Week 29 - ATP 250 Atlanta, USA - Hard

British_is_Best · County player

Week 29 - ATP 250 Atlanta, USA - Hard

Drew · Jul 17, 2010

mardy is due a first round defeat....he is getting old

Salmon · Tennis legend

I don't mind it. James is still fairly inexperienced at playing the top level guys - this will be a good challenge for him.

daisy · County player

Flemski are the #1 seeds in the doubles draw and play Erlich/Tipsarevic in R1.
Hutchins/Kerr are seeded #4 and their R1 oppo are (WC) ANDERSON, Kevin//RUSSELL, Michael

(1) FLEMING, Colin GBR/SKUPSKI, Ken GBR v ERLICH, Jonathan ISR/TIPSAREVIC, Janko SRB
BOPANNA, Rohan IND/VLIEGEN, Kristof BEL v RATIWATANA, Sanchai THA/RATIWATANA, Sonchat THA

(3) GONZALEZ, Santiago MEX/RETTENMAIER, Travis USA v HUSS, Stephen AUS/SA, Andre BRA
GABASHVILI, Teymuraz RUS/PRZYSIEZNY, Michal POL v FISH, Mardy USA/RODDICK, Andy USA

LIPSKY, Scott USA/RAM, Rajeev USA v BECKER, Benjamin GER/LACKO, Lukas SVK
(WC) ANDERSON, Kevin RSA/RUSSELL, Michael USA v (4) HUTCHINS, Ross GBR/KERR, Jordan AUS

(WC) GINEPRI, Robby USA/SWEETING, Ryan USA v BLAKE, James USA/ISNER, John USA
KOHLMANN, Michael GER/SCHUETTLER, Rainer GER v (2) ROJER, Jean-Julien AHO/ZEBALLOS, Horacio ARG

-- Edited by daisy on Sunday 18th of July 2010 12:24:34 AM

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Is this the first time that Flemski have been no.1 seeds for an ATP tour event? I cannot remember them being 1st seeds before on the tour.

On a side note, come on James. 2 non-AM brits in three weeks. Fish has a taste for the British.

steven · Tennis legend

James plays Fish on the main court not before 23.30 BST on Monday with Hutch and Flemski last on the other two courts.

I noticed the Haitian Olivier Sajous on the OoP and it turns out it is the same Haitian that Tim Bradshaw beat in Laguna Niguel qualifying last year. He's 23 and ranked 1051 (= CH) but was his country's star player in Puerto Rico the week before last, winning 4/5 singles and 3/3 doubles to help gain Haiti promotion to Americas Group II (i.e. notionally the same level as us) for the first time since 2004 and this seems to have given him an enormous confidence boost - he's already beaten Santiago Gonzalez WR 172 and comperehensively beaten former world no. 55 Andre Sa in Atlanta to make the fqr!

We can only hope our DC hero (who was clearly Wardy for beating Ilhan) will feel equally inspired ...

Spectator · All-time great

Lovely to hear the "back story" about Sajous, Steven. Thank you for that. Hope he does well.

The doubles section is a bit odd, isn't it. Very few well-ranked teams, but a variety of potential banana skins in the new pairings. I was rather wishing that Erlich/Tipsarevic weren't the first round opponents . . . but Fish/Roddick, Huss/Sa, Kohlmann/Schuettler etc could be interesting also. How lovely to be able, nonetheless, to be confident in GB's seeded team!

steven · Tennis legend

The bookies give James just a 9% chance of beating Fish. Still, 9% is a lot better than 0%! There should be live commentary on www.RadioTennis.com

Sheddie · administrator

There will be live streaming of Ward's match on bet365, takes about 5min to register a free account and then you can access the stream

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Online Radio Commentary :-

http://www.RadioTennis.com

Today's scheduled matches are as follows (Mon 7/19):

Match #1: Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) vs. Brendan Evans (USA)
Match #2: Michael Russell (USA) vs. Benjamin Becker (GER)
Match #3: Marty Fish (USA) vs. James Ward (GBR)
Match #4: John Isner (USA) / James Blake (USA) vs. Robby Ginepri (USA) / Ryan Sweeting (USA)

-- Edited by mjd on Monday 19th of July 2010 07:08:52 PM

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Evil just polished off Evans

johnnylad · Tennis legend

And Russell beats Becker. Darn the 'not before 11.30' rule

daisy · County player

Match is on Livescore and Bet365 is up and running.
smile

Haven't checked if Ken is raring to go with the radio comms but I'm guessing he'll be a bit pro-Fish and come up with some interesting pronunciation of James Ward.
evileye

Lol - hadn't bargained for what the on-court introducing bloke could do with the words James Ward.
confuse

-- Edited by daisy on Monday 19th of July 2010 10:48:08 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Fish holds to 15 with one ace.

*0-1

steven · Tennis legend

OMG there's now a jingle before you get to hear Ken's dulcet tones, followed by a Hollywood announcer:

"let's bring in your announcer, the guy who not only lost to John McEnroe, he lost to hundreds of other guys as well, the one and only, the voice of tennis, Ken Thomas"