Valencia ATP 500 - who will win

[batz]

Main draw is out:

Murray, Andy [1, GBR] v Gimeno-Traver, Daniel [wc, esp]
Mayer, Leonardo [arg] v Andreev, Igor [rus]
Montanes, Albert [esp] v Q
Almagro, Nicolas [esp] v Ferrer, David [8, esp]

Verdasco, Fernando [4, esp] v Hernandez, Oscar [wc, esp]
Tipsarevic, Janko [srb] v Hanescu, Viktor [rou]
Q v Lopez, Feliciano [esp]
Q v Robredo, Tommy [7, esp]

Simon, Gilles [5, fra] v Kunitsyn, Igor [rus]
Berdych, Tomas [cze] v Mathieu, Paul-Henri [fra]
Ferrero, Juan-Carlos [esp] v Cuevas, Pablo [uru]
Youzhny, Mikhail [rus] v Tsonga, Jo-Wilfrid [7, fra]

Monfils, Gael [6, fra] v Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo [esp]
Granollers, Marcel [wc, esp] v Greul, Simon [ger]
Monaco, Juan [arg] v Vassallo-Arguello, Martin [arg]
Q v Davydenko, Nikolay [3, rus]

 

[zambo]

I'd like to believe this is Andy's tournament. Although there are few big names playing.

 

[Anaconda]

^^^agree, isn't roddick meant to be playing??

 

[batz]

^^^agree, one of the Andy's will win. I hope they will both get to the final.

I hate to break it to you mate but the other Andy isn't in the draw - still out injured I believe.

 

[Anaconda]

I hate to break it to you mate but the other Andy isn't in the draw - still out injured I believe.

oh, it says that his next tournament is valencia. Oh well, there goes a Murray v Roddick final then. Murray will win.

 

[norbac]

Come on, Murray!

 

[bolo]

Davydenko - favorite
Murray - 2nd favorite
Verdasco - Winner

 

[OliverSimon]

Wasn't Acasuso also supposed to play in this or is he also injured?

 

[IvanAndreevich]

I want Tsonga to play Murray here.

 

[thejoe]

FELI!

Would be nice, I suppose

 

[Serendipitous]

Verdasco yay..... ???????

 

[Fedace]

I vote for Murray this week. Coming off injury but the indoor conditions favor him and i don't see anyone in the field that matches up with him..

 

[IvanAndreevich]

^ Did you guys trade avatars or something?

 

[Serendipitous]

I vote for Murray this week. Coming off injury but the indoor conditions favor him and i don't see anyone in the field that matches up with him..

Why did you change your avatar?

 

[Love Game]

Results - Monday, 2 November

Singles - First Round
[2] N Davydenko (RUS) d [Q] A Falla (COL) 62 61
T Berdych (CZE) d P Mathieu (FRA) 63 64
G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) d S Greul (GER) 75 62
A Montanes (ESP) d [Q] R Bautista-Agut (ESP) 61 36 64

Doubles - First Round
[3] F Cermak (CZE)/M Mertinak (SVK) d R Hutchins (GBR)/J Kerr (AUS) 46 64 10-6
P Cuevas (URU)/J Monaco (ARG) d I Andreev(RUS)/M Youzhny (RUS) 62 63
J Coetzee (RSA)/S Huss (AUS) d [WC] M Lopez(ESP)/R Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP) 63 64

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ORDER OF PLAY
Tuesday, 3 November 2009

http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2009/573/op.pdf
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[Love Game]

TennisTV.com w/b showing Valencia (and Basel) beginning Thursday, November 5 @ http://www.tennistv.com/page/LiveIndex/0,,11444,00.html

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Sample Valencia Time Converter

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[Blinkism]

Oh, wow! Cuevas just beat Ferrero in 3 sets!

Excellent stuff from the Uruguayan

Ole Pable!

 

[Blinkism]

Gimeno-Traver going for the upset over Murray...

Vamos Daniel!

 

[zambo]

Murray is wiping the floor with Traver. 3-0 to Murray.

 

[Agassifan]

How does murray look? Any injury aftereffects?

 

[Blinkism]

Murray just lost 3 games in a row

bp for Gimeno-Traver to make it 4 games in a row

edit: Nevermind

5-3 for Murray first set

 

[batz]

Murray just lost 3 games in a row

bp for Gimeno-Traver to make it 4 games in a row

edit: Nevermind

5-3 for Murray first set

You were getting quite aroused there for a minute Blink

1st set Murray 6-3

 

[Blinkism]

You were getting quite aroused there for a minute Blink

1st set Murray 6-3

It was an emotional rollercoaster, batz

 

[batz]

It was an emotional rollercoaster, batz

Touche

10 char

 

[Love Game]

You were getting quite aroused there for a minute Blink

1st set Murray 6-3

It was an emotional rollercoaster, batz

you two quite amusing!
now I'm sorry I missed it! :lol:
(Hope I can catch muzza next time.)

 

[batz]

you two quite amusing!
now I'm sorry I missed it! :lol:
(Hope I can catch muzza next time.)

You can still catch the last few games of this set

http://atdhe.net/7622/watch-atp-valencia

 

[DennisK]

Anybody got a URL for a decent stream?

*edit* thanks.

 

[DennisK]

You can still catch the last few games of this set

http://atdhe.net/7622/watch-atp-valencia

Link isn't working for me at all and I have a 10MB connection.

 

[Love Game]

You can still catch the last few games of this set

http://atdhe.net/7622/watch-atp-valencia

thanks, batz!

 

[Love Game]

QUESTION: How does this happen?

How does a player eat a bagel in the first set, then come roaring back to take the second set 7-5?

Because that's what christophe rochus has done to tommy robredo. I had started thinking that olivier was the good rochus brother and chris the bad ... which is the better brother?

p.s. I know, that's two questions!

 

[Love Game]

Results - Tuesday, 3 November

Singles - First Round
[1] A Murray (GBR) d [WC] D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 63 61
[5] G Simon (FRA) d I Kunitsyn (RUS) 63 62
[6] G Monfils (FRA) d [WC] M Granollers (ESP) 64 62
[7] T Robredo (ESP) d [Q] C Rochus (BEL) 60 57 63
[8] D Ferrer (ESP) d N Almagro (ESP) 75 67(3) 62
P Cuevas (URU) d J Ferrero (ESP) 26 76(4) 63
J Monaco (ARG) d M Vassallo Arguello (ARG) 63 62
L Mayer (ARG) d I Andreev (RUS) 63 63

Doubles - First Round
V Hanescu(ROU)/ H Tecau(ROU) d
[1] M Fyrstenberg(POL)/ M Matkowski(POL) 63 36 11-9

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ORDER OF PLAY
Wednesday, 4 November 2009

http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2009/573/op.pdf
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[wintintu]

O rochus definitely better

 

[Fedace]

order of play for today ??

 

[vive le beau jeu !]

order of play for today ??

psst... make a little effort and have a look 2 posts above yours.

 

[Andres]

Not a good day for Spaniards, I can see

And VLBJ, that looked like a postcount-boost post from Fedace. It's like the 50th time I've seen him do that

 

[wintintu]

tsonga just got beaten 6-0 second set after wining first set tie break. He did not run for one ball in the whole set? And, as he was on serve in the first set, at 4-5, the betting just changed from 8/11 to 5/2? Something strange going on

 

[norbac]

Tsonga retires, it seems all the tennis he's been playing lately has caught up to him.

 

[sdont]

tsonga just got beaten 6-0 second set after wining first set tie break. He did not run for one ball in the whole set? And, as he was on serve in the first set, at 4-5, the betting just changed from 8/11 to 5/2? Something strange going on

Apparently, a wrist injury was going on.

 

[wintintu]

Yeah its probably just the huge amount of tennis he's been playing lately. Any London chances he had are gone now. Youzhny to be fair was very impressive too.

 

[Blinkism]

Matt Dillon, American movie star

Alberto Martin, Spanish tennis player

Separated at birth?

 

[Love Game]

^^^Even O Hernandez looks like their brother .... meanwhile, he finally won a game 1-4 against countryman Nando, who started off with a break with some nice net play ..... atdhe.net now showing at the valencia link

 

[Love Game]

Hernandez takes off back brace he had wrapped around his waist and calls the trainer.

Oscar retires due to back, congratulates Nando.

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[vive le beau jeu !]

Tsonga retires, it seems all the tennis he's been playing lately has caught up to him.

Apparently, a wrist injury was going on.

Yeah its probably just the huge amount of tennis he's been playing lately. Any London chances he had are gone now. Youzhny to be fair was very impressive too.

damned... :?
but why the hell did he play lyon last week, where he had absolutely no points to gain ? that was really a stupid decision...

 

[wintintu]

Surely Valencia should have hawk-eye enabled given that it's a brand new facility and its a 500

 

[wintintu]

Also, the roof structure of this stadium is a huge problem. The sunlight is directly in the player's faces, davydenko just served a double and looked straight up at the sun. Its really really bad, that shouldn't happen indoors

 

[sdont]

Also, the roof structure of this stadium is a huge problem. The sunlight is directly in the player's faces, davydenko just served a double and looked straight up at the sun. Its really really bad, that shouldn't happen indoors

Ah ah ah, yeah it's ridiculous: Monaco is wearing an ATP cap to serve!!!

But you're right, it's nothing to laugh about. The architecture is just plain stupid.

 

[wintintu]

Davydenko just tried to serve for the match but he couldn't hold cos of the sun. Thats 4 breaks now, all at this end of the court! Hope adidas didnt mind Monaco wearing the ATP cap!

 

[inthemisosoup]

verdasco is playing some pretty sick tennis right now . . . up a break in the second.

 

[Blinkism]

Nice play from Mayer

and... nice pushing from Murry

.... oh jeez, I fully forgot that he cheers "cmon" on opponents unforced errors and complains about random things on the court like a little baby

:evil:

 

[Cody]

What is murray blaming his forehands on, he keeps pointing at the ground and saying 'bounce'.