ATP News: Dimitrov, Gulbis, Cilic, Bagdatis, Ferrer All Win

Written by: on 12th February 2014
ATP Tournament in Buenos Aires
ATP News: Dimitrov, Gulbis, Cilic, Bagdatis, Ferrer All Win

epa04070675 A handout photo released by Press Claro Cup showing Spanish David Ferrer in action against Argentinean Maximo Gonzalez during their match of the ATP Tournament in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 11 February 2014. EPA/Press Claro Cup HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY  |

PRO TOUR NEWS – MEN

 

* Cilic tops Rosol in Rotterdam, extends winning streak to six

* Janowicz knocks Benneteau out of Top Fifty

* Dimitrov leaves Tursunov still below Top 25

* Youzhny tries to play, but loses easily to Sijsling; Top Fifteen spot in slight danger

* Gulbis ends Istomin’s Top Forty hopes

* Dodig/Melo suffer another shock exit

* Baghdatis finally earns first win of 2014; beats Ram at Memphis — but needs two more wins to defend points

* Fognini beats Reister at Buenos Aires to extend winning streak

* Leonardo Mayer also wins as players who had good luck in Vina del Mar continue to play well in South America

* Ferrer survives tough match in first round in Argentina

* 32-year-old Volandri edges 17-year-old Garin in battle of the generations

* Haase knocks last year’s semifinalist Alund below #150

 

Buenos Aires

 

Top seed and winner of the last two editions David Ferrer looked unstoppable on South American clay as the Spaniard began his Argentine title defence by beating Maximo Gonzalez 7-6(7), 6-4 and running his Buenos Aires win streak to 11 matches. Ferrer, fifth in the world, next plays Colombian Santiago Giraldo, who beat Spain’s Albert Montanes 7-6(4), 6-2. Ferrer improved to 17-4 in BA as he bids to reach a fourth consecutive final at the clay venue.

Italian second seed Fabio Fognini maintained his own winning run, beating German Julian Reister 7-5, 6-2 to complete 20 wins from his last 21 matches, including last week’s title in Chile. He now stands a career-best 14th on the ATP. The winner held off 13 of 17 break points on the way to his victory. Fognini next lines up against Leonardo Mayer, a winner over fellow Argentine Facundo Argueello 6-3, 6-4.

Dutch sixth seed Robin Haase, skipping this week’s home event in Rotterdam, advanced over Argentine Martin Alund 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 while Spain’s Albert Ramos upset seventh seed and 2007 champion Juan Monaco 6-7(3), 6-4, 6-2. Italy’s Filippo Volandri put out teenaged qualifier Christian Garin of Chile 5-7 6-0 6-3.

Memphis

 

Alex Bogomolov handed slumping sixth seed Sam Querrey a fourth straight defeat with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(7), with the American unable to convert on a match point in a contest where he managed 18 aces. Kazak eighth seed Mikhail Kukushkin beat Teymuraz Gabashvili of Russia 7-6(9), 7-5 at the struggling event, being run without a title sponsor.

There was some good news for Ryan Harrison as one-time hope of the US game won his first main draw singles match since August with a defeat of Bjorn Phau 6-3, 6-4. Jack Sock of the US started with a defeat of Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 7-5, 1-6, 7-6(5) while Alex Kuznetsov stopped Belgium’s David Goffin 6-4 6-3.

There were victories for German Benjamin Becker over Slovak Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-2 and one-time Australian open finalist Marcos Baghdatis, who defeated Rajeev Ram 6-3 6-4. Croatian Ivo Karlovic hammered 14 unreachable serves against Australian Matthew Ebden, 7-5, 6-4.

Rotterdam

 

Former title holder Mikhail Youzhny was sent packing in the opening round as Igor Sijsling triumphed 6-2, 6-2. The Dutchman accelerated the Russian’s losing streak into a second month after Youzhny won his only match of the season in mid-January at the Australian Open.

The seventh seed suffered double breaks in both sets of the first-round contest to go down in 74 minutes as Sijsling, ranked 64th, produced nine aces for his home audience. Youzhny was making his tenth appearance in the Dutch city where he won the title in 2007.

Latvian Ernests Gulbis advanced through a defeat of Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 7-6(4) while Croatian Marin Cilic, winner of his fourth career title at home in Zagreb 48 hours earlier, returned to the court with a win over Czech Lukas Rosol 6-2, 6-2.

“Overall I played a solid match,” said the 37th-ranked Cilic, a former top 10 player. “I didn’t have too many mistakes but it took me a few games to get used to conditions. I played well on return and mixed it up, he was making some errors in critical moments. It helped a lot to win five matches at home last week,” said the Croatian, “It gives you confidence plus I’ve always enjoyed playing indoors,” said the holder of 10 career titles. “Facing Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (his next opponent, who he beat in their last meeting) is always a challenge but I hope to be ready.”

Eighth seed Grigor Dimitrov beat Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 in his tournament start. Eighth seed Grigor Dimitrov beat Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 in his tournament start while Jerzy Janowicz defeated Frenchman Julien Benneteau 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.

 

 

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

 

THIS WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

Rotterdam (500/Indoor Hard). Defending Champion: Juan Martin del Potro

Memphis (250/Indoor Hard). Defending Champion (as an ATP 500): Kei Nishikori

Buenos Aires (250/Clay). Defending Champion: David Ferrer

NEXT WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

Rio de Janeiro (500/Clay). Defending Champion: New Event

Marseille (250/Indoor Hard). Defending Champion: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Delray Beach (250/Hard). Defending Champion: Ernests Gulbis

RANKINGS

 

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of February 11, 2013

 

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

1..(1) Nadal………….14085

2..(2) Djokovic……….10580

3..(3) Wawrinka………..5710

4..(5) Ferrer………….5280

5..(4) Del Potro……….4960

6..(6) Murray………….4795

7..(7) Berdych…………4540

8..(8) Federer…………4305

9..(9) Gasquet…………2950

10.(10) Tsonga………….2885

11.(11) Raonic………….2485

12.(12) Haas……………2435

13.(13) Isner…………..2320

14.(14) Fognini…………2260

15.(15) Youzhny…………2100

16.(17) Robredo…………1980

17.(16) Nishikori……….1965

18.(18) Almagro…………1930

19.(20) Janowicz………..1705

20.(19) Dimitrov………..1675

21.(22) Anderson………..1580

22.(21) Simon…………..1565

23.(23) Monfils…………1475

24.(24) Gulbis………….1423

25.(25) Pospisil………..1359

26.(26) Lopez…………..1355

27.(27) Kohlschreiber……1330

28.(28) Tursunov………..1314

29.(29) Paire…………..1275

30.(30) Mayer…………..1245

 

**DRAWS

 

Rotterdam — week of February 10, 2014

1 del Potro

Monfils

Mathieu (Q)

Dodig

Gulbis

Istomin

Tursunov

8 Dimitrov

 

3 Berdych

Seppi

Mahut

Simon

Janowicz

Benneteau

Verdasco

6 Haas

 

7 Youzhny

Sijsling (WC)

Huta Galung (WC)

Berrer (Q)

Kohlschreiber

Stakhovsky (Q)

de Bakker (WC)

4 Gasquet

 

5 Tsonga

F Mayer

Cilic

Rosol

Thiem (Q)

Nieminen

Roger-Vasselin

2 Murray (WC)

Memphis — week of February 10, 2014

1 Nishikori (WC)

–bye

Lacko

Becker

Phau (SE)

Harrison

Bogomolov

6 Querrey

 

3 Hewitt

–bye

Baghdatis (WC)

Qualifier

Kyrgios (WC)

Smyczek

Russell

7 Przysiezny

 

8 Kukushkin

Gabashvili

Qualifier

Qualifier

Qualifier

Young

–bye

4 Lu

 

5 Matosevic

Vesely

Sock

Mannarino

Ebden

Karlovic

–bye

2 F Lopez

Buenos Aires — week of February 10, 2014

1 Ferrer (WC)

Qualifier

Montanes

Giraldo

Qualifier

Volandri

Ramos

7 Monaco

 

4 Almagro

Zeballos

Qualifier

Gimeno-Traver

Dolgopolov

Cuevas (PR)

A Gonzalez

8 Chardy

 

6 Haase

Qualifier

Sousa

Berlocq

Garcia-Lopez

Pella (WC)

Carreno Busta

3 Robredo

 

5 Granollers

Bedene

Delbonis

Andujar

Aguello (WC)

L Mayer

Reister

2 Fognini

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

 

TUESDAY

Buenos Aires

Singles – First Round

[1] [WC] D Ferrer (ESP) d [Q] M Gonzalez (ARG) 76(7) 64

[2] F Fognini (ITA) d J Reister (GER) 75 62

[6] R Haase (NED) d [Q] M Alund (ARG) 64 67(6) 63

A Ramos (ESP) d [7] J Monaco (ARG) 67(3) 64 62

S Giraldo (COL) d A Montanes (ESP) 76(4) 62

F Volandri (ITA) d [Q] C Garin (CHI) 57 60 63

L Mayer (ARG) d [WC] F Arguello (ARG) 63 64

 

Memphis

Singles – First Round

A Bogomolov Jr. (RUS) d [6] S Querrey (USA) 26 64 76(7) – saved 1 M.P.

[8] M Kukushkin (KAZ) d T Gabashvili (RUS) 76(9) 75

B Becker (GER) d L Lacko (SVK) 63 62

R Harrison (USA) d B Phau (GER) 63 64

[WC] M Baghdatis (CYP) d [Q] R Ram (USA) 63 64

[Q] A Kuznetsov (USA) d [Q] D Goffin (BEL) 64 63

J Sock (USA) d A Mannarino (FRA) 75 16 76(5)

I Karlovic (CRO) d M Ebden (AUS) 75 64

Doubles – First Round

F Cermak (CZE) / M Elgin (RUS) d [4] S Groth (AUS) / M Mirnyi (BLR) 62 76(4)

C Guccione (AUS) / L Hewitt (AUS) d T Bednarek (POL) / I Karlovic (CRO) 67(2) 64 10-7

 

 

Rotterdam

Singles – First Round

[WC] I Sijsling (NED) d [7] M Youzhny (RUS) 62 62

[8] G Dimitrov (BUL) d D Tursunov (RUS) 62 16 64

E Gulbis (LAT) d D Istomin (UZB) 64 76(4)

J Janowicz (POL) d J Benneteau (FRA) 36 64 64

M Cilic (CRO) d L Rosol (CZE) 62 62

Doubles – First Round

L Rosol (CZE) / A Seppi (ITA) d [1] I Dodig (CRO) / M Melo (BRA) 46 76(2) 10-6

J Brunstrom (SWE) / J Nieminen (FIN) d [4] R Bopanna (IND) / A Qureshi (PAK) 76(4) 26 11-9

J Rojer (NED) / H Tecau (ROU) d [Q] M Berrer (GER) / S Stakhovsky (UKR) 62 67(6) 10-5

J Knowle (AUT) / J Peers (AUS) d P Kohlschreiber (GER) / F Mayer (GER) 63 36 10-7

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