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London tennis fans are thrilled that this years French Open Champion and current World No.1 Rafael Nadal has confirmed that he will play at the BNP Paribas Tennis Classic on Friday 20th June. In addition to this, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Marin Cilic will also join ATP stars Andy Murray, Kei Nishikori, Tommy Robredo, Tomas Berdych & Grigor Dimitrov to complete this years line up of the BNP Paribas Tennis Classic.
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In the BNP Paribas Open lunch area on Tuesday, where players, coaches and media can casually mingle amidst perfect weather and a mountainous backdrop while enjoying the pasta bar or whatever delicacy suits their fancies, Rick Leach talked about the popcorn match between Grigor Dimitrov and Ernests Gulbis scheduled for later that afternoon.
This was by no means as easy and straightforward as it looks; it took more than an hour, and if we did this right, Agnieszka Radwanska's first hold of the second set lasted 22 points! Radwanska is assured the #3 ranking; Annika Beck will probably be #43.
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.
After all the upsets we'd had to this point, this seems almost unnatural. A seed winning? What is the world coming to? What Tomas Berdych is coming to, or at least coming close to, is the #6 ranking. Win the title and it's his; indeed, he will be just bare points behind Juan Martin del Potro in the contest for #5. Ernests Gulbis will be #23 or #24.
We're still on Rotterdam time, FYI. Richard Krajicek is a great tournament director ! FYI Happy Valentines Day. It was here in a blink and gone. Hope all the lovers out there had a great day. Geezer and Lovey were @ the wedding of the 1996 Wimbledon Champion and his dear always gorgeous Daphne Deckers...
Third seed Tommy Robredo led a trio of Spaniard to opening win, with the veteran starting with a defeat of compatriot Pablo Carreno 6-4, 6-4. Pablo Andujar followed suit over Argentine 2013 quarter-finalist Federico Delbonis 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 while fifth seed Marcel Granollers won his first clay match of the season, beating Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.
Two of the top doubles teams on the ATP World Tour have committed to play the 2014 Fayez Sarofim & Co. US Men's Clay Court Championship at River Oaks Country Club.
So much for any thought of Paul-Henri Mathieu staging some sort of comeback here. He'll remain somewhere far south of #125. But defending champion Richard Gasquet now needs only one more win to keep the #9 ranking.
With players straggling in from Davis Cup, action was slow on the ATP on Monday. Only one main draw match was scheduled, with Paul-Henri Mathieu beating Nicolas Mahut 6-1, 3-0 when Mahut retired with influenza in a poor day of play for any ticketholders.
The race may not always be to the swift, but right now, the swift are doing just fine, thank you. Rafael Nadal is #1, and he will stay #1, and he will be #1 by a very wide margin. We still don't know how wide, but he will lead Novak Djokovic by a lot more than a thousand points.
Clearly Tommy Robredo's great comeback is still continuing. It's very likely that this will take him to #16; Richard Gasquet remains #9 for now, but he is in danger of losing that spot to countryman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. It's a substantial help to Roger Federer, though, who now is almost certain to stay #8 or higher.
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