Brisbane International 2018, Queensland, Australia - ATP 250

[britbox]

DATE: 31 Dec 2017 - 7 January 2018
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $468,910
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Grigor Dimitrov

Seeds:

1 DIMITROV, Grigor
2 MURRAY, Andy
3 KYRGIOS, Nick
4 RAONIC, Milos
5 MULLER, Gilles
6 SCHWARTZMAN, Diego
7 DZUMHUR, Damir
8 ZVEREV, Mischa

The Tournament:

The Brisbane International presented by Suncorp, held 1-8 January 2017, is located at the Queensland Tennis Centre in close proximity to the Brisbane CBD. The tournament has built a reputation for delivering world-class entertainment, both on and off the court.

About Brisbane

Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia (after Sydney and Melbourne) with a population of 2.3 million. It is the state capital of Queensland.

One of the oldest cities in Australia, Brisbane was founded upon the ancient homelands of the aboriginal Turrbal and Jagera people. The Central Business District is on the Brisbane River with the popular South Bank cultural precinct flanking the other side.

The South Bank area includes the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), which is located at South Bank, consists of the Lyric Theatre, a Concert Hall, Cremorne Theatre and the Playhouse Theatre and is home to the Queensland Ballet, Opera Queensland, Queensland Theatre Company,

Brisbane hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the 1988 World Expo. The two events laid the foundations that saw Brisbane transform from a regional country town into an international city.

Brisbane has a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers and dry warm winters.

Tourism Guide:

 

[GameSetAndMath]

It is interesting to note that Grigor won the first and last tourney of last year.

 

[kskate2]

Is Brisbane the first tourney of the year? I thought Doha was first.

 

[isabelle]

Is Brisbane the first tourney of the year? I thought Doha was first.

the same week I guess

 

[kskate2]

the same week I guess

OK. Thanks Isabelle

 

[herios]

There are 3 events played the same week, the first week of the year:
Doha
Brisbane
Pune (India) which replaced Chennai

 

[britbox]

The Brisbane Draw is out:

 

[GameSetAndMath]

So, if Murray pulls out, it will be after the draw is made, just like at USO.

 

[Front242]

Murray looked like utter dog shit against RBA.

 

[mrzz]

So, if Murray pulls out, it will be after the draw is made, just like at USO.

Don't worry, at some point someone will tell him that it is not politically correct to pull out after the draw, and then he might change his ways. Or prepare better the excuses...

 

[Moxie]

Don't worry, at some point someone will tell him that it is not politically correct to pull out after the draw, and then he might change his ways. Or prepare better the excuses...

I have to say, I'm with you...I'm still a bit shocked that he pulled out of the USO after the draw was out, even with his great draw. He should have at least said he was re-injured in practice, if only to make it more palatable.

 

[mcekovic]

Brisbane 2018 forecast as draw is revealed:

1 2

Andy Murray 34.3% 16 1 2266 2421 71.4% 80.0% 1 30
2 1

Grigor Dimitrov 25.3% 3 3 2174 2272 72.1% 78.0% 4 26
3 4

Milos Raonic 12.9% 24 3 2091 2136 70.7% 73.7% 27
4 3

Nick Kyrgios 11.7% 21 13 2037 2128 64.6% 71.1% 22
5 7

Damir Dzumhur 3.4% 30 30 1968 2052 60.0% 67.3% 2 25
6 6

Diego Sebastian Schwartzman 2.6% 26 25 1994 2034 58.5% 61.8% 25
7

Alexandr Dolgopolov 1.6% 38 13 1945 1970 53.1% 48.1% 1 29
8 5

Gilles Muller 1.4% 25 21 1970 1874 64.0% 57.1% 2 34
9

Steve Johnson 0.9% 44 21 1889 1899 57.7% 52.9% 1 28
10

Kyle Edmund 0.8% 50 40 1893 1942 50.0% 54.8% 22

Live forecast (as tournament go): http://www.ultimatetennisstatistics.com/inProgressEventForecast?name=Brisbane

 

[mrzz]

Brisbane 2018 forecast as draw is revealed:

1 2

Andy Murray 34.3% 16 1 2266 2421 71.4% 80.0% 1 30
2 1

Grigor Dimitrov 25.3% 3 3 2174 2272 72.1% 78.0% 4 26
3 4

Milos Raonic 12.9% 24 3 2091 2136 70.7% 73.7% 27
4 3

Nick Kyrgios 11.7% 21 13 2037 2128 64.6% 71.1% 22
5 7

Damir Dzumhur 3.4% 30 30 1968 2052 60.0% 67.3% 2 25
6 6

Diego Sebastian Schwartzman 2.6% 26 25 1994 2034 58.5% 61.8% 25
7

Alexandr Dolgopolov 1.6% 38 13 1945 1970 53.1% 48.1% 1 29
8 5

Gilles Muller 1.4% 25 21 1970 1874 64.0% 57.1% 2 34
9

Steve Johnson 0.9% 44 21 1889 1899 57.7% 52.9% 1 28
10

Kyle Edmund 0.8% 50 40 1893 1942 50.0% 54.8% 22

Live forecast (as tournament go): http://www.ultimatetennisstatistics.com/inProgressEventForecast?name=Brisbane

It seems artificial intelligence is still not smart enough to see that Murray might not even play his first match, let alone winning it. What surprised me the most is that he seemed to have regressed a lot from the EXO with Federer to his lone set against Bautista-Agut.

Anyway thanks for posting the forecast, mcekovic.

 

[mcekovic]

If Murray pulls out, the probabilities will change to reflect this, stay tuned!

 

[Front242]

Hip injuries are bad news and, though I'm no fan of Murray, I hope his career isn't over. He really did look like a total load of crap against RBA. Guga's career was over once the hip injury set in chronically. Likewise, tennis elbow is bad, bad news and though I personally saw Djokovic's problems over the last 1.5 years or so as mostly mental, if he's currently out due to an elbow issue, it must be getting worse (or not getting any better which is almost as bad) given that 6 months off seems to have done essentially nothing. Leaving it get progressively worse, playing through matches probably pumped full of anti-inflammatories has most likely done him no favours and it may be hard to fix at this stage if it's become chronic.

Raonic btw has had hip surgery and has had leg issues petty much non stop since. The problem is the whole lower half is out of symmetry. I also think there's more to Tomic than just the he doesn't even bother to try half of the story. People are quick to forget he had bilateral hip surgery (at age 21 I believe which is insane) so he probably can't move properly at all rather than he doesn't try to.

 

[britbox]

Results from the Brisbane International Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Sunday

Alex De Minaur (Australia) beat Steve Johnson (U.S.) 7-6(7) 6-4
Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukraine) beat 6-Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) 6-4 7-6(3)

 

[Fiero425]

- - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Brisbane_International_–_Men's_Singles#Draw - - :whistle:

 

[Front242]

Murray's own assessment:

"I might feel like I’m playing really poorly on some days, but I might still be good enough to beat Top 30, Top 40 in the world, which is still a really, really high level."

^ That's not winning him any titles. We'll see soon enough anyway.

http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2018/01/despite-hip-issue-andy-murray-course-comeback-brisbane/70978/

 

[isabelle]

I bet Sir Andy won't play AO...

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Andy withdraws from Brisbane due to hip issues. Now that tournament has already started, they will not be allowed to rebalance the draw. Draw can be rebalanced only if a player withdraws before the first ball is struck.