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Post by janie on Oct 15, 2013 12:23:31 GMT -5
Guys are here, too.
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Post by lexpretend on Oct 16, 2013 11:43:01 GMT -5
This Karen Khachanov kid is GOOD. Huge serve, big groundstrokes, just hit a monster return to break Tipsy at 4-4 in the second - he'll serve for the match.
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Post by lexpretend on Oct 16, 2013 11:46:03 GMT -5
Serves out with ease.
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Post by janie on Oct 16, 2013 13:54:55 GMT -5
Who is he? Qualifier, WC bumpkin, or just an unfamiliar name (to me) among the journeymen?
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Post by lexpretend on Oct 16, 2013 15:16:23 GMT -5
17-year-old WC. He actually got a WC into St Petersburg a couple of weeks ago as well and beat Hanescu in R1 (then lost to Rosol) but I didn't notice - his R1 win over Ramos here was the first time I'd heard his name. Ranked 808, this is only his fourth tournament of the year. He's the first 17-year-old in an ATP QF since Delpo in 2006
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Post by lexpretend on Oct 17, 2013 5:21:49 GMT -5
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Post by janie on Oct 17, 2013 7:13:03 GMT -5
Wow! There's a new boy in town.
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Post by The Chloe on Oct 17, 2013 7:31:20 GMT -5
Too bad about the whole being Russian thing.
The five people in attendance must have been very excited.
I went to the Moscow tournament twice and have never attended a tournament with so little atmosphere. Poorly attended, evening the later stages of the tournament, and the venue is crap. I attended a boxing match at the same venue once and it was equally blah.
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Post by janie on Oct 18, 2013 9:17:14 GMT -5
It does sound dreary. I wonder why they keep holding such an unpopular event?
Anyway, Leena will be happy to learn that original Ivo beat Teen Ivo today.
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Post by The Chloe on Oct 20, 2013 10:33:17 GMT -5
I think that the event could probably work, were it not held in an olympic sized venue that has merely been partitioned with some curtains. The attendance probably looks and feels worse than it is.
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Post by The Chloe on Oct 20, 2013 10:47:40 GMT -5
Gassy wins, because he's determined to live up to his potential to be as good as peak Robredo.
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