View Full Version : Rio de Janeiro, Marseilles, Delray Beach - 20-26 Feb 2017
Rio and Marseilles Opens.
roytennisfan
11-02-2017, 19:42
Also Delray Beach ATP250 which Kyle is playing at (Dan is also still down but rumoured he is withdrawing)
themass15
18-02-2017, 15:06
Draw already out for Marseille and Aljaz is down to play
Delray http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/querrey-lu-edmund-delray-beach-2017-monday
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/basilashvili-delray-beach-2017-preview
Rio http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/de-greef-ousts-cuevas-rio-2017-monday
In Delray Beach Steve Darcis had just beaten Tomic 3-6 6-1 6-4. From 4-1 up in the third set, "Tomic the tank" lost interest, the next 5 games and the match. If this was a future's match in some out of the way place you'd wonder what was going. If Nadal was watching he might question his decision to play doubles with Bernie in Indian Wells as they're chalk and cheese as regards application although he already knew that.
This didn't surprise me at all. Players get names for themselves and some are underserved but in tomic's case it is fitting. I think he gets in a mood about something (known only to him) and then throws in the towel.
I was glad milos got the win after his injury time. He was good and plays coric in the next round. http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/raonic-delray-beach-2017-tuesday
roytennisfan
21-02-2017, 21:52
In Delray Beach Steve Darcis had just beaten Tomic 3-6 6-1 6-4. From 4-1 up in the third set, "Tomic the tank" lost interest, the next 5 games and the match. If this was a future's match in some out of the way place you'd wonder what was going. If Nadal was watching he might question his decision to play doubles with Bernie in Indian Wells as they're chalk and cheese as regards application although he already knew that.
Bernie trying to compete with Nick??? On a more positive note Darcis is on a roll, almost back into the top50 after a year in the wilderness
I see Keith was beaten by Bellucci in rio
themass15
22-02-2017, 07:48
Pleased to see Delpo won on his return!
I see Keith was beaten by Bellucci in rio
What happened to Kei?
What happened to Kei?
He was rubbish and that was in his own words. He even smashed a racquet :shocked: and said it was the worst match he'd played for years and it wasn't as if Bellucci played that well.
Ferrer also lost although it was to Dolgopolov who is on a hot streak. Daveed is at his lowest ranking(29) since April 2005.
Rio was already a weak field for a 500 and it's getting weaker each day. A chance for some to make a killing.
Jamie & Bruno play their first match in Rio today against Daniell/Demoliner.
Rio - so disappointed that ferrer lost early in a tournies again. He was beaten by dolgopolov 6-4 6-4. I wasn't surprised that theim defeated tippy but was sorry that tippy got such a tough early match whilst trying to come back from injury. He lost 6-4, 7-5.
The battle of the Argentinians had begun now, delbonis vs Schwartzman
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/de-greef-ousts-cuevas-rio-2017-monday
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/bellucci-thiem-rio-2017-tuesday
Delray - so pleased for delpo http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/del-potro-wins-delray-beach-2017-opener
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/raonic-delray-beach-2017-tuesday
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/haas-delray-beach-2017-tuesday-reaction
Marseilles - winners from today gasguet d youzhny 7-5 6-2
Pouille d Bedene 7-5 7-5
Kyrgios d jaziri 6-4 6-2
Simon d benneteau 6-2 2-6 6-3
Medvedev d paire 5-7 7-5 7-6
Frenchmen in action tomorrow includ jo willy against marchenko and monfils against stakhovsky
Caley Shaun
23-02-2017, 05:32
Result from Delray Beach, Edmund beat Lu 6-3; 3-6; 6-2 to make Quarters where he will face Milos Raonic.
Wonder if that means he overtakes Dan to return to being British number 2.
roytennisfan
23-02-2017, 09:54
No, he is still 37 points below Dan but would go above him with the 45 for another win...seems unlikely this time with raonic in his way, goes to Aculpulco 500 next week so gets a chance of some good points there but Dan is playing Dubai then
Results Rio - Ramos vibolas d fognini 6-2 6-3
Kicker d de greef 6-3 6-3
Schwartzman df delbonis 6-4 7-6
Theim df lajovic 6-2 7-5
Jamie and Bruno beat Daniell/demoliner and play Argentinians molteni/Schwartzman today
Results Delray - raonic d coric 6-3 7-6 and as Roy says is through to play Kyle in the quarters who beat lu in 3 sets.
Johnson d nishioka 6-4 6-1
Sock d Garcia Lopez 6-4 6-1
roytennisfan
23-02-2017, 16:50
Dom and Haase into the Marseilles semi beating 2nd seeds Pavic and Peya 7-6 6-3
Did anyone see the Mahut/Gombos match? (Marseilles). I 'dipped' into it at the end of the second set as I haven't had the chance to see much of Gombos playing before and wanted to have a wee look. I'm glad I did! Set 3 turned out really quite fascinating! I really enjoyed it. Gombos finally won (3rd set TB) and I think this is his first QF at 250 level. He plays Kyrgios next!
I loved his interview afterwards esp when he said 'I was a little bit mad at me' (for failing to serve it out earlier in the match)!
Marseille - results monfils d stakovsky 6-1 6-4 plays gasguet tomorrow
Medvedev d strugg 6-3 3-6 7-6 plays pouille next
Gombos d mahut 7-5 3-6 7-6 plays kyrgios
Tsonga d marchenko 6-3 6-3 plays Simon
Particularly looking forward to monfils v Gasguet and tsonga v Simon. Would be great if gombos could get another win too :) http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/medvedev-marseille-2017-thursday
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/monfils-tsonga-marseille-2017-thursday
Marseille - results monfils d stakovsky 6-1 6-4 plays gasguet tomorrow
Medvedev d strugg 6-3 3-6 7-6 plays pouille next
Gombos d mahut 7-5 3-6 7-6 plays kyrgios
Tsonga d marchenko 6-3 6-3 plays Simon
Particularly looking forward to monfils v Gasguet and tsonga v Simon. Would be great if gombos could get another win too :) http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/medvedev-marseille-2017-thursday
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/monfils-tsonga-marseille-2017-thursday
Talk about strength in depth. Reads like a French tennis get together with a few others invited!
Results - Delray second round
Querrey d Donaldson 6-2 6-3
Young d fritz 4-3 6-3 6-4
Darcis d basilashvili 6-3 7-5
Delpo d dzumher 7-6 4-6 6-3 and plays querrey next
Quarters young gets a w/o after darcis withdraws
Delray - http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/del-potro-delray-beach-2017-thursday
Results - Rio Monteiro d bellucci 7-6 3-6 6-3
Ruud d carballes baena 6-7 6-4 7-6
Carreno busta d estrella Burgos 6-2 4-6 6-2
Dolgopolov d zeballos 7-6 4-6 6-4
In the doubles Murray got his 300th win as he and soares d the Argentinian team
Marseille - quarters results kyrgios d gombos 6-3 6-3 and plays tsonga in the semis. Tsonga beat Simon 6-4 6-1 in their quarter http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/kyrgios-tsonga-simon-marseille-2017-friday
Marseille - surprised that gasguet df monfils 6-7 6-4 6-2 he plays pouille who beat medvedev 4-6 6-1 6-4
Delray Beach - sock d Johnson 6-4 7-6 and plays young in the semis
Raonic lost the first set to Edmund 4-6 but got the break towards the end of the second and took it 6-3. Kyle is serving first in the third set. The winner plays the winner of Delpo v querrey.
Rio -carreno busta df dolgopolov when when Alex who won the first st in a breaker, retired before the third after dropping the second in another tie break. He will play the winner of ruud v montiero
theim df Swartzman 6-2 6-3, though he lead 5-0 in He second. He did hit what he described as the shot of his career in the first https://www.facebook.com/1.Dominic.Thiem/posts/1563137370367928
Ramos vinolas d kicker 6-2 6-3 and plays theim in the semis
Delray - Raonic df Edmund 4-6 6-3 6-4 Kyle was great in the first set only one dodgy game in the second and too good from milos in set 3 . Mostly solid on serve in the third only dropping 1 point on first serve. He plays the winner of the Delpo match
With Del Potro reaching the SF in Delray Beach beating Querrey 7-5 7-5 he's risen 10 places in the live rankings to 32 so should be seeded at Indian Wells meaning the earliest he could play a top seed is round 3 instead of round 2. Could be significant. ;)
themass15
25-02-2017, 11:10
So pleased for him
roytennisfan
25-02-2017, 11:12
Casper Ruud, only just 18 and in as a WC has reached the semi finals in Rio gaining 75 places in the live rankings, he faces Carreno-Busta later today
It was a great win for Delpo but raonic will be a huge test today. He was so solid on serve in the third set yesterday.
Semis round up
Marseille - kyrgios v tsonga pouille v gasguet
Delray - sock v young raonic v Delpo
Rio - theim v Ramos vinolas ruud v carreno busta
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/raonic-del-potro-delray-beach-2017-friday
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/del-potro-querrey-delray-beach-2017-friday
Marseille - gutted to say nick broke tsonga's serve at 4-4 in the first set but luckily tsonga broke straight back and it's 5-5 come on tsonga!!
themass15
25-02-2017, 15:04
In a tie-break
Marseille - tsonga took the first set in a tie break and they are on serve in the second
Kyrgios got the break in the second and is serving at 4-2 but hopefully jo can get it back
Well typical my hope was in vein as jo didn't win another game in that set. Nick held for 5-2 and broke to take the set 6-2 Tsonga did get the break in the third game of the third set though so hopefully he can keep it from here.
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So far so good 4-2 jo
Yey!! The win for tsonga 7-6 2-6 6-4 :)
JAMES4578
25-02-2017, 16:30
Seemed fairly tight, glad Tsonga got win though!
themass15
25-02-2017, 18:10
Pouille on a tear in Marseille. Defo 2 French in the final. Tsonga does it 2 weeks on the trot. Allez Jo.
Gutted with the outcome of that one, I really wanted the win for gasguet but he just wasn't good enough today 7-5 6-3. Hopefully tsonga can take pouille tomorrow, jo is currently at 8 in the live rankings a win tomorrow could see him take 7th bumping cilic down.
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/tsonga-kyrgios-marseille-2017-saturday
Such a pity that the best match, Raonic/Delpo, is so late. Tempted to stay awake to watch it anyway!
Dom and hasse won their doubles match in Marseille 3-6 7-6 10-8 against kyrgios and Reid. They play bennateau and mahut in the final, they are the top seeds.
Delray - sock d young 6-4 7-6
Rio - theim d Ramos vinolas 6-1 6-4
Rio carreno busta df ruud 2-6 7-5 6-0. The third set was as one sided as it looks, no break points for ruud, poor stats behind first and second serve. CB was solid on serve and return. He plays theim in the final tomorrow.
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/rio-2017-saturday-thiem
Very good match I thought, young Casper Ruud is one to watch out for, but the experience showed when Pablo C Busta saved the match point & turned the match around.
Very good match I thought, young Casper Ruud is one to watch out for, but the experience showed when Pablo C Busta saved the match point & turned the match around.
Completely agree. It was experience that won out in the end. Ruud is only 18 and has 1 year on the pro tour compared to CB's 7 years. He will get there and it has been a great showing from him this week. He will jump from outside the top 200 to inside the top 150, a career high of 133.
Sadly for me and got Delpo it wasn't to be. It was a close march with only one break in the first and Delpo having three set points in the tie break in the second set. Raonic took it 6-3 7-6. He was more solid on serve, one of the main things that separated them was raonic's high % of first serve point won, helped by 17 aces in the match. He is through to his first final of the season, you would imagine he will be too strong for sock, the better match was the semi. Delpo seemed fairly happy with his play, despite the loss and is looking to improve his backhand next week.
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/raonic-sock-delray-beach-2017-saturday
Dom and hasse lost the first set after getting to 5-5. I t ally don't like this deciding point nonsense. It's one of the reasons I don't follow the doubles much. They lost the first set 6-4 and bennateau/ mahut serve first in the second.
Dom and hasse took the second set in a tie breaker and serve first.
Bennateau and mahut take the Marseilles doubles title after winning 10-5 in the match tie break
Woo hoo tsonga wins the title beating pouille 6-4 6-4 it was a good performance though without much challah England form
Pouille. He did get a break point in the whole match. He will be #7 in the world tomorrow
RosieBear
26-02-2017, 16:11
Yay for JWT :clap: Great to see him playing so well at the moment - (impending) fatherhood clearly suits him too :thumbup:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/tsonga-pouille-marseille-2017-final
A walkover for Sock in the Delray Beach final as Raonic withdrew (his third withdrawal in his last 7 tournaments) with a hamstring injury.
themass15
26-02-2017, 20:06
Sock is playing Jesse Levine who was mentioned in one of the blogs.
Presentation of trophies on now (Tennis TV) to Sock and Raonic fb some hitting with Jack Sock and Jesse Levine (Supergran, how about that!) Doubly sorry now that Delpo lost!!!! :sad:
He! He! You beat me to it themass! Sorry!
themass15
26-02-2017, 20:09
Me too!
So gutted that this is how it went. Really wanted Delpo to win and raonic came through that fine. I guess he did more damage playing on it and you never know how much until the next day. I'm no top athlete but I took a nasty fall when chasing my nephews round the woods last Monday, was sore, obviously, but thought other than bruises it was fine. Until the next morning when I woke up with a limp! I swear sleeping made it worse.
It's an even greater shame that Delpo went out now, but I wouldn't be too quick to judge raonic. It is a pre-existing injury that can and has flared up a lot lately. The American crowd got the winner that wanted and for a 250 they had a good tournament. This wasn't a final I was looking forward to. This isn't the worst withdrawal I've seen. A withdrawal from the final of the world tour finals where 18000 people had tickets, because you know you can't win and then you can rest for the DC, now that's the worst I've seen;) lol
Full details of the walk over and sock's response here, well done to him for being such a gent about it :) http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/raonic-sock-delray-beach-2017-final
themass15
26-02-2017, 20:28
So gutted that this is how it went. Really wanted Delpo to win and raonic came through that fine. I guess he did more damage playing on it and you never know how much until the next day. I'm no top athlete but I took a nasty fall when chasing my nephews round the woods last Monday, was sore, obviously, but thought other than bruises it was fine. Until the next morning when I woke up with a limp! I swear sleeping made it worse.
It's an even greater shame that Delpo went out now, but I wouldn't be too quick to judge raonic. It is a pre-existing injury that can and has flared up a lot lately. The American crowd got the winner that wanted and for a 250 they had a good tournament. This wasn't a final I was looking forward to. This isn't the worst withdrawal I've seen. A withdrawal from the final of the world tour finals where 18000 people had tickets, because you know you can't win and then you can rest for the DC, now that's the worst I've seen;) lol
And no prizes for guessing who that was. And who stepped up to the plate?
Milos on his withdrawal https://www.facebook.com/MilosRaonicOfficial/posts/1383047248435570
Rio - theim take his 8th tour title after beating carreno busta 7-5 6-4 http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/rio-2017-final-thiem-carreno-busta
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