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Post by Brinyi on Dec 27, 2006 15:57:15 GMT -5
Australian Open Wildcard Playoff: Robert Smeets and Alicia Molik
Kia Pro Circuit: Alun Jones and Casey Dellacqua
US Wildcard Exchange: Sam Querry (USA) and Madison Brengle (USA)
Asian Wildcards: Go Soeda (JPN) and Iroda Tulyaganova (UZB)
French Wildcard Exchange: TBC
And some other Aussie bumpkins TBC
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Post by janie on Dec 28, 2006 15:21:45 GMT -5
Go's in! yay  |
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Dec 28, 2006 16:08:50 GMT -5
Gogo Go.
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Post by janie on Dec 30, 2006 9:45:03 GMT -5
30 December 2006 Tennis Australia French youngsters Jo-Wilfried Tsonga  and Youlia Fedossova  are the latest recipients of main draw wildcards to Australian Open 2007 under a reciprocal arrangement with the French Tennis Federation. Tsonga is no stranger to the courts at Melbourne Park having reached the semifinals here in the Junior Championship in 2002 (lost to countryman and eventual champion Clement Morel) and 2003 (lost to eventual champion Marcos Baghdatis) on his way to finishing 2003 as the world No.2 junior. The 21-year-old right hander with a booming serve made an impressive debut in his first ATP event in 2004 where he defeated Carlos Moya in the opening round. In 2006 he has won a Challenger in Rennes and was a finalist in Lanzarote, and won four Futures events – two in France and two in the UK. He reached as career-high ranking of 133 in 2005 but had his season disrupted by injury which has seen his current ranking slip back to 212. Eighteen-year old Fedossa has had some promising results in 2006. She reached the quarterfinals at the Japan Open in Tokyo and the second round on her debut at the US Open where, as a qualifier, she defeated No.25 seed Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round. She ended the year ranked 149 in the world. Tokyo is also where the youngster made her Sony Ericsson Tour main draw debut back in 2004. As a lowly ranked qualifier (448) she reached the quarterfinals defeating Meghann Shaughnessy (ranked 46) and Akiko Morigami (74) along the way before losing to the top seed and eventual champion Maria Sharapova. The Australian Open awards 8 men’s and 8 women’s main draw wildcards to the forthcoming tournament. |
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Post by Brinyi on Dec 31, 2006 18:05:11 GMT -5
2007 will be the year of Jo Willy!
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Post by Brinyi on Jan 3, 2007 11:23:26 GMT -5
El Aynaoui overcame former Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-1) and hopes to make at least one more appearance at the Australian Open later this month. " I have applied for a wild card in the qualifying competition, and it would give me a great life to return to where I played that great match," he said. "But whatever happens, this year I am hoping to play a full season on the tour."  |
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Post by janie on Jan 3, 2007 13:43:59 GMT -5
Yippee!!! What great news to start the year with.  Doesn't make up for Tennis Week being taken over by IMG, though.  |
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Post by Brinyi on Jan 3, 2007 13:56:02 GMT -5
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Post by DBBN on Jan 3, 2007 14:33:37 GMT -5
Doesn't make up for Tennis Week being taken over by IMG, though.  Are you kidding? Ugh. So that makes a grand total of zero good tennis hard-copy magazines. |
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