ATP Monte Carlo 2012 R1 Lukasz Kubot vs Jurgen Melzer
ATP Monte Carlo 2012 round 1 between Lukasz Kubot vs Jurgen Melzer.
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All Seeds Drop Out of Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart Before Quarterfinals
At the Mercedes Cup all of the seeds are gone and we are only in the Quarterfinals. Juan Carlos Ferrero knocked out the last seed Mikhail Youzhny (3) 6-7 6-2 6-2.
The other players to get through are (WC) Lukasz Kubot, (Q) Pavol Cervenak, (Q) Federico Del-Bonis, Marcel Granollers, (WC) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, Pable Andujar and Santiago Giraldo.
Im now expecting Kubot to take the tournament!
French Open Day 5 Round Up
Mens Singles:
A lot happened today in the mens singles. First of all in the key matches with the top players both Nadal, Soderling and Murray advanced quite easily. However, there were a few upsets! Marcos Baghdatis (27) was defeated by Leonardo Mayer in straight sets, Florian Mayer was defeated by Alejandro Falla in four sets, Nikolay Davydenko (28) was defeated by Antonio Veic in a tuogh five set match, and Sam Querrey (24) was defeated by Ivan Ljubicic in straight sets.
The dark horse seems to be Lukasz Kubot who progressed again with a straight sets win over Carlos Berlocq. Kubot has come through some tough matches in qualifying and has already taken out Nicolas Almagro (11) and Carlos Berlocq in the main draw, with both of these players being clay court specialists.
Womens Singles:
Match of the day for me was Maria Sharapova (7) against young French lady Caroline Garcia. Garia was playing some amazing tennis and was making Sharapova look like your average hacker. Garcia was up 6-3 4-1, but then she seemed to remember that she was playing on center court at the French Open against Maria Sharapova. After that she didnt win another game and Sharapova won 3-6 6-4 6-0.
Apart from that all seeds that played today pushed into the next round, apart from Alexandra Dulgheru (27) who lost to Sorana Cirstea 6-2 7-5.
Mens Doubles:
Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimoniic (4) played some great tennis today and defeated Igor Kunitsyn and Ivan Ljubicic. Watch out for these guys in the tournament!
Womens Doubles:
Casey Dellacqua and Rennae Stubbs are an unseeded team to watch in the womens doubles. They just defeated Kimiko Date-Krumm and Shuai Zhang 6-1 7-6.
French Open Day 3 Round Up
Mens Singles:
Day 3 was an amazing day. Day 3 saw Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray in action amoung other great players.
Nadal came up against John Isner, who has an amazingly big serve. It was expected that Nadal would dominate the match and just simply be too strong on the clay. However, Isner was playing his A-game and Nadal was quick lucky to win in five very tough sets. 6-4 6-7 6-7 6-2 6-4.
In the rest of the matches most of the seeds got through without any trouble at all. However, Nicolas Almagro (11) was not so lucky as he fell to Lukasz Kubot in five sets. 3-6 2-6 7-6 7-6 6-4.
For me the pick of the matches was between two of the older guys on tour, Dmitry Tursunov and Xavier Malisse. These guys were roughing it on court 17 and they gave the crowd something to talk about. The match lasted three hours and saw Xavier Malisse progress 6-1 in the fifth set.
Womens Singles:
In day 3 on the womens side everything seemed to go very well for all the seed. The only seed that didnt make it through was Ana Ivanovic (whats news). Ana seemed to be playing strong tennis as she lost the first set 7-6 and then won the second set 6-0. However, as Ana isnt really predictable, she then went on to lose the third set 6-2.
For me the match of the day was Patty Schnyder and Sorana Cirstea. This was expected to be a very close match between two good players who both were not seeded. However, it seemed like Patty didnt really turn up for the match and Cirstea steam rolled her 6-1 6-3.
Overall:
Rafael Nadal has a tough match and progressed, this could set him up nicely for a good campaign here! In the other matches Andy Murray played very well, but he tends to run out of steam in the second week of Grand Slams. Outsiders are Robin Soderling and Gilles Simon, both played very well today.
Kim Clijsters has to be the favourite for this title and she didn’t disappoint today. Surprisingly Maria Sharapova is playing some great tennis at the moment and I could see he going quite deep in this tournament.
Sam Querrey and Nikolay Davydenko Make Quick Exits at Australian Open 2011
There has been some great matches on the first day of the Australian Open 2011. For me there were two match results that stuck out from the crowd. Florian Mayer def. Nikolay Davydenko (23) – 6-3 4-6 7-6 6-4 and Lukasz Kubot def. Sam Querrey (18) 5-7 6-2 3-6 6-1 8-6.
Davydenko was completely out of sorts today and never really bough his A game to Melbourne Park. However, Kubot played an amazaing match and pushed out a fighting Sam Querrey. I had the pleasure of playing juniors with Kubot and he probably the only guy that is taller and has a bigger serve than Sam Querrey on tour!
