2021 ATP METZ - Moselle Open

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

The top eight seeds are:

Hubert Hurkacz
Pablo Carreno Busta
Gael Monfils
Alex de Minaur
Lorenzo Sonego
Ugo Humbert
Karen Khachanov
Nikoloz Bashilashvili

Other players are:

Gregoire Barrerre, Vasek Pospisil, Andy Murray, Alex Rinderknech, Giron, Richard Gasquet, Mager, Davidovich Fokina, Gilles Simon, Marco Cecchinato, Marton Fucsovics, Pedro Martinez, Alexei Popyrin - and qualifiers tbd... Loads of great first round matchups!

 

[James P]

Who will win? Here are your two choices out of 28 possible. LMAO.

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Who will win? Here are your two choices out of 28 possible. LMAO.

I hit enter when I meant to move my cursor to the next line. I was able to successfully edit it. Don't be so quick to judgement.

 

[James P]

I hit enter when I meant to move my cursor to the next line. I was able to successfully edit it. Don't be so quick to judgement.

I'm just messing with ya!

 

[stringertom]

Teen Rune has split sets with the ancient Kohlschreiber in qualies final round. The kid is growing up the hard way after staying away from HCs all year until USO. This kickoff of his autumn schedule is reminiscent of Tsitsipas in 2017, who qualified in Metz before having a great run a month later In Antwerp a s his breakout result.

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Watching the Basilashvili-Mager match at the moment. Some really good players are at this tournament! Looking forward to how this tournament unfolds!

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Sonego defeated Fucsovics today. Basilashvili, Rune, Pospisil, Gojowczyk, Muller and Schnur also won their matches.

Tomorrow's matches: Ymer vs Struff; Rinderknech vs Giron; Khachanov vs Muller; Cecchinato vs Kohlschreiber; Davidovich Fokina vs Simon; Humbert vs Murray; and Popyrin vs Rune.

 

[ttwreader]

Not sure what happened to Popyrin but he was removed from the draw and a LL will be put in.

 

[Picmun]

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Khachanov, Rune, Kohlschreiber, Ymer, and Giron have all won their matches today.

Davidovich Fokina and Simon are in a fierce battle in their match, with SImon having won the tiebreak in the first set and they are on serve at 4-3 in the second set.

Humbert takes on Murray to finish off today's matches.

 

[Nostradamus]

dang thsi murray vs humbert maatch is playing some great tennis

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_w06z_VEAkRFds?format=jpg&name=large

 

[Nostradamus]

 

[Forgive Me Father]

Bye, Feminist.

 

[Flint]

Ahh Murray, you can take the world number 3 to 5 sets at the US Open.

 

[Flint]

At this point Murray is leading in every statistic except the score, curious.

 

[Pavla]

Yelling "'Mon, Andy, ye big lug" at my TV never gets old

 

[Nostradamus]

Andy struggling to close out this match.. but some big time help from choking Humbert

 

[ttwreader]

Servebot Andy with 18 aces beat Humbert in 3.

 

[Picmun]

 

[Nostradamus]

Servebot Andy with 18 aces beat Humbert in 3.

Humbert's confidence seem to be lost in metz river somewhere and noone can find it. great win for murray, this is why he still gets Wildcard into every big events in ATP

 

[Picmun]

Bye, Feminist.

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Khachanov, Rune, Kohlschreiber, Ymer, and Giron have all won their matches today.

Davidovich Fokina and Simon are in a fierce battle in their match, with SImon having won the tiebreak in the first set and they are on serve at 4-3 in the second set.

Humbert takes on Murray to finish off today's matches.

Davidovich Fokina won the second set tiebreak and then won the third set easily to advance to the next round.

Murray took 3 sets to win his match.

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Tomorrow there are still two Round of 32 matches: Gojowczyk vs Hoang; and Pouille vs Schnur

There are 3 round of 16 matches: Sonego vs Rune; Pospisil vs Murray (I wonder why he is playing two days in a row? This might be a mistake...); and Ymer vs Carreno Busta. (Go, Pablo!)

 

[Forgive Me Father]

I love Rune.

 

[Picmun]

And again ! @Mainad

 

[Mainad]

And again ! @Mainad

Keep it going Andy, keep it going.

 

[Picmun]

Keep it going Andy, keep it going.

 

[Nostradamus]

Murray to play Pouille next with hurcatz pulling out.... wow,, setting up perfectly for murray this week

 

[fundrazer]

Murray melts Popsicle.

 

[Kralingen]

A Sonego scalp would be an excellent win for Rune.

on serve up 3-2 in the 3rd.

kid is no joke, certainly no mug. Hope he can pull it out.

 

[Picmun]

Murray melts Popsicle.

 

[James P]

GO ON E̶N̶G̶E̶R̶L̶A̶N̶D̶ SCOTLAND!

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Does anybody know why Kurkacz has had to pull out of the tournament?

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

Carreno Busta, Pouille, Murray, Gojowczyk, and Rune all move on the the next round...

 

[Bubcay]

Gojowczyk killing Khachanov at the moment. 5:2 in the first set.

 

[SeeingDusk]

Karen sucks so bad nowadays, losing to gojowczyk.

 

[Bubcay]

Karen sucks so bad nowadays, losing to gojowczyk.

How did he managed to snatch that silver at the Olympics is beyond me.

 

[SeeingDusk]

How did he managed to snatch that silver at the Olympics is beyond me.

as random as tennis goes sometimes

 

[SeeingDusk]

How did he managed to snatch that silver at the Olympics is beyond me.

better question is: how come gojo loses in challengers but somehow is routining Karen easily?

 

[Kralingen]

How did he managed to snatch that silver at the Olympics is beyond me.

Perhaps that's why he's sucking so bad now, he's an Olympic silver medalist.

Also he was able to overpower Busta. Got lucky that PCB knocked out Med.

 

[fundrazer]

De Minaur has been struggling a lot since covid. I don't even think he's managed 5 wins since he started playing again. Going to check the #s now....

1-6 since he won Eastbourne. Lost first round of Wimby then tested positive. Sooooo he's 1-5...

 

[Kralingen]

De Minaur has been struggling a lot since covid. I don't even think he's managed 5 wins since he started playing again. Going to check the #s now....

I never thought he was any good tbh so was kind of shocked to see how high he rose in rankings.. he did win that grass tournament but basically gets no free points on serve so might be breaking down a bit. I think he is at a disadvantage against basically any player with consistent power.

I do think any sort of niggle or discomfort in his movement will hurt him disproportionately to other guys, given how much he relies on his speed.

 

[fundrazer]

I never thought he was any good tbh so was kind of shocked to see how high he rose in rankings.. he did win that grass tournament but basically gets no free points on serve so might be breaking down a bit. I think he is at a disadvantage against basically any player with consistent power.

I do think any sort of niggle or discomfort in his movement will hurt him disproportionately to other guys, given how much he relies on his speed.

I actually think he has a decent serve for his height. Gets good pop out of it, but yeah he's not going to serve his way out of trouble too often. And good point about his movement being so critical. I don't think he's necessarily that great either, but I admire how much effort he puts in.

Also did we get trolled by Fedace, because Pouille is playing Hurkacz right now and it's a slaughter. If I realized that match was actually happening it's another I would have went on.

 

[Flint]

Very difficult match for Murray next then.

 

[fundrazer]

Basilashvilli better not lose to a guy with a haircut like this.

 

[fundrazer]

Garbage set from Niko. He's having to hit a lot of extra balls and is just imploding.

 

[fundrazer]

6-0 to Davidovich Fokina...lmao

 

[fundrazer]

Trainer out for Niko. Not really sure what the issue is, although he was gesturing at his chest or something? Looks like he's going off court for MTO now.

 

[fundrazer]

Unbelievable how many routine forehands I've seen Basilashvili roll crosscourt into the net. Trying to hook them too wide and short over the net I guess, but he's missed way too many.

 

[Bubcay]

Fokina had a match point against Basilashvili in the third. 0:6 6:4 5:5 at the moment.