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Stircrazy


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Stircrazy wrote:

Fognini's the only seed left in the bottom half of the draw, Bautista having fallen to Aljaz, Mónaco (6) to the French qualifier, Lucas Pouille, & Robredo (2) to one of the latter's compatriots, Benoít Paire!

And the qualifier, Pouille (whose name reminds me irresistibly of the French word for "lice", poux, or even more so of "fleabag", pouilleux! wink ), WR 85 (= CH), romps home against Paire by 3 & 2!  Aljaz is clearly not the only player pulling up trees at this tournament!



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Thank you for the addition to my French vocabulary, SC! But poor M Pouille - not because of his victory, for which congratulations to him, but because I am sure you are far from the first person to make that connection. Primary school nicknames must have been less than a pleasure.

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On a more prosaic note, Pouille is the French word for the area of Italy down in the south west that the Italians call Puglia (sometimes seen as La Pouille and sometimes as Les Pouilles).

It may be where the family (on the male side) come from originally.

Mind you, there are also various communes/towns called Pouillé (it also means some sort of church register, probably hence the towns' names). And as accents get lost a lot over the years his name may be the unaccented version of that.

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Aljaz has started and started well, leads 3-1

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Great start for Aljaz.  He breaks "Foggy" to 40 in the fourth game to take a *3-1 lead. 



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Aljaz has the first break. A weird succession of points, at 30 all someone called a ball out in the crowd and he lost the point.

At 40-30 he hit a stunning forehand pass.

At deuce he had Fognini on a string before drawing the error, then got the break with an error from Fognini whose racket hits the dirt.

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Never a break till you hold they always say. *2-3

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1st set to the Italian 6-4
Aljaz getting stuck into Fognini's serve again though in the 2nd 1-0*



-- Edited by thejester on Friday 31st of July 2015 01:51:42 PM

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Holds to love, 4-6 2-1*

( remember unless clearly otherwise our player's score first in general game to game updates or my poor mind can get confused )



-- Edited by indiana on Friday 31st of July 2015 01:05:07 PM

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Ekes out another hold, and the set continues to go with serve, 4-3*

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QF:  (8) Fabio Fognini (ITA) WR 32 defeated Aljaz Bedene WR 67 by 4 & 5  cry



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Enjoyed watching that. Love watching players that play with a smile on their faces, some cracking rallies in there despite both players not playing to their absolute best.

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It would have been a famous victory, but at least it was a competitive match ... and a very good week.

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I thought that would be a step too far if Foggy could be bothered to play well - maybe he is eyeing up another meeting with Nadal and the hopes of beating him again. . .

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No shame in that loss for Aljaz, a respectable scoreline against (on his day) a top clay-court opponent. Another 90 points on the board, and he certainly looks very comfortable at ATP level.

Really looking forward to seeing how he progressed over the rest of this year and into 2016

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