atp and wta entry lists

see
mtf china open entry list 2006 for men
wtaworld china open entry list 2006 for women

some entries are already known to be doubtful though, such as ancic for the men...

and being the first week post us open, one can just expect some top seeds not turning up, if they have had a long tournament in new york *shrug*

china open links

some links first, for china open (beijing, 9 Sep - 24 Sep 2006):
official website
ticketing website (not the cleanest link but i can't find any better ;p)
discussion of essential(and trivial?) info @ mtf

i plan to be seeing a lot of the tournament during almost the entire two weeks for both the men and the women. of course it will be rather unrealistic to expect myself to be there all the time (not to mention having to get so many tickets, as i cannot firm any chance of getting a media pass) as i do have my other travel and family agendas :)

but this is going to be exciting, i haven't been to a chinese tournament since 99 at shanghai (or 02 if i count hong kong)... beijing will be hosting the olympics in 2 years time, including a tennis event, so it would be interesting to see how things have come so far.

very very last photos from AO 2005

i've added some very last pics from aust open 2005 which i dug up over the last few days. i suppose since andy r, jc, and rafa are rather popular in the gallery, i might as well try a little harder :) but they should be the last (good) ones, no more from this tournament!

so go check out the latest pics from aust open 2005...

hi welcome to VTPBLOG !!!! :)

now with this new blog, i hope to be able to update VTP more frequently, and keep you all posted in my tennis star-gazing, photo-taking activities :)

so stay posted! i will tell u more later about my upcoming beijing trip to the china open ;) ;)