Feliciano Lopez Makes Houston Debut Wednesday Night and Tuesday Results

Written by: Staff on 11th April 2012

RESULTS – MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2012

SINGLES FIRST ROUND

Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) d Xavier Malisse (BEL) 6-4, 6-2

[Q] Horacio Zeballos (ARG) d Adrian Ungur (ROU) 63 63

Ryan Sweeting (USA) d [Q] Richardo Mello (BRA) 63 76(3)

[Q] Michael Russell d Daniel Gimeno-Traver 26 75 61

Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) d Wayne Odesnik (USA) 67(3) 62 63

Tatsuma Ito (JPN) d [Q] Go Soeda (JPN) 64 75

DOUBLES FIRST ROUND

Ivo Karlovic (CRO) and Frank Moser (GER) d Carlos Berlocq (ARG) and Diego Junqueira (ARG) 63 63

[1] Alex Bogomolov Jr (RUS) and Scott Lipsky (USA) d Philipp Marx (GER) and Lovro Zovko (CRO) 76(6) 60

ORDER OF PLAY – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012

Stadium Court start 12:00 pm

Joao Souza (BRA) vs [WC][5] Kevin Anderson (RSA)

Ryan Harrison (USA) vs [7] Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)

James Blake (USA) & Sam Querrey (USA) vs Joao Souza (BRA) & Horacio Zeballos (ARG)

Not Before 6:00 pm

Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) vs [WC][3] Feliciano Lopez (ESP)

Martin Emmerich (GER) & Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) vs [2] Mark Knowles (BAH) & Xavier Malisse (BEL)

COURT 3 start 12:00 pm

[8] Ivo Karlovic (CRO) vs Bobby Reynolds (USA)

Tasuma Ito (JPN) & Go Soeda (JPN) vs Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot (GBR)

[6] Carlos Berlocq (ARG) vs Bjorn Phau (GER)

COURT 7 start 3:00 pm

Jamie Delgado (GBR) & Ken Skupski (GBR) vs [4] Johan Brunstrom (SWE) & Dick Norman (BEL)

James Cerretani (USA) & John Paul Fruttero (USA) vs [WC] Bobby Reynolds (USA) and Michael Russell (USA)

NOTES

– Houston’s Michael Russell won nine straight games to erase a set and a break deficit in his come from behind win over Daniel Gimeno-Traver on Tuesday. Russell will now face top seed Mardy Fish in an all-American battle on Thursday.

– Tuesday’s match won by Tatsuma Ito over qualifier Go Soeda was the first all-Japanese first round match since the Tokyo tournament in 2008 when Takao Suzuki defeated Yuichi Sugita

– Ryan Sweeting began his title defense on Tuesday night with a victory to extend his River Oaks winning streak to six matches. He is looking to be the first US Men’s Clay Court Championship to repeeat since Andy Roddick won back-to-back titles in 2001-02.

– Mardy Fish and his coach Mark Knowles, who is also in the doubles field this year, went to Minute Maid Park on Tuesday afternoon to watch Astros batting practice.

– The fourth-seeded doubles team of John Brunstrom and Dick Norman took time on Tuesday to visit with patients at Texas Children’s Hospital, which is a charitable partner of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship.

– Wednesday evening will be Armed Forces Appreciation Night. Among the events scheduled for the evening is a wheelchair tennis demonstration featuring Wounded Warriors prior to the start of the night session.

ONLY LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN for the 2012 US Men’s Clay Court Championship. Information on tickets can be found at www.mensclaycourt.com or by calling 713-527-0345. Once again, the US Men’s Clay Court Championship will provide the Texas Children’s Ticket Turnback program. Any fans holding tickets for a session that they cannot use are invited to return those tickets to the box office where they will be sold for face value and the entire resale price will be donated to Texas Children’s Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Institute.