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Week 19 - ATP 1000 - Rome (Clay)


Muzzinator's back in action after his semi-decent performance on the clay in Madrid, unfortunately he ran into a red-hot Bellucci who has made his way to the semis. The draw for Rome is out and Andy has a fairly good draw compared to the others. For a neutral this is a fantastic draw, so many good matches so early.

[1]Nadal v Bye
Qualifier v Bellucci
Lopez v Llodra
Kohlschreiber v [14]Youzhny
[11]Fish v Giraldo
Ljubicic v Cipolla
Cilic v Karlovic
[6]Ferrer v Bye

[3]Federer v Bye
Baghdatis v Tsonga
Qualifier v Qualifier
Montanes v [16]Gasquet
[10]Monfils v Qualifier
Qualifier v Stakhovsky
Monaco v Seppi
[6]Berdych v Bye

[8]Melzer v Bye
Mayer v Golubev
Chela v Isner
Simon v [12]Roddick
[15]Troicki v Davydenko
Starace v Dolgopolov
Malisse v Garcia-Lopez
[4]MURRAY v Bye

[5]Soderling v Bye
Verdasco v Raonic
Anderson v Querrey
Bolelli v [9]Almagro
[14]Wawrinka v Fognini
Volandri v De Bakker
Qualifier v Qualifier
[2]Djokovic v Bye


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The Magician Santoro wrote:

For a neutral this is a fantastic draw, so many good matches so early.


 ... unless you're a neutral playing BOTB, in which case it's a nightmare! wink



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Also must be noted, this tournament is one of Murray's worst:

Record
2010: R16, Defeated Seppi 6-2, 6-4, Lost to Ferrer 3-6, 4-6
2009: R32 Lost to Monaco 6-1, 3-6, 5-7
2008: R32 Defeated Del Potro 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 RET, Lost to Wawrinka 2-6, 6-7
2007: R64 Lost to Simon 1-6, 6-1, 3-6
2006: R64 Lost to Volandri 4-6, 4-6


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   Wardy's T100 KO's 

09: Crivoi 87  

10: Ram 93 , F.Lopez 30 , Schuettler 72, Kamke 85, Russell 80

11:  Wawrinka 14, Querrey 26, Mannarino 54 

12: Andujar 36

13: Tursunov 67

 

 



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Nadal's draw has got to be just about the worst: possibly Bellucci, Llodra (say), Ferrer, Federer, Djokovic? Ouch.

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Bellucci picked up an injury during the match against Djoker today, so his participation in Rome is dubious.

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R32: (4) Andy Murray WR 4 v Xavier Malisse (BEL) WR 41

Malisse beat Garcia-Lopez by 5 and 2 to reach the 2nd round. The Belgian has had a pretty decent year so far, highlighted by a Final in Chennai (l to Wawrinka) and making the R32 of the Aussie Open (l to Federer). He got to the R16 last week in Madrid (beating Hanescu and Lu before losing to Federer).

H2H is 2-0 on the ATP tour with Murray winning 4, 2 and 2 in the R64 of Wimbledon 2008 and beating Malisse 5 and 2 in the R32 of Toronto last year.

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Good match up for Murray, Malisse isn't overly great on clay and his wins last week were against poor players.

If Murray wins that he's got Troicki (H2H 3-0) or Starace (H2H 1-0) who is up a set and a break against Dolgo, can't really ask for a better route to the quarters of a Masters series than that, hope Andy utilises that!

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   Wardy's T100 KO's 

09: Crivoi 87  

10: Ram 93 , F.Lopez 30 , Schuettler 72, Kamke 85, Russell 80

11:  Wawrinka 14, Querrey 26, Mannarino 54 

12: Andujar 36

13: Tursunov 67

 

 



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It's the last match on Centrale tomorrow - not before 8.15 pm BST, following Shazza

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3-2* to Murray, just exchanged breaks.

Drop shot success by Murray 3 out of 6

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Impressed so far. 9.5/10

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First set to Andy 6-2

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And then promptly drops his first service game. Typical Murraycoaster.

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confuse6-2 2-6

First. serve. %. I seem to have been saying that since 2005.



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5-2* in 3rd but certainly not easily - alot of faffing about. Erratic.

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In the end - very good. Well done Andy. Finally found his serve. Bless

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