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****** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ******

 

* Nadal cruises closer to #1 with easy win in Beijing, but Djokovic answers with win of his own

* Ferrer struggles but knocks Pospisil out of Top Forty

* Berdych also advances to strengthen grip on #5

* Querrey dumps Youzhny out of Top Twenty

* Mayer loses to Gasquet, will lost Top Fifty spot

* Wawrinka beats Seppi, moves closer to London qualification — and status as Swiss #1

* Benneteau loses another Top Thirty chance

* Djokovic/Wawrinka surprise Bhupathi/Lindstedt in doubles; Fyrstenberg/Matkowski lose to Fognini/Seppi

* Del Potro edges Baghdatis, who will fall out of Top Fifty, in Tokyo

* Tipsarevic, Lopez also through in three sets

* Nishikori edges Melzer, earns enough that he will probably stay Top Twenty

* Anderson loses first match of comeback

* Roger-Vasselin ends Tursunov’s Top Thirty hopes

 

****** TODAY’S MEN’S NEWS ******

 

Beijing

 

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal fired the first shots in their struggle this week for the ATP top ranking held by the Serb, with top seed and three-time champion Djokovic beating Lukas Rosol 6-0, 6-3 in less than an hour. Nadal, who could claim the No. 1 spot by reaching the weekend final, kept pace with his defeat of Colombian qualifier Santiago Giraldo 6-2, 6-4 in 90 minutes.

 

Nadal knows he has a huge job this week, but does own ten titles including grand slams already this season. “My opponent (Djokovic) is unbelievable,” said the Spaniard. “If you are not able to keep improving your level, your chances to keep winning and keep being in the top positions of the rankings (are not going to be) big.” Nadal next plays German Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany; Djokovic aims for the quarter-finals against Spain’s Fernando Verdasco.

 

US Open semi-finalist Stanislas Wawrinka, seeded sixth, started with a defeat of Andreas Seppi 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 while London year-end contender and fifth seed Richard Gasquet defeated German Florian Mayer 6-3, 7-6(2). American John Isner scored a relatively rare win outside of the US – only his fourth of the season – by beating Wu Di of China 5-7, 7-6(4), 6-3.

 

There were also opening victories for Russian Nikolay Davydenko, Australian Marinko Matosevic and Sam Querrey of the US, who beat Mikhail Youzhny 7-6(3), 6-3.

Tokyo

 

Top seed Juan Del Potro survived 17 aces from Marcos Baghdatis in a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win into the second round, with the Argentine who has not played for a month since an early US Open loss got back into tournament form, Del Potro last competed in New York, losing in five sets to Lleyton Hewitt in the second round.

 

Del Potro, 2008 runner-up, who lost in the first round in his next two appearances in the capital, said he is feeling fit again for a final push this season to a possible place in the World Tour Finals in London, “I had a month at home to heal and practice. I feel good with my fitness and my wrist is fine, I can serve at almost 100 per cent. This is a tough time of the season for us near the end of another long year.” The win in two hours sends Del Potro into a countryman battle with Carlos Berlocq, who earned his 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 defeat of Pablo Cuevas.

 

There was huge home excitement as defending champion Kei Nishikori dodged a bullet to pullout a comeback over Jurgen Melzer 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-2 after the veteran Austrian served for the match but was unable to pull off the upset of the local hero, Melzer led a set and 5-2 but was broken as he tried to close it out. Nishikori leveled the sets at one apiece before dominating in the third to go through and face Spain’s Feliciano Lopez, who put Tatsuma Ito of Japan 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.

 

Horacio Zeballos earned a third Argentine win on the day by beating US qualifier Ryan Harrison 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Slovak lucky loser Lukas Lacko upset South African seventh seed Kevin Anderson 6-4, 7-6(2). Eduardo Roger-Vasselin of France beat Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Pole Michal Przysiezny stepped in when fourth seed Gilles Simon withdrew with a groin strain and won his first match over Marcel Granollers 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

 

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

 

THIS WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

Beijing (500/Hard). Defending Champion: Novak Djokovic

Tokyo (500/Hard). Defending Champion: Kei Nishikori

NEXT WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

Shanghai

 

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

 

RANKINGS

 

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of October 1, 2013

 

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

1..(2) Nadal………….10905

2..(1) Djokovic……….10665

3..(3) Murray………….6895

4..(4) Ferrer………….6710

5..(5) Berdych…………4520

6..(6) Federer…………4515

7..(7) Del Potro……….4315

8..(9) Wawrinka………..3150

9..(8) Tsonga………….3115

10.(10) Gasquet…………3005

11.(11) Raonic………….2560

12.(12) Haas……………2265

13.(14) Simon…………..2095

14.(15) Janowicz………..2085

15.(16) Isner…………..2070

16.(17) Almagro…………1940

17.(19) Fognini…………1840

18.(18) Robredo…………1830

19.(13) Nishikori……….1795

20.(21) Anderson………..1775

21.(20) Youzhny…………1735

22.(22) Seppi…………..1555

23.(25) Kohlschreiber……1445

24.(23) Tipsarevic………1435

25.(26) Melzer………….1425

26.(27) Gulbis………….1381

27.(28) Paire…………..1380

28.(29) Dimitrov………..1375

29.(24) Lopez…………..1320

30.(31) Verdasco………..1235

 

**DRAWS

 

Beijing — Week of September 29

 

1 Djokovic

Rosol

Verdasco

Qualifier

Querrey

Youzhny

Seppi

6 Wawrinka

 

3 Ferrer

Pospisil

Matosevic

Benneteau

Tomic

Zhang (WC)

F Mayer

5 Gasquet

 

8 Isner

Wu (WC)

Dimitrov

Qualifier

Qualifier

Davydenko

Andujar

4 Berdych

 

7 Haas

Hewitt (WC)

Fognini

Robredo

Montanes

Kohlschreiner

Qualifier

2 Nadal

Tokyo — Week of September 29

 

1 del Potro

Baghdatis

Berlocq

Cuevas (PR)

Dolgopolov

Brands

Hanescu

8 Tipsarevic

 

4 Nishikori

Melzer

Lopez

Ito (WC)

Qualifier

Zeballos

Qualifier

6 Almagro

 

7 Anderson

Qualifier

Qualifier

Tursunov

Llodra

Chardy

Soeda (WC)

3 Raonic

 

5 Simon

Granollers

Nieminen

Monaco

Sugita (WC)

Dodig

Monfils

2 Tsonga

 

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

 

TUESDAY

Beijing

Singles – Second Round

[4] T Berdych (CZE) d N Davydenko (RUS) W/O (right wrist)

Singles – First Round

[1] N Djokovic (SRB) d L Rosol (CZE) 60 63

[2] R Nadal (ESP) d [Q] S Giraldo (COL) 62 64

[3] D Ferrer (ESP) d V Pospisil (CAN) 64 36 76(2)

[4] T Berdych (CZE) d P Andujar (ESP) 64 61

[5] R Gasquet (FRA) d F Mayer (GER) 63 76(2)

[6] S Wawrinka (SUI) d A Seppi (ITA) 46 63 64

[8] J Isner (USA) d [WC] D Wu (CHN) 57 76(4) 63

F Verdasco (ESP) d [Q] S Devvarman (IND) 76(6) 63

S Querrey (USA) d M Youzhny (RUS) 76(3) 63

M Matosevic (AUS) d J Benneteau (FRA) 76(5) 63

N Davydenko (RUS) d [Q] Y Lu (TPE) 76(3) 64

Doubles – First Round

N Djokovic (SRB) / S Wawrinka (SUI) d [2] M Bhupathi (IND) / R Lindstedt (SWE) 63 63

F Fognini (ITA) / A Seppi (ITA) d M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) 62 64

C Fleming (GBR) / J Marray (GBR) d P Kohlschreiber (GER) / M Youzhny (RUS) 76(8) 46 10-7

T Haas (GER) / F Mayer (GER) d [WC] M Gong (CHN) / Z Li (CHN) 75 36 10-8

Tokyo

Singles – First Round

[1] [WC] J del Potro (ARG) d M Baghdatis (CYP) 46 64 63

[4] K Nishikori (JPN) d J Melzer (AUT) 67(4) 75 62

[LL] L Lacko (SVK) d [7] K Anderson (RSA) 64 76(2)

[8] J Tipsarevic (SRB) d V Hanescu (ROU) 67(6) 61 64

C Berlocq (ARG) d [PR] P Cuevas (URU) 76(4) 62

F Lopez (ESP) d [WC] T Ito (JPN) 46 75 63

H Zeballos (ARG) d [Q] R Harrison (USA) 61 46 64

[Q] E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d D Tursunov (RUS) 64 36 63

I Dodig (CRO) d [WC] Y Sugita (JPN) 63 61

*[LL] M Przysiezny (POL) d M Granollers (ESP) 16 63 64

*[LL] M Przysiezny (POL) replaced [5] G Simon (FRA) – (groin strain)

 

****** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ******

 

* All ten Beijing singles matches follow form

* Serena wins tense match with Schiavone; Lisicki trounces Venus

* No new Race qualifications or eliminations

* Bouchard fails to reach Top Thirty, Robson falls short of Top Forty

* Errani/Vinci struggle past Chan/Huber; Hsieh/Peng assure Istanbul spot with win over Goerges/Zahlavova Strycova

 

****** TODAY’S WOMEN’S NEWS ******

 

Beijing

 

The Williams sisters went in entirely different directions in the second round, with top seed Serena beating former fellow French Open winner Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-5 while Venus was humbled by Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki 6-1, 6-2.

 

Chinese fans breathed a sigh of relief as national sports heroine and fourth seed Li Na advanced over Serb Bojana Jovanovski with the loss of just one game. British interest ended early with the loss of Laura Robson to German seventh seed Angelique Kerber 6-1, 6-2. Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, the sixth seed, beat Romanian Monica Niculescu 6-3, 6-1 while former Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova advanced over Varvara Lepchenko 2-6, 6-2, 6-0.

 

American Sloane Stephens reversed last week’s loss in Tokyo against Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard with a 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 result. Italian tenth seed Roberta Vinci defeated Zhang Shuai of China 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 and Spain’s Suarez Navarro stopped Lauren Davis of the US 6-4, 6-2.

 

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

 

THIS WEEK ON THE WTA:

Beijing (Premier Mandatory/Hard). Defending Champion: Victoria Azarenka

NEXT WEEK ON THE WTA:

Linz (International/Indoor Hard). Defending Champion: Victoria Azarenka

Osaka (International/Hard). Defending Champion: Heather Watson

 

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

**RANKINGS

 

Estimated WTA Rankings As of September 30, 2013

 

Rank &

Prior

Rank….Name…………..Points

1 (1) SWILLIAMS 12400*

2 (2) AZARENKA 8485

3 (3) Sharapova 6941

4 (4) ARADWANSKA 5825*

5 (5) LI 5255*

6 (6) ERRANI 4435*

7 (7) KVITOVA 4005*

8 (8) WOZNIACKI 3735*

9 (9) KERBER 3535*

10 (11) JANKOVIC 3240*

11 (12) VINCI 3195*

12 (13) STEPHENS 3185*

13 (10) Bartoli 3172

14 (16) LISICKI 2830*

15 (18) KIRILENKO 2755*

16 (14) IVANOVIC 2715*

17 (17) HALEP 2685

18 (15) SUAREZ NAVARRO 2665*

19 (19) FLIPKENS 2601

20 (20) STOSUR 2445

21 (21) CIRSTEA 2170

22 (25) KUZNETSOVA 2143*

23 (23) CIBULKOVA 2126

24 (22) Makarova 2066

25 (24) VESNINA 1960

26 (26) Hampton 1851

27 (27) CORNET 1790

28 (30) KANEPI 1751

29 (28) PAVLYUCHENKOVA 1750

30 (29) PENNETTA 1735

 

**DRAWS

 

Beijing — Week of September 29

 

1 S Williams

16 Halep

11 Stephens

6 Wozniacki

 

3 A Radwanska

14 Ivanovic

10 Vinci

7 Kerber

 

5 Errani

9 Kvitova

13 Lisicki

4 Li

 

8 Jankovic

12 Suarez Navarro

15 Stosur

2 Azarenka

 

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 S Williams

2 Azarenka

3 A Radwanska

4 Li

5 Errani

6 Wozniacki

7 Kerber

8 Jankovic

9 Kvitova

10 Vinci

11 Stephens

12 Suarez Navarro

13 Lisicki

14 Ivanovic

15 Stosur………..lost 1R (Safarova)

16 Halep…………lost 1R (U Radwanska)

 

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

 

TUESDAY

Beijing

Singles – Second Round

(1) Serena Williams (USA) d. (WC) Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 64 75

(4) Li Na (CHN) d. Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 60 61

(6) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d. Monica Niculescu (ROU) 63 61

(7) Angelique Kerber (GER) d. Laura Robson (GBR) 61 62

(9) Petra Kvitova (CZE) d. Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 26 62 60

(10) Roberta Vinci (ITA) d. (WC) Zhang Shuai (CHN) 36 63 61

(11) Sloane Stephens (USA) d. (Q) Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 61 16 64

(12) Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) d. (Q) Lauren Davis (USA) 64 62

(13) Sabine Lisicki (GER) d. (WC) Venus Williams (USA) 61 62

Maria Kirilenko (RUS) d. Urszula Radwanska (POL) 64 64

Doubles – Second Round

(1) Errani/Vinci (ITA/ITA) d. Chan/Huber (TPE/USA) 64 67(4) 108 (Match TB)

(2) Hsieh/Peng (TPE/CHN) d. Goerges/Zahlavova Strycova (GER/CZE) 63 64

Dushevina/Parra Santonja (RUS/ESP) d. (4) Jankovic/Srebotnik (SRB/SLO) 64 67(4) 106 (Match TB)

(6) Kops-Jones/Spears (USA/USA) d. King/Voskoboeva (USA/KAZ) 63 62

Mladenovic/Pennetta (FRA/ITA) d. Soler-Espinosa/Suárez Navarro (ESP/ESP) 63 61

Hantuchova/Raymond (SVK/USA) d. Lisicki/Medina Garrigues (GER/ESP) 63 64

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