TENNIS NEWS FROM MONTE CARLO RESULTS SCORES AND MORE

Written by: Staff on 15th April 2015

Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters tennis tournament

TENNIS NEWS FROM MONTE CARLO RESULTS SCORES AND MORE

epa04705285 Rafael Nadal of Spain in action against Lucas Pouille of France during their second round match at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters tennis tournament in Roquebrune Cap Martin, France, 15 April 2015. EPA/SEBASTIEN NOGIER |

Tennis Tidbits

* Good day for France: #10 Monte Carlo seed Simon, #11 Tsonga, #14 Monfils, wildcard Pouille advance, although Mannarino loses to Granollers and might fall below #30

* Perfect day for seeds: #16 Robredo wins first round match; #9 Dimitrov leaves Verdasco still below #35

* Pouille’s win leaves Thiem still below Top Forty

* Loss to Troicki means no career high for Klizan

* Monaco beats Vesely to reach Top Forty; Vesely to remain below that mark

* Querrey pulls out, replaced by Struff (who loses to Tsonga); withdrawal means that Sock will remain American #2, with Querrey #3

* Djokovic cruises past Ramos-Vinolas, is first to reach third round

* Ferrer follows when Estrella Burgos retires; Estrella Burgos remains below Top Fifty

* Cilic ends Florian Mayer’s comeback; is now within ten points of Wawrinka in contest for #9

* Haider-Maurer ends Tomic’s Top 25 hopes; is now all but sure to hit Top Fifty

* Bolelli/Fognini still unseeded in doubles, but easily beat Cabal/Farrah; Murray/Peers lose to Monfils/Tsonga; already two teams have withdrawn

MONTE CARLO UPDATE.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns the ball to Albert Ramos Vinolas of Spain during their second round match for the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters tennis tournament in Roquebrune Cap Martin, France, 14 April 2015. EPA/SEBASTIEN NOGIER

Novak Djokovic beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 6-4 for a winning start. Lucas Pouille, one of five French players to reach the second round, will line up against Rafael Nadal after beating Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-4 to set up the clash with Spain’s king of clay.

Djokovic is playing at home, with his flat just a short walk from the tournament venue. The winner of three titles already in 2015 – including the Indian Wells-Miami Masters 1000 trophy double – is confident as he begins the pre-French Open campaign.

“Considering the amount of months that I haven’t played on the clay courts, to play against somebody that is a clay court specialist, and win in two sets, I thought it was a very good performance,” said the world No. 1.

“I can just take positives from today. Maybe there were a few games where I did drop a little bit with intensity and concentration. But overall was a high quality performance and I’m happy for that.”

Two Spaniards advanced to the second round, with number 16 Tommy Robredo fighting past Italian Andreas Seppi 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 and Marcel Granollers back from injury with a win over Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-0.

In the third round, fifth seed David Ferrer won as Victor Estrella Burgos quit injured trailing 6-2, 2-0.

Roger Federer of Switzerland returns the ball to Jeremy Chardy of France during their second round match at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters tennis tournament in Roquebrune Cap Martin, France, 15 April 2015. EPA/SEBASTIEN NOGIER

Roger Federer, the second seed and three-time Monte Carlo finalist, will begin on Wednesday against Jeremy Chardy after the French player booked his spot by defeating Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 7-5, 6-2.

The seeded French trio of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon all made winning starts. No. 11 11 Tsonga beat Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4, 6-4 while Monfils, who has never been past the second round in Monaco in a decade of playing the event, defeated Russian Andrey Kuznetsov for the second time this season, winning 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. No. 10 Simon put out Monaco’s Benjamin Balleret 6-4, 6-2.

“There were ups and downs, I was not monstrously confident,” said Monfils, injured last month in the US. “I had trouble finding the right timing and moving on the surface. I’ve never had much success here in Monte Carlo, I’m very pleased that I was able to get through this match.”

Ninth seed Grigor Dimitrov held off Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, saving 15 of 17 break points; Serb Viktor Troicki defeated Casablanca champion Martin Klizan 7-6(5), 5-7, 6-2. Spaniard Tommy Robredo, seeded 16th, beat Italy’s Andreas Seppi 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.

RANKINGS

Estimated ATP World Tour Rankings

As of April 14, 2015

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

1..(1) Djokovic……….12935

2..(2) Federer…………8305

3..(3) Murray………….6060

4..(4) Nishikori……….5280

5..(5) Nadal…………..5085

6..(6) Raonic………….4945

7..(8) Berdych…………4510

8..(7) Ferrer………….4460

9..(9) Wawrinka………..3415

10.(10) Cilic…………..3405

11.(11) Dimitrov………..3055

12.(12) Lopez…………..2380

13.(13) Simon…………..2210

14.(14) Tsonga………….2000

15.(15) Anderson………..1960

16.(16) Bautista Agut……1940

17.(17) Gulbis………….1910

18.(18) Monfils…………1750

19.(19) Isner…………..1720

20.(21) Goffin………….1705

21.(20) Robredo…………1675

22.(22) Karlovic………..1470

23.(23) Cuevas………….1442

24.(24) Mayer…………..1409

25.(25) Kohlschreiber……1395

26.(26) Tomic…………..1390

27.(27) Gasquet…………1330

28.(29) Klizan………….1272

29.(30) Mannarino……….1258

30.(28) Fognini…………1240

DRAWS

Casablanca — Week of April 6

Monte Carlo — Week of April 13

………………..3R

1 Djokovic……….(1)Djokovic

13 Gulbis………..Haider-Maurer

11 Tsonga

8 Cilic………….(8)Cilic

3 Nadal

15 Isner

11 Simon

5 Ferrer…………(5)Ferrer

6 Berdych

12 Bautista Agut

16 Robredo

4 Raonic

7 Wawrinka

9 Dimitrov

14 Monfils (WC)

2 Federer

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Djokovic

2 Federer

3 Nadal

4 Raonic

5 Ferrer

6 Berdych

7 Wawrinka

8 Cilic

9 Dimitrov

11 Simon

11 Tsonga

12 Bautista Agut

13 Gulbis………lost 1R (Haider-Maurer)

14 Monfils (WC)

15 Isner

16 Robredo

* SCORES

TUESDAY

MONTE CARLO

Singles – Second Round

[1] N. Djokovic (SRB) d [Q] A. Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) 61 64

[5] D. Ferrer (ESP) d V. Estrella Burgos (DOM) 62 20 ret. (shoulder)

[8] M. Cilic (CRO) d [PR] F. Mayer (GER) 63 36 63

A. Haider-Maurer (AUT) d B. Tomic (AUS) 67(4) 76(5) 64

Singles – First Round

[9] G. Dimitrov (BUL) d F. Verdasco (ESP) 64 46 64

[10] G. Simon (FRA) d [WC] B. Balleret (MON) 64 62

[11] J. Tsonga (FRA) d [LL] J. Struff (GER) 64 64

[14] [WC] G. Monfils (FRA) d [Q] A. Kuznetsov (RUS) 46 63 64

[16] T. Robredo (ESP) d A. Seppi (ITA) 63 16 64

[WC] L. Pouille (FRA) d D. Thiem (AUT) 64 64

V. Troicki (SRB) d M. Klizan (SVK) 76(5) 57 62

M. Granollers (ESP) d A. Mannarino (FRA) 63 60

J. Monaco (ARG) d J. Vesely (CZE) 64 62

J. Chardy (FRA) d [Q] D. Schwartzman (ARG) 75 62

Doubles – First Round

[Alt] R. Haase (NED) / R. Klaasen (RSA) d A. Mannarino (FRA) / L. Rosol (CZE) 61 62

[WC] B. Paire (FRA) / S. Wawrinka (SUI) d R. Bopanna (IND) / F. Mergea (ROU) 67(6) 64 10-7

G. Monfils (FRA) / J. Tsonga (FRA) d J. Murray (GBR) / J. Peers (AUS) 46 76(4) 10-6

S. Bolelli (ITA) / F. Fognini (ITA) d J. Cabal (COL) / R. Farah (COL) 63 64

CONTENT VIA Bob LARSON TENNIS NEWS SERVICE.

Topics: Atp, Clay tennis, Federer, Monte-Carlo Tennis, Novak Djokovic, Rafa, Tennis Results

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