Monte Carlo 2018

[Barty]

Djokovic potencjalnie ma od drugiej rundy Corica, Thiema i Nadala.

[Damian]

Monte Carlo - drabinka kwalifikacji:

[1] Andreas Seppi (ITA) vs Alex De Minaur (AUS)
Marcel Granollers (ESP) vs [11] Denis Istomin (UZB)

[2] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) vs Lorenzo Sonego (ITA)
Marco Cecchinato (ITA) vs [13] Michaił Kukuszkin (KAZ)

[3] Viktor Troicki (SRB) vs Sergiej Stachowski (UKR)
[WC] Hugo Nys (FRA) vs [12] Dusan Lajovic (SRB)

[4] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) vs [WC] Florent Diep (FRA)
[WC] Amaury Delmas (FRA) vs [14] Mirza Basic (BIH)

[5] Maximilian Marterer (GER) vs Andrej Martin (SVK)
Stefano Travaglia (ITA) vs [9] Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)

[6] Florian Mayer (GER) vs Tommy Robredo (ESP)
Ilja Iwaszka (BLR) vs [8] Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)

[7] Federico Delbonis (ARG) vs Nicolas Mahut (FRA)
[WC] Romain Arneodo (MON) vs [10] Jeremy Chardy (FRA)

[Lleyton]

[Damian]

Monte Carlo - drabinka turnieju deblowego:

[1] Łukasz Kubot (POL)/Marcelo Melo (BRA) wolna runda
[WC] Simone Bolelli (ITA)/Fabio Fognini (ITA) vs Tomas Berdych (CZE)/Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
Lucas Pouille (FRA)/Andriej Rubliow (RUS) vs Raven Klaasen (RSA)/Michael Venus (NZL)
[6] Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/Horia Tecau (ROU) wolna runda

[4] Bob Bryan (USA)/Mike Bryan (USA) wolna runda
Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/Ben Mclachlan (NZL) vs [WC] Romain Arneodo (FRA)/Hugo Nys (FRA)
Pablo Cuevas (URU)/Marcel Granollers (ESP) vs Novak Djokovic (SRB)/Filip Krajinovic (SRB)
[5] Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/Nicolas Mahut (FRA) wolna runda

[8] Ivan Dodig (CRO)/Rajeev Ram (USA) wolna runda
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)/David Goffin (BEL) vs Adrian Mannarino (FRA)/Fabrice Martin (FRA)
Alexander Zverev (GER)/Mischa Zverev (GER) vs Andreas Molteni (ARG)/Diego Schwartzman (ARG)
[3] Oliver Marach (AUT)/Mate Pavic (CRO) wolna runda

[7] Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares (BRA) wolna runda
Karen Chaczanow (RUS)/Milos Raonic (CAN) vs Rohan Bopanna (IND)/Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)
Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/Marc Lopez (ESP) vs Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/Robert Farah (COL)
[2] Henri Kontinen (FIN)/John Peers (AUS) wolna runda

[DUN I LOVE]

Ciężkie są te pierwsze kroki de Minaura na cegle.

[Mario]

Dobrze, że przynajmniej próbuje je stawiać, bo kolega Fritz chyba znowu planuje odpuścić prawie całą zabawę na cegle.

Widzę, że niejaki Delbonis wtopił bez walki z 36-letnim Mahut na najwolniejszej cegle w tourze. Pogratulować.

[Barty]

Facts & Figures: 2018 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters

Spoiler:

What you need to know about the #ATPMasters1000 in Monte-Carlo

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[Damian]

Five Must-See First-Round Matches In Monte-Carlo

Spoiler:

Tantalising matchups are plentiful in the first round at Monte-Carlo

It will not take long for breathtaking tennis to be played at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, with plenty of jaw-dropping first-round matchups. The ATP World Tour's best are set to get things underway on Sunday at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, the first clay-court ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season.

Tomas Berdych v Kei Nishikori
Any time two players who have climbed to No. 4 in the ATP Rankings meet at a tournament, it’s must-see action. And when they clash in the first round of an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event, you need to grab extra popcorn. Nishikori leads the pair’s FedEx ATP Head2Head series 4-1, but interestingly enough, the bigger-hitting Berdych earned his lone victory on clay six years ago, also in Monte-Carlo. He is also the 2015 runner-up at the event.

The key will be how well the Japanese superstar will be able to defend on the dirt against an onslaught of lasered groundstrokes from the baseline coming from Berdych. Nishikori, who is still working his way back to form after missing five months due to a wrist injury, will have to neutralise the Czech’s offence on his home courts — Berdych resides in Monte-Carlo and trains at the Monte-Carlo Country Club — and force him to take more risks from difficult positions. Their last match came at the 2015 Nitto ATP Finals.

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Mischa Zverev v Felix Auger-Aliassime
Experience against youth. Serve-and-volleyer against baseliner. Who wouldn’t want to watch that? Mischa Zverev, a savvy veteran, takes on #NextGenATP Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, who last year became the fourth-youngest player to crack the Top 200 of the ATP Rankings. And just a month ago at Indian Wells, the 17-year-old became the youngest player to win an ATP World Tour Match since Denis Shapovalov at the 2016 Rogers Cup.

But perhaps what is most intriguing in this matchup is the clash of styles. The left-handed Zverev almost exclusively uses the serve and volley, venturing to the net with great variety on the serve and pure, simple technique on his volleys. Will Auger-Aliassime be able to move well enough on the slippery clay to position himself for key passing shots? Perhaps more importantly, on his own serve, the World No. 176 will need to stay on top of the baseline on his own serve, and not allow the German to venture forward even more if he is to earn a second-round meeting against No. 7 seed Lucas Pouille.

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Karen Khachanov v Thanasi Kokkinakis
If you like big hitting from the baseline, you will love this first-round encounter in Monaco. Karen Khachanov, the 21-year-old, has already established himself as a force to be reckoned with on the ATP World Tour. The Russian won his second tour-level title this February at the Open 13 Provence in Marseille, and owns five Top 20 victories over the past year. But Thanasi Kokkinakis is fresh off the best win of his career at the Miami Open presented by Itau, ousting then-World No. 1 Roger Federer before falling in a third-set tie-break against veteran Fernando Verdasco in the third round.

It will be of the utmost importance for each player to control the baseline. If either competitor gives up a short ball, they will immediately be put on the defensive by the other’s powerful groundstrokes. According to Infosys ATP Scores & Stats, Khachanov is eighth on the ATP World Tour in 2018 in service games won, holding 86.72 per cent of the time, and coming in at No. 10 in first-serve points won (76.98 per cent). If he can hold easily against Kokkinakis, it might put pressure on the Australian in his service games on the red clay.

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Fernando Verdasco v Pablo Cuevas
When you pit two players who have won well over 100 matches on a surface against one another in the first round of a tournament, it will certainly be one to watch. When you throw in that the pair have split four FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings, all on clay, the prospect of a great battle becomes even greater. Fernando Verdasco (213 clay wins) looks to move within one triumph of No. 500 in his career against Uruguayan star Pablo Cuevas (128 clay wins).

It will be fun to watch rallies between Verdasco’s dangerous left-handed forehand and Cuevas’ immaculate one-handed backhand, and it will be interesting to see who is brave enough to break that pattern and play aggressively down the line first. All signs point towards a grueling baseline duel between the 2010 finalist, Verdasco, and last year’s doubles champion (w/ Bopanna), Cuevas, who also beat Stan Wawrinka en route to the quarter-finals.

Albert Ramos-Vinolas v Jared Donaldson
Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas returns to the scene of his best career result in Monte-Carlo. A year ago, the left-hander advanced to his maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final (l. to Nadal), which propelled him into the Top 20 of the ATP Rankings for the first time. But across the net in the first round for the No. 15 seed will be an eager young American who is plenty familiar with the court surface.

Jared Donaldson, who qualified for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals and recently advanced to the semi-finals at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC, actually trained in Argentina for two-and-a-half years as a teenager. And while he lost against Ramos-Vinolas at this year’s Australian Open in straight sets, he is a consistent performer who will play a steady brand of tennis and look to take advantage of any sitters or short balls. If Ramos-Vinolas is not able to get his heavy-topspin forehand bouncing high on the clay to move Donaldson around and control the action, this can be a fun one.

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[DUN I LOVE]

Jutro, poza meczami II rundy kwali, początek turnieju głównego i 4 pojedynki:

Krajinović vs Lorenzi
Kokkinakis vs Chaczanow
M. Zverev vs Auger-Aliassime
Fucsovics vs Miedwiediew

[Damian]

Monte Carlo - wyniki I rundy kwalifikacji:

[1] Andreas Seppi (ITA) d. Alex De Minaur (AUS) 6-4 7-5
Marcel Granollers (ESP) d. [11] Denis Istomin (UZB) 6-2 6-3

[2] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) d. Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) 6-4 6-3
Marco Cecchinato (ITA) d. [13] Michaił Kukuszkin (KAZ) 6-3 6-4

Sergiej Stachowski (UKR) d. [3] Viktor Troicki (SRB) 6-1 6-3
[12] Dusan Lajović (SRB) d. [WC] Hugo Nys (FRA) 6-2 6-4

[4] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) d. [WC] Florent Diep (FRA) 6-3 6-2
[14] Mirza Basic (BIH) d. [WC] Amaury Delmas (FRA) 6-4 6-0

Andrej Martin (SVK) d. [5] Maximilian Marterer (GER) 6-1 3-6 6-3
[9] Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) d. Stefano Travaglia (ITA) 7-5 6-7(3) 7-6(4)

[6] Florian Mayer (GER) d. Tommy Robredo (ESP) 6-2 7-5
Ilja Iwaszka (BLR) d. [8] Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) 3-6 6-4 6-3

Nicolas Mahut (FRA) d. [7] Federico Delbonis (ARG) 6-4 6-3
[10] Jeremy Chardy (FRA) d. [WC] Romain Arneodo (MON) 6-3 6-2

[Damian]

Monte Carlo - pary II rundy kwalifikacji:

[1] Andreas Seppi (ITA) vs Marcel Granollers (ESP)

[2] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) vs Marco Cecchinato (ITA)

Sergiej Stachowski (UKR) vs [12] Dusan Lajović (SRB)

[4] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) vs [14] Mirza Basic (BIH)

Andrej Martin (SVK) vs [9] Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)

[6] Florian Mayer (GER) vs Ilja Iwaszka (BLR)

Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs [10] Jeremy Chardy (FRA)

[Lleyton]

A Spice Girl & Stars Play For Charity

Spoiler:

Players enjoy exhibition alongside British celebrities

A number of ATP World Tour stars, led by Novak Djokovic, turned out in force to support the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation on Saturday, in a charity exhibition with participants of James Corden’s ‘A League of Their Own’ show on Courier Rainier III ahead of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.

Novak Djokovic, the 2013 and 2015 champion at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament, was the chair umpire as Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov, Dominic Thiem, David Goffin, Lucas Pouille, Alexander Zverev and his older brother, Mischa Zverev, all took to the court against the celebrities from the UK television show.

Former Liverpool and England footballer Jamie Redknapp and comedian Josh Widdicombe teamed up to win a tie-break 7/5 against Geri Halliwell, a former member of the pop group, Spice Girls, and English Test cricket captain Andrew Flintoff. The four were helped by Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem.

The pros then took control and played a number of tie-breaks to entertain the crowd, with Halliwell as the chair umpire.

After the 45-minute exhibition, Djokovic hit with his son, Stefan, prior to signing autographs.

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[Barty]

Misza Zverev to chyba jedno z najlepszych możliwych losowań dla FAA na pierwszą rundę, tym bardziej, że Kanadyjczyk zdaje się ogarniać mączkę, sądząc po wynikach challengerowych.

[Damian]

OUT Krajinovic Filip
IN [LL]

[Barty]

Wiadomo, czy to coś poważniejszego?

[Damian]

Wiadomo, czy to coś poważniejszego?

W oficjalnym protokole pisze, że z powodu lewej stopy.

[Damian]

OUT Dołgopołow Alex
IN [LL]

[DUN I LOVE]

Dog to już chyba kompletnie się rozpadł.

Pierwszy mecz MD za nami, Chaczanow dosyć rutynowo (75 64) pokonał Kokkinakisa. Szkoda, że PSE nie pokazuje dzisiejszych gier, bo Felixa chętnie bym obejrzał.

[Barty]

Chyba dobrze, że nie ma kamer na meczu Felixa. Jednak poziom ATP to dla niego inna bajka.

[arti]

Nadal Bids For 11th Monte-Carlo Crown In Loaded Top Half

Spoiler:

Rafael Nadal has a tough task if he is to lift an 11th trophy at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, with three players in the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings and also two-time former champion Novak Djokovic in his half of the draw, following the ceremony at the Atrium du Casino de Monte-Carlo on Friday. The Spanish star, who is attempting to capture his 54th clay-court crown, will need to potentially beat Dominic Thiem or Djokovic, before a possible semi-final against Grigor Dimitrov or David Goffin.
Nadal, who will meet Aljaz Bedene or a qualifier in the second round, could face Adrian Mannarino in the third round, prior to a quarter-final against 2013 and 2015 titlist Djokovic or Thiem. Nadal lost to Djokovic in the 2013 Monte-Carlo final, ending a 46-match winning streak at the tournament. The World No. 1 beat Thiem in last year’s Barcelona Open Banc Sababell and Mutua Madrid Open finals, plus also in the Roland Garros semi-finals. But Thiem did overcome Nadal in the Internazionali BNL d’Italia quarter-finals in May 2017.
“I always feel good when I am here, it is one of my favourite tournaments,” admitted Nadal, during the draw ceremony that was hosted by Zeljko Franulovic, the Tournament Director of the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters and the 1970 champion (d. Orantes). “It’s been a love story between me and this event, the people who run the tournament. I saw this tournament on the TV before I started playing here and always wanted to do well. These sorts of tournaments help me to wake up in the morning and to train and compete with a lot of passion.”
The 31-year-old Nadal, who has a 63-4 record at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments, has an incredible 319-35 record (.918) on clay courts according to the FedEx ATP Performance Zone. He is riding a 10-match winning streak at the event, but should he not retain the trophy Roger Federer will return to No. 1 in the ATP Rankings, for his 309th week in top spot, on 23 April.
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Nadal and Djokovic have both captured a record 30 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns. Monte-Carlo resident Djokovic, the ninth seed this week, will face a qualifier in his first match, before a possible second-round meeting against Borna Coric or Julien Benneteau. Fifth seed Thiem, who opens against Andrey Rublev or Robin Haase, may then lie in wait for Djokovic in the third round.
Second seed Marin Cilic, a quarter-finalist in 2015 and 2017, will begin his quest for a second Masters 1000 title (2017 Western & Southern Open), against 2010 runner-up Fernando Verdasco or Pablo Cuevas. In the same quarter of the draw, No. 12 seed and 2015 finalist Tomas Berdych will meet Kei Nishikori in a must-see opener.
Third seed Alexander Zverev, who has a 3-2 record in the Principality, will challenge Gilles Muller or a qualifier in the second round as he bids to lift a third Masters 1000 trophy (also 2017 Rome and Rogers Cup in Montreal). Seventh seed Lucas Pouille, who advanced to his first Masters 1000 semi-final last year (l. to Ramos-Vinolas), takes on Mischa Zverev or wild card Felix Auger-Aliassime.

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