Who will win in Nice 2011 ? (ATP 250)

[vive le beau jeu !]

Name: Open de Nice Côte d’Azur
Category: ATP World Tour 250
Place: Nice, France
Date: 16.05.2011-21.05.2011
Draw Size: S-28 D-16
Surface: Clay
Prize Money: € 398,250
Total Financial Commitment: € 450,000
Ticket Hotline: +33 4 91 05 58 52
http://www.opennicecotedazur.com

draw:
http://www.opennicecotedazur.com/upload/tableau/tableau-simple-2011.pdf

Last year final: Richie de los Cojones d. Angry Nando 63 57 76
(none of them is playing this year, apparently)

 

[tenis1]

I thought Ferrer is sick. :shock:

 

[iriraz]

Ferrer,Berdych playing this one?Weird decision one week before RG to waste energy in this small event.

 

[tenis1]

Ferrer,Berdych playing this one?Weird decision one week before RG to waste energy in this small event.

Especially if they were supposedly sick and retired the week before. I am in shock.

 

[Zildite]

Does Roddick have a chance to get back into the top 10 if he plays well here? Or will his rankings breakdown make it tough for him

 

[Legend of Borg]

Here's to Dimitrov making a good run to the final!

Davai Grisho!

 

[kishnabe]

Gasquet not defending title?

 

[niff]

Dolgo won a match, omfg.

def. Pippo 7-5 6-3

 

[db379]

Gasquet not defending title?

Good decision. I guess he doesn't want to make the same mistake as last year, make the final of 2 tournaments just before RG, play final in Nice on Sunday and play 1st match at RG the next day or the day after.

 

[JeMar]

The way this year's been going, I think Djokovic will find a way to win this from the practice courts in Paris.

 

[jaggy]

Good on Roddick for playing here.

 

[Double_Fault]

Federer should play it. Easy 250.

 

[FedError]

Dimitrov retires against Andujar. Hopefully whatever's bothered him wont impact his French Open campaign.

Today is also his 20th birthday; he is no longer a teenager. :shock:

 

[Legend of Borg]

What am I watching?

 

[Double_Fault]

Dimitrov retires against Andujar. Hopefully whatever's bothered him wont impact his French Open campaign.

Today is also his 20th birthday; he is no longer a teenager. :shock:

Great! Only one year until he wins Wimbledon

 

[bezs]

Gulbis to play Fognini battle of the headcases. :lol:

 

[ruerooo]

Gulbis to play Fognini battle of the headcases. :lol:

The Gulbis actually won a match. I'd be shocked if I weren't so bored with him and his lack of effort. :-?

What I'd really like to know is ... didn't Reeshard win last year? Where is he?

Did he and Sebastian decide he'd gotten enough warmup in Rome going to the semifinals?

 

[vive le beau jeu !]

aie aie aie... marcos lost to benneteau.
this slump really starts to get worrying... :neutral:

let's hope he'll manage to find his game on grass.

 

[MixieP]

It's time for Berdych to win a title and return from the wilderness. Go, Tomas!

 

[Big_Dangerous]

aie aie aie... marcos lost to benneteau.
this slump really starts to get worrying... :neutral:

let's hope he'll manage to find his game on grass.

Yeah Marcos Baghdatis likely first or second round exit at the French.

Did Roddick withdraw? It appears so because he's not listed on the draw anywhere.


http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2011/6120/mds.pdf


Edit - Yeah confirmed Roddick has withdrawn with a shoulder injury, also in doubt for the French as well.


http://www.twackle.com/articles/Rod...-Status-For-French-Open-Questionable---Tennis


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vExx9MIqxY&feature=player_embedded#at=18

 

[Cassius Clay]

Who the hell were the 4 people who voted for Roddick to win, anyway?

 

[GRANITECHIEF]

delpiero, ********, kishnabe, The Bawss

 

[Big_Dangerous]

Who the hell were the 4 people who voted for Roddick to win, anyway?

Delusional Roddick fans thinking he'd win a clay court title.

 

[niff]

Dolgo seems to be feeling better.. makes it to the QF. Yet again runs into Ferru!

 

[rovex]

Dolgo seems to be feeling better.. makes it to the QF. Yet again runs into Ferru!

Let's hope he wins, this clay slump needs to take a swift turn for the better.

 

[Hewex]

Delusional Roddick fans thinking he'd win a clay court title.

Make that 5 just to spur more andy anguish or irritation...

 

[niff]

Dolgo up a double break in the first 4*-1 It looks like Ferrer is giving him some chances but Dolgo is making some nice plays to take them.

 

[MixieP]

Tomas Berdych in the semifinals against Caesar Almagro. In what kind of form is the Iberian? I haven't watch him lately. I want Tomas to win this tournament.

 

[MixieP]

Well, it doesn't look like Dolgo's going to win this. Down a set and a break, 3-6, 1-3 against Hanescu.

 

[Double_Fault]

Don't ask me, I voted for Stakhovsky. Guy has clay-court potential.

 

[MixieP]

Hanescu through to the final, 6-3, 6-3.

 

[Double_Fault]

What?! It hasn't ended yet? But RG has started. :???:

 

[MixieP]

Two games played and Almagro is doomed™.

 

[niff]

Hanescu looked good.

Berdych needs to crack his recent second set meltdown habit, got this title down.

 

[Double_Fault]

Is Berdych still in it?

 

[Marius_Hancu]

great result for Hanescu, reminds us he was once in a RG QF, and another blow to Dolgo's balloon

 

[MixieP]

It's all going pear-shaped for my idols. Berdych loses the first set 4-6 to Almagro, as does Schiavone to Wozniacki.

 

[Breaker]

Almagro looking absolutely unstoppable, who can possibly tame this beast? Look at that backhand, LOOK AT THAT ****ING BACKHAND! It's unbelievable, it is simply not describable the level that this man is at. I have never seen such power combined with such precision and touch before, no one can come close to him. There is only one contender heading into the French now and it is the Murcia native. No one, NO ONE can stop these 120 mph forehands, 115 mph one handed backhands, 225 kph serves, and the clay court knowledge of the great Henry Clay himself. Unprecedented, inscrutable, and unfathomable is this level of play.

 

[MixieP]

Almagro looking absolutely unstoppable, who can possibly tame this beast? Look at that backhand, LOOK AT THAT ****ING BACKHAND! It's unbelievable, it is simply not describable the level that this man is at. I have never seen such power combined with such precision and touch before, no one can come close to him. There is only one contender heading into the French now and it is the Murcia native. No one, NO ONE can stop these 120 mph forehands, 115 mph one handed backhands, 225 kph serves, and the clay court knowledge of the great Henry Clay himself. Unprecedented, inscrutable, and unfathomable is this level of play.

He's monstrous. I pity the old barsteward who has to face this barbarian when they move on to Paris. I really do.

 

[bezs]

Nice win for Nico.

 

[niff]

Almagro pwning everyone in the 250s this year then.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

great play by Hanescu to break Almagro

the HQ French channel at livescorehunter.com
is quite good

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Hanescu breaks again Almagro 6 5
great day in Nice

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Hanescu takes 1st set
High quality match

 

[Mortifier]

Almagro pwning everyone in the 250s this year then.

He is the Mickey Mouse King, that has been established since long

 

[aldeayeah]

And he's proven it yet again.

 

[Love Game]

Almagro looking absolutely unstoppable, who can possibly tame this beast? Look at that backhand, LOOK AT THAT ****ING BACKHAND! It's unbelievable, it is simply not describable the level that this man is at. I have never seen such power combined with such precision and touch before, no one can come close to him. There is only one contender heading into the French now and it is the Murcia native. No one, NO ONE can stop these 120 mph forehands, 115 mph one handed backhands, 225 kph serves, and the clay court knowledge of the great Henry Clay himself. Unprecedented, inscrutable, and unfathomable is this level of play.

and he's a lot cuter than that goofy picture shows!

 

[Zildite]

Is it efficient scheduling to play so many 250s? You can have 3 max in your rankings breakdown, and Almagro currently holds 5 titles of that level.
Buenos Aires
Costa Do Sauipe
Båstad (drops in July)

non-countable
Gstaad (drops in August)
Nice

I guess he wouldn't have counted on winning so many.