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Robin Soderling & JC Ferrero: ATP Weekend Winners

Bastad ATP 250 - Men's Final

1 Robin Soderling d 2 David Ferrer - 62 62

This is Robin's 4th ATP title on the year & the 10th of his career.

He is now 10-10 in finals.

This is the 3rd time Robin's become a 2-time champ: Lyon & Rotterdam.

The win did nothing for his ranking... He's stuck at #5 - way behind Murray.

Battle for #5: Ferrer is at Robin's heels with only 115 points separating them.

Neither of them had a good US swing last year so... It's on.

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Stuttgart ATP 250 - Men's Final

Juan Carlos Ferrero d Pablo Andujar - 64 60

This is JC's 1st ATP title on the year & the 16th of his career.

He is now 16-18 in finals.

The win moves JC up 21 ranking spots to #64.

Deep field: And that only makes in the #11 player from Spain.

Plum loco.

 

 

Almagro & Montanes ATP Winners at Bastad & Stuttgart

Another Spanish weekend... they've collected 14 titles so far this year.

Bastad ATP 250

4 Nicolas Almagro (above) d 1 Robin Soderling - 75 36 62

This is Nico's 6th carerr ATP title. He has won at least one a year since '06.

He'll add 205 ranking points which will move him up a few to #17, or so.

Nico will play the winner of Istomin/Rosol in the 2nd round in Hamburg.

He sits in top seeded Nikolay Davydenko's quarter.

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Stuttgart ATP 250

5 Albert Montanes d 3 Gael Monfils - 62 1-2

Monfils - injured again. This is the sad story of his once promising career.

Montanes wins his 2nd title of '10 and 5th of his career - all on clay, natch.

The win should move him up to #26/27.

He will face the winner of Riba/Mathieu in the 2nd round in Hamburg.

Lot's for dirty-ballers in his section - he may be too tired to advance far.

6 Spaniards into the 8 Semifinal Spots on Offer in ATP 250's at Bastad & Stuttgart

And we're not even talking about the 2 in the top 10 - Nadal & Verdasco.

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Bastad ATP 250

1 Robin Soderling vs 3 David Ferrer - H2H: 6-2

Remember Robin just won 7-5 in the 5th in the 4th Round at Wimbledon.

This is their 3rd meeting in Bastad: 1-1.

4 Nicolas Almagro vs 5 Tommy Robredo (above) - H2H: 1-0

Strange they've only met once - in Hamburg '07.

Tommy could use this win as he's having an awful year: 11-12.

Tommy did have a great win today beating Verdasco in the quarters.

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Stuttgart ATP 250

3 Gael Monfils vs Daniel Gimeno Traver - H2H: 0-0

#17 vs #88 - Monfils should have this but... maybe a Davis Cup hangover?

4 Juan Carlos Ferrero vs 5 Albert Montanes - H2H: 5-0

JC had a wonderful South American clay court swing - 2 titles in 3 finals.

Then he fell apart on Euro clay leading up to Roland Garros.

Now he's rocking the clay again...  Where was this a couple months ago?

Fernando Verdasco Enjoys the Beach in Bastad

Say, who's bright idea was it to keep his shirt on? Um, he's at the beach...

Currently ranked #10 Fern will play Stephane Robert, 1st round tomorrow.

The two have never played. Fern was a quarterfinalist here last year.

Now pop that damn shirt off!