ATP500 Cinch Championships, Queen’s 2024

[Rattie]

Carlitos returns as defending champion as does his opponent from last year’s final, De Minaur.

Seeds:
1. Carlos Alcaraz
2. Alex De Minaur
3. Grigor Dimitrov
4. Taylor Fritz
5. Tommy Paul
6. Ben Shelton
7. Holger Rune
8. Ugo Humbert

Milos Raonic enters using his protected ranking.
Khachanov, Korda, Cerúndolo, Musetti, Navone, Arnaldi, Murray, Norrie, Evans and Tiafoe also compete.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801948422448017608

 

[BeatlesFan]

Carlos has a favorable draw, a Carlos-Dimi semi would be interesting but Alcaraz wins it easily. Excited for grass season!

 

[Rattie]

Rain has meant the qualies haven’t started yet. Quite a bit of rain forecast for the next week so I’ll be on pins as I have tickets for the semis on Saturday

 

[Larry Duff]

This English weather is so bad they really need to move the entire season to Cincy.

 

[GRASScaraz]

Rune will suprise us

 

[Vincent-C]

Go, Evans

 

[Rattie]

Carlos has a favorable draw, a Carlos-Dimi semi would be interesting but Alcaraz wins it easily. Excited for grass season!

Draper could be tricky. He’s reached the final in Stuttgart, so he’s had some grass match practice and is serving bombs.

 

[TheSlicer]

Cerundolo first round is tricky, he can play on the surface, got Nadal in trouble at wimbly

 

[Rattie]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1802018057964933127

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1802022345025978382

 

[BeatlesFan]

Rune will suprise us

Last year he had only played 1 career match on grass and got to the semis of Queen's. Holger says he loves the grass, so we'll see. Sure hope you're right.

 

[ND-13]

Alcagrass draw is a landmine

Every round is tough if he gets through this it will be a miracle

 

[Hamnavoe]

Interested to see what Navone can do. Remarkably he's made it into the top 30 without playing a single tour-level match off clay - in fact, looking through his whole career record across the main tour, Challengers and Futures, I only make it seven total matches on hard/grass courts. There's only two wins among those seven, both at a Futures event in 2020. He's a fearsome ankle biter, though, with a staggering 38.4% break rate on the clay - covers the court beautifully and gives nothing away. I'm intrigued to see how well his game can translate across the surfaces.

 

[top10]

Carlos has a favorable draw, a Carlos-Dimi semi would be interesting but Alcaraz wins it easily. Excited for grass season!

I highly doubt that Carlos wins easy against Grigor - watch their last two matches.
I actually picked Dimitrov to win the tournament because of favorable draw @semi vs Alcaraz.

 

[DjokoLand]

Want to see what Humbert could do here. He was excellent at the start of the season on fast HC and then obviously a poor clay season as expected.

Alcaraz should take the title here though

 

[Vincent-C]

I highly doubt that Carlos wins easy against Grigor - watch their last two matches.
I actually picked Dimitrov to win the tournament because of favorable draw @semi vs Alcaraz.

I also think Dim can beat Alky on grass; "will" is a different thing, though.
Here's hoping that match happens.

 

[Rafa4GOAT]

I think it’s a pretty rough route to the final for Alcaraz; Draper (comfortable and grooved on the grass), Paul (seems to have Charly’s number, might not matter since we’re not in Canada), and Dimitrov (comfortable on grass AND has Charly’s number recently)

 

[Succession]

Would love to see Dimitrov take Queens this year!

 

[Rattie]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1802314404479815747

Translation: “Carlos Alcaraz's training set with Fran Cerúndolo at this moment. The Argentine will be his rival in the first round at Queen's.”

They have never played each other before, so both will be trying to get a feel for what they are up against in R1

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Watch for Perricard!!
Now at 11 am EST he should start playing his last Q against Bergs.
Streamed.

Won the first set 7-5.
A "clasical" player in the mold of Sampras.
Considerable touch in returns, volleys, 1HBH, the more to be appreciated as he's 2.03 m tall.
Wonder what mph on serve? 147 mph!
Won in 3.

 

[Rafa4LifeEver]

Carlos has a favorable draw, a Carlos-Dimi semi would be interesting but Alcaraz wins it easily. Excited for grass season!

Dimitrov has won his last 4 sets against Alcaraz on fast courts quite easily.

 

[Rafa4LifeEver]

Carlitos returns as defending champion as does his opponent from last year’s final, De Minaur.

Seeds:
1. Carlos Alcaraz
2. Alex De Minaur
3. Grigor Dimitrov
4. Taylor Fritz
5. Tommy Paul
6. Ben Shelton
7. Holger Rune
8. Ugo Humbert

Milos Raonic enters using his protected ranking.
Khachanov, Korda, Cerúndolo, Musetti, Navone, Arnaldi, Murray, Norrie, Evans and Tiafoe also compete.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801948422448017608

Dat Twitter girl is a hottie (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

 

[BeatlesFan]

Alcagrass draw is a landmine

Every round is tough if he gets through this it will be a miracle

Oh gimme a break. As if Tommy Paul is going to trouble a defending Wimbledon champion? And I don't care if Draper won a grass event either, Carlos will beat these guys with one eye closed. Unless Carlos sustains an injury, he's going to waltz through this tournament.

 

[ND-13]

Oh gimme a break. As if Tommy Paul is going to trouble a defending Wimbledon champion? And I don't care if Draper won a grass event either, Carlos will beat these guys with one eye closed. Unless Carlos sustains an injury, he's going to waltz through this tournament.

H2h is 2-2 and very tight matches with Paul

If Alcaraz wins tournament , it is not because draw is manageable but he is a titan.

 

[Rattie]

Shelton draws the qualifier, Mpetshi Perricard. Could be an early exit for Ben.

 

[Vincent-C]

Oh gimme a break. As if Tommy Paul is going to trouble a defending Wimbledon champion? And I don't care if Draper won a grass event either, Carlos will beat these guys with one eye closed. Unless Carlos sustains an injury, he's going to waltz through this tournament.

Dimitrov- for example- straight-setted Alky in a Masters QF earlier this year, and d. him in Shanghai Masters just before that.

 

[Vincent-C]

Shelton draws the qualifier, Mpetshi Perricard. Could be an early exit for Ben.

I liked the little bit I've seen of Perricard. He seems to have quite a bit of flexibility
with that one-hander. FH *might* be sketchy, with quite a few moving parts.
Someone to watch, for sure.

 

[Mainad]

So we have 3 former champions: Alcaraz (defending) just coming off a Grand Slam win, Dimitrov (2014) and Murray (5 times champion albeit playing his last few matches) and 3 former finalists: De Minaur (defending), Raonic (2016) and Norrie (2021).
Interesting mix.

 

[BeatlesFan]

Some big names playing tomorrow:

 

[Rattie]

Dimitrov putting on a flawless performance against Mannarino. Easy win 6-1, 6-2

 

[Rattie]

Holger on court.

 

[Rattie]

Holger wasn’t able to read Thompson’s serve for the majority of the set barely making a return. At 5-4 up he became more aggressive, stepping in to take the serve early. Broke to 15 and took the set 6-4.

 

[Olli Jokinen]

Holger looking good. Takes the ball early, heavy serve.

 

[Rattie]

Holger looking good. Takes the ball early, heavy serve.

4 aces and 1 DF to take his last service game. Thompson still in this though. Rune 5-4 in the second

 

[Kralingen]

Rune wearing the full body pee stained kit, gotta love it.

 

[Rattie]

TB in the second.

 

[Rattie]

Rune has barely managed a point off the Thompson service games this set. Can’t afford the mini break he’s immediately gone down in the tiebreak

 

[Pmasterfunk]

Beautiful volley by Johnson in the TB.

 

[Pmasterfunk]

A couple wild forehand errors from Rune in the TB and the match is going to a third set.

 

[Rattie]

Ugh. Holger takes a tumble on BP and drops serve.

 

[Rattie]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1802698717398548495

 

[Rattie]

Thompson 5-2 up in the third. Holger has no answer to his heavy serves.

Disappointing as I really hoped to see Rune at the weekend

 

[Kralingen]

I’m officially out on Rune ever being a superstar.

 

[Pmasterfunk]

A good win for Thompson, though pretty disappointing from Rune.

I thought Thompson had been having a good year, but didn't realize that after a pretty strong January and February he'd only won 3 matches since then.

 

[GRASScaraz]

I’m officially out on Rune ever being a superstar.

Yep it's time for Mensik and Fonseca to take over.

Rune peaked at 19 and stole a Masters. Slightly more successful version of Shapovalov

 

[ojo rojo]

Norrie up next today.
I might start my tax return or book a prostate examination.
Either preferable

 

[BeatlesFan]

I’m officially out on Rune ever being a superstar.

I had a strong feeling he was going to lose this match so I recorded it and didn't watch it live. Now I'm glad I didn't. He got to the semis last year, now this. What a mess.

 

[Zardoz7/12]

Rune's still young, I hope a coach of the caliber of Magnus Norman could take him to the next level because he has the tools to beat the best.

Raonic should beat Norrie here, Norrie's form has faded away and if he drops serve vs Raonic that is bye bye set, Andrew Castle is right.

 

[GRASScaraz]

I had a strong feeling he was going to lose this match so I recorded it and didn't watch it live. Now I'm glad I didn't. He got to the semis last year, now this. What a mess.

If it makes you feel better Thompson is a grass specialist and Rune still had a positive winner to unforced error count, but his retuning was abysmal expect for that one game to break in the first set.

 

[marc45]

I’m officially out on Rune ever being a superstar.

tough call, I'm still in...but some consistent results would help

 

[Humble Crumble]

Rune's still young, I hope a coach of the caliber of Magnus Norman could take him to the next level because he has the tools to beat the best.

Raonic should beat Norrie here, Norrie's form has faded away and if he drops serve vs Raonic that is bye bye set, Andrew Castle is right.

An early retirement from Norrie would be brilliant for the whole tennis tour.