber, Andreas Beck, Florian Mayer, Christopher Kas

Serbia - Viktor Troicki, Janko Tipsarevic, Nenad Zimonjic

Argentyna - Juan Monaco, Horacio Zeballos, Eduardo Schwank

Hiszpania - Nicolas Almagro, Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Marc Lopez

Australia - Lleyton Hewitt, Peter Luczak, Paul Hanley

Nicea

OUT Davydenko, Nikolay RUS
OUT Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP

IN Korolev, Evgeny KAZ
IN Mayer, Leonardo ARG
IN Lacko, Lukas SVK
IN Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR

Ostatnio edytowany przez Ronni (13-05-2010 22:30:47)

Dajesz O³ówek, pograj coœ w tej Nicei

Brawo mistrzu

Przepraszam, czy Verdasco jest normalny? Przeciez facet ledwo czlapie po korcie, w zasadzie ten Madryt to mogl sobie odpuscic, a on startuje w jakims marginalnym turnieju.
To samo tyczy sie Soderlinga, z mojego punktu widzenia jakies kuriozalne decyzje obu graczy, by tutaj wystapic.