tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57548342011-04-21T16:43:34.291-04:00This is a Rainer Schuettler appreciation page. If you enjoy fantastic tennis, you'd appreciate him too.<br> To get started - Rainer is pronounced RHINE-er not ray-ner and Schuettler is pronounced SHOOT-ler not shut-ler. He is an accomplished Top 10 player who has played in Davis Cup as well as two Olympic Games (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 Silver Medalist) for Germany.<br><br> Sprtswrtrnoreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754834.post-1106074741103298592005-01-18T13:55:00.000-05:002005-01-18T13:59:01.103-05:00

Second round has Rainer facing Andre Agassi. Coverage in the US will be Tuesday night on ESPN (11pm-2am, check listings) since any American in the draw gets face-time. However, with Andre it's certainly deserved. First time I'll see Schuettler on TV since the Athens' final at the Olympics. Still working on the update...

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Chennai Yeah Rainer! I have lots of catching up to do! I'm alive, will try to work on all the missed tourneys as well as current ones daily.

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Thursday 16 September Quick update at 7AM NY time - M Youzhny (RUS) d (4)R Schuettler (GER) 61 76, doubles yet to resume. Will have more later Thursday afternoon when I get back in town. Wednesday 15 September Schuettler and Youzhny's doubles match, along with many others, has been stopped due to rain. Earlier in the day Youzhny defeated Heuberger, 75 76(4), today and will face Schuettler in

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Site Turns One Just a quick note to say thanks to all the tennis and Rainer Schuettler fans who have found the site and enjoyed it. It's hard to believe it's been a year since this started, I really wondered who would read it and how anyone would find it. I knew nothing of designing, running, updating a website - and I am certainly no pro now either, but it's been fun to do and it at least shows

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Friday 3 September Bad Web Hostess Okay, as you can tell, no pictures and updates. I had the chance to leave work early and see more tennis and catch the Youzhny match - which literally just ended. I am just doing this off a friend's computer in the media center. If they show highlights, you have to see Youzhny's face after he won, absolutely priceless and pure joy. It was a great match to watch

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Day Nine Early Morning Competition WORTH THEIR METTLE In a match that went well into a warm Athens night, Germans Rainer Schuettler and Nicolas Kiefer completed their 2004 Olympic Games with a silver medal. After nearly three hours and 45 minutes, and at 2:37am a German shot went wide to end the match at 26 64 63 67(7-9) 46. The match, which went five incredible and agonizing sets, went to the

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Wednesday and Thursday Doubles Play, Part 2 (Wed) Schuettler and Youzhny face Llodra and Santoro (the 4th seed) as the fifth and final match of the day on Court 3. Play on all courts begins at 11am. *UPDATE: Due to weather (play finally came to a close at 1am Wed night/Thurs morning), their match has been rescheduled for Thursday. Still Court 3 with play starting at 11am but the 3rd match of

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Tuesday and Wednesday Rainy Day, Singles Loss, Doubles W/O Tuesday's Toronto action was hampered by drizzle and rain throughout the day, pushing Schuettler's match against Gonzalez to Wednesday. After taking the first set 63, Rainer couldn't close out the match and ended up losing 63 46 36. For doubles, Schuettler and Kiefer were to take the court on Wednesday as the fourth and final match on

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Sunday 25 July Rain, Rain, Semis After Saturday was entirely washed out due to rain, the Generali Open got all three courts back in the mix and started to play catch-up Sunday morning. Schuettler vs Massu was on Centre Court #1 at 10:30am for their semifinal, but unfortunately it was all Massu as he won 63 63. He will now play later this afternoon in the finals which has been adjusted to a

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Saturday 17 June Semifinal Loss   Schuettler and Youzhny fell to Aspelin and Perry today, 46 26, ending their run for a doubles title. This unrelated tennis news of note that just came out... Marion Jones pulls out of 200m qualifying heats and will hold a press conference later today. I really don't know what to make of Marion and this whole BALCO deal... guilty by association, you have to go

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Saturday 10 July Schuettler fell to Andreev 26 63 67(6) today, stopping his run in the semifinals. Andreev will face Federer, who defeated qualifier Starace in three sets. More info to come as I find it. There's Something About Rainer... Articles BBC Sport brief Independent Online (South Africa) report on semis, and another one here Sporting Life recap Sky Sports article Reuters (UK) bit

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** Okay... the new layout is finally nearing completion... Hope you like it. I still have more to add in the margin, but was able to get the positioning of right column corrected. Merchandise link is still on deck, I figure Sunday or Monday for sure. I'll be working on it as well as getting all the usual tennis updates in place. My three week, 15 days of 4.5 hours of class with a 3+ hour commute

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Voluntarily Experiencing Technical Difficulties Friday 18 June OK, in the grand scheme of the world, this was not even a blip... but as you may have noticed, the site has been down for the past 24 hours. Well, the blue background would load, but that was it... and after I got my jaw off the floor I tried to get help from blogger, but they have yet to reply. The text may continue to shrink as

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Sunday and Monday Rainer, coming off a semifinal appearance in Halle, next plays in the Ordina Open (may take awhile to load) at 's-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands. Schuettler, who is seeded second, will face Raemon Sluiter in the first round, a tongue twister for sure. Rainer is not slated to play any doubles during this event. This will be their first meeting, in 2004 Sluiter - who no

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Saturday 12 June Schuettler Stopped in Semis “It was my first career semifinal on grass, in Halle in front of a Germany crowd. I’m very happy about that. After such a loss you are always disappointed but in general this was a very good week for me.” With that, Rainer Schuettler's hopes for his first career title in Germany came to an end as Mardy Fish squeezed by in a three set battle, 64 46

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We Say French, You Say Garros 24 May to 6 June Wednesday 26 May Schuettler and Kiefer lost today to Juan Ignacio Chela and Gaston Gaudio 60 36 36. As a doubles squad this season, the Argentines have won both Estoril and Vina del Mar. Chela lost in his only meeting against Kiefer while he and Schuettler have not met in singles play. Gaudio, in singles, holds a 2-1 edge over Schuettler and

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Updates coming I want to apologize for not getting much on the site the past couple weeks. My 10 year old black lab died today, she'd been sick for the past two weeks and I just didn't have any ooompf left to pay much attention to tennis. In the next day or two I'm going to get all the links and pictures that apply to this time frame online so the site's current and prepared for Roland Garros (

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* This entry is still a work in progress, pics up, links are next * 16 to 22 May Duesseldorf, Germany Thursday, 20 May Germany vs Chile Semifinals Germany rides their wildcard all the way to a semifinal berth against defending champs Chile. Schuettler is first up against Nicolas Massu, where he lost for the first time this week, 46 64 26. Tommy Haas also lost, to Fernando Gonzalez 46 67(4) to

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Tuesday 11 May Update: Schuettler was defeated by wildcard Burgsmuller 46 76(5) 46. Rainer is the 4th seed at the Tennis Masters Hamburg and faces fellow German, friend and WC Lars Burgsmuller in the first round today. They are the second match of the day on Center Court. This will be their seventh meeting, sixth on German soil, and second ATP level match. Previously, here are their results

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Sunday 2 May Update from Munich and preview of Rome coming later on Monday, having computer issues. Here's what I can get online for now: Site's brief on Rainer kicking off the action at 1pm on Centre Court. Schuettler faces Vincent Spadea. There's Something About Rainer... Articles Schuettler Shots... Photos

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Thursday 29 April Rainer Schuettler, continuing his hot streak, defeated wildcard entrant Tommy Haas to advance to the quarterfinals. Schuettler defeated his countryman 64 26 64 and next faces Nikolay Davydenko, who advanced after defeating Victor Hanescu 67 62 64. They play on Friday as the second match on Centre Court (play begins at noon). Last week in Monte Carlo it was blisters, today in

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Sunday 25 April Coria Clay Streak Continues Today Guillermo Coria defeated Rainer Schuettler 62 61 63 to claim his second TMS title and continued his great clay run. He hasn't lost a match since last year's French Open semifinal loss to Verkerk (remember the racquet throwing incident?), and the win today marks his 26th straight on this surface. Schuettler took a time out to have some

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Wednesday 14 April Rainer Schuettler and Florian Mayer are scheduled to take on Lucas Arnold and Augustin Calleri today as the final match on Court 1. Mayer, a qualifier, advanced into the third round in singles play with a nice win over Radek Stepanek 64 62 after earlier upsetting 7th seed Gaudio 63 64 in the first round. Schuettler/Mayer lost to Calleri/Arnold today, 26 16 in their first

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Sunday 11 April In reverse singles action, Schuettler defeated Harel Levy 63 76(5) while Kiefer also won against Noam Okun in a tight 62 67(2) 76(3). The wins solidified a sweep of the Israel squad and in September Germany will face a squad from the losers of the World Group action. The draw for this matchup will be on Tuesday. There's Something About Rainer... Articles Sport.de piece Sport1

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Tuesday 30 March UPDATE: The German duo fell to the second-ranked Mirnyi and Bhupathi, 46 06. Good news, however, in that Kiefer upset Sebastien Grosjean in his singles match earlier in today on the Grandstand, 64 62. A surprise in the afternoon as Agassi lost 26 67(2) to Argentina's Agustin Calleri. Schuettler and Kiefer should be taking to the court any minute. At 3:10pm NY time the Knowles/

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Thursday 18 March In Thursday's doubles, Rainer and Nicolas lost the first set before having to retire due to a left calf injury to Schuettler. "The leg pinched nonstop, and I didn't want to endanger my start in next week's Miami event," said Rainer. The Indian Wells tournament physician ordered a three-day-long tennis break for the German. The final result was: Black/Ullyett d Kiefer/

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Friday 5 March Schuettler and Kohlmann fell in the quarters to Spanish pair Nadal and Robredo 67(4) 57. Nadal played his singles match earlier in the day, losing to Mikhail Youzhny (a familiar name to Rainer fans). Thursday 4 March Okay, no tennis news yet, it's 1am NY time here, but I have to mention this... the NY Rangers have traded Brian Leetch. Stunned doesn't adequately describe my

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Friday 20 February Schuettler lost to Hewitt in the quarterfinals, 67(5) 36. Some people seem to enjoy beating up on Rainer this year in the media, but the big news of the day was Henman sending Federer packing, 63 76(9). There's Something About Rainer... Articles ATP's recap of the day Sport1 piece Schuettler Shots... Photos Thursday 19 February Quarters: Doubles Out, Singles Set

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Day 14 Well, JHH defeated Clijsters, but this was a better match than their previous meetings... I like both players, but I would've liked to see Kim take this one home. She was definitely the victim of some bad calls, all at crucial times for her, but you can't put all the blame on that... if only she could have stronger first sets and be a little tougher a little earlier in the match. It's

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Friday 16 January After waiting through some rain delays on Friday, Schuettler and Allegro were forced to retire near the end of the first set due to an injury to Yves' leg. As a result, the Bryan brothers head into the finals against Bjorkman/Woodbridge with a 52 ret. win. Bjorkman/Woodbridge advanced with a win over Calleri/Volandri 76(5) 62. Bjorkman and Woodbridge went on to claim the title

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Thursday 8 January German site Sport1 announced the voting results on the 2003 Sportsman, Sportswoman and Team of the Year... and as voted by the fans, Rainer won Sportsman! As the popular phrase in Germany goes... Super!! The seeded players continued to check out early in Doha as Roddick was beaten by Bjorkman (who plays a beautiful game) and Grosjean's goner... Henman is still alive, for

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Speeding Towards 2004 There's Something About Rainer... Articles Tennis-X preview of 2004, has this Rainer blurb... "The Australian hardcourt swing will be an early indicator of who is still struggling with injury and who will look to regain form. The early season will also be a measuring stick for top German Rainer Schuettler, whose simple, blue-collar game easily translates on any surface

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2004 Action Just Days Away Okay, I am working on one mini post that includes some pre-season links I've found in the past week (there's one Rainer bonus at the end of this post) for Saturday, and then on Sunday I hope to have up the usual tournament entry - don't know when exactly so I apologize to the European readers who are least five hours ahead of me. I've tried changing the way the

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The Year in Pictures Okay, I've been a bad web hostess... I wanted to get these at least up but it's not perfect. I have a couple more to add, organize them a bit more, add some comments, blah blah... but here's what I have as my favorite Schuettler Shots of the year. Working on it at work made me lose my mind because the screen's proportions are all out of whack, so in the next few days I am

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Sunday 21 December Well, just 16 days until Rainer Schuettler kicks off 2004 in Doha, and his hopes are high for another fantastic season. No German translation done by me yet on these new links... hopefully can do so later this week on the year-end voting and articles, as well as some recent quotes/interviews with Rainer. I have the 25th and 26th off (I take advantage of my English-ness

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Monday 15 December Sorry for being a day late, another weekend with snow and snow and ice - nearly 2 feet last week and this weekend another 5" or so - with ice. I've got some Rainer mentions from the past week, but honestly haven't had the chance to study all the German papers completely, so I will certainly post more as I come across them. Last week was a 65+ hour workweek and this week

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Saturday 6 December Rainer Schuettler, after having a couple weeks off, was back on the court again... surprise, surprise! He took part in the Honda Challenge in London's Royal Albert Hall, to aid in fundraising for Tim Henman's charity, Kids at Heart. Henman was to face Goran Ivanisevic, but instead he took on Rainer on 4 December. (Rainer stepped in for Ivanisevic who couldn't play due to his

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Thursday 27 November Here are some links I've come across since Houston wrapped up. I figure that on Saturdays or Sundays I'll post anything I've come across on Rainer for the week - hopefully things on the already-around-the-corner 2004 season will start showing up. I'll also post a picture each week just for some variety. I'll add to this later in the day as well, I've got some turkey calling

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Monday 17 November Though the tourney has ended, I'm going to add this Monday as a place to update any further articles from Houston. The uproar over it has not subsided and there are also some legit Rainer articles, so anything extra I find I'll put under this day. (Updated 10am Thursday 20 Nov) There's Something About Rainer... Articles Toronto's Globe and Mail article Hindustan Times piece

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True Fact: There's a saying in America, "Everything's bigger in Texas!" Normally I group any pre-tournament info into the first day of the actual event, but I feel that there's too much from this week to pile into Monday's sole entry. So, the following pre-Houston articles and info will remain as their own entry, and the actual tournament entry will start with Monday (the day the

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Friday 31 October Schuettler Stopped On Way To Semis After jumping out to a one-set lead, Rainer Schuettler ended up falling to Andrei Pavel in the quarterfinals, 62 36 26. The first set was 28 minutes, but the tide turned in the second - which lasted an incredible 52 minutes, and the third finished up in 32 minutes. Maybe the tough two-setter yesterday combined with Pavel not having to play in

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Sunday 26 October In the doubles final of the St Petersburg Open, German pair Michael Kohlmann and Rainer Schuettler were defeated by Nenad Zimonjic and Julian Knowle 67(1) 36. During the ceremony, Rainer addressed the small crowd and took home his second finalists trophy on his fourth trip to St Petersburg. In singles play, Guga beat Sargsian 64 63. Over in Basel, Nalbandian withdrew from the

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I moved these two mentions from pre-Madrid post to group in with this new Weekly Roundup... Get Rainer on ESPN.com, background and US Open pix 1) ESPN.com all year has neglected to put Rainer in their player listings page. I can understand if they thought it was a fluke early in the year, but come on, we know he's the real deal. And it's not just Schuettler who wasn't included - but there are

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Thursday 16 October Here are some articles and mentions on Rainer from today. Some may be more related to Wednesday's match, and I need to translate all as well. I'll update and edit this hopefully Friday when I have a chance. There's Something About Rainer... Articles Netzeitung TennisMagazine.de Sport1 Another Sport1 Another Sportgate Sportgate SkySports Sportbild Wednesday 15 October

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Sunday 12 October Rainer Wins Lyon, 75 63 Over Clement After Schuettler got off to a fast start, Clement broke back to close the gap, but the German prevailed 75. In the second, Rainer played steadily and made some great passing shots while Clement had some errors, enabling Schuettler to close out the match. Schuettler gutted out an ankle injury that required painkillers and taping in order to

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Site Insight I am happy to report that this site has been linked via the ATP's fansite area for Rainer Schuettler. It lists his official site and then this one as places to check for info on him, so I am proud of that... especially after only a month. People were finding it through Google and on their own, but the ATP link made an instant impact in even more traffic. The "worldwide appeal" of

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Sunday 5 October Schuettler Captures AIG Japan Open Title Congrats to Rainer "I'm Going To Houston" Schuettler!! After falling behind 0-2, then tied at 4-4 and 5-5 - then down 3-5 in the tiebreak - Rainer Schuettler won four points and captured the first set 76(5) against Sebastien Grosjean. Rainer then gained the upper hand and finished out the second set 62 to win his first title of 2003.

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Regarding Rainer Rainer isn't playing in an event this week, but there are still things going on that can be grouped together for an entry. Of course there is still some talk about Germany falling out of the World Group, but I'll keep all that contained to the Davis Cup posting, so check there for further articles and mentions. Schuettler is preparing for the AIG Open in Japan (also known as

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Belarus at Germany; 19-21 September; Sundern Germany Germany battling to stay in World Group play Stat page from Davis Cup site's on the World Group Play-off (or Ties) for two countries here. Here is the draw info from Thursday. Here is Rainer's Davis Cup bio and stats. Davis Cup schedule in German from Sportbild.de. Germany Team Info Belarus Team Info How Davis Cup works Schedule of

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My own bright ideas, thoughts and opinions from the week, as well as some "about me"... Not a tremendous amount to 'roundup' this week, so I'll start with my thoughts on the site's progress so far:It takes forever to get all the links and translations done for the regular postings, but it's getting easier as I get used to doing it all. I haven't gotten into learning how to do frames yet, more

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Sunday 14 September Schuettler falls to Schalken 26 46 in Finals There's Something About Rainer... Articles Tourney's writeup of final. The ATP's article http://espn.go.com/tennis/news/2003/0914/1615851.html" target="_blank"> ESPN mention German writeup Mini Rainer article in Portuguese. It essentially says that Rainer had a tougher semifinal than Schalken and that could have been an

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This is where I'll jot down my thoughts on the tournaments, any Random Rainer news I find, comment about other-things-tennis, and maybe some other sporting activities or opinions... am trying to come up with a clever name for this section, bear with me. Ranking Update After the US Open point totals are done, Rainer remains 6th in the ATP Champions Race with 477 total and 8th in the Entry System

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Here are some of my Schuettler Shots from the 2003 US Open... Some photos I've added text or comments to if you roll over the image. The photos in this posting, and those duplicated elsewhere on this site, are © by me. I don't mind if you use them, my only request is that you credit or link this webpage. 1st Round, Schuettler v Wayne Arthurs 2nd Round, Schuettler vs Alberto

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The Song Is Over... Well, the 2003 US Open has concluded - and it did so on schedule, no less. Andy Roddick was able to "save American tennis" with the win. I was thrilled to see Juan Carlos Ferrero advance to the finals, it's a shame that he wasn't playing as well as he normally does... straight sets loss doesn't do this new World #1 justice. On the women's side... Serena who? I think that we

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"Sometimes you have a dream and you're able to reach it" I am proud to announce that this is the first Rainer Schuettler Fan Site! Here is the place to find info, results, photos and my writings regarding Rainer Schuettler (aka Rainer Schüttler). Schuettler is an ATP player who has been steadily rising in the rankings for years, proving that a journeyman player can make it to the Top Ten.

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