Blake, Devvarman Win Thrilling Matches -ATLANTA TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Written by: Staff on 19th July 2011

Blake, Devvarman Win Thrilling Matches -ATLANTA TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS |

The featured match of the evening matched up former world No. 4 American James Blake against the 22-year-old Latvian Ernests Gulbis. After dropping the first set, the veteran from the USA was down 4-0 in the second-set tiebreak, but reeled off the next seven out of eight points to force the third set. With Blake up a break, rain forced an hour-and-18-minute rain delay. After the players retook the court Blake won the next three games to take the match 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-2. During the match, he saved 17 of 20 break points, including all nine in the third set.

The biggest battle of the day came on court one, with American Ryan Sweeting facing off against eighth-seeded Indian Somdev Devvarman. The two stars split the first two sets to force a third that was full of momentum swings. Devvarman served for the match at 5-3 and was up 40-0, but the heavy-hitting American fought back to break. However, the crafty two-time NCAA champion Devvarman broke back in very next game to take the match 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in two hours and 23 minutes.

$ 531,000.00
JULY 16 – JULY 24, 2011

RESULTS – JULY 18, 2011
Men’s
Singles – First Round
G Muller (LUX) d [7] A Bogomolov Jr. (USA) 63 76(6)
[8] S Devvarman (IND) d R Sweeting (USA) 64 36 64
T Ito (JPN) d M Berrer (GER) 76(6) 64
J Blake (USA) d E Gulbis (LAT) 57 76(5) 62
M Russell (USA) d [WC] D Young (USA) 60 63

Mens
Qualifying Singles – Quarterfinals
Qualifying – M Matosevic (AUS) d D Kudla (USA) 61 16 76(3)
Qualifying – R Ram (USA) d M Ebden (AUS) 76(4) 63
Qualifying – Y Sugita (JPN) d O Sajous (HAI) 62 63
Qualifying – P Simmonds (USA) d T Smyczek (USA) 67(5) 63 62

ORDER OF PLAY – TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2011
STADIUM COURT start 4:00 pm
L Hewitt (AUS) vs [Q] P Simmonds (USA)

Not Before 7:00 PM
[WC] T Haas (GER) vs [WC] R Ginepri (USA)
J Blake (USA) / J Isner (USA) vs [2] M Melo (BRA) / J Murray (GBR)

COURT 1 start 4:00 pm
[6] I Kunitsyn (RUS) vs [Q] M Matosevic (AUS)
[Q] Y Sugita (JPN) vs R Harrison (USA)
[Q] R Ram (USA) vs [5] G Dimitrov (BUL)
S Devvarman (IND) / T Huey (PHI) vs [3] J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR)

COURT 2 start 4:00 pm
Y Lu (TPE) vs M Bachinger (GER)
R Berankis (LTU) vs N Mahut (FRA)
M Berrer (GER) / Y Lu (TPE) vs I Kunitsyn (RUS) / M Russell (USA)
A Fisher (AUS) / S Huss (AUS) vs A Bogomolov Jr. (USA) / M Ebden (AUS)

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