Bastad ATP 250 - Men's Semifinal
8 Fernando Verdasco d 5 Grigor Dmitrov - 76(3) 57 75
Fern advances to his 18th career final and is looking for a 6th title.
After a bit of a crap year Fern hits the grass with a pair of Qf's.
Remember, he was a breath away from a Wimby semi.
Well, the good play continues back on the clay in Bastad.
I'm glad to see he having some good results.
Photo: Fern Instagram'd this photo after his Qf win.
Good week for top seeds as 5 of 6 tournies were won by the top dog.
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Umag ATP 250: 2 Marin Cilic d 4 Marcel Granollers - 64 62
The 23 year-old Croat won his 8th title and 2nd on the season.
He went one further this year as he was the runner-up last year.
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Bastad ATP 250: 1 David Ferrer d 2 Nicolas Almagro - 62 62
David picked up his 16th title, 2nd at Bastad & 5th on the season.
All this and he's still stuck at #5 in the rankings.
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Newport ATP 250: 1 John Isner d W/C Lleyton Hewitt - 76(1) 64
This is John's 4th title and 1st of the season.
This is the 1st time he has ever defended a title.
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Stuttgart ATP 250: 1 Janko Tipsarevic d 2 Juan Monaco - 64 57 63
Janko earned his 3rd career ATP crown and 1st of the season.
He is now 3-6 in finals.
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Stanford WTA: 1 Serena Williams d LL Coco Vandeweghe - 75 63
Serena won her 43rd WTA title, 4th on the year and 2nd at Stanford.
This is also the 2nd straight Sunday with a title following Wimbldeon.
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Palermo WTA: 1 Sara Errani d 8 Barbora Zahlavova Strycov - 61 63
Sara won her 6th WTA title and 4th of the year.
She is the 1st Italian to win 4 titles in a single season.
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.
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.
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?
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!
Fabio Fognini & Calros Berloqc Win Maiden titles at Stuttgart & Bastad - Mahut Takes Title at Newport
Stuttgart ATP 250 - Men's Final
5 Fabio Fognini d 2 Philipp Kohlschreiber - 57 64 64
Post match: Finally, after two finals, I have won. I played great,
great tennis this week. I am really happy to have won the final.
Awww. I like this cat.
Bastad ATP 250 - Men's Final
Carlos Berloqc d 8 Fernando Verdasco - 75 61
Carlos becomes the 9th over-30 tourney winner this season.
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Newport ATP 250 - Men's Final
WC Nicolas Mahut d Lleyton Hewitt - 57 75 63
Post match: When you want to win a final, everything can happen.
I just can’t believe it’s true.
It's his 2nd career title - the 1st was last month at s'Hertogenbosch.
Nico partnered with Roger-Vasselin to take the doubles title.
And *surprise surprise* Nico's part of the over-30 crowd.
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