Atlanta Tennis Championships thread.

[jakemcclain32]

Here's the draws for the first round. Mardy Fish is the 1 seed, John Isner is 3. Bogmolov is 7. Donald Young's got another Wild Card, so we'll see if he can win a match or two in his hometown.

Winner gets $96,800 and 250 ATP points.

All wild cards.

Donald Young(USA)
Robby Ginepri(USA)
Tommy Haas(GER)

Qualifying matches

2nd round of qualifying singles:
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Rajeev Ram d Nicholas Massu 6-3 7-6(5)
Denis Kudla d Austin Smith 6-4 6-4
Oliver Sajous d Wil Spencer 6-4 7-5
Yuchi Sugita d Haydn Lewis 6-1 6-4
Matthew Ebden d Daniel Kosakowski 6-1 6-2

 

[dcdoorknob]

Oh hey a Ginepri sighting.

 

[norbac]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update:

Phillip Simmonds d Greg Jones 6-3 7-6(2)

 

[slice bh compliment]

Hhaha, kind of a hometown gig for Neps and Isner. I think they get to the semi.
Fishy is always good for a run in the heat...in the US.
Swan song summer for Haasi, you think?

 

[Fedace]

WHY Atlanta ??????????????? It is so HOT even HOTTER this year. Why not Chicago, or Kansas city ????????

 

[slice bh compliment]

Pourquoi the ATL?

I think it has something to do with money, marketing, a host club that's really perfect, and a remarkably fertile tennis town.

 

[Tammo]

WHY Atlanta ??????????????? It is so HOT even HOTTER this year. Why not Chicago, or Kansas city ????????

Cause it wouldn't be called the Atlanta Tennis Championships.

 

[BigDubs]

WHY Atlanta ??????????????? It is so HOT even HOTTER this year. Why not Chicago, or Kansas city ????????

We were bummed they moved this from Indy to Atlanta. The Indy venue was great, located downtown and easy to get around.

 

[jamesblakefan#1]

Blake's playing Gulbis tonight. Should be an interesting match.

 

[bezs]

Can the Donald beat Mr Russell?

 

[Fedace]

Can the Donald beat Mr Russell?

NO. Michael will be laughing all the way to the 2nd round..

 

[jakemcclain32]

NO. Michael will be laughing all the way to the 2nd round..

And if that's the case, he'll be saying "What's a second round?"

 

[jakemcclain32]

Here's the action for today.

Qualifier - Rajeev Ram vs Matthew Ebden
Qualifier - Tim Smyczek vs Phillip Simmonds
Qualifier - Yuichi Sugita vs Olivier Sajous

1st Round - Donald Young vs Michael Russell
1st Round - Alex Bogmolov Jr. vs Gilles Muller
1st Round - Marinko Matosevic vs Denis Kudla
1st Round - James Blake vs Ernests Gulbis
1st Round - Ryan Sweeting vs Somdev Devvarman
1st Round - Michael Berrer vs Tatsuma Ito

 

[Lefty5]

I'd like to see some of these matches! Is there any coverage or streaming for any of this? Blake/Gulbis, and Sweeting/Devvar would be great!

 

[Herios]

NO. Michael will be laughing all the way to the 2nd round..

Right on! You are not Guru for nothing

Michael bageled D. Young in the first set!

 

[stringertom]

Right on! You are not Guru for nothing

Michael bageled D. Young in the first set!

Fedace is noted for his Nostrodamian predictions. Ask him for some sure stock market tips, if you care to experience bankruptcy.

 

[jakemcclain32]

Here's results so far.

Qualifiers
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Marinko Matosevic d Denis Kudla 6-1 1-6 7-6(3)
Rajeev Ram d Matthew Ebden 7-6(4) 6-3
Yuichi Sugita d Olivier Sajous 6-2 6-3
Phillip Simmonds d Tim Smyczek 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2

1st Round
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Michael Russell d Donald Young 6-0 6-3(PATHETIC)
Gilles Muller d Alex Bogmolov Jr. 6-3 7-6(6)

 

[jakemcclain32]

Another final.

Tatsuma Ito d Michael Berrer 7-6(6) 6-4

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update:

Somdev Devvarman d Ryan Sweeting 6-4 3-6 6-4

 

[Rhino]

Yet more food for the DY haters.

Bad news for Bogomolov, beaten by Muller in straights.

 

[jakemcclain32]

Finally, the score from Blake-Gulbis.

5-7 7-6(5) 6-2

Today's matches.

Lleyton Hewitt vs Phillip Simmonds
Igor Kunitsyn vs Marinko Matosevic
Yen-Hsun Lu vs Matthias Bachinger
Yuichi Sugita vs Ryan Harrison
Richard Berankis vs Nicolas Mahut
Tommy Haas vs Robby Ginepri
Rajeev Ram vs Grigor Dimitrov

 

[Dave_D]

Russell vs Young had some great rallies, but Russell was just too much as Young couldn't corral his unforced errors.

1) Russell lunging for a shot

2) Young was frustrated by his play

3) It was hot out there as you can see by the sweat trail on this backhand

4) Young had a good crowd following, but couldn't put enough points together

I'm looking forward to the Hewitt match today.

 

[bezs]

Berankis playing Mahut, he's been out since Match interesting to see how he performs.

 

[baseliner]

another wild card for DY, another 1st round loss. Shocking!

 

[jakemcclain32]

And the same reasons too.

 

[hcb0804]

another wild card for DY, another 1st round loss. Shocking!

Hallelujah! Now I don't have to worry about sitting through a crappy DY match when I go Wednesday.
When will these tourney promoters realize that DY does not deserve wild cards? If he would have had to play the qualies this week he probably would not even have gotten through.

 

[Baxter]

Good for Hewitt, but it should have been easier.

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update:

Lleyton Hewitt d Phillip Simmonds 6-4 6-4

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update:

Yen-Hsun Lu d Matthias Bachinger 7-5 7-6(4)

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update:

Marinko Matosevic d Igor Kunitsyn 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5

 

[Tahsin1982]

Anyone watching the Rajeev Ram and Dimitriv Gregory match? hahah pretty interesting as one copies Sampras and the other federer

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update: Just final.

Ryan Harrison d Yuichi Sugita 6-1 7-6(5)

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update: Just final

Nicolas Mahut d Richard Berankis 7-6(5) 6-2

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update: Just final

Rajeev Ram d Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 6-4

 

[jakemcclain32]

Update: Just final

Robby Ginepri d Tommy Haas 6-4 7-5

 

[kishnabe]

Yeah Harrison got through!

 

[asekaran]

Anyone watching the Rajeev Ram and Dimitriv Gregory match? hahah pretty interesting as one copies Sampras and the other federer

I was sitting front row on this one and watched them play instead of Haas/Ginepri. Ram was serving bombs the whole time and Dimitriov just looked pissed the whole time. He was definitely the most interesting player to watch with the serve-and-volley.

He did play a bit like Sampras now looking back, but he was using a HEAD racquet. He definitely had the baggy athletic shorts though

 

[cdubdub]

Wish I could be there.. Parents smartly have booked our vacations the past two years(both of which I openly expressed I didn't want to go to) on the exact date of the tournament. Starting to assume they have a gripe about my obsessiveness with tennis

 

[aaron_h27]

I'm a ballkid for this tournament

 

[Dave_D]

Hewitt at the net yesterday

Simmonds at the net

 

[JackB1]

Anyone else going this weekend? I hope to go to either the Semis or the Finals and possibly Fri nite too.

 

[SLD76]

why is this not being shown on the tennis channel?

 

[JackB1]

Great match tonite! Blake vs Isner!
If Blake brings his A game, could be a great match.

 

[JackB1]

why is this not being shown on the tennis channel?

they are covering it starting Fri at 9 pm

 

[jakemcclain32]

Well, we're going into the second round.

Second round matches for today:

Michael Russell v Kevin Anderson
Gilles Muller v Robby Ginepri
Marinko Matosevic v Yen-Hsun Lu
James Blake vs John Isner

 

[jamesblakefan#1]

Blake-Isner on court now.

http://www.lshunter.tv/index.php?op...nnel=0&tmpl=component&layout=popup&Itemid=327

 

[jamesblakefan#1]

Headed for a 3rd set. 2 tiebreaks, no surprise. Isner won the 1st, Blake the 2nd after being down a break.

 

[Fedace]

is James actually playing some good tennis now ?? i thought those days were over...

 

[norbac]

C'mon James! 2-1 on serve in the third.