Week 28 - ATP 250 - Stuttgart (Clay)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 28 - ATP 250 - Stuttgart (Clay)

steven · Tennis legend

fünf beide - Alex has recovered a mini break twice ... but as I write, he now faces a match point

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (Q) Alex Ward WR 382 lost to (5) Fabio Fognini (ITA) WR 31 (CH 24 in Apr) by 6-3 7-6(5) cry

Very impressive in defeat from Alex - Foggy clearly the better player, of course, but Alex managed to live with him far better than I dared hope and kept fighting hard right to the end. Decent crowd too!

steven · Tennis legend

Fognini has gone on to make the Final here.

Games taken off Fognini this week:

9 Alex Ward in R1
6 top seed Tommy Haas in the QFs
4 Roberto Bautista-Agut in the SFs
4 Leonardo Mayer in R2

Ok, Foggy might have been getting used to court in R1, but that's still quite a list for Alex to be at the top of!