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Sheddie


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Bizarrely the main draw has been released but there's no sign of the qualifying draw which should have started yesterday !!

Karlovic is quite a nasty draw for Greg considering that he couldn't have faced a seed in rd1 [all seeds got byes through to rd2]. The winner of this match will play Jarkko Nieminen.

These two have played 4 times previous: the head-to-head is 2-2 and surprise, surprise every match has featured at least one tiebreak.

In 2004 Greg won in rd1 of ATP Moscow, 7-6[14], 6-2 and in the quarters of ATP St Petersburg 6-4, 7-6[7]. However Ivo won both their matches in 2005, 7-6[4], 6-2 in rd2 of ATP Washington and 6-7[5], 7-6[2], 7-6[3] in rd1 of TMS Madrid.

Karlovic is ranked 69 but he's yet to play on hard courts this summer. He hasn't competed since ATP Newport at the beginning of July. He's on a 4 match losing streak having lost in rd1 of Newport to Bastl, rd1 of Wimbledon in a 5 set marathon to Wawrinka, rd1 of Queens qualies and rd2 of the French Open in 5 sets to Hrbaty.

Bizzarely, Karlov has enjoyed his best form this year on clay, reaching the quarters of ATP Barcelona and TMS Munich





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Qualy draw released now but no British interest.


 



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johnnylad wrote:

Qualy draw released now but no British interest.


 




Yeah that's a shame. I was hoping that Jamie Baker would enter the qualies as the chances of him making the USO qualies cut still look unlikely.

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Karlovic v Rusedski is 3rd on court 1 tonight at approx 6.30pm.

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How far is Connecticut from New York? i thought they would play tournies that not far from New York. for example, for Wimbledon, Eastbourne and Nottingham were not far from London.

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VSandhi20 wrote:

How far is Connecticut from New York? i thought they would play tournies that not far from New York. for example, for Wimbledon, Eastbourne and Nottingham were not far from London.


New Haven is only about 60 miles from New York

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I don't want to be a ballperson/linesperson for this match!

Good luck, Greg, get some ranking points here please.

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Best of luck to Greg - I'm sure he can get a good result in this match, although I don't think it will be pretty.

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Greg leads 6-5, on serve (surprise surprise!)


Though there have been break opportunities...greg has converted only 1 of 6
Karlovic converted his one and only break point



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Greg was a break down early on in this match but he must have broken back.

It's now in a first set tiebreak and Greg leads 4-2

Go Greg !!!!


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2nd minibreak for Greg - 5-2 !

2nd serve ace - 6-2. 4 set points !

First set to Greg, 7-2 in the breaker

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greg takes 1st set tiebreak 7-2!!!

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Greg takes the first set tiebreak form 1-2 to 7-2!!!

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Hopefully this won't be a repeat of their last match in Madrid 2005 when Greg won the 1st set tiebreak and then lost in 3 breakers.

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15-0
15-15 Double Fault
15-30 Double Fault
15-40 Double Fault...wow greg double set point
30-40...set point
duece-ace
40-ad
deuce
ad-40!!!
deuce
ad-40

greg just saved 3 set points
5-5

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