Delray Beach - 250 - Feb. 25

[DBBN]

1 Isner, John USA 13
2 Cilic, Marin CRO 14
3 Nishikori, Kei JPN 18
4 Dolgopolov, Alexandr UKR 20
5 Haas, Tommy GER 21
OUT Fish, Mardy USA 27
7 Anderson, Kevin RSA 31
8 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 42
9 Lacko, Lukas SVK 44
10 Matosevic, Marinko AUS 48
11 Istomin, Denis UZB 50
12 Falla, Alejandro COL 54
13 Malisse, Xavier BEL 55
14 Zemlja, Grega SLO 58
15 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 61
16 Harrison, Ryan USA 62
17 Sijsling, Igor NED 65
18 Becker, Benjamin GER 66
19 Soeda, Go JPN 73
20 Dodig, Ivan CRO 74
21 Phau, Bjorn GER 78
22 Donskoy, Evgeny RUS 82
23 Monfils, Gael FRA 86
24 (SE)
25 (SE)
26 (Q)
27 (Q)
28 (Q)
29 (Q)
30 (WC) Querrey, Sam USA
31 (WC)
32 (WC)

Alternates
IN Levine, Jesse CAN 88
1. Kamke, Tobias GER 90
2. Rufin, Guillaume FRA 92
3. Kavcic, Blaz SLO 93
4. Russell, Michael USA 94
5. Cipolla, Flavio ITA 95
6. Darcis, Steve BEL 98
7. Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 101
8. Karlovic, Ivo CRO 103
9. Hajek, Jan CZE 104
10. Kukushkin, Mikhail KAZ 105
11. Ebden, Matthew AUS 108
12. Berankis, Ricardas LTU 110

[DBBN]

Good old Delray Batch

[DBBN]

Main Draw
(1)John Isner (USA) vs Jesse Levine (USA)
Marinko Matosevic (AUS) vs Go Soeda (JPN)
Yen Hsun Lu (TPE) vs (q)
(6)Kevin Anderson (RSA) vs (q)

(4)Kei Nishikori (JPN) vs Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
Flavio Cipolla (ITA) vs Edouard Roger Vasselin (FRA)
Matthew Ebden (AUS) vs (WC)Jack Sock (USA)
Bjorn Phau (GER) vs (7)Feliciano Lopez (ESP)

(8)Xavier Malisse (BEL) vs Alejandro Falla (COL)
Ryan Harrison (USA) vs (q)
(WC)James Blake (USA) vs (q)
Michael Russell (USA) vs (3)Sam Querrey (USA)

(5)Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) vs Ivan Dodig (CRO)
Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) vs Steve Darcis (BEL)
Denis Istomin (UZB) vs Benjamin Becker (GER)
Igor Sijsling (NED) vs (2)Tommy Haas (GER)

[lexpretend]

Gulbis smashed his racquet at the start of the final set, went down 0-4, got a point penalty on an audible obscenity...and still beat Queer Eye, who concluded the TB and match with two SEWTA-esque DFs

[janie]

US tennis!

[Grarliner]

Seems like Haas has mastered the idea of showing up to these denuded events and vulturing some points. Worked great for him last summer at ... Hamburg and Washington, was it?

Hmm. Querrey is #23 again already? When did he ... win some matches?

Oh, now I see. Last year, he won LA by beating one (1) top 100 player (Malisse, then #72). That was a cool 250 pts. Then he reached the semis in Washington for 180 more points. Best win there? Kevin Anderson in the QF.

Other than that, despite a strange ability to beat Kei Nishikori, Sam doesn't seem to beat anyone good. Let's throw out his bizarre upset of Djokovic at PMS last year.

[lexpretend]

Last summer's US swing was prime vulturing territory while everyone else was at the Olympics.

*anticipating Vandeweghe's plummet down the rankings more than anything else in tennis this year*

[DBBN]

Well, the SF are Isner vs. Roger-Vasselin, and Gulbis vs. Haas.

Nice sexy match at the bottom there and Gulbis quickly fulfilled my request to get back into the Top 100. Now, stop nailing whores and win more.

Surprised Berankis couldn't beat ERV.

[DBBN]

Unsurprised Isner couldn't beat ERV

Ernie should take it though.

[lexpretend]

So what's the betting Ernie gets a million "back!!!!!1111" articles after he wins today, all detailing how he's really committed to tennis this time and even gave up smoking or whatever, then he goes 0-17 for the rest of the season.

[DBBN]

Should be even money.