Men and Women Tennis Update – Atlanta, Gstaad, Umag, Baku, and Stanford

Written by: on 24th July 2013
International German Open 2013
Men and Women Tennis Update - Atlanta, Gstaad, Umag, Baku, and Stanford

epa03794389 Switzerland's Roger Federer returns the ball to Argentina's Federico Delbonis during their men's single semifinal match at the 2013 International German Open tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany, 20 July 2013. EPA/AXEL HEIMKEN  |

****** TODAY’S MEN’S NEWS ******

Atlanta

Three seeds reached the second round, with Taiwan’s Yen-hsun Lu leading the way with his defeat of Kevin King 6-3, 7-5 in the American’s main draw debut on the ATP. The fifth-seeded Lu set the pace for Australian seventh seed Lleyton Hewitt, a winner over France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 6-4.

Hewitt made the switch form grass of Newport to the hardcourts as the US Open preparation run begins.

Russian eighth seed Evgeny Donskoy beat American Rajeev Ram 6-3, 6-4 and Rikardus Berankis of Lithuania started with a defeat of German Mischa Zverev 7-6(4), 2-6, 7-6(8). Colombia’s Santiago Giraldo beat Jack Sock of the US 7-5, 6-4 while Denis Istomin put out Lukas Lacko 6-1, 6-3.

Mardy Fish’s return to tennis after his long-running illness battle was put on hold by rain, with the American two-time champion, seeded sixth, due to return on Wednesday to complete his contest with Michael Russell. Fish led 6-4, 2-4 when play was halted for the night.

Gstaad

Roger Federer learned the name of his opening opponent as German Daniel Brands Federer’s long-time friend Marco Chiudinelli 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 to set up a second mach with the Swiss top seed in as many weeks after losing to Federer in the Hamburg first round. While the fifth-ranked Federer needs a possible tournament title, he is also devoting attention this week in trying a new racquet whose 98-square-inch size takes some adjustment after playing for years with a model measuring 90 square inches.

Federer, the top seed who has not played the high-altitude clay of Gstaad since winning the title in 2004, will continue his racket testing under competitive conditions. The 17-time grand slam champion said that he feels he is slowly getting used to his new racquet, which should provides him some additional power and a bigger hitting sweet spot as he lifts his equipment to the level long used by his rivals.

But any decision on switching to the new weapon will not be taken in haste.

“So far, I’m happy with this change,” said Federer. “But I need lots of court time to know if switching will be a good decision. I haven’t yet decided on whether to use it in the US (he begins his pre-US Open campaign in a fortnight at the Montreal Masters). I still need to think it over.”

Four Spaniards including eighth seed Robert Bautista Agut moved into the second round. Agut beat Swiss wild card Henri Laaksonen 6-2, 6-3 as the Spanish winner ran his clay record in 2013 to 18-15. Daniel Gimeno-Traver beat Kenny De Schepper of France 6-4, 6-3.

Pablo Andujar defeated Romanian Victor Crivoi 6-1, 6-2 to end a five-match first-round loss streak and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez completed the winning list with a defeat of Adrian Ungur 6-4, 6-7(2), 6-1. 2008 winner Victor Hanescu defeated Germany’s Dustin Brown 7-6(6), 6-2; Dutchman Robin Haase defeated Brazilian Joao Souza 6-4, 7-6(7).

Umag

Spanish fifth seed Tommy Robredo defeated Czech Jan Jajek 6-3, 6-2 wile Slovak sixth seed Martin Klizan produced a defeat of Italy’s Paolo Lorenzi 6-2, 6-1. Slovenian Blaz Kavcic eliminated German seventh seed Florian Mayer 6-7(5), 6-0, 7-5 while No. 8 Carlos Berlocq advanced with the loss of just one game over a local wild card.

Frenchman Gael Monfils began with a win against Mate Pavic of Croatia 7-5, 6-2, with Spain’s Albert Montanes beating Serb Dusan Lajovic 7-6(3), 6-1, but Viktor Troicki earning one back for Serbia through his defeat of Croatia’s Antonio Veic 7-6(6), 6-1.

****** TODAY’S FEATURE ******

KEYWORDS: No Feature Today

******** THIS WEEK IN TENNIS ********

THIS WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:
Atlanta (250/Hard). Defending Champion: Andy Roddick
Gstaad (250/Clay). Defending Champion: Thomaz Bellucci
Umag (250/Clay). Defending Champion: Marin Cilic

NEXT WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:
Washington (500/Hard). Defending Champion: Alexandr Dolgopolov
Kitzbuhel (250/Clay). Defending Champion: Robin Haase

******** STATS AND FACTS ********

RANKINGS

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings
As of July 23, 2013


Rank &
Prior...Player...........Points
1..(1) Djokovic..........12310
2..(2) Murray.............9360
3..(3) Ferrer.............7120
4..(4) Nadal..............6860
5..(5) Federer............5875
6..(6) Berdych............4865
7..(7) Del Potro..........4500
8..(8) Tsonga.............3480
9..(9) Gasquet............3045
10.(10) Wawrinka...........2915
11.(11) Nishikori..........2495
12.(12) Haas...............2395
13.(13) Raonic.............2225
14.(14) Almagro............2135
15.(15) Cilic..............2075
16.(16) Simon..............2055
17.(17) Janowicz...........2029
18.(18) Tipsarevic.........2025
19.(19) Fognini............1970
20.(21) Anderson...........1635
21.(22) Isner..............1610
22.(20) Querrey............1570
23.(24) Seppi..............1550
24.(25) Dolgopolov.........1500
25.(23) Kohlschreiber......1490
26.(26) Chardy.............1406
27.(27) Paire..............1405
28.(28) Robredo............1340
29.(29) Lopez..............1325
30.(30) Monaco.............1270

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****** TODAY’S WOMEN’S NEWS ******

Baku

Holder Bojana Jovanovski took control of her title defense, with the Serbian top seed starting with a defeat of No. 214 Uzbek Nigina Abduraimova 6-3, 6-3. Jovanovski needed to make the change from grass to hard as she played for the first time since Wimbledon. Jovanovski dropped the first three game but spun off the next six to win the opening set and get firmly into her rhythm, advancing on her third set point.

Eighth seeded compatriot Vesna Dolonc did not fare so well in central Asia, losing to Czech Kristyna Pliskova 6-1, 6-2, while Polish qualifier Magda Linette eliminated 2012 finalist Julia Cohen, 6-2, 6-3.

Israeli Shahar Peer, whose season has been a horror with a mere six wins, won 12 straight games to claim the victory over Ilona Kremen of Belarus 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 in a massive turnaround effort. But she was not the only player to pull off that party trick: the same went for Mandy Minella, who beat Kamilla Farhad love-love, and local qualifier Tetyana Arefyeva, a winner over Veronika Kapshay of the Ukraine, 6-7(6), 6-0, 6-0.

Stanford

The pre-US Open start for Samantha Stosur began with a loss as the former New York grand slam champion was beaten in her opening match 6-2, 6-4 by Olga Govortsova of Belarus, who earned her ninth career win over a top 20 player.

“At the end she had nothing to lose, so she started going for her shots and making more, and I got a little bit nervous – it was the same kind of situation as the French Open, where I had two match points against Marion Bartoli and lost, and then she went on to win Wimbledon a few weeks later,” said the winner. Added Stosur: “I didn’t get off to the greatest start, losing my serve the way I did at the start, and she was playing quite well. But I wasn’t able to combat that with any aggressive play of my own to not let her continue doing what she was able to do.”

Seventh seed Urszula Radwanska eliminated American Christina McHale 6-1, 6-3. Wild card Daniela Hantuchova continued her career domination of Belgian Yanina Wickmayer with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 win, with the final set taking just 24 minutes.

US sixth seed Varvara Lepchenko needed to hold on at the end standing once game from victory. She finally beat Portugal’s Michelle Larcher de Brito 6-2, 6-4 on a sixth match point. Austrian Tamira Paszek got her first WTA-level win since the Australian open, beating Alla Kudryavtseva, when the Russian qualifier retired trailing 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 3-0. American Coco Vandeweghe, last year’s finalist who was denied a wild card entry and had to qualify, got some payback by crushing Romanian Monica Niculescu 6-0, 6-3.

****** TODAY’S FEATURE ******

KEYWORDS: No Feature Today

******** THIS WEEK IN TENNIS ********

THIS WEEK ON THE WTA:
Stanford (Premier/Hard). Defending Champion: Serena Williams
Baku (International/Hard). Defending Champion: Bojana Jovanovski

NEXT WEEK ON THE WTA:
Carlsbad (Premier/Hard). Defending Champion: Dominika Cibulkova
Washington (International/Hard). Defending Champion: Magdalena Rybarikova

************ STATS AND FACTS ************

**RANKINGS

Estimated WTA Rankings As of July 23, 2013


Rank &
Prior
Rank....Name..............Points
1 (1) SWilliams 11705
2 (2) Sharapova 9235
3 (3) Azarenka 8825
4 (4) ARADWANSKA 5965*
5 (5) Li 5555
6 (6) Errani 5100
7 (7) Kvitova 4435
8 (8) Bartoli 4365
9 (9) Kerber 3970
10 (10) Wozniacki 3660
11 (11) Vinci 3220
12 (12) Kirilenko 2976
13 (13) STOSUR 2965
14 (14) Flipkens 2886
15 (15) Stephens 2870
16 (16) Jankovic 2865
17 (17) Ivanovic 2740
18 (18) Lisicki 2650
19 (19) Suarez Navarro 2430
20 (20) Petrova 2306
21 (21) Vesnina 1889
22 (22) Halep 1885
23 (23) Pavlyuchenkova 1795
24 (24) Kanepi 1781
25 (25) CIBULKOVA 1776*
26 (26) Makarova 1742
27 (27) Kuznetsova 1657
28 (28) Safarova 1655
29 (29) HAMPTON 1627*
30 (30) Cornet 1580

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