GRASS COURT RESULTS FROM MEN’S TENNIS DONALD YOUNG WINS SO DOES MILOS RAONIC AND FERNANDO VERDASCO

* Nieminen tops Giraldo in Eastbourne, meaning three of four low seeds lost openers

* Lu returns to action but loses to Benneteau

* Verdasco tops Mathieu at ‘s-Hertogenbosch despite fifteen double-faults

* Defending champion Mahut also wins in three sets; #3 Bautista Agut, #8 Melzer win in two

* #475 Mate Pavic tops Alejandro Gonzalez, ranked 401 places hither

* Doubles specialist Martin Emmrich loses first match since proposing to Michaella Krajicek

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Eastbourne

 

Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen earned an upset of Colombian seventh seed Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 as the smaller men’s event took a definite second billing to the women also on at Devonshire Park. The 32-year-old, who reached the Queen’s third round last week but suffered with a leg problem, will next face France’s Eduardo Roger-Vasselin, a winner over Andrey Kuznetsov 6-3, 6-4. Julien Benneteau beat Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan 6-2, 6-4.

‘s-Hertogenbosch

 

Joao Sousa made the most of his good fortune on grass as intended first-round opponent and former winner David Ferrer withdrew prior to the event with stomach illness, setting the Portuguese up for a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 defeat of Italian Paolo Lorenzi and a second-round spot.

Second-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco began with a victory over Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 while third seed Roberto Bautista, another Spaniard, beat compatriot Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-1, 6-3. Players from the traditional clay-courting nation is showing no signs of fear on the grass with the start of Wimbledon looming.

Austrian eighth seed Jurgen Melzer beat Halle finalist Alejandro Falla of Colombia 6-4, 6-3 while Croatian Mate Pavic defeated Colombian Alejandro Gonzalez 7-6(4, 6-3. There was an opening win for German Jan-Lennard Struff against Czech Lukas Rosol 6-4, 6-2

RANKINGS

 

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of June 17, 2014

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

1..(1) Nadal………….12500

2..(2) Djokovic……….12330

3..(3) Wawrinka………..5420

4..(4) Federer…………4945

5..(5) Murray………….4680

5..(6) Berdych…………4680

7..(7) Ferrer………….4190

8..(8) Del Potro……….4080

9..(9) Raonic………….3245

10.(10) Gulbis………….2725

11.(11) Isner…………..2690

11.(12) Nishikori……….2690

13.(13) Dimitrov………..2595

14.(14) Gasquet…………2310

15.(15) Fognini…………2155

16.(16) Youzhny…………1790

17.(17) Tsonga………….1775

18.(18) Anderson………..1745

19.(19) Dolgopolov………1680

20.(20) Haas……………1655

21.(21) Monfils…………1635

22.(22) Robredo…………1630

23.(23) Verdasco………..1555

24.(24) Janowicz………..1510

25.(26) Almagro…………1450

26.(27) Kohlschreiber……1440

27.(28) Bautista Agut……1350

27.(29) Cilic…………..1350

29.(25) Lopez…………..1250

29.(30) Granollers………1250

DRAWS

 

Eastbourne — Week of June 14, 2014

1 Gasquet

8 Delbonis

4 Garcia-Lopez

7 Giraldo

 

5 Karlovic

3 Lopez

6 Simon

2 Dolgopolov

 

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Gasquet

2 Dolgopolov

3 Lopez

4 Garcia-Lopez

5 Karlovic……..lost 1R (Chardy)

6 Simon

7 Giraldo………lost 1R (Nieminen)

8 Delbonis……..lost 1R (Klizan)

‘s-Hertogenbosch — Week of June 14, 2014

[Lorenzi(LL)]

5 Tursunov

4 Granollers

6 Pospisil

 

7 Mahut

3 Bautista Agut

8 Melzer

2 Verdasco

 

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Ferrer……….WITHDREW (replaced by Lorenzi)

2 Verdasco

3 Bautista Agut

4 Granollers……lost 1R (Becker)

5 Tursunov

6 Pospisil

7 Mahut

8 Melzer

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

 

 

TUESDAY

Eastbourne

Singles – First Round

J Nieminen (FIN) d [7] S Giraldo (COL) 63 67(5) 63

D Young (USA) d [WC] J Ward (GBR) 63 62

E Roger-Vasselin (FRA) d [Q] A Kuznetsov (RUS) 63 64

J Benneteau (FRA) d Y Lu (TPE) 62 64

Doubles – First Round

[1] A Peya (AUT) / B Soares (BRA) d M Kukushkin (KAZ) / Y Lu (TPE) 63 63

[WC] C Fleming (GBR) / R Hutchins (GBR) d [4] J Knowle (AUT) / M Melo (BRA) 64 64

[WC] K Skupski (GBR) / N Skupski (GBR) d M Fyrstenberg (POL) / C Guccione (AUS) 64 76(1)

P Cuevas (URU) / D Marrero (ESP) d C Kas (GER) / G Simon (FRA) 63 63

T Huey (PHI) / D Inglot (GBR) d J Murray (GBR) / J Peers (AUS) 63 76(4)

 

‘s-Hertogenbosch

Singles – First Round

[2] F Verdasco (ESP) d P Mathieu (FRA) 26 64 64

[3] R Bautista Agut (ESP) d D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 61 63

[7] N Mahut (FRA) d [WC] K Coppejans (BEL) 63 36 63

[8] J Melzer (AUT) d A Falla (COL) 64 63

[Q] J Sousa (POR) d *[LL] P Lorenzi (ITA) 63 36 63

[Q] M Pavic (CRO) d A Gonzalez (COL) 76(4) 63

J Struff (GER) d L Rosol (CZE) 64 62

*[LL] P Lorenzi (ITA) replaced [1] D Ferrer – illness

Doubles – First Round

[2] E Butorac (USA) / R Klaasen (RSA) d D Bracciali (ITA) / M Pavic (CRO) 67(4) 62 10-4

M Draganja (CRO) / F Mergea (ROU) d J Brunstrom (SWE) / M Emmrich (GER) 62 64

A Begemann (GER) / L Rosol (CZE) d M Ebden (AUS) / D Tursunov (RUS) 67(4) 62 10-8

T Bednarek (POL) / L Dlouhy (CZE) d [WC] D Brown (GER) / H Kontinen (FIN) 76(4) 64

B Becker (GER) / O Marach (AUT) d [Alt] S Fransen (NED) / W Koolhof (NED) 75 63

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