AHMEDABAD, INDIA:
Official name: "Bharat Petroluem BPL Challenger 2000".
Date: 21-27/2, 2000.
Surface: Hardcourt.
Draw: 32 players.
SINGLES MAIN DRAW:
SEEDED PLAYERS:
1) Oleg Ogorodow (Uzbekistan)
2) Tuomas Ketola (Finland)
3) Mose Navarra (Italy)
4) Igor Gaudi (Italy)
5) Vadim Kutsenko (Uzbekistan)
6) Andy Fahlke (Germany) - Withdraw
7) Marcello Craca (Germany)
8) Jeff Coetzee (Southafrica)
WILCARDS: Vishal Uppal (India), Srinath Prahlad (India), Fazaluddin Syed (India), Moustafa Ghouse (India)
1st ROUND:
Oleg Ogorodow (Uzbekistan / 1) - Fazaluddin Syed (India / WC) 7-6, 6-3
Oren Motevassel (Israel / LL) - Takahiro Terachi (Japan) 6-3, 6-7, 7-6
Filippo Volandri (Italy) - Moustafa Ghouse (India / WC) 6-7, 6-2, 6-1
Marcello Craca (Germany / 7) - Jerome Hanquez (France) 6-3, 6-4
Mark Nielsen (New Zeeland) - Mose Navarra (Italy / 3) 7-6, 3-6, 6-1
Andy Ram (Israel) - Nicolas Thomann (France) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6
Justin Bower (Southafrica) - Giorgio Galimberti (Italy) 7-6, 2-6, 6-4
Lior Dahan (Israel / LL) - Satoshi Iwabuchi (Japan) 7-5, 6-3
Vadim Kutsenko (Uzbekistan / 5) - Nicolas Coutelot (France) 7-5, 6-4
Noam Behr (Israel) - Marcos Roy (Spain / Q) 6-2, 3-0, W.O
Boris Borgula (Slovakia / Q) - Gregory Carraz (France) 4-6, 7-5, 7-5
Leonardo Azzaro (Italy / Q) - Igor Gaudi (Italy / 4) 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
Jeff Coetzee (Southafrica / 8) - Vishal Uppal (India / WC) 6-1, 6-1
Joao Cunha-Silva (Portugal) - Srinath Prahlad (India / WC)6-2, 6-0
Luke Milligan (England) - Jason Cook (Australia / Q) 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
Tuomas Ketola (Finland / 2) - Florian Allgauer (Italy) 6-2, 6-2
2nd ROUND:
Oren Motevassel (Israel / LL) - Oleg Ogorodow (Uzbekistan / 1) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
Filippo Volandri (Italy) - Marcello Craca (Germany / 7) 6-1, 6-2
Mark Nielsen (New Zeeland) - Andi Ram (Israel) 7-6, 5-7, 5-4, W.O
Lior Dahan (Israel / LL) - Justin Bower (Southafrica) 6-2, 6-2
Vadim Kutsenko (Uzbekistan / 5) - Noam Behr (Israel) 6-1, 6-3
Boris Borgula (Slovakia / Q - Leonardo Azzaro (Italy / Q) 6-3, 6-3
Jeff Coetzee (Southafrica / 8) - Joao Cunha-Silva (Portugal) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2
Tuomas Ketola (Finland / 2) - Luke Milligan (England) 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
QUARTERFINALS:
Oren Motevassel (Israel / LL) - Filippo Volandri (Italy) 4-1, W.O
Lior Dahan (Israel / LL) - Mark Nielsen (New Zeeland) 6-4, 6-2
Vadim Kutsenko (Uzbeskistan / 5) - Boris Borgula (Slovakia / Q) 6-4, 7-6
Jeff Coetzee (Southafrica / 8) - Tuomas Ketola (Finland / 2) 7-6, 5-7, 6-2
SEMIFINALS:
Oren Motevassel (Israel) the "lucky loser", beat Filippo Volandri (Italy) in the quarterfinals!
Now he faces fellow countryman and also(!) "lucky loser", Lior Dahan (Israel).