2006 Davis Cup Venues, Surfaces Announced

DUlrich1227 · 12-16-05, 04:10 PM

The venues and surfaces have been announced for the first round of the 2006 Davis Cup to take place on the weekend of Feb. 10, 2006. Tennis-X breaks down the match-ups (presented in draw order), with both the defending champs Croatia and runner-up Slovak Republic facing away-match claycourt testers:

Croatia at Austria
The Austrians will host in Graz on indoor red clay, hoping to put the big-serving Croatian tandem of defending champs Ivan Ljubicic and Mario "Baby Goran" Ancic at a slip-sliding disadvantage. Look for the Croats to power through what could be a difficult situation against the hot-and-cold Jurgen "Tuna" Melzer and some combination of Stefan Koubek, who is still trying to rebound from a doping violation in 2005, and Alexander Peya.

Sweden at Argentina
Since the creation of the World Group in 1981, Sweden has led with six titles, but you couldn't tell by the modern-day Swedisn team which is old and/or seemingly constantly injured. Swedish next-generation youngsters Joachim "The Jackhammer" Johansson (shoulder surgery) and Robin Soderling (knee surgery) did not produce in 2005, leaving oldsters Jonas Bjorkman and Thomas Johansson to struggle to a first-round loss to France then a World Group-berth-saving win against India in the qualifying round. Now Argentina will makes things ugly again for the Swedes, with Gauchos David Nalbandian, Guillermo Coria, Gaston Gaudio are crew hosting a red clay rout in Buenos Aires.

Spain at Belarus
The defending champ Spaniards were not happy in 2005 when the Slovaks put them on an ice-slick indoor court resulting in a first round loss, and they were likewise grumbly when they learned their first round in 2006 would be a trip to a slick indoor carpet surface in Minsk against Belarus. Rafael Nadal, Juan Carlos Ferrero and crew (minus Carlos Moya who has given up on Davis Cup) will be out to prove just how well their games have adapted to fast surfaces against the net-crushing attack of Max "The Beast" Mirnyi and Vladimir "The Vladiator" Voltchkov for Belarus.

Australia at Switzerland
Brilliant! The Swiss put the Aussies on clay, where Lleyton Hewitt has trouble generating pace, and the non-Top 50 Aussie No. 2 (potentially Mark Philippousis or Wayne Arthurs) will similarly struggle against three-time Masters-Series Hamburg champ and French Open semifinalist Roger Federer, and clay-loving Swiss No. 2 Stan Wawrinka. Nicely done, with the only kink in Federer saying he may skip the first round of Davis Cup as he did in 2005.

France at Germany
Perhaps the most interesting first-round match-up pits two storied countries without any world-killers in Tommy Haas, Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler for the home Germans on an indoor hardcourt against France's mix of next-generation players Richard Gasquet and Paul-Henri Mathieu, and oldsters Sebastien Grosjean and Arnaud Clement. Give the slight nod to the visiting Frenchmen, who bring in Masters Cup Doubles winners Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro.

Russia at The Netherlands
Visitors Marat Safin and Nikolay Davydenko will be the favorites on indoor carpet in this match-up unless come February Safin has failed to rebound from the knee injury that kept him out for much of 2005. The Dutch will be big underdogs as they attempt to defend the home turf with a group of near-Challenger level players in "Everybody Loves" Raemon Sluiter, Sjeng Schalken, Peter "Nuclear" Wessels, and retired/not-retired doubles specialist Paul Haarhuis.

Romania at U.S.
It could be "Dream Team II," though you remember what happened to Dream Team I in the opening round last year against Croatia, when Andy Roddick and possibly Andre Agassi team to defend the home turf against Romania on outdoor hardcourt in La Jolla, California. The Americans will be anchored in doubles by the Bryan brothers against a not-so-strong Romanian squad comprised of Andrei Pavel and Victor Hanescu, both of who are more comfortable on a slow claycourt when not facing players ranked in the Top 10. The dream here for Romania might be to come away from the tie without getting blanked.

Slovak Republic at Chile
Last year Russia took advantage of a home court and injury to Nicolas Massu to ambush Chile 4-1, but in 2006 the Chileans see a draw with better possibilities. The homecourt Chileans will host the 2005 runner-up Slovaks on red clay, and have not lost at home since 1996. Fernando "Gonzo" Gonzalez and Massu will be the favorites against visitors Dominik "The Dominator" Hrbaty and Karol Beck, with a second-round visit to the U.S. looming for Chile.

$@M · 12-16-05, 08:44 PM

Great write-up, Dave... some very interesting ties... shame Aussie will have to play the Swiss first round, but if FedX is not playing, we may sneak a win... hopefully...

What's up with tennispicks.net... how come i get no email from them anymore!?

DUlrich1227 · 12-16-05, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by $@M

Great write-up, Dave... some very interesting ties... shame Aussie will have to play the Swiss first round, but if FedX is not playing, we may sneak a win... hopefully...

What's up with tennispicks.net... how come i get no email from them anymore!?

you will my friend.. 1/3/2005 we will be making money once again ..

$@M · 12-17-05, 01:02 AM

Yeah... i've been very bored since the tennis season was over...
Bring on the TENNIS, baby !!!

Tommy · 12-17-05, 11:02 AM

Thanks David, Good to know.

Bring on January lol.. It's not even that long of a break, thats what is great about Tennis.

naught33 · 12-17-05, 06:47 PM

love the analysis dave, your insight is always well placed and highly appreciated, looking fwd to making some bank this coming yr in tennis!

Lakers · 12-18-05, 10:16 AM

[PHPTennispicks.net breaks down the match-ups (presented in draw order)][/php]

two regular posters $M and naught have given Mr.DUIrich1227 credit for writing this. Since it appears Mr.Duirich is reluctant to provide the proper source of this article and seems comfortable taking credit, i'll help out. The boys at ExtremeT would not be happy with this Duirich1227.

http://www.tennis-x.com/story/2005-12-16/d.php

please don't bash me, I don't deserve it. It's NOT right to pawn off someone else's work. Mr.Duirich at no point interrutped the aforementioned two posters and told them 'no, actually i didnt write this, i got it from......and here is the link'

have a good day all.

incidentally Mr.Duirrich HAS provided PREVIOUS links from this same site, so he obviously is aware it exixts. His paste has 'tennispicks.net' substituted for 'tennis-X' from the original article (click the link),first paragraph. I wonder if that's illegal to do?

Tommy · 12-18-05, 12:27 PM

I don't think he is giving himself credit for writing it Lakers. He is giving Tennispicks credit I think. I don't know. Anyway, thanks for the source and it is good info on the Davis Cup nonetheless.

Lakers · 12-18-05, 12:36 PM

hi big123. It is indeed great info provided from the boys at Extreme Tennis, they do a great job.

with all due respect, Duirich had an OPPORTUNITY to state where he got this article from.

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  Great write-up, Dave...

he responds to this by $M, and elects to state nothing of the REAL source..he is obviouly implying, that he'll glady take credit for it. At the very least he should state, something along these lines--'no, $M, i didnt write this, tennispicks.net wrote it, ...'. I'm not 'reading into ' anything here. TWO posters also have the belief/implied that HE wrote it, as they gave credit to him ($M and naught)

i have sent an-email to Extreme tennis regarding the matter. Hopefully he has no affiliation with tennispicks.net. Extreme tennis has this on there site;

Copyright © 2002-2005 Tennis-X.com. All rights reserved.
This website is an independently operated source of news and information and is not affiliated with any professional organization.

nt--'all rights reserved'

Tommy · 12-18-05, 01:08 PM

It was my impression that he got the info from tennispicks like he stated and is taking credit for posting useful info regardless if he wrote it or got it from somewhere else. In this case, he said he got it from Tennispicks. It has nothing to do with anyone taking credit on writing this, rather on the info itself and where the source came from.

Once again, Thanks for giving the real source and clearing things up on where it came from.

It seems to me like you have it out for David or something by going through all of this.

Lakers · 12-18-05, 01:50 PM

lol, I do not have it out for ANYONE. Wish all well, big123.

have a good day

*NO BASHING**

naught33 · 12-18-05, 03:02 PM

good god what is going on here....lakers im not giving credit to dave for anything but for posting what he did...please do not put words in my mouth or start trouble here. you have 6 posts on the site, 3 of them about this issue, im not even sure what the other 3 are about, but im not sure what you are trying to accomplish here. we all know dave is a great tennis capper whether he wrote this himself, or got it from somewhere, or whatever he was just posting information, there is nothing wrong w that.

Lakers · 12-18-05, 03:15 PM

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good god what is going on here....lakers im not giving credit to dave for anything but for posting what he did

Jesus!! i'm sorry must have 'mis-interpreted' this;

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love the analysis dave, your insight is always well placed and highly appreciated

'your insight'-- i'm NOT putting words into NOones mouth, get real. Uubelievable

the fact that i have 4-5 posts makes me irrelevant at this site, naught? is that the way things work at THIS site? Did i EVER say duirich is a bad capper??

and fianally i'm NOT TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH anything here--you and big123 seem paranoid. I'm just relaying some bloody information. The sourse is NOT duirich and is NOT tennispicks.net.

unbelievable, enough from me

DUlrich1227 · 12-18-05, 03:15 PM

it was emailed to me via a tennispicks.net email.. i just posted it .. i get a lot of news from here..

geez dude .. whats your problem ..

Lakers · 12-18-05, 03:18 PM

duirich i have no problem.

have a good day

**bro there will be no bashing here allowed, if you keep it up you will get banned**

DUlrich1227 · 12-18-05, 03:21 PM

eh what ever .. i get a ton of winners from tennispicks.net

Lakers · 12-18-05, 03:31 PM

i think naught has an English comprehension problem. HOW am I bashing?

go ahead and ban me, Jesus, what a joke.

bashing? LMFAO!!!!

Lakers · 12-18-05, 03:37 PM

you EDITED my above post for no reason whatsoever. I stated that tennispicks.net are frauds--and that is fact, they STOLE an article and claimed it there's--that's obvious, i provided the link!!! they changed the word 'extreme tennis' to 'tennispicks.net'

how is this bashing??

what they did is illegal.

bashing???

---someone, also just edited the original copy and paste to CHANGE and eliminate giving tennispicks.net and put tennis-x. Funny, wonder why? I thought i had some king of agenda, naught? somehow i was bashing? ..yeah, ok.........

DUlrich1227 · 12-18-05, 04:44 PM

dude what are you the internet police ?

and what is your problem with tennispicks.net ?

i am sure it was all in good fun..

tennispicks.net has made me alot of money over the last year.. why do you have such a problem ? The only post you make are to criticize.. you add no value to anything but to put other things down..

Lakers · 12-18-05, 04:57 PM

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and what is your problem with tennispicks.net ?

i am sure it was all in good fun..

all in good fun? are you serious???

if someone pawned YOUR picks, lets say, went to another site and posted them as THEIR picks, would that be ok? would that be all in 'good fun'?

lets get real. I'm not the internet police, don't try to belittle this. I have NOTHING agasint tennispicks.net--i dont know who runs them and I dont care. For anyone to do what they did, shows a clear lack of integrity. And what's equally disturbing is that your defending their actions.

btw, sorry i dont add 'value' to this site.

12-16-05, 04:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
DUlrich1227 SCI Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sunrise, Fl Posts: 1,973	2006 Davis Cup Venues, Surfaces Announced The venues and surfaces have been announced for the first round of the 2006 Davis Cup to take place on the weekend of Feb. 10, 2006. Tennis-X breaks down the match-ups (presented in draw order), with both the defending champs Croatia and runner-up Slovak Republic facing away-match claycourt testers: Croatia at Austria The Austrians will host in Graz on indoor red clay, hoping to put the big-serving Croatian tandem of defending champs Ivan Ljubicic and Mario "Baby Goran" Ancic at a slip-sliding disadvantage. Look for the Croats to power through what could be a difficult situation against the hot-and-cold Jurgen "Tuna" Melzer and some combination of Stefan Koubek, who is still trying to rebound from a doping violation in 2005, and Alexander Peya. Sweden at Argentina Since the creation of the World Group in 1981, Sweden has led with six titles, but you couldn't tell by the modern-day Swedisn team which is old and/or seemingly constantly injured. Swedish next-generation youngsters Joachim "The Jackhammer" Johansson (shoulder surgery) and Robin Soderling (knee surgery) did not produce in 2005, leaving oldsters Jonas Bjorkman and Thomas Johansson to struggle to a first-round loss to France then a World Group-berth-saving win against India in the qualifying round. Now Argentina will makes things ugly again for the Swedes, with Gauchos David Nalbandian, Guillermo Coria, Gaston Gaudio are crew hosting a red clay rout in Buenos Aires. Spain at Belarus The defending champ Spaniards were not happy in 2005 when the Slovaks put them on an ice-slick indoor court resulting in a first round loss, and they were likewise grumbly when they learned their first round in 2006 would be a trip to a slick indoor carpet surface in Minsk against Belarus. Rafael Nadal, Juan Carlos Ferrero and crew (minus Carlos Moya who has given up on Davis Cup) will be out to prove just how well their games have adapted to fast surfaces against the net-crushing attack of Max "The Beast" Mirnyi and Vladimir "The Vladiator" Voltchkov for Belarus. Australia at Switzerland Brilliant! The Swiss put the Aussies on clay, where Lleyton Hewitt has trouble generating pace, and the non-Top 50 Aussie No. 2 (potentially Mark Philippousis or Wayne Arthurs) will similarly struggle against three-time Masters-Series Hamburg champ and French Open semifinalist Roger Federer, and clay-loving Swiss No. 2 Stan Wawrinka. Nicely done, with the only kink in Federer saying he may skip the first round of Davis Cup as he did in 2005. France at Germany Perhaps the most interesting first-round match-up pits two storied countries without any world-killers in Tommy Haas, Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler for the home Germans on an indoor hardcourt against France's mix of next-generation players Richard Gasquet and Paul-Henri Mathieu, and oldsters Sebastien Grosjean and Arnaud Clement. Give the slight nod to the visiting Frenchmen, who bring in Masters Cup Doubles winners Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro. Russia at The Netherlands Visitors Marat Safin and Nikolay Davydenko will be the favorites on indoor carpet in this match-up unless come February Safin has failed to rebound from the knee injury that kept him out for much of 2005. The Dutch will be big underdogs as they attempt to defend the home turf with a group of near-Challenger level players in "Everybody Loves" Raemon Sluiter, Sjeng Schalken, Peter "Nuclear" Wessels, and retired/not-retired doubles specialist Paul Haarhuis. Romania at U.S. It could be "Dream Team II," though you remember what happened to Dream Team I in the opening round last year against Croatia, when Andy Roddick and possibly Andre Agassi team to defend the home turf against Romania on outdoor hardcourt in La Jolla, California. The Americans will be anchored in doubles by the Bryan brothers against a not-so-strong Romanian squad comprised of Andrei Pavel and Victor Hanescu, both of who are more comfortable on a slow claycourt when not facing players ranked in the Top 10. The dream here for Romania might be to come away from the tie without getting blanked. Slovak Republic at Chile Last year Russia took advantage of a home court and injury to Nicolas Massu to ambush Chile 4-1, but in 2006 the Chileans see a draw with better possibilities. The homecourt Chileans will host the 2005 runner-up Slovaks on red clay, and have not lost at home since 1996. Fernando "Gonzo" Gonzalez and Massu will be the favorites against visitors Dominik "The Dominator" Hrbaty and Karol Beck, with a second-round visit to the U.S. looming for Chile. __________________ good luck and peace out homies Last edited by DUlrich1227 : 12-18-05 at 03:22 PM.
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$@M SCI Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,528	Great write-up, Dave... some very interesting ties... shame Aussie will have to play the Swiss first round, but if FedX is not playing, we may sneak a win... hopefully... What's up with tennispicks.net... how come i get no email from them anymore!?
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naught33 SCI Forum Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Scarsdale, NY Posts: 13,666	love the analysis dave, your insight is always well placed and highly appreciated, looking fwd to making some bank this coming yr in tennis! __________________ -naught33 "You miss 100% of all the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky "No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around"-coach from the movie Rudy
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Lakers Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11	[PHPTennispicks.net breaks down the match-ups (presented in draw order)][/php] two regular posters $M and naught have given Mr.DUIrich1227 credit for writing this. Since it appears Mr.Duirich is reluctant to provide the proper source of this article and seems comfortable taking credit, i'll help out. The boys at ExtremeT would not be happy with this Duirich1227. http://www.tennis-x.com/story/2005-12-16/d.php please don't bash me, I don't deserve it. It's NOT right to pawn off someone else's work. Mr.Duirich at no point interrutped the aforementioned two posters and told them 'no, actually i didnt write this, i got it from......and here is the link' have a good day all. incidentally Mr.Duirrich HAS provided PREVIOUS links from this same site, so he obviously is aware it exixts. His paste has 'tennispicks.net' substituted for 'tennis-X' from the original article (click the link),first paragraph. I wonder if that's illegal to do? Last edited by Lakers : 12-18-05 at 10:24 AM.
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Tommy Now go get your shinebox Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sportscapper Island Posts: 15,068	I don't think he is giving himself credit for writing it Lakers. He is giving Tennispicks credit I think. I don't know. Anyway, thanks for the source and it is good info on the Davis Cup nonetheless.
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12-18-05, 12:36 PM	#9 (permalink)
Lakers Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11	hi big123. It is indeed great info provided from the boys at Extreme Tennis, they do a great job. with all due respect, Duirich had an OPPORTUNITY to state where he got this article from. PHP Code: `Great write-up, Dave...` he responds to this by $M, and elects to state nothing of the REAL source..he is obviouly implying, that he'll glady take credit for it. At the very least he should state, something along these lines--'no, $M, i didnt write this, tennispicks.net wrote it, ...'. I'm not 'reading into ' anything here. TWO posters also have the belief/implied that HE wrote it, as they gave credit to him ($M and naught) i have sent an-email to Extreme tennis regarding the matter. Hopefully he has no affiliation with tennispicks.net. Extreme tennis has this on there site; Copyright © 2002-2005 Tennis-X.com. All rights reserved. This website is an independently operated source of news and information and is not affiliated with any professional organization. nt--'all rights reserved' Last edited by Lakers : 12-18-05 at 12:45 PM.
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12-18-05, 01:08 PM	#10 (permalink)
Tommy Now go get your shinebox Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sportscapper Island Posts: 15,068	It was my impression that he got the info from tennispicks like he stated and is taking credit for posting useful info regardless if he wrote it or got it from somewhere else. In this case, he said he got it from Tennispicks. It has nothing to do with anyone taking credit on writing this, rather on the info itself and where the source came from. Once again, Thanks for giving the real source and clearing things up on where it came from. It seems to me like you have it out for David or something by going through all of this.
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Lakers Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11	lol, I do not have it out for ANYONE. Wish all well, big123. have a good day NO BASHING* Last edited by naught33 : 12-18-05 at 03:27 PM.
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naught33 SCI Forum Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Scarsdale, NY Posts: 13,666	good god what is going on here....lakers im not giving credit to dave for anything but for posting what he did...please do not put words in my mouth or start trouble here. you have 6 posts on the site, 3 of them about this issue, im not even sure what the other 3 are about, but im not sure what you are trying to accomplish here. we all know dave is a great tennis capper whether he wrote this himself, or got it from somewhere, or whatever he was just posting information, there is nothing wrong w that. __________________ -naught33 "You miss 100% of all the shots you don't take"-Wayne Gretzky "No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around"-coach from the movie Rudy
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DUlrich1227 SCI Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sunrise, Fl Posts: 1,973	it was emailed to me via a tennispicks.net email.. i just posted it .. i get a lot of news from here.. geez dude .. whats your problem .. __________________ good luck and peace out homies Last edited by DUlrich1227 : 12-18-05 at 03:16 PM.
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Lakers Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11	duirich i have no problem. have a good day bro there will be no bashing here allowed, if you keep it up you will get banned Last edited by naught33 : 12-18-05 at 03:27 PM.
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DUlrich1227 SCI Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sunrise, Fl Posts: 1,973	eh what ever .. i get a ton of winners from tennispicks.net __________________ good luck and peace out homies
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Lakers Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11	i think naught has an English comprehension problem. HOW am I bashing? go ahead and ban me, Jesus, what a joke. bashing? LMFAO!!!!
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12-18-05, 03:37 PM	#18 (permalink)
Lakers Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11	you EDITED my above post for no reason whatsoever. I stated that tennispicks.net are frauds--and that is fact, they STOLE an article and claimed it there's--that's obvious, i provided the link!!! they changed the word 'extreme tennis' to 'tennispicks.net' how is this bashing?? what they did is illegal. bashing??? ---someone, also just edited the original copy and paste to CHANGE and eliminate giving tennispicks.net and put tennis-x. Funny, wonder why? I thought i had some king of agenda, naught? somehow i was bashing? ..yeah, ok......... Last edited by Lakers : 12-18-05 at 04:02 PM.
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DUlrich1227 SCI Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sunrise, Fl Posts: 1,973	dude what are you the internet police ? and what is your problem with tennispicks.net ? i am sure it was all in good fun.. tennispicks.net has made me alot of money over the last year.. why do you have such a problem ? The only post you make are to criticize.. you add no value to anything but to put other things down.. __________________ good luck and peace out homies
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