T8: Kioto, Kalkuta , Cherbourg 2015

[bogdan1978]

Tydzień 8

Data startu: 23 lutego

Kioto (Japonia)


Typ: $50K+H
Zwycięzca z 2014: Martin Fischer (Austria)
Nawierzchnia: hard (hala)


Kalkuta (Indie)


Typ: $50K
Zwycięzca z 2014: Ilija Bozoljac (Serbia)
Nawierzchnia: hard


Cherbourg (Francja)


Typ: €42.5K+H
Zwycięzca z 2014: Kenny de Schepper (Francja)
Nawierzchnia: hard (hala)

[bogdan1978]

Listy zgłoszeń :


Cherbourg :

Spoiler:

De Schepper, Kenny FRA 104
Beck, Andreas GER 110
Mahut, Nicolas FRA 112
Dustov, Farrukh UZB 118
Gombos, Norbert SVK 121
Darcis, Steve BEL 125
Molchanov, Denys UKR 174
Daniel, Taro JPN 187
# Martin, Andrej SVK 189
Arnaboldi, Andrea ITA 190
Authom, Maxime BEL 192
Desein, Niels BEL 195
Kovalik, Jozef SVK 197
# Kravchuk, Konstantin RUS 204
Mertl, Jan CZE 207
Michon, Axel FRA 208
Lokoli, Laurent FRA 213
Karatsev, Aslan RUS 215
# Fischer, Martin AUT 218
Setkic, Aldin BIH 222
Guez, David FRA 223
# Ignatik, Uladzimir BLR 224
# Pavlasek, Adam CZE 229
Lamasine, Tristan FRA 230

Kioto :

Spoiler:

Ito, Tatsuma JPN 86
Soeda, Go JPN 88
Sugita, Yuichi JPN 133
Millman, John AUS 147
Moriya, Hiroki JPN 150
Przysiezny, Michal POL 184
Zhang, Ze CHN 202
# Mitchell, Benjamin AUS 258
Thompson, Jordan AUS 267
Huang, Liang-Chi TPE 280
Uchiyama, Yasutaka JPN 286
Niki, Takuto JPN 310
Ebden, Matthew AUS 313
# Zaitcev, Anton RUS 316
# Kibi, Yuya JPN 367
# Li, Zhe CHN 368
Venus, Michael NZL 373
# Sekiguchi, Shuichi JPN 390
Matsui, Toshihide JPN 392
@ Singh, Karanuday IND 425
# Kapas, Andriej POL 444
# Takeuchi, Kento JPN 446
Whittington, Andrew AUS 495
# Watanuki, Yusuke JPN 505

Kalkuta :

Spoiler:

Duckworth, James AUS 107
Kudryavtsev, Alexander RUS 117
Devvarman, Somdev IND 136
Saville, Luke AUS 162
Bemelmans, Ruben BEL 164
Albot, Radu MDA 166
Coppejans, Kimmer BEL 181
Bolt, Alex AUS 191
Lopez-Perez, Enrique ESP 210
Chen, Ti TPE 212
Bozoljac, Ilija SRB 217
Myneni, Saketh IND 234
Krstin, Pedja SRB 246
Gerasimov, Egor BLR 259
Bhambri, Yuki IND 260
Safwat, Mohamed EGY 261
Mektic, Nikola CRO 262
Ramanathan, Ramkumar IND 273
Silva, Frederico Ferreira POR 279
# Androic, Toni CRO 294
Yang, Tsung-Hua TPE 348
Balaji, N.Sriram IND 349
# Perez Sanz, David ESP 381
# Jankovic, Miki SRB 402

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Kalkuta - Main Draw :

[1] James DUCKWORTH (AUS) vs QUALIFIER
[WC] Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) vs [WC] Sanam SINGH (IND)
[WC] Sumit NAGAL (IND) vs Egor GERASIMOV (BLR)
Saketh MYNENI (IND) vs [7] Alex BOLT (AUS)

[3] Ruben BEMELMANS (BEL) vs Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY)
QUALIFIER vs QUALIFIER
N. Sriram BALAJI (IND) vs QUALIFIER
Toni ANDROIC (CRO) vs [8] Kimmer COPPEJANS (BEL)

[5] Luke SAVILLE (AUS) vs Ti CHEN (TPE)
Ilija BOZOLJAC (SRB) vs Frederico Ferreira SILVA (POR)
Pedja KRSTIN (SRB) vs Miki JANKOVIC (SRB)
Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs [4] Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND)

[6] Radu ALBOT (MDA) vs Nikola MEKTIC (CRO)
Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) vs Yuki BHAMBRI (IND)
Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) vs David PEREZ SANZ (ESP)
[WC] Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) vs [2] Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS)

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Cherbourg - Main Draw :

[1] Kenny DE SCHEPPER (FRA) vs David GUEZ (FRA)
Uladzimir IGNATIK (BLR) vs Aslan KARATSEV (RUS)
Laurent LOKOLI (FRA) vs Andrej MARTIN (SVK)
QUALIFIER vs [6,WC] Benoit PAIRE (FRA)

[4] Farrukh DUSTOV (UZB) vs Aldin SETKIC (BIH)
Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) vs [Alt] Liam BROADY (GBR)
[WC] Enzo COUACAUD (FRA) vs [SE] Mirza BASIC (BIH)
Axel MICHON (FRA) vs [5] Nicolas MAHUT (FRA)

[8] Niels DESEIN (BEL) vs QUALIFIER
Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS) vs [WC] Jonathan EYSSERIC (FRA)
Jozef KOVALIK (SVK) vs Maxime AUTHOM (BEL)
Taro DANIEL (JPN) vs [3] Andreas BECK (GER)

[7] Norbert GOMBOS (SVK) vs [WC] Alexandre SIDORENKO (FRA)
QUALIFIER vs Tristan LAMASINE (FRA)
QUALIFIER vs Denys MOLCHANOV (UKR)
Jan MERTL (CZE) vs [2] Steve DARCIS (BEL)

[bogdan1978]

Kioto - Main Draw :

[1] Go SOEDA (JPN) vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs Zhe LI (CHN)
Anton ZAITCEV (RUS) vs Jordan THOMPSON (AUS)
QUALIFIER vs [7] Michal PRZYSIEZNY (POL)

[3] Yuichi SUGITA (JPN) vs Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)
[WC] Takao SUZUKI (JPN) vs Yasutaka UCHIYAMA (JPN)
Yusuke WATANUKI (JPN) vs Andriej KAPAS (POL)
[PR] Karunuday SINGH (IND) vs [6] Ze ZHANG (CHN)

[8] Benjamin MITCHELL (AUS) vs Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE)
[WC] Issei OKAMURA (JPN) vs QUALIFIER
Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) vs Takuto NIKI (JPN)
[WC] Hiroyasu EHARA (JPN) vs [4] John MILLMAN (AUS)

[5] Hiroki MORIYA (JPN) vs Matthew EBDEN (AUS)
[WC] Takashi SAITO (JPN) vs Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN)
Andrew WHITTINGTON (AUS) vs Yuya KIBI (JPN)
Michael VENUS (NZL) vs [2] Tatsuma ITO (JPN)

[bogdan1978]

Kalkuta - wyniki 1 rundy :

[1] James DUCKWORTH (AUS) d. [Q] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 6-3 3-6 6-3
[WC] Sanam SINGH (IND) d. [WC] Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 2-6 6-2 6-0
Egor GERASIMOV (BLR) d. [WC] Sumit NAGAL (IND) 7-5 7-5
[7] Alex BOLT (AUS) d. Saketh MYNENI (IND) 7-5 6-4

[3] Ruben BEMELMANS (BEL) d. Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY) 6-2 1-6 6-3
[Q] Kevin KRAWIETZ (GER) d. [Q] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 6-2 7-6(4)
[Q] Richard BECKER (GER) d. N. Sriram BALAJI (IND) 7-5 7-5
[8] Kimmer COPPEJANS (BEL) d. Toni ANDROIC (CRO) 6-2 6-4

Ti CHEN (TPE) d. [5] Luke SAVILLE (AUS) 6-3 3-6 6-2
Frederico Ferreira SILVA (POR) d. Ilija BOZOLJAC (SRB) 4-6 7-6(4) 6-3
Miki JANKOVIC (SRB) d. Pedja KRSTIN (SRB) 4-6 6-3 3-1 ret'd
Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) d. [4] Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND) 4-6 6-3 6-4

[6] Radu ALBOT (MDA) d. Nikola MEKTIC (CRO) 7-5 4-6 6-3
Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) d. Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) 6-2 6-2
Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) d. David PEREZ SANZ (ESP) 6-7(5) 6-1 6-2
[2] Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS) d. [WC] Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) 6-3 7-6(7)

[Mario]

Mahut oddał 4 gemy. Cieszy dwucyfrowa liczba asów, martwi przerwa medyczna (coś z plecami).

Benoit też do przodu.

[bogdan1978]

Kioto - wyniki 1 rundy :

[1] Go SOEDA (JPN) d. [Q] Arata ONOZAWA (JPN) 6-1 6-3
Zhe LI (CHN) d. [Q] Cheong-Eui KIM (KOR) 7-6(3) 6-1
Jordan THOMPSON (AUS) d. Anton ZAITCEV (RUS) 6-4 6-2
[7] Michal PRZYSIEZNY (POL) d. [Q] Yuichi ITO (JPN) 6-3 6-4

[3] Yuichi SUGITA (JPN) d. Toshihide MATSUI (JPN) 6-4 7-6(3)
Yasutaka UCHIYAMA (JPN) d. [WC] Takao SUZUKI (JPN) 6-2 6-2
Andriej KAPAS (POL) d. Yusuke WATANUKI (JPN) 6-3 6-4
[6] Ze ZHANG (CHN) d. [PR] Karunuday SINGH (IND) 6-3 6-4

[8] Benjamin MITCHELL (AUS) d. Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) 6-4 6-3
[Q] Hiroki KONDO (JPN) d. [WC] Issei OKAMURA (JPN) 6-1 6-3
Takuto NIKI (JPN) d. Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) 6-3 7-6(9)
[4] John MILLMAN (AUS) d. [WC] Hiroyasu EHARA (JPN) 6-7(4) 6-1 7-5

[5] Hiroki MORIYA (JPN) d. Matthew EBDEN (AUS) 6-3 7-6(5)
[WC] Takashi SAITO (JPN) d. Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) 6-3 6-2
Yuya KIBI (JPN) d. Andrew WHITTINGTON (AUS) 6-3 7-6(5)
[2] Tatsuma ITO (JPN) d. Michael VENUS (NZL) 7-6(3) 6-3

[bogdan1978]

Cherbourg - wyniki 1 rundy :

[1] Kenny DE SCHEPPER (FRA) d. David GUEZ (FRA) 6-3 6-4
Aslan KARATSEV (RUS) d. Uladzimir IGNATIK (BLR) 6-3 3-6 7-6(3)
Laurent LOKOLI (FRA) d. Andrej MARTIN (SVK) 6-4 6-2
[6,WC] Benoit PAIRE (FRA) d. [Q] Sergey BETOV (BLR) 6-4 7-6(3)

Aldin SETKIC (BIH) d. [4] Farrukh DUSTOV (UZB) 6-2 6-3
Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) d. [Alt] Liam BROADY (GBR) 7-5 6-2
[WC] Enzo COUACAUD (FRA) d. [SE] Mirza BASIC (BIH) 6-4 6-3
[5] Nicolas MAHUT (FRA) d. Axel MICHON (FRA) 6-2 6-2

[8] Niels DESEIN (BEL) d. [Q] Federico GAIO (ITA) 6-2 3-6 6-2
Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS) d. [WC] Jonathan EYSSERIC (FRA) 4-6 6-2 6-1
Maxime AUTHOM (BEL) d. Jozef KOVALIK (SVK) 0-6 6-4 7-6(1)
Taro DANIEL (JPN) d. [3] Andreas BECK (GER) 6-2 6-3

[7] Norbert GOMBOS (SVK) d. [WC] Alexandre SIDORENKO (FRA) 6-1 3-6 6-1
[Q] Daniel BRANDS (GER) d. Tristan LAMASINE (FRA) 6-4 3-6 7-6(2)
[Q] Maxime TEIXEIRA (FRA) d. Denys MOLCHANOV (UKR) 6-2 1-0 ret'd
[2] Steve DARCIS (BEL) d. Jan MERTL (CZE) 6-3 6-2

[bogdan1978]

Kalkuta - wyniki 2 rundy :

[1] James DUCKWORTH (AUS) d. [WC] Sanam SINGH (IND) 6-2 6-1
Egor GERASIMOV (BLR) d. [7] Alex BOLT (AUS) w/o
[3] Ruben BEMELMANS (BEL) d. [Q] Kevin KRAWIETZ (GER) 3-6 6-2 6-3
[Q] Richard BECKER (GER) d. [8] Kimmer COPPEJANS (BEL) 4-6 6-3 6-3

Ti CHEN (TPE) d. Frederico Ferreira SILVA (POR) 6-0 4-6 6-2
Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) d. Miki JANKOVIC (SRB) 6-1 5-7 7-5
[6] Radu ALBOT (MDA) d. Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) 6-3 2-6 6-1
[2] Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS) d. Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) 6-7(7) 6-1 6-0

[Mario]

Ordynarnie puścił Nicolas i te kłopoty z plecami to też chyba bardziej forma wymówki, bo serwował normalnie. No ale niecodziennie dostaje powołania do drużyny, więc trzeba było się poświęcić.

Oczywiście fajnie, że zagra w DC, ale trochę mu skomplikował życie tym powołaniem Clement. W Quimper nie wystąpi, teraz też męczenie się tu do niedzieli za bardzo na rękę nie było. Szykuje się przystąpienie do sezonu na trawie bez miejsca w top 100, co najprawdopodobniej oznacza kwale do wszystkich turniejów poza Wimbledonem (WC pewnie dostanie). A jak tam trafi na jakiegoś psychola, który strzeli 25 asów w 2 sety i wywali go po dwóch tb, to będzie słabo...

[bogdan1978]

Kioto - wyniki 2 rundy :

[1] Go SOEDA (JPN) d. Zhe LI (CHN) 7-6(2) 6-3
[7] Michal PRZYSIEZNY (POL) d. Jordan THOMPSON (AUS) 6-1 3-6 6-3
Yasutaka UCHIYAMA (JPN) d. [3] Yuichi SUGITA (JPN) 7-6(3) 1-6 6-3
Andriej KAPAS (POL) d. [6] Ze ZHANG (CHN) 6-3 7-6(6)

[Q] Hiroki KONDO (JPN) d. [8] Benjamin MITCHELL (AUS) 6-4 6-4
[4] John MILLMAN (AUS) d. Takuto NIKI (JPN) 6-3 4-6 6-2
[5] Hiroki MORIYA (JPN) d. [WC] Takashi SAITO (JPN) 4-6 7-6(6) 6-3
[2] Tatsuma ITO (JPN) d. Yuya KIBI (JPN) 7-5 6-4

[bogdan1978]

Cherbourg - wyniki 2 rundy :

[1] Kenny DE SCHEPPER (FRA) d. Aslan KARATSEV (RUS) 4-6 6-3 6-2
[6,WC] Benoit PAIRE (FRA) d. Laurent LOKOLI (FRA) 3-6 6-1 6-1
Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) d. Aldin SETKIC (BIH) 6-4 7-5
[WC] Enzo COUACAUD (FRA) d. [5] Nicolas MAHUT (FRA) 6-3 6-1

Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS) d. [8] Niels DESEIN (BEL) 6-4 6-3
Maxime AUTHOM (BEL) d. Taro DANIEL (JPN) 6-2 6-3
[7] Norbert GOMBOS (SVK) d. [Q] Daniel BRANDS (GER) 6-4 6-3
[Q] Maxime TEIXEIRA (FRA) d. [2] Steve DARCIS (BEL) 7-6(5) 2-4 ret'd

[bogdan1978]

Kalkuta - wyniki ćwierćfinałów :

[1] James DUCKWORTH (AUS) d. Egor GERASIMOV (BLR) 6-4 6-2
[3] Ruben BEMELMANS (BEL) d. [Q] Richard BECKER (GER) 6-7(5) 7-6(8) 6-2
Ti CHEN (TPE) d. Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 6-4 3-6 7-6(5)
[6] Radu ALBOT (MDA) d. [2] Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS) 7-6(5) 6-3

[Mateuszz91]

Przysiężny i Kapaś pokonali rywali w ćwierćfinale i w półfinale zagrają se sobą. Super wynik!

[Lucas]

ATP Challenger Tour Dispatch: Kyoto


Tatsuma Ito, Bumpei Sato, Go Soeda and Takao Suzuki enjoy an off-court chat in Kyoto.

Spoiler:

Veteran tennis writer Robert Davis provides an inside look at the ATP Challenger Tour through his series of dispatches. This week, he is at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Kyoto.

If football is the 'Beautiful Game' and chess is the 'Royal Game', what might they call tennis? I suppose that renowned author Timothy Gallwey got it right when he called it, the 'Inner Game'.

One could forgive John Millman, who is No. 148 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, for scratching his head after losing the second set to No. 309-ranked Takuto Niki in his first round match at the $50,000 Kyoto Challenger. Just last month Millman was up a set and a break against Roger Federer at the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp before eventually losing 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

And what about his Aussie mate, World No. 235 Jordan Thompson, who lost in a third-set tie-break against Kei Nishikori 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 at the Kooyong exhibition event, but bounced back the next day to beat Feliciano Lopez 7-6, 6-3. Both of these young men are here in Kyoto, Japan this week for the 51st Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships. That pretty much tells you all you need to know about the depth of the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour.

Fifty one years is a long time to be hosting a tennis tournament, but Kyoto seems to age well. It was only a little over 1,000 plus years ago that Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan. Today, the ancient and modern Kyoto co-exist in noble fashion. Narrow alleys and traditional wooden homes, with gentle sloping roofs, stand beside modern brick homes and Lawson’s convenience stores. And you would be hard pressed to find a better taxi service than in Kyoto, with their overly polite drivers who maintain spotless, white starched linen seat covers in their cabs.

If tennis gods do exist, as claims Gordon Forbes in his classic book, 'A Handful of Summers', I believe that they would be pretty happy here in Kyoto, where, according to the guidebook in my hotel room, there are more than 2,000 temples and shrines. The game of tennis teases. How else can you explain the sudden shifts in momentum in the game of tennis?

This is exactly what happened to Takuto Niki at 2-2 in the third set versus Millman. After playing a great match, Niki suddenly committed 13 unforced errors over the next 18 points allowed Millman to reel off four straight games, while hitting only two winners.

“That is why I love the game of tennis so much,” admits Millman. “You might have the higher ranking than your opponent, but there is nowhere to hide. You have to stay on the job until you get it done.”

Thompson says, “I think many times the lower-ranked player takes their foot off the pedal and starts to think about the set or match being over. And then they let you back in the match by committing unforced errors. It has happened to me plenty of times, where I had the lead, then lost it and then you start second guessing yourself.”

One of the things that is often overlooked in men’s professional tennis is the continuing education that a man gets through constant international travel. Most of the guys on the ATP Challenger Tour that I have met and talked with are up-to-date on geo-politics and are culturally sensitive of their surroundings. Even so, Japan raises the bar on the subject of etiquette.

For instance, blowing your nose in public or talking in a loud voice in front of others is frowned upon. And heaven help you if you don’t leave your chopsticks in the proper place after eating. But my favourite custom here is saying ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’. It takes a while to get through all the preliminaries and even then I am still not clear who is supposed to take the first step towards the door, but eventually someone does and hopefully nobody has been offended.

Millman and Thompson have proven that the skill set among professional tennis players is not always the over-riding factor in the result and that Rankings are often deceiving. Where the real challenge lies for so many of these men is overcoming the pecking order and safeguarding the self-confidence along the way.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis ... Kyoto.aspx

[Mario]

Bardzo spokojnie przejechał się Paire po De Schepperze.

Mam wielką nadzieję, że starczy zdrowia (brał przerwę, chyba coś znowu z kolanem) i chęci (z nim nigdy nie wiadomo) do zgarnięcie tych dwóch francuskich CH, co da awans do top 100, a wówczas będzie mógł zacząć poważne granie Benoit.

Strasznie podoba mi się jego podejście od momentu wygrania futuresa, oby nic się w tym elemencie nie zmieniło do końca roku.

[bogdan1978]

Kioto - wyniki ćwierćfinałów :

[7] Michal PRZYSIEZNY (POL) d. [1] Go SOEDA (JPN) 6-4 6-2
Andriej KAPAS (POL) d. Yasutaka UCHIYAMA (JPN) 4-6 7-6(8) 7-5
[4] John MILLMAN (AUS) d. [Q] Hiroki KONDO (JPN) w/o
[2] Tatsuma ITO (JPN) d. [5] Hiroki MORIYA (JPN) 6-4 6-2

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Cherbourg - wyniki ćwierćfinałów :

[6,WC] Benoit PAIRE (FRA) d. [1] Kenny DE SCHEPPER (FRA) 6-4 6-2
[WC] Enzo COUACAUD (FRA) d. Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) 2-6 6-3 7-6(4)
Maxime AUTHOM (BEL) d. Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS) 6-3 7-6(6)
[7] Norbert GOMBOS (SVK) d. [Q] Maxime TEIXEIRA (FRA) 6-2 2-6 6-1

[bogdan1978]

Kalkuta - wyniki półfinałów :

[1] James DUCKWORTH (AUS) d. [3] Ruben BEMELMANS (BEL) 2-6 6-3 6-1
[6] Radu ALBOT (MDA) d. Ti CHEN (TPE) 6-4 2-6 6-2