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Here we go again, as the first event of the 2011 season startssmile

Oliver Golding is comfortably the top seed here, and should not be troubled by his first opponent, who lost comfortably to George Morgan recently, and to Clay Crawford earlier in the year. The opening match is due to take place later today

R1 (L64)

(1) Oliver Golding (GBR) v Gonzalo Lama (CHI)

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Round 1

Oliver Golding (GBR) (1) defeated Gonzalo Lama (CHI) 6-3 6-4


Round 2

Oliver Golding (GBR) (1) vs Ivan Vereshchaga (RUS)


Vereshchaga is the same age as Oliver, 17, but ranked far below him at 369.  He has never gotten past the SFs at an ITF junior tournament and has no senior record to speak of.  In his first match he scraped past a local WC, who was playing his first tournament, in three sets.  On paper, this match should be even less demanding than Oliver's R1 match.

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Oli surprisingly had trouble today but eventually came through. His third round draw is also favourable, against a player with quite a lot of wins in Brazilian clay court tournaments, but not yet shown anything on hard.

R2

(1) Oliver Golding (GBR) d. Ivan Vereshchaga (RUS) 2-6 6-2 6-3

R3

(1) Oliver Golding (GBR) v Joao Pedro Sorgi (BRA)


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A comfortable passage today, so through to the quarters in singles and doubles. Opponent will be decided later today (Mitchell Krueger of USA or Patrik Fabian of Slovakia - he should come through whoever it is)

R3

(1) Oliver Golding (GBR) d. Joao Pedro Sorgi (BRA) 7-5 6-1


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That's last year's points defended. Now for improvement.

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Krueger it is. One more win will see him overtake George Morgan. Oli and partner squeaked through the doubles quarters 11-9 in the MTB

QF

(1) Oliver Golding (GBR) v (10) Mitchell Krueger (USA)

Doubles SF

(1) Golding/Cagnina (GBR/BEL) v Kwok/Rinaldi (USA)

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Oli won again smile.gif

"terrible match today.. about 20 double faults .. but still pulled thru 76(4) 63 .. semis of dubs later"

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He's tweeted that he played awfully, but still came through 7-6 6-3

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meh... a win's a win.

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Juan Ceballos from ESPN Mexico has just tweeted that Oli is now based in San Luis Potosi (which we more or less already knew) with Argentine and Mexican coaches.

I do wonder what happened to the rumoured arrangement with Rusedski.

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I hope there is some tennis logic behind the decision, and the coaches are good. Mexico doesn't have a player, male or female, in the world top 250.

-- Edited by Osomec on Friday 31st of December 2010 06:49:31 PM

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yeh, but i liked the bit where it said ARGETINE coaches.
vamos ollie.

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The ESPN guy tells me there's a vid of match point coming soon. Golding's celebrations are usually quite fun ... smile.gif

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SF

(1) Oliver Golding (GBR) v (6) Dimitri Bretting (SUI)

Bretting lost to Kyle and Luke last spring but has come on a lot since then, and goes into this match on a 10 match undefeated streak. Nevertheless if you consider the calibre of players both have beaten, Oli should be favourite.

Doubles SF

Kwok/Rinaldi (USA) d. (1) Golding/Cagnina (GBR/BEL) 7-6(5) 3-6 [10-6]

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Videos now up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY78bMggnuQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBLp3GRbxg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv5IPvHYfnE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


The 2nd one is an interview, the other two are matchplay. 


-- Edited by James on Saturday 1st of January 2011 01:56:14 PM

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