Tommy Haas Still Going Strong @ 35, Results from Delray, Rio, Marseille

PRO TOUR NEWS – MEN

 

* Sousa upsets #6 seed Granollers in Rio de Janeiro; Spaniard will remain around #35

* Dolgopolov beats Almagro 6-0 in third set; #5 seed loses chance to return to Top Fifteen

* #3 Fognini scores another three-set win; #2 Ferrer, #4 Robredo, #7 Monaco, #8 Andujar win in straight sets

* Nadal overcomes valiant effort by Gimeno-Traver

* Alejandro Gonzalez still can’t seem to get hang of ATP matches; loses to Cuevas, who should rise from #231 to around #200

* Haas cruises past Odesnik in Delray Beach; Hewitt crushes Klahn

* Nishikori overcomes second set lapse against Elias to extend winning streak

* Anderson forced to three sets against Smyczek

* Struggling Baghdatis upsets Vesely

* One day after hitting Top Fifty, Lu forced to retire against Harrison

* Seeds Dodig, Roger-Vasselin win in Marseille; Davydenko stops red-hot Sijsling

 

****** TODAY’S MEN’S NEWS ******

 

Delray Beach

 

Top seed Tommy Haas continued to break barriers at age 35, advancing in his opening match over Wayne Odesnik in well under an hour. “With injuries, I lost probably three or four years of my career,” said the 12th-ranked Haas. “I always felt I wanted to end this on my terms, like when the mind is not there anymore or physically I can’t do it anymore. I just want to continue and enjoy.”

The veteran is saving his best tennis for last in a career which has been marked by long injury absence periods including hip surgery. There was another win on the day for an over-30 as 1999 champion Lleyton Hewitt, seeded eighth, crushed American Bradley Klahn 6-3, 6-1.

No. 2 John Isner overcame compatriot Michael Russell 4-6, 7-6, 6-4 and third and fourth seeds Kei Nishikori – last week’s repeat Memphis champion – and Kevin Anderson both squeezed out victories, with Japan’s Nishikori stopping Gastao Elias 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 while Anderson eliminated Tim Smyczek 4-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Rhyne Williams won as Alejandro Falla quit trailing 6-3 4-0, Ivo Karlovic defeated Sam Groth 7-6(4), 6-3 and American Ryan Harrison beat an ailing Lu Yen-Hsun 4-6, 1-0. There was a victory for Australian Marinko Matosevic – first first since Sydney at the start of the season – over David Goffin 6-2, 6-4. Other wins went to American Steve Johnson, Marcos Baghdatis and Dudi Sela.

Marseille

 

The two seeds on court both advanced into the second wound, with No. 5 Croatian Ivan Dodig defeating Albano Olivetti of France 7-5, 6-2 and No. 6 Edouard Roger-Vasselin beating Croatian Ante Pavic 3-6, 7-6(5), 7-5.

German Tobias Kamke put out one Briaon in Edmund 7-5, 6-1 while Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky accounted for the other a she defeated Dan Evans 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-4. Russian veteran Nikolay Davydenko moved along in the draw over Dutchman Igor Sijsling, a Rotterdam semi-finalist last week, 6-4 6-4.

 

Rio De Janeiro

 

There seems to be no stopping David Ferrer as the second-seeded Spaniard led a quartet of seeds into the second round of an event imported from San Jose to South America as part of the 2016 Olympic buildup. Ferrer, winner of a title last weekend on the continent, began over Jeremy Chardy 6-2, 6-3.

Third seed Fabio Fognini whose ten-match win streak was ended by a loss to Ferrer in the Buenos Aires final, got back to winning ways as he beat Aljaz Bedene 7-6(5), 0-6, 6-1. Spanish fourth seed Tommy Robredo defeated compatriot Pablo Carreno 7-6(5), 6-3.

The only seeded loser on the day was No. 5 Spaniard Nicolas Almagro, who went down 2-6, 6-3, 6-0

Alexandr Dolgopolov. Seventh seed Juan Monaco defeated fellow Argentine Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-1, No. 8 Pablo Andujar eliminated German Julian Reister 6-4, 6-3 while there were wins for Pablo Cuevas, Joao Sousa and Albert Ramos.

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

 

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)

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

 

RANKINGS

 

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of February 18, 2013

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

1..(1) Nadal………….14125

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…………2005

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

Qualifier

Kukushkin

Sock (WC)

Mannarino

Querrey

6 F Lopez

 

4 Anderson

Smyczek

Karlovic

Qualifier

Matosevic

Goffin

Klahn

8 Hewitt

 

7 Cilic

Becker

Lu

Harrison (WC)

Gabashvili

Ebden

Qualifier

3 Nishikori

 

5 Pospisil

Falla

Baghdatis (WC)

Vesely

Bogomolov

Sela

Russell

2 Isner

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

 

 

TUESDAY

Delray Beach

Singles – First Round

[1] T Haas (GER) d [Q] W Odesnik (USA) 62 61

[2] J Isner (USA) d M Russell (USA) 46 76(3) 64

[3] K Nishikori (JPN) d [Q] G Elias (POR) 61 57 62

[4] K Anderson (RSA) d T Smyczek (USA) 46 61 63

[8] L Hewitt (AUS) d B Klahn (USA) 63 61

[Q] S Johnson (USA) d M Kukushkin (KAZ) 64 63

I Karlovic (CRO) d [LL] S Groth (AUS) 76(4) 63

M Matosevic (AUS) d D Goffin (BEL) 62 64

[WC] R Harrison (USA) d Y Lu (TPE) 46 10 ret. (neck)

T Gabashvili (RUS) d M Ebden (AUS) 26 63 62

[Q] R Williams (USA) d A Falla (COL) 63 40 ret. (back)

[WC] M Baghdatis (CYP) d J Vesely (CZE) 36 62 61

D Sela (ISR) d A Bogomolov Jr. (RUS) 60 62

Doubles – First Round

[3] S Gonzalez (MEX) / S Lipsky (USA) d C Guccione (AUS) / L Hewitt (AUS) 67(3) 62 10-5

B Klahn (USA) / T Smyczek (USA) d [4] N Monroe (USA) / S Stadler (GER) 46 63 12-10

F Cermak (CZE) / M Elgin (RUS) d T Gabashvili (RUS) / M Kukushkin (KAZ) 75 61

Marseille

Singles – First Round

[5] I Dodig (CRO) d [WC] A Olivetti (FRA) 75 62

[6] E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d [Q] A Pavic (CRO) 36 76(5) 75

T Kamke (GER) d [WC] K Edmund (GBR) 75 61

S Stakhovsky (UKR) d [Q] D Evans (GBR) 36 76(4) 64

N Davydenko (RUS) d I Sijsling (NED) 64 64

Doubles – First Round

D Brown (GER) / A Krajicek (USA) d [4] J Huta Galung (NED) / J Peers (AUS) 36 76(4) 10-6

P Hanley (AUS) / J Marray (GBR) d [WC] H Lee (TPE) / C Wang (TPE) 64 63

M Draganja (CRO) / M Pavic (CRO) d R Junaid (AUS) / P Marx (GER) 76(6) 67(4) 10-8

G Kretschmer (GER) / A Satschko (GER) d J Erlich (ISR) / M Mertinak (SVK) 67(6) 63 10-5

H Kontinen (FIN) / M Kowalczyk (POL) d K Skupski (GBR) / N Skupski (GBR) 76(3) 46 10-2

Rio De Janeiro

Singles – First Round

[1] R Nadal (ESP) d D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 63 75

[2] D Ferrer (ESP) d J Chardy (FRA) 62 63

[3] F Fognini (ITA) d [Q] A Bedene (SLO) 76(5) 06 61

[4] T Robredo (ESP) d P Carreno Busta (ESP) 76(5) 63

A Dolgopolov (UKR) d [5] N Almagro (ESP) 26 63 60

J Sousa (POR) d [6] M Granollers (ESP) 26 63 75 – saved 4 M.P.

[7] J Monaco (ARG) d H Zeballos (ARG) 63 61

[8] P Andujar (ESP) d J Reister (GER) 64 63

A Montanes (ESP) d R Haase (NED) 61 76(4)

A Ramos (ESP) d L Mayer (ARG) 62 60

[PR] P Cuevas (URU) d A Gonzalez (COL) 67(0) 61 63

Doubles – First Round

[Q] F Delbonis (ARG) / L Mayer (ARG) d [4] T Huey (PHI) / D Inglot (GBR) 64 62

J Cabal (COL) / R Farah (COL) d A Dolgopolov (UKR) / G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 63 36 10-8

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