Wimbledon 2006

[Annie]

LMAO re: Battering Fish....

Kolya another painful court transition...started off sooo well... *sigh* Udachi at Wimby sweetie and just bare with grass...it won't be long

Mitya my boy....let's kick some ass!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

[SAFINNO1]

Third Round

T Henman (GBR) d N Mahut (FRA) 63 64
(6)F Gonzalez (CHI) d (WC)M Philippoussis (AUS) 62 36 63
(15)D Tursunov (RUS) d Y Wang (TPE) 63 36 61
(8)L Hewitt (AUS) d M Mirnyi (BLR) 46 61 76(4)
(1)R Nadal (ESP) d (Q)F Verdasco (ESP) 26 76(3) 76(3)
(13)G Monfils (FRA) d (2)I Ljubicic (CRO) 76(11) 75
(5)Blake (USA) d (9)R Ginepri (USA) 63 36 63
(3)A Roddick (USA) d (16)P Srichaphan (THA) 76(5) 63

Doubles Second Round

Knowles/Nestor d Phillips/Tursunov 67 76 13-11(Match TB)

[Annie]

CENTRE COURT (start 1:00 PM)
(15)D Tursunov (RUS) v T Henman (GBR) Bye Bye Timmy DAVAI golden locks!!!!
(1)R Nadal (ESP) v (8)L Hewitt (AUS)
(6)F Gonzalez (CHI) v (3)A Roddick (USA)

COURT 1 (start 1:00 PM)
(5)J Blake (USA) v (13)G Monfils (FRA)


WHAT A DAY AT QUEENS!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

[SAFINNO1]

ATP Stella Artois Championships, Queens Club, London:

Quarter-finals:
Andy Roddick bt Fernando Gonzalez 6-4 6-3
(5) James Blake (USA) bt (13) Gael Monfils (Fra) 6-1 ret
Tim Henman (Gbr) bt (15) Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) 6-3 7-6 (7-1)
(8) Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt (1) Rafael Nadal (Spa) 3-6 6-3 ret

[iman]

results for stella artois semis

james blake bt andy roddick 7-5, 64
leyton hewitt bt TIM HENMAN 6-3, 3-6, 6-2

bad luck for tim but i hope james blake kicks hewitts ass!!!! (HEWITT IS SOOOOOO ANNOYING!!!!)

iman

[sabz]

okay i am REALLY disappointed with both results!! i wanted a henman roddick final!!!
lleyton was lucky that he won - tim had some awful line calls which cost him his break and then hewitt won 6 games in a row but even so - tim has been AMAZING this week!! GO TIM
as for roddick - well he just got outplayed. his so called record serve seemed like nothin - blake just hit it back in! andy was so good yesterday, dunno wat happened today

anyway lookin to the final, i hope blake wins!! he seems like a really cool guy and anyone who can make andy look rubbish on grass MUST be good!!
GOOD LUCK JAMES!!

[SAFINNO1]

I think it's safe to say the Old tim Henman is back! As Sabz said about 6-8 calls were debatable and seemed to frustrate him but Hewitt done what he does best and fight for every point and got underneath Henman and won the match
Blake is my choice for the final - playing some amazing tennis

[alsl]

Lleyton beat Blake

Anyway..the big news is that [glow=red,2,300]JAMEA JACKSON BEAT MASHA AT THE SEMIS OF BIRMINGHAM 6-4 6-4[/glow] who is now going to play Zvonareva in the final!

btw,doesnt it seem to everyone like Wimbledon is SO close to RG..there seems to be such a huge gap between AO and RG.

btw in at the Ordina Open,Ana Ivanovic bt. Alicia Molik 6-1 3-6 6-2 in the first round

[SAFINNO1]

Hewitt champion again at Queen's

Lleyton Hewitt won the Stella Artois Championships at Queen's Club for the fourth time with victory over James Blake on Sunday.
The Australian, who was champion between 2000 and 2002, was always in control as he came through 6-4 6-4.

It is Hewitt's 25th careeer title and his first since Sydney in January 2005.

"It's fantastic to win here again," he told BBC Sport. "I always love playing here and it does a whole heap for the confidence going into Wimbledon."

The 25-year-old was straight out of the blocks, breaking Blake twice in the American's first three service games.

Blake overcame his edgy opening to claw back one of the breaks but could not prevent Hewitt from taking the first set.

The players matched each other at the beginning of the second set although Blake could not find a way past Hewitt's solid retrieving and began hitting more errors in his efforts to hit the lines.

Hewitt cranked up the pressure to break in the seventh game, which was enough to see the Australian claim the title.

"It's the first title I've won since getting married last year and also since having (daughter) Mia so it means a lot to all of us," said Hewitt, who joins John McEnroe and Boris Becker as the only men to win four Stella Artois titles.

Blake had grown increasingly frustrated with himself during the match but said afterwards that he was satisfied with the way he was playing.

"I've learned a lot about grass-court tennis this week and more today. I hope I can take it into Wimbledon," he said.

[SAFINNO1]

There aint no stops now - Roger and Lleyton are off flying but the grass court matches keep rolling

1st Stop Ordina - St Hertogenbosch
Draw

(1)Davydenko ;D ;D ;D 8-)vs Kohlschreiber
Benneteau vs Q
Spadea vs Phau
Minar vs (6)Baghdatis

(3)Ancic vs Q
Sluiter vs Vik
Dlouhy vs Vliegen
Santoro vs (5)Ginepri

(8)Djokovic vs Waske
Hernych vs Q
Clement vs Lee
Sanguinetti vs (4)Berdych

(7)Ferrero vs Haase
Melzer vs Muller
Schuettler vs Serra
Q vs (2)Robredo


A bit closer to home - Nottingham Open - Nottingham (would go if i did'nt have exams)

1)Johansson vs Q
Simon vs Q
Gasquet vs Malisse
Bracciali vs (6)Almagro

(4)Verdasco vs Mahut
Soderling vs Gimelstob
Bloomfield vs Q
Q vs (7)Srichapan

(6)Mathieu vs Vanek
Bjorkman vs Calleri
Goldstein vs Moodie
F.Lopez vs (3)O.Rochus

(5)Tursunov vs Murray ;D ;D ;D ;D
Bogdanovic vs Mirnyi
Wawrinka vs Seppi
Wang vs (2)Hrbaty

[davis]

Since Lleyton Hewitt won the Queens tournament (quite a comeback after his "baby holidays") he should be considered
a firm favorite for Wimbledon, especially since Roger played anything but gloriously in Halle, Andy is far from his best shape, and Marat is definitely not up for something great yet plus he doesn't like the tourny at all (sorry baby, you know I adore you ).

[Annie]

Congrats to Roger, Lleyton, to Vera Zvonareva who won Birmingham ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

And what a terrific run from Tim!!!!!!!!!!!!! I must say this one makes me overly happy...I think I am not ready to let him go from the ATP Tour

[SAFINNO1]

ATP Nottingham:
1st rd:
(2) Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) bt Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (Tpe) 6-0 6-3
Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) 7-6 (9-7) 4-6
6-4
Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) bt Richard Bloomfield (Gbr) 6-4 3-6 6-3
Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) 6-4 6-3
Jan Vacek (Cze) bt (1) Thomas Johansson (Swe) 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (11-13) 6-4
(7) Paradorn Srichaphan (Tha) bt Danai Udomchoke (Tha) 6-3 7-6 (7-4)


ATP Ordina Open, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Men’s 1st rd:
Julien Benneteau (Fra) bt Joseph Sirianni (Aus) 6-4 6-4
Raemon Sluiter (Ned) bt Robin Vik (Cze) 1-6 6-3 6-2
Jan Hernych (Cze) bt Mikhail Ledovskikh (Rus) 6-0 6-2
(3) Mario Ancic (Cro) bt Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureschi (Pak) 7-6 (7-3)6-7 (0-7) 7-5
Hyung Taik Lee (Kor) bt Arnaud Clement (Fra) 6-4 6-4
Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Gilles Muller (Lux) 6-2 6-2
(7) Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt Robin Haase (Ned) 6-4 3-6 6-2
(6) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt Ivo Minar (Cze) 3-6 6-3 7-5
(8) Novak Djokovic (Ser) bt Alexander Waske (Ger) 6-7 (9-11) 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-4)

[reese]

some results from Nottingham

Gasquet - Pastor : 6-3; 3-6; 7-5
Mahut - Malisse: 3-6; 7-6; 7-5
Murray - Tursunov: 6-4; 6-3
Lopez - Rochus: 6-3; 6-1
Mirnyi - Bogdanovic: 4-6; 7-6; 6-3
Baracciali - Almagro: 1-6; 6-3; 7-6
Bjorkman - Calleri:2-6; 6-1;6-3
Goldstein - Moodie:6-1;7-5

[SAFINNO1]

ATP Ordina Open, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Men’s 1st rd:

Vincent Spadea (USA) bt Bjorn Phau (Ger) 4-6 6-1 6-4
Florent Serra (Fra) bt Rainer Schuettler (Ger) 6-4 6-4
Mischa Zverev (Ger) bt Davide Sanguinetti (Ita) 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5)
Kristof Vliegen (Bel) bt Lukas Dlouhy (Cze) 7-5 6-4
Fabrice Santoro (Fra) bt (5) Robby Ginepri (USA) 6-1 3-2 ret
Phillip Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt (1) Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) 6-2 6-4
(2) Tommy Robredo (Spa) bt Marin Cilic (Cro) 6-4 6-4

Men’s 2nd rd:

Hyung Taik Lee (Kor) bt Mischa Zverev (Ger) 6-1 6-3
Jan Hernych (Cze) bt (8) Novak Djokovic (Ser) 6-2 6-4
(7) Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt Jurgen Melzer (Aut) 4-6 6-3 6-4
Fabrice Santoro (Fra) bt Kristof Vliegen (Bel) 2-6 6-1 6-4
Florent Serra (Fra) bt (2) Tommy Robredo (Spa) 6-1 3-6 6-4
Phillip Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 7-6 (7-2) 7-5
(3) Mario Ancic (Cro) bt Raemon Sluiter (Ned) 6-7 (7-9) 7-5 6-2
(6) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt Vincent Spadea (USA) 6-2 7-6 (7-5)

ATP red letter DAYS Open, Nottingham:

2nd rd:

Andreas Seppi (Ita) bt (2) Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) 7-5 7-5
Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Jan Vacek (Cze) 4-6 6-4 6-3
Andrew Murray (Gbr) bt Max Mirnyi (Blr) 7-6 (7-2) 6-4
Feliciano Lopez (Spa) bt Paul Goldstein (USA) 3-6 6-2 6-3
Robin Soderling (Swe) bt Nicolas Mahut (Fra) 6-3 6-2
Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) bt Jiri Vanek (Cze) 6-3 6-3
Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Daniele Bracciali (Ita) 7-5 6-3
Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) bt (7) Paradorn Srichaphan (Tha) 7-6 (7-3) 6-7 (4-7) 7-5 ,