Young Gun Serb Dusan Lajovic beats Volandri in Rio, Results From Rio And Delray, Querrey Loses

Written by: Staff on 18th February 2014

Young Gun Serb Dusan Lajovic beats Volandri in Rio, Results From Rio And Delray, Querrey Loses

epa04049869 Dusan Lajovic of Serbia returns the ball to Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland during the Davis Cup World Group first round tie between Serbia and Switzerland at the Spens Sport Center in Novi Sad, Serbia, 31 January 2014. EPA/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC |

PRO TOUR NEWS – MEN

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

* Pospisil withdraws from Delray Beach

* Slumping Klizan comes to life to upset Garcia-Lopez in rain-disrupted Rio

* Big day for qualifiers: Bagnis beats Souza, Lajovic wins when Volandri retires

* Kavcic tops wildcard Kokkinakis in only singles match in Marseille

****** TODAY’S MEN’S NEWS ******

Delray Beach

Spanish sixth seed Feliciano Lopez rallied past dis-heartened American Sam Querrey 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 to hand the Californian his fifth consecutive defeat of the season. One-time US No. 1 Querrey, his ranking sinking like a stone and now down to 57th, has not been able to produce much game after the heartbreak of an engagement gone wrong in 2013 and its subsequent effects on his tennis.

The Spanish winner advanced in just over 90 minutes as Querrey lost serve five times, double-faulting four times. On a lightly scheduled day, Frenchman Adrian Mannarino beat Jack Sock 6-4, 6- after losing twice this season to the American in Auckland and last week in the Memphis first round. Sock fired seven aces in defeat in an event headed by top seed Tommy Haas.

Marseille

Only one main draw match was played in a sleepy start, with Slovenian Kavcic schooling Australia’s teenaged hope Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-4, 6-2

Rio De Janeiro

The new event was big on South Americans as play began with Brazilian No. 1 Thomaz Bellucci reaching the second round over Santiago Giraldo of Colombia 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Argentine Federico Delbonis beat Brazil’s Guilherme Clezar with the loss of just two games while Argentine Facundo Bagnis eliminated Joao Souza from the host nation 7-5, 2-6, 6-2

Serb Dusan Lajovic overcame Filippo Volandri 6-7(7), 6-3, 4-0 as the Italian retired injured while Slovak Martin Klizan beat Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(4).

THIS WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

Delray Beach

Marseille

Rio De Janeiro

NEXT WEEK ON THE ATP WORLD TOUR:

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

Acapulco (500/Hard). Defending Champion: Rafael Nadal

Sao Paulo (250/Indoor Hard). Defending Champion: (new event)

RANKINGS

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of February 17, 2013

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

1..(1) Nadal………….14085

2..(2) Djokovic……….10580

3..(3) Wawrinka………..5560

4..(4) Ferrer………….5280

5..(5) Del Potro……….4960

6..(6) Berdych…………4890

7..(7) Murray………….4795

8..(8) Federer…………4305

9..(9) Gasquet…………2950

10.(10) Tsonga………….2680

11.(11) Raonic………….2440

12.(12) Haas……………2435

13.(13) Isner…………..2320

14.(14) Fognini…………2260

15.(16) Youzhny…………2100

16.(17) Robredo…………1960

17.(18) Almagro…………1930

18.(19) Janowicz………..1750

19.(15) Nishikori……….1715

20.(20) Dimitrov………..1675

21.(21) Anderson………..1580

22.(23) Gulbis………….1558

23.(22) Simon…………..1485

24.(24) Monfils…………1475

25.(25) Kohlschreiber……1375

26.(26) Pospisil………..1359

27.(29) Cilic…………..1295

28.(30) Paire…………..1275

29.(28) Tursunov………..1257

30.(31) Mayer…………..1245

**DRAWS

Rio de Janeiro — week of February 17, 2014

1 Nadal

Gimeno-Traver

Montanes

Haase

L Mayer

Ramos

J Sousa

6 Granollers

4 Robredo

Carreno Busta

Volandri

Lajovic (Q)

Garcia-Lopez

Qualifier

Reister

8 Andujar

5 Almagro

Dolgopolov

Souza (WC)

Bagnis (Q)

Cuevas (PR)

A Gonzalez

Bedene (Q)

3 Fognini

7 Monaco

Zeballos

Giraldo

Bellucci (WC)

Clezar (WC)

Delbonis

Chardy

2 Ferrer

Marseille — week of February 17, 2014

1 Gasquet

–bye

Kavcic

Kokkinakis (WC)

Kamke

Edmund (WC)

Olivetti (WC)

5 Dodig

3 Gulbis

–bye

Brown

Bautista Agut

Hajek

Qualifier

de Schepper

8 Mahut

7 Benneteau

Huta Galung

Qualifier

Struff

Lacko

Llodra

–bye

4 Seppi

6 Roger-Vasselin

Qualifier

Stakhovsky

Qualifier

Davydenko

Sijsling

–bye

2 Tsonga

Delray Beach — week of February 17, 2014

1 Haas

Qualifier

Kukushkin

Sock (WC)

Mannarino

Querrey

6 F Lopez

4 Anderson

Smyczek

Karlovic

Qualifier

Matosevic

Goffin

Klahn

8 Hewitt

7 Cilic

Becker

Harrison (WC)

Gabashvili

Ebden

Qualifier

3 Nishikori

5 Pospisil

Falla

Baghdatis (WC)

Vesely

Bogomolov

Sela

Russell

2 Isner

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

MONDAY

Delray Beach

Singles – First Round 1 results

[6] Feliciano Lopez (Spain) beat Sam Querrey (U.S.) 4-6 6-2 6-3

Adrian Mannarino (France) beat Jack Sock (U.S.) 6-4 6-2

Marseille

Singles – First Round

B Kavcic (SLO) d [WC] T Kokkinakis (AUS) 64 62

Doubles – First Round

[2] J Benneteau (FRA) / E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d M Cecchinato (ITA) / A Seppi (ITA) 76(8) 61

[PR] C Fleming (GBR) / R Hutchins (GBR) d [3] J Brunstrom (SWE) / J Knowle (AUT) 76(1) 63

Rio De Janeiro

Singles – First Round

[Q] D Lajovic (SRB) d F Volandri (ITA) 67(7) 63 40 ret. (right shoulder)

[Q] M Klizan (SVK) d G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 64 46 76(4)

[Q] F Bagnis (ARG) d [WC] J Souza (BRA) 75 26 62

[WC] T Bellucci (BRA) d S Giraldo (COL) 36 64 63

F Delbonis (ARG) d [WC] G Clezar (BRA) 61 61

Doubles – First Round

[1] A Peya (AUT) / B Soares (BRA) d [WC] J Monaco (ARG) / A Sa (BRA) 62 36 10-3

J Chardy (FRA) / L Dlouhy (CZE) d R Haase (NED) / C Kas (GER) 62 67(8) 10-7

Topics: 10sballs, Atp, Dusan Lajovic, Feliciano Lopez, Filippo Volandri, jack sock, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Sam Querrey, Sports, Tennis, Tennis News, Tommy Haas

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