Benoit Paire

[DUN I LOVE]

Bez sensu gadanie. Gulbis miał być numerem 1, Tomic gwiazdą tenisa. Kiedy się wzięli do pracy, to wyszło szydło z worka. Na początek niech Benek ogra Ilhana w 3 setach, bo może się okazać, że i na tyle go nie stać.

[Mario]

A jak wygra w 4, to trzeba będzie go zlinczować?

[Lucas]

An Interview With: Benoit Paire (US Open 2015 1-st round win)

Spoiler:

Q. You played him twice before. Came out on the other end. What was difference about this match?

BENOIT PAIRE: I think today I served very well. I lost in Grand Slam against Kei in Roland Garros. It was a tough match. I lost in four sets. So when I enter into the court I know I can do something. The thing was just my serve. Because when I was practicing last few days I was not feeling so confident with my serve, and today it was working. So I think it's helping me during the important moment.

Q. Obviously a difficult five-setter, but to get by Kei, finalist last year, how great a start is this for you going into this tournament to be able to get a tough one behind you from a very good opponent?

BENOIT PAIRE: Yeah, because when I saw the draw against Kei I said, Bad luck. I feel good at this time. I won title one month ago. So I said, You play Kei first round; he made final last year. The thing is you have to have pleasure on this match. You have to feel good on court, to have fun, you know. You're going to play on big court, on big stadium. My coach told me the most important thing is when you go out of the court, you win, you lose, you don't care, just have fun. That's why when I start the match I try to hit fast all the ball and I was feeling good. So for me, for the confidence, I think it's good. But against Kei, he made final last year. Maybe he was a little bit nervous because of this. Because when you have a lot of points to defend it's not easy. But I think I start the match with a good way, and after, when I was losing two sets to one, it was not easy for me because physically I don't feel so good. But to be honest, I think I'm lucky. At 6-4 in the tiebreak for him he has two match points. Some good shots. He could win, he could lose. So today for me it's a good day, and I'm very happy to win.

Q. In terms of the confidence level, talk about expectations coming in. Then now with a match like this under your belt, has that raised the expectation levels a bit? The expectation levels of yourself, having beaten Kei today.

BENOIT PAIRE: Yeah, today for me, when I come on court I know I can beat Nishikori. I place twice time; I lost two time, but very tough match. So when I come on the court, I say, come on. You can beat Kei. He has a game -- it's not like if I play against Roger Federer. For me it's different because he has good serve. Against Kei I know I can play, and for sure some volleys. For me it's important because I know I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I say, Okay, for sure you can break him. So the most important thing is to feel good and to have fun. I think today that's the most important thing. When you win one tournament, for sure my first tournament during the year to Bastad. For sure I feel confidence against Kei, and with this confidence I win. But I'm really happy.

Q. You saved two match points in the fourth set. Could you talk about your mindset going into the fifth set?

BENOIT PAIRE: Yes, just lucky. Missed three shots in a row at 6-4. So for me, I didn't save the match point. He give me a little bit the set because he could hit good forehand on the match point. At 6-4 he serve good, and then he made a mistake with his forehand. At 6-5 I serve good. At 6-All he made mistake on the return, so I think he was a little bit nervous. What can I say? For me I'm really happy to win. I serve two match points, but sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Q. You have a very interesting record at the US Open. You always play in five-setter in the first round.

BENOIT PAIRE: Exactly. But I lost two times in a 7-6 in the fifth.

Q. Something change in the last couple of years after the Kohlschreiber...

BENOIT PAIRE: Yes. Kohlschreiber, Bogomolov...

Q. So close. And last year Benneteau, Verdasco...

BENOIT PAIRE: Yes, I won.

Q. So what is the change? The preparation? And I think the toughest part is coming now. The second round, the following round after the five-setter, you mostly lost.

BENOIT PAIRE: Yes, of course. But when you win against Kei, for sure the confidence is here. For sure the next one will be tough. I don't say it will be easy. But when you play Kei Nishikori, for sure you have some good feeling when you're in tournament. And, yes, I lost two times 7-6 in the fifth, but last year I beat Benneteau 7-5 in the fifth. I won a tournament this year. So for the confidence, I think I win 6-4 in the fifth and it's really good for me. Yes, most difficult match will be maybe against Ilhan. But when you beat Kei, for sure you want to beat Marsel Ilhan.

Q. You beat Kyrgios.

BENOIT PAIRE: Yes, in five sets. I was losing two sets to love. Yes, I feel confident on hard court. I love to play on hard court. I already play good here, so we will see what happen in the next one. But I'm very happy to win today, so for the moment I will stay on this.

Q. Today you beat fourth seeded player in a Grand Slam. How big is your victory?

BENOIT PAIRE: Yeah, it's big victory. What can I say more? To beat Kei, he made final last year, so for me, yes, it's my best victory during my career. But I don't want to stop now. I want to beat the next one and then -- I don't want to stop after Kei, after this match. I want to -- I don't know how you say in English, but I want to go (Demonstrating upward) up.

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interv ... paire.html

[DUN I LOVE]

A jak wygra w 4, to trzeba będzie go zlinczować?

Nie.

[Mario]

US Open 2015 - 4 runda!



26-letni Francuz po raz pierwszy w karierze dotarł do drugiego tygodnia wielkoszlemowych zmagań. W drodze do 4 rundy wyeliminował ubiegłorocznego finalistę - Nishikoriego, udowodnił, że ceglane zwycięstwa nad Tommy Robredo nie były dziełem przypadku, i co chyba najważniejsze pokazał, że stać go na odesłanie Ilhana.

[DUN I LOVE]

Bardzo dobry start Paire w Nowym Jorku (najlepszy w Wielkim Szlemie), ale cały czas ponad 300 punktów brakuje do najwyższego rankingu w karierze. Trzeba będzie mocno pograć na jesieni.

[Mario]

Spartolił ten wczorajszy mecz, rozumiem że Tsonga dobrze zagrał, ale na tb powinien chociaż się załapać. Inna sprawa, że swoje w nogach miał, pierwszy raz w karierze grał 4 mecze w best of 5 z rzędu, a kondycja nigdy mocną stroną nie była. Oby tylko znowu mu się nie odechciało, bo są perspektywy, by co jakiś czas powtarzać podobne starty.

[Robertinho]

Sławku, jaką właściwe nawierzchnię najbardziej preferuje Benoit?

[Mario]

Cegła i hala, chyba w tej kolejności. To znaczy najbardziej komfortowo czuje się mając mączkę pod stopami, tyle że ten jego tenis bardziej nadaje się na szybsze nawierzchnie, gdzie z kolei jest mocno podatny na dyspozycję dnia.

Ale generalnie, jak większość Francuzów, jest dosyć wszechstronny. Wszędzie stać go na dobre wyniki, nawet na trawie, ale ją najpierw musi przestać hejtować.

[Lucas]

[grzes430]

Paire Upsets Nishikori; Now Plays Wawrinka For Tokyo Title

Spoiler:

Benoit Paire reaches his fourth ATP World Tour final at Tokyo
Benoit Paire held his nerve on Saturday to record the fourth Top 10 win of his career for a place in the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships final. Paire, who captured his first ATP World Tour title at Bastad (d. Robredo) in July, will now challenge his good friend, Stan Wawrinka, the top seed. Wawrinka leads Paire 4-1 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.
Paire came back from a slow start to beat second seed Kei Nishikori, the two-time champion, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 to silence the Japanese support at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Paire, who will now contest his fourth ATP World Tour final (1-2 record) also beat Nishikori last month in the US Open first round.
"Kei was playing unbelievably well in the first set," said Paire. "I couldn't do anything, he made no mistakes. He wasn't missing and hitting every ball on the line. The only thing I could do was stay focused and try to hold my serve. That's what I did and I began to build my confidence. But then I think he began to feel to the pressure. In the third set, it was different. I was playing very well, aggressively and serving well. I think I was better in the third set."
The loss denies Nishikori the opportunity to strengthen his claims for one of the four remaining spots at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held at The O2 in London from 15-22 November. Rafael Nadal has risen one spot, usurping Nishikori at No. 6 in the Emirates ATP Race To London, with his run to this week's China Open final in Beijing.
Nishikori took a 3-0 lead in the 21-minute first set, breaking a second time in the sixth game and seemingly having the answer to everything Paire threw at him.
The second set was more competitive with neither player giving away any half chances. Paire had strapped applied around his left ankle after the fifth game, then, at 3-3, saved five break points in a 20-point game.
Paire grew in confidence and on leading 5-4 his moment came. Although he could not convert two set point opportunity on Nishikori's serve from 15/40, he struck a stunning backhand winner down the line on his third chance to take the pair's fourth meeting to a decider.
The breakthrough was the catalyst as Paire took a 3-0 lead in the third set, courtesy of breaking Nishikori in a 12-point second game. Paire went on to save one break point at 4-2, 30/40 with an ace down the middle, which proved to be Nishikori's last chance. At 2-5, 30/40, Paire's first match point, the 2012 and 2014 titlist could not successfully scramble back a second deep forehand and struck a lob long.
Paire hit 11 aces and saved seven of nine break points, regrouping from winning just seven of his service points in the first set, to improve to a 23-14 match record on the season.
The 25-year-old Nishikori, now 17-6 lifetime at the future tennis venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, had been looking to reach his 16th final. He is now 51-12 on the year, the fourth best ATP World Tour match wins record in 2015. His wait on qualifying for the London season finale continues. Next week, he has been drawn to play Nick Kyrgios or Andreas Haider-Maurer in the Shanghai Rolex Masters second round.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/pai ... 2015-title

[Mario]

Finał w Tokio.


tennisnet.com

Francuz nie dał rady wygrać drugiego turnieju w tym sezonie, przegrał w finale ze Stanem Wawrinką.

Dimitrow, Baghdatis, Kyrgios, Nishikori - nie najgorzej jak na jeden tydzień, awans na 25 miejsce z widokami na dalszy progres też może tylko cieszyć. I po 2 latach będzie rozstawiony w Szlemie. Pamiętam jak pisałem (po jednej z kompromitujących porażek), że Australia 2013 była ostatnim WS, w którym był rozstawiony na długi czas. 24 miesiące to całkiem dużo, choć spodziewałem się, że będzie jeszcze dłużej...

[DUN I LOVE]

Bardzo zadowolony był Benek na ceremonii. Zdjęcie można zobaczyć na głównej ATP. Francuz jest teraz 1-3 w finałach ATP. Szkoda, że kiedyś w Chennai się nie udało ograć Aguta.

Benoit Paire - przegrane finały (3):
2015 (1) Tokio
2013 (1) Montpellier
2012 (1) Belgrad

[bogdan1978]

19.10.2015

Najwyższa pozycja w karierze: 23

[Lucas]

Finał CH w Brest:
* 4. finał CH w 2015 (2-2)
* 10. finał CH w karierze (5-5);

[bogdan1978]

26.10.2015

Najwyższa pozycja w karierze: 21

[Lucas]

Paire Sticking With Lucky Shoes

Spoiler:

Frenchman facing shoe conundrum.
Sportsmen can be a superstitious bunch. None more so than Benoit Paire, who found himself with a decision to make Saturday morning ahead of his Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships semi-final.
Should he buy a new pair of shoes for his match against Kei Nishikori, or wear the match-worn shoes with little grip?
Paire decided to stick with his lucky shoes.
"I like my shoes, I put a little bit of tape on my shoes and it is working," said Paire. "I practised this morning with Marcos [Baghdatis]' shoes, which he had left in the locker room. But they weren't good for me. I wasn't feeling good inside. So I went to buy a new pair, but I didn't like them."
The Frenchman, who is through to his fourth ATP World Tour final after his second straight win over Nishikori, will now challenge Stan Wawrinka for the Tokyo title.
"It's working with my old pair, so I don't want to change them. I will wear them tomorrow. If I don't win, I'll go to Shanghai with a new pair."

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/pai ... ition-2015

[Mario]

Niby śmieszne, ale jednak pokazuje, że zmienia się gość. I to na lepsze co jest dość rzadkim zjawiskiem w dzisiejszym tenisie.

[Mario]

Bardzo fajną historię napisał w tym sezonie Benoit.

Pewnie nikogo nie zaskoczę mówiąc, że w pewnym momencie ubiegłego sezonu, w obliczu coraz to bardziej żenującej postawy i wydawało się naprawdę poważnych kłopotów zdrowotnych, spisałem gościa na straty. Umieściłem go w bardzo licznej grupie parodystów, którzy całą karierę spędzą gdzieś na pograniczu top 60 pokazując światu mniej więcej 30% swoich możliwości. Tymczasem w ciągu 10 miesięcy zdołał wygrzebać się z grobu, wrócił do żywych i jeszcze pokazał im, że trzeba się z nim liczyć.

Jeśli w Paryżu nie wydarzy się nic niespodziewanego, zakończy sezon w top 20. A wszystko to mimo zagrania kilku CH i generalnie bardzo głupiego planowania startów. Nie wiem na ile można z jego strony liczyć, ale jeśli naprawdę mu się zachciało, popracuje nad kondycją, Zimbler namówi go do zaprzestania grania gdzie popadnie (o czym już rozmawiali), to biorąc pod uwagę relatywnie młody wiek, może zrobić naprawdę fajną karierę.

Pewnie nie mówimy o przyszłym mistrzu wielkoszlemowym i liderze rankingu, ale mimo wszystko będą się temu progresowi z dużą uwagą przeglądał, bo Francuz jest tenisistą szalenie ekscytującym, a chyba nie trzeba wspominać na jak wielki deficyt ciekawych postaci cierpi dzisiejszy tenis.

Do zobaczenia w styczniu, panie Paire.

[Lucas]

09.11.2015

Najwyższa pozycja w karierze: 20