Milton on the other hand can grind away for hours from the back of the court with lots of spin.

Evans is an all courter with a lot of flair.

Sears ... mmm that name rings a bell!!! I wonder ......

Top seed Jose Roberto Velasco withdrew. That means Evans will be the fourth seed unless someone overtakes him this week.

Arka wrote:

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Ratty wrote:

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It would be very odd if Rice is a good clay court player. He is a net rusher with very flat ground strokes in the Max Mirnyi mould.

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That's strange.

Some of the stuff he has done on clay is pretty special -

Beat Jon Eysseric.
Dragged Klizan to three sets.
Took Marcin Gawron to three sets.
Won a G2 doubles title.



Mind it, I'm posting stuff based purely on results. Number don't always tell the story.
Thanks for the game descriptions!


Scott Sears is of course... Nigel's son.

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Maybe Rice's success on clay in the past is because his opponents weren't used to facing a net-rusher on clay. They could have been expecting to be involved in long baseline rallies rather than having to keep coming up with passing shots. As Henman showed in 2004 at Roland Garros and at Monte Carlo in 2002, you can have success on clay as a net-rusher if you mix it up well enough to unsettle the clay-courter specialists.

If you have a really big serve you can also succeed on clay as guys like Ljubicic, Ancic and Karlovic showed last year. They all hit the ball fairly flat but produced some phenomenal serving performances. Ancic and Karlovic in particular, attacked the net with great success in Rome and Hamburg (possibly the slowest clay on the tour !)

Arka wrote:

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http://www.federaciondetenisdechile.cl/App/Noticias/Adjuntos/18D%20MD20070211221328.pdf

Evans.

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When I clicked this link I got the girls main draw

Brit matches in the boys main draw:

Rd1:

T Hewitt  v  Franco Tamagone (Arg)(6)  (jr: 112)

D Evans (4)  v   Sergio Paredes (Chi)(WC)

D Rice (5)  v  Claudio Santibanez (Chi)(WC)

S Sears (q) v  David Souto (Ven)(q)

J Milton (9)  v  Tomislav Jotovski (MKD)


Very tough draw for Hewitt, over the last 3 weeks Tamagnone has made a G1 quarter-final and two G2 quarters in South America.

I presume Paredes and Santibanez are both local players, they're both unranked.

Sears has a good chance, Souto is a 14 year old leftie ranked outside the junior top 1000. This is his first tourney of the year.

Jotovski is ranked 519 in the juniors...played two G2s in Peru and Bolivia over the past fortnight, lost in rd2 of both.

Hey! No problem. Thanks for the new one!