After Being Admitted to the Hall of Fame, Goran Ivanišević Arrives to Umag
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Daily News #ATPUMAG • #31atpumag • OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE ATP TOURNAMENT• No1 • 20.07.2021. AFTER BEING ADMITTED TO THE HALL OF FAME, GORAN IVANIŠEVIĆ ARRIVES TO UMAG Legendary Croatian tennis player Goran Ivanišević, after stadium that bears his name, and where all the matches of being admitted to the International Tennis Hall of Fame the main tournament are played. Our favorite “Rabbit” is in the USA on Saturday, arrived in Umag today, where the satisfied with the strength of this year's 31st edition of the ATP tournament Plava Laguna Croatia Open is being held. tournament, and he is especially happy that Croatian tennis Goran is the ambassador of the most famous Croatian tennis players are competing in the main part of the tournament. tournament, which will be played on the courts of Stella Maris resort in Umag until July 25. 20 years after winning Wimbledon, Goran once again made history by becoming the first Croatian to be inducted into Goran will already be watching the matches at the ATP the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Daily News SCHEDULE OF PLAY STADION GORAN GRANDSTAND COURT 1 COURT 2 IVANIŠEVIĆ 16:30 16:00 16:30 16:00 (ARG) vs. (GER) vs. Andrea Collarini Bernabe Zapata Miralles Daniel Altmaier Alessandro Giannessi (ITA) Duje Ajduković (CRO) (ESP) vs. Corentin Moutet (FRA) vs. Pablo Cuevas (URU) Not before 19:00 followed by Jiri Vesely (CZE) Aljaž Bedene (SLO) vs. followed by Roman Jebavy (CZE) Marco Cecchinato (ITA) Salvatore Caruso (ITA) vs. Jiri Vesely (CZE) vs. followed by Andrej Martin (SVK) Carlos Taberner (ESP) Damir Džumhur (BIH) vs. followed by Bernabe Zapata Miralles Filip Horansky (SVK) Lucas Pouille (FRA) vs. followed by (ESP) Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) Gianluca Mager (ITA) vs. Pedro Martinez (ESP) followed by Marco Cecchinato (ITA) Stefano Travaglia (ITA) vs. Plava LagunaRafael Matos Croatia (BRA) Open Umag Andrej Vasileuski (BLR) CITY, COUNTRY TOURNAMENT DATES SURFACE TOTAL FINANCIAL COMMITMENT Umag, Croatia 19-25 July 2021 Red Clay € 481,270 STATUS NAT MAIN DRAW SINGLES 1 1 ESP RAMOS-VINOLAS, Albert A. RAMOS-VINOLAS [1] 2 BYE 3 Q ARG COLLARINI, Andrea 4 WC CRO AJDUKOVIC, Duje 5 ESP TABERNER, Carlos C. TABERNER 6 WC CRO SERDARUSIC, Nino 62 62 7 ITA TRAVAGLIA, Stefano S. TRAVAGLIA 8 6 ESP MUNAR, Jaume 63 76(1) 9 3 SRB KRAJINOVIC, Filip F. KRAJINOVIC [3] 10 BYE 11 WC DEN RUNE, Holger Vitus Nodskov R. ALBOT 12 MDA ALBOT, Radu 16 63 62 13 ITA CARUSO, Salvatore 14 SVK MARTIN, Andrej 15 FRA POUILLE, Lucas 16 7 ESP ALCARAZ, Carlos 17 5 SLO BEDENE, Aljaz 18 ITA CECCHINATO, Marco 19 BIH DZUMHUR, Damir 20 Q SVK HORANSKY, Filip 21 Q ITA GIANNESSI, Alessandro 22 CZE VESELY, Jiri 23 BYE R. GASQUET [4] 24 4 FRA GASQUET, Richard 25 8 ITA MAGER, Gianluca 26 ESP MARTINEZ, Pedro 27 Q GER ALTMAIER, Daniel 28 FRA MOUTET, Corentin 29 ESP ZAPATA MIRALLES, Bernabe 30 URU CUEVAS, Pablo 31 BYE D. LAJOVIC [2] 32 2 SRB LAJOVIC, Dusan ATP, Inc. © Copyright 2014 2 SEEDED PLAYERS RANK PRIZE MONEY POINTS ALTERNATES / LUCKY LOSERS WITHDRAWALS 1 RAMOS-VINOLAS, Albert 41 WINNER € 41,145 250 2 LAJOVIC, Dusan 43 FINALIST € 29,500 150 3 KRAJINOVIC, Filip 44 SEMI-FINALIST € 21,000 90 4 GASQUET, Richard 54 QUARTER-FINALIST € 14,000 45 5 BEDENE, Aljaz 56 SECOND ROUND € 9,000 20 RETIREMENTS/WALKOVERS 6 MUNAR, Jaume 66 FIRST ROUND € 5,415 0 7 ALCARAZ, Carlos 72 FOLLOW LIVE SCORING AT 8 MAGER, Gianluca 73 www.ATPTour.com LAST DIRECT ACCEPTANCE Dzumhur, Damir 126 ATP SUPERVISOR(S) Gerry Armstrong Dear friends and fans of tennis, despite all the challenges in the past and this year, we made an effort to prepare well for this year's tournament in order to offer a real experience for all visitors. Plava Laguna is primarily a tourist company, we want each of our guests to feel welcome and safe in all our accommodation facilities, including the ATP zone. When you look at business today, and also the history of the Plava Laguna, you can see a high correlation between core business and sports. We want to further develop this important segment in our business and thereby contribute to the development of the destinations in which we operate. I wish you all to enjoy our holiday grounds, to feel the hospitality of our employees in our hotels, camps, tourist resorts and to have a good time at the 31st edition of our Umag tournament. I thank all the partners so far and invite you to be together at the 32nd edition of the tournament. Dragan Pujas President of the Board of Plava Laguna Plava Laguna creates unforgettable family holidays in Istria, Croatia. POREČ · UMAG · RIJEKA 3 Daily News NINO SERDARUSIC THIS SEASON WITHOUT WIN AT THE START “I DIDN'T SHOW MY BEST WEAPONS” Unlike last year, when he achieved shape. I did not show my best good with great players,” added quarterfinals. Albot, on the other the first victory of his career in weapons,” said Serdarušić, who Serdarušić, currently 288th on the hand, was better than 18-year-old ATP tournaments in Umag, Nino lost his serve in both sets in ATP list. Next week he will play Dane Holger Rune with 1: 6, 6: Serdarušić failed to jump over the first game, which made his at the ATP Challenger in Trieste 3, 6: 2, achieving his first victory the first hurdle this season. He job significantly more difficult. or in the qualifications of the ATP this season on clay courts, after was defeated at the start of the He ended up without a single tournament in Kitzbühel, and by three previous knock-outs in the Plava Laguna Croatia Open by the breakpoint. the end of the season he wants first round. Spaniard Carlos Taberner, who to return among the 200 best in advanced to the eighth finals with Taberner reached the second the world (his best placement is The program at the Plava Laguna a 6: 2, 6: 2 victory, and is now on round of the main event as a 192nd place). Croatia Open continues on the path to the best placement in qualifier at the ATP World Tour Tuesday. Already in the first his career on the individual ATP 500 in Hamburg last week, and Italian Stefano Travaglia and match on the central field, Duje list next week. Just on the day of was stopped by later title winner Moldovan Radu Albot also Ajduković will at 16:30 be facing the start of the main tournament, Carreno Busta of Spain. made it to the quarterfinals of off against the Argentine Collarini, his name appeared in 108th place, the 31st edition of the Umag ATP who finished his qualifying match and this victory could move him "I would like to thank the tournament on Monday. Travaglia, on Monday at around 11 pm. The one step further. tournament director again for who will play against Taberner winner of Umag from 2014 will receiving the invitation and I am in the second round, surprised be playing, among others. Pablo “I think this was my worst match sorry that the knock-out came the Spaniard Jaume Munar,Plava the Cuevas, Laguna winner of Umag in 2018. Croatia Open Umag of all performances in Umag, so quickly. In the last month, I sixth qualifier (6: 3, 7: 6), and came Marco Cecchinato and as a treat but Taberner, onCITY, the COUNTRYother have improved the game a lot, oneTOURNAMENT step closer to equalizing DATES his at the end of theSURFACE day the great TOTAL FINANCIAL COMMITMENT hand, showed thatUmag, he is in good Croatia and here in training I was quite best19-25 result inJuly Umag, 2021 the 2019 young Spaniard CarlosRed ClayAlcaraz. € 481,270 STATUS NAT QUALIFYING SINGLES 1 1 GER ALTMAIER, Daniel D. ALTMAIER [1] 2 Alt ITA COBOLLI, Flavio 26 63 61 D. ALTMAIER [1] 36 64 63 3 WC CRO PECOTIC, Matija M. PECOTIC 4 7 ITA FABBIANO, Thomas 75 62 5 2 SRB MILOJEVIC, Nikola N. MILOJEVIC [2] 6 CZE ROSOL, Lukas 64 75 F. HORANSKY [5] 62 62 7 WC SRB MEDJEDOVIC, Hamad F. HORANSKY [5] 8 5 SVK HORANSKY, Filip 64 67(2) 61 9 3 SLO ROLA, Blaz V. SACHKO 10 UKR SACHKO, Vitaliy 64 62 A. COLLARINI 67(4) 62 64 11 ARG COLLARINI, Andrea A. COLLARINI 12 8 GER MASUR, Daniel 61 61 13 4 ITA GIANNESSI, Alessandro A. GIANNESSI [4] 14 GER MOLLEKER, Rudolf 63 75 A. GIANNESSI [4] 76(5) 61 15 Alt BIH FATIC, Nerman R. OLIVO [6] 16 6 ARG OLIVO, Renzo 63 61 4 ATP, Inc. © Copyright 2014 SEEDED PLAYERS RANK PRIZE MONEY POINTS ALTERNATES WITHDRAWALS RETIREMENTS/WALKOVERS 1 ALTMAIER, Daniel 149 QUALIFIER € 0 12 N. Fatic [ALT] 2 MILOJEVIC, Nikola 150 FINALIST € 2,645 6 F. Cobolli [ALT] 3 ROLA, Blaz 158 FIRST ROUND € 1,375 0 4 GIANNESSI, Alessandro 168 5 HORANSKY, Filip 184 6 OLIVO, Renzo 192 FOLLOW LIVE SCORING AT 7 FABBIANO, Thomas 201 www.ATPTour.com 8 MASUR, Daniel 202 LAST DIRECT ACCEPTANCE Molleker, Rudolf 311 ATP SUPERVISOR(S) Gerry Armstrong COLUMN BY GORAN IVANIŠEVIĆ TOMISLAV POLJAK, TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR SUMMER IS NOT RIGHT WE FINALLY FOR ME WITHOUT UMAG STARTED! Two weeks of Wimbledon, first time in my life I can say that Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear has become synonymous with a week in Newport, then a I am proud of myself. visitors of Plava Laguna Croatia top tennis in Croatia and beyond, week in Umag. This would be Open Umag, so players are happy to return and To make it to the Tennis Hall an interesting schedule for a spread the news about Croatia of Fame, along with all those It is a great pleasure for me professional tennis player, but it and Umag as destinations where champions, leaves tingles and the to be in Umag again and that is happening to me and to say that it is great to play tennis, but also feeling is..