Men’s Wimbledon Warm ups

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

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