Johannesburg Live
The ATP World Tour is entering its 2011 season, and there are lots of professional tennis events happening in this the very first month of tennis action. The first Grand Slam event of the year is going on right now, and next on the calendar is the ATP Johannesburg, which will start on the 31st, joining the ATP Zagreb, otherwise known as the PBZ Zabgreb Indoors, as well as the Movistar Open, both of which start on the 31st. Click on the banners on this page for access to high quality video from anywhere in the world.
The SA Tennis Open is the tournament that we're going to discuss today, taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa for $442,500 and starting on January 31st and going to the sixth of February. This tournament is the largest of the week as far as prize money goes and has a singles draw of 32 and a doubles draw of 16. It happens on hard courts and is on the ATP World Tour 250 series of tennis and will be followed by the SAP Open in San Jose, California in the United States from February 7th to the 13th.
The top seed for this tournament is Feliciano Lopez, with Yen Shun Lu as the second seed. Then we have third seed Jeremy Chardy and fourth is Janko Tipsarevic. The fifth and sixth seeds for this event are Kevin Anderson and Florent Serra, and the seventh seed is Dudi Sela. We also have the sixth seed for the SA Tennis Open, Rainer Schuettler. Click on the links on this page to watch this tournament right from your computer in high quality video. You'll get instant access to tennis live no matter where you live in the world.
Posted: 1st February 2010
The SA Tennis Open will be January 30th through February 7th from Montecasino, and this Johannesburg, South Africa, tournament helps us kick off the new season on the ATP 250 World Tour. Last year, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Jeremy Chardy for the singles title, and Cerretani and Norman won the doubles title. You can watch the ATP Johannesburg live by getting your membership at any of the links on this page to watch in high quality video.
Gael Monfils is the top seed in this tournament, the Frenchman not making it to last year’s tourney because of an injury. David Ferrer is the second seed. Jeremy Chardy, who lost to Tsonga last year will be the third seed and the countryman of Gael Monfils will be looking to improve his year, which has been dismal so far. Feliciano Lopez is the fourth seed this year and fifth is a man from France, the third in the top five seeds, Marc Giquel.
The Prize money for this tournament is $442,500 and the event will be played on hard courts with a singles draw of 32 and a doubles draw of 16. This tournament is unique in the fact that it hasn’t been played in thirteen years, and Montecasino has two new grandstands that hold a total of 6000 fans. You can watch this tournament live by getting your membership at the banners located on this page and watching in high quality streaming video right from your computer. Don’t miss the SA Tennis Open Live starting January 30th.
Posted: 2th February 2009
Watch the SA Tennis Open live online with tennis online at www.watchlivetennis.org with membership from just €9.95 a year. The 2009 SA Tennis Open is part of the ATP 250 series under the new ATP structure for 2009 and will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa on hard courts, beginning on February 2nd through to February 8th 2009. The winner will take home the $450,000 cash prize money plus 250 ATP Ranking points.
The SA Tennis open is in its debut year in the ATP series, after being revised from the old South African Open, which was last held in 1995, with Johannesburg set to provide a new location on the tour.
Leading the line-up for the tournament is world number seven Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who will look to improve on his fantastic form from last year. The French player, dubbed the 'Muhammed Ali of Tennis' rose to fame after his astonishing 2008 Australian Open performance where he came into the tournament unseeded, only to reach the final where he lost out to world number three Novak Djokovic.
Other firm favourites include David Ferrer, Marcos Baghdatis and Fabrice Santoro who will look to claim their first ATP win of 2009 with fellow favourite Gael Monfils due to a wrist injury sustained in the Australian open. Spaniard David Ferrer is ranked at number twelve in the ATP rankings and has told South African press he is looking forward to the first ever SA Tennis Open.
Meanwhile, Fabrice 'the Magician' Santoro will look to carry on his impressive form from last year where he won two titles, with the most recent on November 2008 in the ATP Challenger Series on hard courts. Santoro is known for using both hands for every possible shot as well as pulling off stunning trick shots during competitions. Marcos Baghdatis will look for his first tournament win on hard courts since the end of 2006 and will hope for better luck after crashing out of the Australian open to world number three Novak Djokovic.
The tournament at Montecasino has four South Africans to represent the home side, including world number 104 Kevin Anderson and wild cards Rik de Voest and Raven Klaasen, while the remaining berth goes to the SA Nationals winner in the tournament that finishes at Montecasino next week.
With membership at www.watchlivetennis.org from just a one off payment of €9.95, you recieve tennis streaming straight to your computer wherever you are in the world. Will Tsonga cruise to victory in Johannesburg, or can Ferrer, Baghdatis or even South African Kevin Anderson pull off a shock? Find out here at www.watchlivetennis.org, your number one source for watching tennis online.
Tags: ATP World Tour, Johannesburg, Feliciano Lopez, Florent Serra, tennis live, Jeremy Chardy, ATP Johannesburg, Gael Monfils, David Ferrer, Marc Giquel, SA Tennis Open live, SA Tennis Open Posted: 31st January 2011 ATP Tour » Johannesburg Live |
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