Men’s Tennis Update (6/11) – Halle/London

Written by: on 10th June 2013
ATP Tournament in Halle
Men's Tennis Update (6/11) - Halle/London

epa03739128 Swiss tennis player Roger Federer hits the ball during a doubles match at the ATP tournament in Halle/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 10 June 2013. Federer and Haas from Germany played against Melzer from Austria and Petzschner from Germany. EPA/OLIVER KRATO  |

Halle

 

While not the focus of the day, the doubles debut of Roger Federer and Tommy Haas, a pair of former singles champions, drew the biggest interest on opening day. But the fairytale duo started poorly, losing their first-round match against former Wimbledon winners Jurgen Melzer of Austria and German Philipp Petzschner 76(3), 64. The defeat will hopefully not bode poorly for the singles chances of five-time winner Federer and holder Haas.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori and Canadian Milos Raonic, now coached by former top 5 Croatian Ivan Ljubicic started with a doubles victory over Aisam Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer 67(4), 76(5), 10-3.

In singles, only a handful of matches were scheduled on the stadium which is built to be a miniature version of Wimbledon’s Centre court, with German eighth seed Florian taking a victory over Martin Fischer 6-2, 6-2. Czech Jan Hernych put out Daniel Brands 6-2, 6-4 a fortnight after the German gave Rafael Nadal an early fright at the French Open.

Russian veteran Mikhail schooled Spain’s Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-1, 6-2 and German Mischa Zverev eliminated Belgian David Goffin in a 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 comeback.

 

London

 

Plucky qualifier Dan Evans made a fighting start for Britain on home grass as he beat Argentine Guido Pella 6-3, 6-1 to begin the pre=Wimbledon season in west London. But compatriots Jamie Baker and James ward met a more familiar fate with first-round losses at the elite tune-up event.

French ninth seed Benoit Paire handed Baker a 7-5, 6-2 loss while 2012 semi-finalist Ivan Dodig fired 18 aces and worked for two and three-quarter hours to beat Ward 6-7(8), 7-6(3), 7-6(2). The Brit had his chances, missing on two match points and also serving twice for the match.

Andy Murray is making his comeback after the back injury from May which kept the world No. 2 and former champion away form the French Open, but will not play until Wednesday in his season grass debut.

Only moments into the match, the No. 277 Evans took a nasty sliding fall on the grass and was treated on court during the second game. But he brushed off the incident to take the win. “I guess we’ll see if it’s pretty sore tonight if there’s anything wrong with it. I heard a bit of a crack and a crunch.

“It was a good match. I started well last week also (Nottingham Challenger, quarter-finals). The Brits have had one more extra week on the grass than most other players. This was a good way to start and get some matches on the grass.”

A pair of Dutchmen reached the second round as Thiemo de Bakker defeated Ilija Bozoljac of Serbia 6-2, 7-6(5) and Igor Sijsling beat Japan’s Tatsuma Ito 6-3, 7-5. Australian Marinko Matosevic overcame Wimbledon doubles champion Frederik Nielsen of Denmark 7-5, 6-2.

Four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt completed an Aussie double as he fought back to beat American Michael Russell 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. There were also wins for Santiago Giraldo, Aljaz Bedene and Xavier Malisse.

RANKINGS

 

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of June 10, 2013

 

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

1..(1) Djokovic……….11830

2..(2) Murray………….8310

3..(3) Federer…………7505

4..(4) Ferrer………….7220

5..(5) Nadal…………..6895

6..(6) Berdych…………4515

7..(7) Tsonga………….4155

8..(8) Del Potro……….3960

9..(9) Gasquet…………3090

10.(10) Wawrinka………..2810

11.(13) Nishikori……….2495

12.(11) Haas……………2425

13.(12) Cilic…………..2410

14.(14) Tipsarevic………2390

15.(15) Raonic………….2225

16.(16) Almagro…………2195

17.(17) Simon…………..1985

18.(18) Kohlschreiber……1885

19.(19) Querrey…………1810

20.(20) Monaco………….1740

21.(21) Isner…………..1735

22.(22) Janowicz………..1591

23.(23) Anderson………..1510

24.(24) Dolgopolov………1500

25.(25) Paire…………..1450

26.(26) Seppi…………..1440

27.(27) Chardy………….1416

28.(30) Robredo…………1355

29.(31) Fognini…………1345

30.(28) Dimitrov………..1330

DRAWS

 

Halle — Week of May 10

 

1 Federer

–bye

Stebe (WC)

J Wang (Q)

Zverev (WC)

Goffin

Petzschner

7 Janowicz

 

3 Haas

–bye

Baghdatis

Gulbis

Hernych (Q)

Brands

Monfils

5 Raonic

 

6 Kohlschreiber

Berlocq

Kamke

Kubot

Youzhny

Gimeno-Traver

–bye

4 Nishikori

 

8 F Mayer

M Fischer (Q)

Struff (WC)

L Mayer

Melzer

Ghedin (Q)

–bye

2 Gasquet

Queen’s — Week of May 10

 

1 Murray

–bye

Mahut

Williams

Nielsen (LL)

Matosevic

Llodra

15 Andujar

 

12 Rosol

Groth (Q)

Becker

Tomic

Giraldo

Levine

–bye

7 Dolgopolov (WC)

 

4 Tsonga

–bye

Rufin

Roger-Vasselin

Ito

Sijsling

And. Kuznetsov

14 Istomin

 

9 Paire

J Baker (Q)

Delbonid

Kudla

de Schepper

R Ram

–bye

8 K Anderson

 

6 Querrey

–bye

Bedene

Mathieu

Hewitt

Russell

Sela

10 Dimitrov

 

13 Nieminen

Harrison

Pella

Evans (WC)

Garcia-Lopez

Malisse

–bye

3 del Potro

 

5 Cilic

–bye

Dodig

Ward (WC)

Lopez (Q)

Berankis

Mannarino

11 Benneteau

 

16 Zemlja

Edmund (WC)

Corrie (WC)

Stakhovsky

de Bakker

Bozoljac (Q)

–bye

2 Berdych

MONDAY

Halle

Singles – First Round

[8] F Mayer (GER) d [Q] M Fischer (AUT) 62 62

[WC] M Zverev (GER) d D Goffin (BEL) 16 64 75

[Q] J Hernych (CZE) d D Brands (GER) 64 62

M Youzhny (RUS) d D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 61 62

Doubles – First Round

K Nishikori (JPN) / M Raonic (CAN) d [1] A Qureshi (PAK) / J Rojer (NED) 67(4) 76(5) 10-3

J Melzer (AUT) / P Petzschner (GER) d R Federer (SUI) / T Haas (GER) 76(3) 64

London

Singles – First Round

[9] B Paire (FRA) d [Q] J Baker (GBR) 75 62

[10] G Dimitrov (BUL) d D Sela (ISR) 46 62 76(4)

M Matosevic (AUS) d [LL] F Nielsen (DEN) 75 62

S Giraldo (COL) d J Levine (CAN) 64 64

E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d G Rufin (FRA) 67(1) 75 76(5)

I Sijsling (NED) d T Ito (JPN) 63 75

D Kudla (USA) d F Delbonis (ARG) 60 63

A Bedene (SLO) d P Mathieu (FRA) 76(5) 63

L Hewitt (AUS) d M Russell (USA) 46 61 63

[WC] D Evans (GBR) d G Pella (ARG) 63 61

X Malisse (BEL) d G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 64 57 64

I Dodig (CRO) d [WC] J Ward (GBR) 67(8) 76(2) 76(2)

S Stakhovsky (UKR) d [WC] E Corrie (GBR) 64 76(1)

T de Bakker (NED) d [Q] I Bozoljac (SRB) 62 76(5)

Doubles – First Round

N Mahut (FRA) / J Tsonga (FRA) d J Nieminen (FIN) / G Simon (FRA) 75 75

R Harrison (USA) / S Querrey (USA) d [Alt] P Mathieu (FRA) / M Matosevic (AUS) 46 63 10-5

M Cilic (CRO) / J Del Potro (ARG) d P Andujar (ESP) / F Lopez (ESP) 62 64








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