Men’s Pro Tennis Update

PRO TOUR NEWS – MEN

 

* Youzhny ends Haase’s late-July run

* No third title for Fognini

* Isner holds off Anderson despite earning only one break point

 

****** TODAY’S MEN’S NEWS ******

 

Gstaad

 

Singles – Final: (6) M Youzhny def. R Haase 6-3 6-4

Robin Haase’s favorite week finally betrayed him.

Last year, Haase won Kitzbuhel at this time, so he will be falling several more ranking spots. At least he is done defending most of his big points; from now on, he should have a chance to start moving up again.

As Mikhail Youzhny will be doing. We show him rising from #33 to #29. He picks up his first title since Zagreb 2012. And his seventh overall. The only problem is, other than his first, at Rotterdam 2007, they have all been bottom-tier. It’s a nice collection of trophies, but he’ll need to win something bigger to really get his ranking back up.

 

Doubles – Final: (3) J Murray/Peers def. Andujar/Garcia-Lopez 6-3 6-4

Finding the right partner seems to be very important for Jamie Murray. First there was Eric Butorac, in 2007; they won three titles. Murray won only one title in the two years after that. In 2010, he won only one title, with his brother. He had two titles in 2011, but one of those was also with Andy. No titles in 2012. But now, with John Peers, he has two titles in 2013 (the first was Houston). Maybe there is a message in there somewhere.

 

Umag

 

Singles – Final: (5) T Robredo def. (3) F Fognini 6-0 6-3

Next to this, even Fabio Fognini’s crazy match of the day before seemed relatively sensible. He lost the first set in eighteen minutes — then broke to start the second. But it’s clear that he had used himself up. It wasn’t much of a final.

Still — two straight titles and a final for Fognini! Surely it will be some consolation that he will rise to a career-high #16. He was philosophical: “It was an incredible week. I go home with a lot of happiness. I’m a little bit disappointed, but even if you’re Roger or Rafa, you’re going to lose some time. I’ve played three incredible weeks and they’re going to stay in my head for the rest of my life.”

Tommy Robredo picks up his second title of the year. And he too will be moving — to #22 or #23. We’re back to four Spaniards in the Top 25 (Ferrer, Nadal, Almagro, Robredo). The Spanish Armada sails again….

 

Atlanta

 

Singles – Final: (1) J Isner def. (2) K Anderson 6-7(3-7) 7-6(7-2) 7-6(7-2)

These two do not make it easy to write a story in real time. No one ever really takes a lead.

There were no breaks in the first set. Kevin Anderson didn’t even face a break point. Second set — still no breaks, although Anderson did face his one break point of the match. Then, finally, in game two of the third set, Anderon had triple break point against John Isner — and couldn’t convert. A fourth chance… nope. And so it went, through more than two and a half truly tedious hours and more than forty combined aces. At 6-5 in the third, Anderson had a break point on Isner’s serve. He still couldn’t convert. And again. And so it went to the tiebreak. And Anderson, who had blown eleven break points in the match, suffered a minibreak on the first point. And went downhill from there.

At least John Isner isn’t complaining. After all, he comes away with a title. And the #20 ranking. Whoever won this was going to be #20, and Isner finished just strong enough. It’s his second title of the year, and third in the last twelve months. All 250s, unfortunately for him.

 

Kitzbuhel

 

Doubles – First Round: (1) Cermak/Dlouhy def. Brown/Hanley 6-7(4-7) 6-4 10-8

This was, as you can see, the day’s only action other than four qualifying matches. At least any fans who showed up got quite a dramatic show. We may see more of those; the singles draw here isn’t much, but the doubles is pretty good. As is shown by the fact that Brown/Hanley were unseeded.

 

 

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

 

THIS WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

Washington (500/Hard). Defending Champion: Alexandr Dolgopolov

Kitzbuhel (250/Clay). Defending Champion: Robin Haase

 

NEXT WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

Canadian Open/Montreal (1000/Hard). Defending Champion: Novak Djokovic

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

 

RANKINGS

 

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of July 28, 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.(19) Fognini…………2075

17.(16) Simon…………..2055

18.(17) Janowicz………..2029

19.(18) Tipsarevic………2025

20.(22) Isner…………..1770

21.(21) Anderson………..1740

22.(20) Querrey…………1570

23.(28) Robredo…………1570

24.(24) Seppi…………..1550

25.(25) Dolgopolov………1500

26.(23) Kohlschreiber……1490

27.(26) Chardy………….1406

28.(27) Paire…………..1405

29.(33) Youzhny…………1395

30.(29) Lopez…………..1390

 

**DRAWS

 

Atlanta — Week of July 22

 

WINNER: John Isner

…………..QF………….SF………..F

1 Isner…….(1)Isner…….Isner……..Isner

8 Donskoy…..Blake

3 Dodig…….(3)Dodig

7 Hewitt……(7)Hewitt……Hewitt

 

6 Fish……..Giraldo

4 Sijsling….R.Harrison…..Harrison

5 Lu……….Istomin

2 Anderson….(2)Anderson….Anderson…..Anderson

 

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Isner…….WON TOURNAMENT

2 Anderson….lost F (Isner)

3 Dodig…….lost QF (Hewitt)

4 Sijsling….lost 2R (Harrison)

5 Lu……….lost 2R (Istomin)

6 Fish……..lost 1R (Russell)

7 Hewitt……lost SF (Isner)

8 Donskoy…..lost 2R (Blake)

 

Gstaad — Week of July 22

 

WINNER: Mikhail Youzhny

…………….QF…………..SF……..F

1 Federer (WC)..Brands

8 Bautista Agut.Hanescu………Hanescu

4 Monaco……..(4)Monaco

6 Youzhny…….(6)Youzhny……Youzhny…Youzhny

 

7 Rosol………Granollers

3 Tipsarevic….Haase………..Haase…..Haase

5 F Lopez…….(5)Lopez……..Lopez

2 Wawrinka……(2)Wawrinka

 

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Federer (WC)….lost 2R (Brands)

2 Wawrinka……..lost QF (Lopez)

3 Tipsarevic……lost 2R (Haase)

4 Monaco……….lost QF (Youzhny)

5 F Lopez………lost SF (Haase)

6 Youzhny………WON TOURNAMENT

7 Rosol………..lost 1R (Granollers)

8 Bautista Agut…lost 2R (Hanescu)

 

Umag — Week of July 22

 

WINNER: Tommy Robredo

……………QF…………SF……..F

1 Gasquet……Montanes

7 F Mayer……Monfils…….Monfils

3 Fognini……(3)Fognini….Fognini…Fognini

6 Klizan…….(6)Klizan

 

5 Robredo……(5)Robredo….Robredo…Robredo

4 Dolgopolov…Bedene

8 Berlocq……Zeballos

2 Seppi……..(2)Seppi……Seppi

 

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Gasquet……lost 2R (Montanes)

2 Seppi……..lost SF (Robredo)

3 Fognini……lost F (Robredo)

4 Dolgopolov…lost 2R (Bedene)

5 Robredo……WON TOURNAMENT

6 Klizan…….lost QF (Fognini)

7 F Mayer……lost 1R (Kavcic)

8 Berlocq……lost 2R (Zeballos)

 

Washington — Week of July 29

 

 

1 del Potro (WC)

–bye

Hewitt

R Harrison

Goffin

Lu

–bye

14 Tomic

 

12 Benneteau

–bye

Llodra

Fish

Duckworth (WC)

Qualifier

–bye

7 Anderson

 

3 Haas

–bye

Zemlja

Qualifier

Berankis

Kamke

–bye

13 Dodig

 

11 Dimitrov

–bye

Malisse

Ram

Istomin

Giraldo

–bye

6 Querrey

 

5 Simon

–bye

Qualifier

Tursunov

Stepanek

Johnson (WC)

–bye

10 F Lopez

 

15 Davydenko

–bye

Blake

Matosevic

Kudla (WC)

Qualifier

–bye

4 Raonic

 

8 Isner

–bye

Bogomolov

Monfils

Qualifier

Qualifier

–bye

9 Dolgopolov

 

16 Baghdatis

–bye

Lacko

Falla

Sock (WC)

Sijsling

–bye

2 Nishikori

 

Kitzbuhel — Week of July 29

 

 

1 Kohlschreiber

–bye

de Schepper

L Mayer

M FIscher (Q)

Zeballos

Pavic (WC)

8 Granollers

 

3 Verdasco

–bye

Bellucci

Garcia-Lopez

Rufin

Haase

Brands

5 Berlocq

 

7 Montanes

Ungur

Bedene

Hanescu

And. Kuznetsov

Thiem (WC)

–bye

4 Melzer

 

6 Bautista Agut

Hajek (Q)

Veic (Q)

Gimeno-Traver

Haider-Maurer (WC)

D Novak (Q)

–bye

2 Monaco

 

******** SCORES ********

 

SATURDAY

 

Atlanta (full results)

Singles – Semifinal

(1) J Isner def. (7) L Hewitt 6-4 4-6 7-6(7-5)

(2) K Anderson def. R Harrison 6-3 7-6(7-3)

Doubles – Semifinal

(3) Fleming/Marray def. Guccione/Hewitt 6-4 7-6(8-6)

(4) E Roger-Vasselin/I Sijsling def. (PR) Erlich/A Ram 3-6 6-1 10-7

 

SUNDAY

 

Atlanta

Singles – Final

(1) J Isner def. (2) K Anderson 6-7(3-7) 7-6(7-2) 7-6(7-2)

 

Gstaad

Singles – Final

(6) M Youzhny def. R Haase 6-3 6-4

Doubles – Final

(3) J Murray/Peers def. Andujar/Garcia-Lopez 6-3 6-4

 

Umag

Singles – Final

(5) T Robredo def. (3) F Fognini 6-0 6-3

 

Kitzbuhel

Doubles – First Round

(1) Cermak/Dlouhy def. Brown/Hanley 6-7(4-7) 6-4 10-8

©Daily Tennis News Wire

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