Wimbledon 2009 Qualifying

[Love Game]

The Schedule of Play for the 2009 Wimbledon Qualifying Tournament will be released late in the day on 14 June 2009.

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Wimbledon Qualifying <<<LINK
Wimbledon Qualifying starts on Monday (15 June)

"The 2009 Wimbledon qualifying competition will be held at the Bank of England Sports Club at Roehampton from Monday 15 June to Thursday 18 June, weather permitting.

More than 250 players will be vying for a limited number of places in the main draw: 16 for the Gentlemen's Singles, 12 for the Ladies Singles' and places for four teams in the men's and ladies' doubles."

 

[Love Game]

the draw for the singles qualifying tournament is available @ http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/draws/qs/index.html

and the schedule of play for monday @ http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=st_promo

 

[joeri888]

Very little dutchmen participate in this qualies every year. It's because they want to play Ordina Open and they can get wildcards there etc.

 

[Love Game]

interesting (to me) qualy matches on tap tomorrow:

Scoville Jenkins(USA) vs. Edouard Roger-Vasselin(FRA)
Matthias Bachinger(GER) vs. Todd Widom(USA)
Michael Yani(USA) vs. Marc Lopez(ESP)
Lukasz Kubot(POL)[15] vs. Go Soeda(JPN)
Lukas Lacko(SVK) vs. Ryan Sweeting(USA)
Alejandro Falla(COL) vs. Donald Young(USA)[32]
Marcus Willis(GBR) vs. Amer Delic(USA)
Taylor Dent(USA) vs. Olivier Rochus(BEL)[17]​

 

[Love Game]

Very little dutchmen participate in this qualies every year. It's because they want to play Ordina Open and they can get wildcards there etc.

are the ordina results as good as the wimby qualies to help get an invitation to the main singles?

 

[joeri888]

are the ordina results as good as the wimby qualies to help get an invitation to the main singles?

I'm not surewhat you mean?

 

[Fedace]

Alex Clayton in the qualies ??? if so,,,could make a run here on grass. his game is well suited for grass courts.

 

[shadows]

Dent vs Rochus, that could be interesting. I've seen nothing of Taylor since Miami, but Olivier was in decent form at Halle.

 

[stanfordtennis alum]

some good matches..interesting to see how DY is going to do

 

[Serendipitous]

the draw for the singles qualifying tournament is available @ http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/draws/qs/index.html

and the schedule of play for monday @ http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=st_promo

Thanks Love Game!

 

[Love Game]

Thanks Love Game!

my pleasure!

*****
Matches begin @ 11:00 a.m.

(the qualies are taking place in roehampton, but i was unable to find that in the "time converter," so i can only hope it's in the same time zone as London)​

 

[Love Game]

I'm not surewhat you mean?

I thought i remembered reading (tho i cant find it again at the moment) that the rules for qualifying for wimbledon involved playing in one (or more?) grass court tournaments within the 3 (?) weeks preceding the actual wimbledon tournament, itself.

I'll see if I can find those rules again to clarify!

 

[Love Game]

Alex Clayton in the qualies ??? if so,,,could make a run here on grass. his game is well suited for grass courts.

is he american, Fedace? i wanted to check him out, but i couldnt find his name in any of the 4 sections of the qualifying draw.

 

[Love Game]

Dent vs Rochus, that could be interesting. I've seen nothing of Taylor since Miami, but Olivier was in decent form at Halle.

I'd love to see a pic of them at the net together, either before the match begins or at the handshake!

 

[Love Game]

some good matches..interesting to see how DY is going to do

I also ....... his first test on Monday is against a guy I've never heard of: Alejandro Falla from Colombia. Interesting that theyre both lefties.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/tennis/...player1=Falla,+Alejandro&player2=donald+young

 

[Racer41c]

DY? Youngest has been of all time. He lost in the round of 128.

 

[Love Game]

too bad. one's gonna win, and one's gonna lose (today there were just as many losers as winners )

link to completed matches @ http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/cmatch/01qs.html

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Results for My Monday Interests
Edouard Roger-Vasselin(FRA) d. Scoville Jenkins(USA) 67 63 60
Matthias Bachinger(GER) d. Todd Widom(USA) 63 63
Michael Yani(USA) vs. Marc Lopez(ESP) 61 61
Go Soeda(JPN) d. Lukasz Kubot(POL)[15] 64 36 11-9
* Lukas Lacko(SVK) vs. Ryan Sweeting(USA) *To Finish 6-1 0-1
Alejandro Falla(COL) d. Donald Young(USA)[32] 64 64
Marcus Willis(GBR) d. Amer Delic(USA) 67 67
* Taylor Dent(USA) vs. Olivier Rochus(BEL)[17] *To be played Tuesday​

 

[RalphNYC]

Anyway to get around this in the US?

"Wimbledon fans will be able to watch live coverage from Centre Court, No.1 Court, No.2 Court and three other courts throughout the Wimbledon fortnight with Wimbledon Live.*

*Please note Wimbledon Live will not be available in the following territories:
United States, Canada , Germany, Spain,..."

 

[deluxe]

I'd love to see a pic of them at the net together, either before the match begins or at the handshake!

They didn't quite reach the net together. They were called to court, Dent arrived:

Then Rochus arrived:

And then the heavens opened, so they both left.

 

[Love Game]

They didn't quite reach the net together. They were called to court, Dent arrived:



Then Rochus arrived:



And then the heavens opened, so they both left.

interesting pics ... thanks!

 

[Love Game]

Anyway to get around this in the US?

"Wimbledon fans will be able to watch live coverage from Centre Court, No.1 Court, No.2 Court and three other courts throughout the Wimbledon fortnight with Wimbledon Live.*

*Please note Wimbledon Live will not be available in the following territories:
United States, Canada , Germany, Spain,..."

Very disappointing that they cant use media partners for everything online, as they did last year. for us in the usa, our great hope this year is espn2 ?10 hrs a day? and later espn ... coverage to begin on the 22nd.

http://aeltc2009.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/tvschedule/index.html

 

[Fedace]

Alex Clayton will Qualify for the Wimbledon championships.

 

[Love Game]

Alex Clayton will Qualify for the Wimbledon championships.

did you see my previous answer to you about this player? iow, if his name isn't in any of the 4 quarters of the qualifying draw, how can he qualify?

 

[Love Game]

i count 7 umpires! :shock:
i assume that means there are at least 7 matches going on side by side simultaneously. wow! i had no idea! is this how qualies always are? how difficult it must be for these players to concentrate on their own matches!

 

[TennisLover17]

Hmm interesting to see Tomic in the Qualifying. Hope he can come through.

 

[Leublu tennis]

i count 7 umpires! :shock:
i assume that means there are at least 7 matches going on side by side simultaneously. wow! i had no idea! is this how qualies always are? how difficult it must be for these players to concentrate on their own matches!

Thats a fantastic picture. At first I thought they were all sitting in the stands.

 

[Leublu tennis]

is he american, Fedace? i wanted to check him out, but i couldnt find his name in any of the 4 sections of the qualifying draw.

If I am not mistaken, he is a player on the Stanford team and Fedace uses his picture for his avatar. But could be wrong.

 

[Sentinel]

Dang! Som Dev Varman out, but Prakash Amritraj passes second round.

Fedace, i hope Alex Clayton wins the WO. I think he'll be the dark horse, considering how many times he's reached the finals, this SHOULD be his year !!!!

 

[Love Game]

Thats a fantastic picture. At first I thought they were all sitting in the stands.

blew my mind too!
it's one of four pics from june 15 @ http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news...5078797574.html?glryid=2009-06-15/2009-06-151

the reason i noticed it in the first place was because one of my faves (lukasz kubot) is in the player in the sleeveless on the left during changeover, and this is probably the only image of him there will be in wimbledon 2009! ...... I had been tracking his excruciating loss 9-11 in the third on scoreboard to the japanese player changing his shirt on the right, a guy named Go Soeda.

I had been focused on kubot and soega, but when I started "zooming out," so to speak, from them, I started wondering why there was a guy measuring the net of the court on which soeda and kubot were playing, yet there was another net which seemed to be just next to it ...... and then i noticed that the umpire in the foreground was not the umpire for the kubot/soeda match ........ and then I looked up and up, seeing more and more umpires .... youre right: that's quite a picture, yet the name of the photographer is not mentioned.

 

[Love Game]

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just oh. my. gosh. tuesday june 16th qualifying has 15 courts in action with 5-6 matches scheduled on each court!!! wow!!!

http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=st_promo

 

[spiderman123]

i count 7 umpires! :shock:
i assume that means there are at least 7 matches going on side by side simultaneously. wow! i had no idea! is this how qualies always are? how difficult it must be for these players to concentrate on their own matches!

Imagine what happens in 7 women's matches like these. When you are just about to serve, you hear a loud "Aaaaaoooooooooo" from the next court.

 

[Love Game]

Imagine what happens in 7 women's matches like these. When you are just about to serve, you hear a loud "Aaaaaoooooooooo" from the next court.

that is funny ..... the men groan and the women shriek .... i wonder if they play side by side today? what a ton of distractions! :shock:

 

[deluxe]

Imagine what happens in 7 women's matches like these. When you are just about to serve, you hear a loud "Aaaaaoooooooooo" from the next court.

You'll note there aren't many spectators on those courts. There's a pathway on one side of each court about wide enough for two people. Quite quiet apart from the players. Courts 13-16 have better viewing facilities and a bank of grass alongside two of those. More noise on those courts where they put the bigger names and the british players.

 

[Vik]

Actually, I count 8 umpires.

 

[jaggy]

Taylor takes the first set

 

[spiderman123]

You'll note there aren't many spectators on those courts. There's a pathway on one side of each court about wide enough for two people. Quite quiet apart from the players.

As far as noise making is concerned, between the spectators and women players, the latter win hands down.

 

[woodrow1029]

i count 7 umpires! :shock:
i assume that means there are at least 7 matches going on side by side simultaneously. wow! i had no idea! is this how qualies always are? how difficult it must be for these players to concentrate on their own matches!

Actually there are 12 courts side by side like that. The other four are up on top of the hill in a box formation.

 

[deluxe]

As far as noise making is concerned, between the spectators and women players, the latter win hands down.

Of course, there were no women playing on Monday.

 

[joeri888]

There goes any grass there was.. Playin in the dust again

 

[edberg505]

Taylor won his first round qualifying against the always tough Oli Rochus. Next up P. Luczak.

 

[Serendipitous]

Let's go Tomic!

 

[Love Game]

Actually, I count 8 umpires.

you do? i thought i could see 7 heads.
tell me more. youre not countning the guy measuring the net, are you?

 

[IvanAndreevich]

you do? i thought i could see 7 heads.
tell me more. youre not countning the guy measuring the net, are you?

No there are 8. Look at the very back, the 2 there almost blend.

 

[Love Game]

Actually there are 12 courts side by side like that. The other four are up on top of the hill in a box formation.

sounds as tho youve been there ...... so. roehampton. where is that in comparison with 19SW (?), if i have that address correct? is it at the college by that name? how far is it from the wimbledon venue? just down the road a piece? i mean, that's a lot of tennis courts!

 

[woodrow1029]

sounds as tho youve been there ...... so. roehampton. where is that in comparison with 19SW (?), if i have that address correct? is it at the college by that name? how far is it from the wimbledon venue? just down the road a piece? i mean, that's a lot of tennis courts!

It is held at the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton. I believe the post code is SW15. It is just a few miles from Wimbledon.

They also have a large cricket area. It's really nice.

The Bank of England Sports Ground is also the home of the ITF Main Offices.

 

[Love Game]

Actually, I count 8 umpires.

No there are 8. Look at the very back, the 2 there almost blend.

right you both are!

i had to look at the image in my "preview," then enlarge it ... thanks!

that is quite an awesome venue, Bank of England Sports Ground. i try to imagine concentrating on a match with all that activity swirling around .... i mean, even tho spectators are scarce in that pic ... look at all those people in the shot! :shock:

 

[Love Game]

It is held at the Bank of England Sports Ground in Roehampton. I believe the post code is SW15. It is just a few miles from Wimbledon.

They also have a large cricket area. It's really nice.

The Bank of England Sports Ground is also the home of the ITF Main Offices.

AHHHHhhhh. Bank of England ... lots of real estate ... thanks for that insight, woodrow!

it must be a bit distracting even to officiate there, isn't it? with all the scores being called over microphones? and some of those line judges really scream out their calls (jarring even w/o mics) .... looks beautiful, but also looks as tho it could be a challenge for the umpires as well as the players, eh?

 

[Love Game]

Men's Singles Results
Qualifying Day 2: Tuesday, 16 June

http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/cmatch/02qs.html​

 

[joeri888]

Taylor won his first round qualifying against the always tough Oli Rochus. Next up P. Luczak.

I wish Dent and Rochus could both qualify, they are certainly both good enough

 

[Love Game]

I'm glad to see that Michael Yani USA defeated Go Soeda JPN 62 76(5). His next match w/b against Prakash Amritraj IND (28).

also happy to see Jesse Levine USA (16) d.
Dieter Kindlmann GER 62 63.
His next opponent w/b Matthias Bachinger GER.