Eastbourne
Men take the lower profile at a joint ATP-WTA event this week as the start of Wimbledon approaches. With Andy Roddick winning the title on a wild card in 2012, Canadian Milos Raonic now has his eyes set on the same objective after taking a late entry into the field after a first-round defeat on his season grass debut last week in Halle.
The No.15 and the other three leading seeds all have byes into the second round, but there was concern for No.2 Gilles Simon after the Frenchman hurt his left ankle on court during practice and had to be helped off after having the problem iced. If he can make it to the court, Simon will find himself facing teenaged British surprise packet Kyle Edmund – rank 444 – after the 18-year-old beat French qualifier Kenny De Schepper 6-4, 6-4
Two Italian seeds advanced, with No. 7 Andreas Seppi, last year’s losing finalist and the 2011 champion, beating Guillaume Rufin of France 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. No. 8 Fabio Fognini defeated Grega Zemlja of Slovenia, 6-7(6), 6-2, 6-4. with number seven Andreas Seppi, last year’s losing finalist, beating Guillaume Rufin of France 3-6, 6-3,
6-4 and number eight Fabio Fognini defeating Grega Zemlja of Slovenia,
6-7 (6/8), 6-2, 6-4.
American Ryan Harrison beat France’s Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7/4).
‘s-Hertogenbosch
A trio of seeds lost in an early collapse of the tournament elite as Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain beat seventh seed Victor Hanescu of Romania 6-4, 6-3. There was a similar fate for No. 6 Marcos Baghdatis, who went down on his 28th birthday 6-2, 6-4 at the hands of Argentine Carlos Berlocq.
Russian Andrey Kuznetsov handed No. 8 clay-courter Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain his exit papers 76(2), 76(4).
Italian Paolo Lorenzi dented home interest with his defeat to Thiemo de Bakker 7-6(2), 7-6(4).
RANKINGS
Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings
As of June 17, 2013
Rank &
Prior…Player………..Points
1..(1) Djokovic……….11830
2..(2) Murray………….8560
3..(3) Federer…………7740
4..(4) Ferrer………….7220
5..(5) Nadal…………..6895
6..(6) Berdych…………4515
7..(7) Tsonga………….4155
8..(8) Del Potro……….3960
9..(9) Gasquet…………3135
10.(10) Wawrinka………..2810
11.(11) Nishikori……….2495
12.(12) Cilic…………..2470
13.(13) Haas……………2425
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………..1549
23.(23) Anderson………..1510
24.(24) Dolgopolov………1500
25.(27) Chardy………….1416
26.(28) Youzhny…………1415
27.(25) Paire…………..1380
28.(26) Seppi…………..1380
29.(29) Robredo…………1355
30.(30) Fognini…………1345
DRAWS
Eastbourne — Week of May 17
1 Raonic (WC)
–bye
Istomin
Dodig
Troicki
Klizan
Zemlja
8 Fognini
4 Monaco
–bye
Nieminen
Lopez
Ramos
Blake (Q)
Verdasco
6 Dolgopolov
7 Seppi
Rufin (Q)
Harrison (Q)
Mathieu
Stepanek
Matosevic
–bye
3 Kohlschreiber
5 Anderson
Benneteau
Tomic
Ward (WC)
Edmund (WC)
de Schepper (Q)
–bye
2 Simon
‘s-Hertogenbosch — Week of May 17
1 Ferrer
Malisse
Roger-Vasselin
Lu
Bautista Agut
Bohli (Q)
Berlocq
6 Baghdatis
3 Isner
Donskoy
L Mayer
Haase
Mahut (Q)
Berankis
And. Kuznetsov
8 Gimeno-Traver
7 Hanescu
Garcia-Lopez
Brands
Huta Galung (WC)
Hernych (Q)
Goffin
Llodra
4 Paire
5 Chardy
Pouille (Q)
Dutra Silva
Copil (WC)
Lorenzi
de Bakker (WC)
Sijsling
2 Wawrinka
MONDAY
‘s-Hertogenbosch
Singles – First Round
E Donskoy (RUS) d [3] J Isner (USA) 67(3) 63 64
C Berlocq (ARG) d [6] M Baghdatis (CYP) 62 64
G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) d [7] V Hanescu (ROU) 64 63
A Kuznetsov (RUS) d [8] D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 76(4) 63
R Bautista Agut (ESP) d [Q] S Bohli (SUI) 36 76(5) 76(12)
P Lorenzi (ITA) d [WC] T de Bakker (NED) 76(2) 76(4)
Doubles – First Round
[2] M Mirnyi (BLR) / H Tecau (ROU) d L Dlouhy (CZE) / R Ram (USA) 63 64
[4] M Llodra (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA) d J Brunstrom (SWE) / R Klaasen (RSA) 61 64
F Mergea (ROU) / F Polasek (SVK) d [WC] D Goffin (BEL) / D Norman (BEL) 63 64
Eastbourne
Singles – First Round
F Verdasco (ESP) d [6] A Dolgopolov (UKR) 16 63 62
[7] A Seppi (ITA) d [Q] G Rufin (FRA) 36 63 64
[8] F Fognini (ITA) d G Zemlja (SLO) 67(6) 62 64
A Ramos (ESP) d [Q] J Blake (USA) 62 64
[Q] R Harrison (USA) d P Mathieu (FRA) 64 26 76(4)
[WC] K Edmund (GBR) d [Q] K De Schepper (FRA) 64 64
Doubles – First Round
M Matkowski (POL) / F Nielsen (DEN) d [2] R Lindstedt (SWE) / D Nestor (CAN) 62 63
[3] L Paes (IND) / R Stepanek (CZE) d I Dodig (CRO) / M Melo (BRA) 57 76(5) 10-6
M Klizan (SVK) / M Matosevic (AUS) d D Istomin (UZB) / J Monaco (ARG) 36 76(6) 10-2
P Hanley (AUS) / K Skupski (GBR) d T Bednarek (POL) / P Marx (GER) 26 64 10-8