Uma - 250 - July 22

[DBBN]

1 Gasquet, Richard FRA 9
2 Cilic, Marin CRO 12
3 Janowicz, Jerzy POL 22
4 Dolgopolov, Alexandr UKR 24
5 Seppi, Andreas ITA 26
6 Robredo, Tommy ESP 30
7 Fognini, Fabio ITA 31
8 Mayer, Florian GER 33
9 Klizan, Martin SVK 35
10 Troicki, Viktor SRB 44
11 Montanes, Albert ESP 48
12 Zeballos, Horacio ARG 53
13 Cuevas, Pablo URU 54
14 Verdasco, Fernando ESP 59
15 Ramos, Albert ESP 61
16 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 64
17 Monfils, Gael FRA 67
18 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 71
19 Berlocq, Carlos ARG 72
20 (SE)
21 (SE)
22 (Q)
23 (Q)
24 (Q)
25 (Q)
26 (WC)
27 (WC)
28 (WC)

Alternates
1. Bedene, Aljaz SLO 78
2. Mayer, Leonardo ARG 85
3. Bolelli, Simone ITA 87
4. de Bakker, Thiemo NED 91
5. Hajek, Jan CZE 92
6. Rufin, Guillaume FRA 93
7. Ungur, Adrian ROU 96
8. Dutra Silva, Rogerio BRA 100
9. Alund, Martin ARG 101
10. Odesnik, Wayne USA 104
11. Vesely, Jiri CZE 106
12. Haider-Maurer, Andreas AUT 108
13. Andreev, Igor RUS @108
14. Delbonis, Federico ARG 113

[DBBN]

(1) Richard Gasquet (FRA) d. Bye
(Q) vs. Albert Montanes (ESP)
Gael Monfils (FRA) vs. (WC) Mate Pavic (CRO)
(Q) vs. (7) Florian Mayer (GER)

(3) Fabio Fognini (ITA) d. Bye
Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) vs. Thiemo de Bakker (NED)
Leonardo Mayer (ARG) vs. Albert Ramos (ESP)
Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) vs. (6) Martin Klizan (SVK)

(5) Tommy Robredo (ESP) vs. Jan Hajek (CZE)
(WC) Antonio Veic (CRO) vs. Viktor Troicki (SRB)
(Q) vs. Aljaz Bedene (SLO)
(4) Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) d. Bye

(8) Carlos Berlocq (ARG) vs. (Q)
(WC) Borna Coric (CRO) vs. Horacio Zeballos (ARG)
Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) vs. Jiri Vesely (CZE)
(2) Andreas Seppi (ITA) d. Bye

[lexpretend]

I was liking the look of this 20-yr-old Mate Pavic leading Monfils. Great lefty FH and I like the willingness to finish points at net. Monfils looks possibly a bit injured but Pavic showed good fight after losing an early break lead. And then just as he was about to serve for the set...unexpected MTO for Pavic.

[lexpretend]

And then essayed a classic choke for the set. Broken to love.

[lexpretend]

Insane SF between, obviously, Gael Force and Fogs.

Fogs, on his 12-match winning streak, led 6-0, 3-6, 5-0. Then loses six games in a row (I tuned in at 5-4), blowing two MPs and gagging horrendously the last time he served for it. Then saves three MPs despite continuing to gag at 5-6 at Monfils totally blows his chance. Then wins the TB in fairly underwhelming fashion.

Inevitably Fognini had nothing left for the final, got trashed by Boredo. Insanity notwithstanding, unexpected and very fine three-week run from him.