Aegon International, Eastbourne, ATP 250

[Moxie]

DATE: Jun 25-July 1, 2017
SURFACE: Grass
PRIZE MONEY: €635,660
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: (none)

The Field:

1. Novak Djokovic (Wild Card) 4 SRB
2. Gael Monfils (Wild Card) 16 FRA
3. John Isner 21 USA
4. Steve Johnson 25 USA
5. Gilles Muller 26 LUX
6. Sam Querrey 28 USA
7. Mischa Zverev 29 GER
8. Richard Gasquet 30 FRA
9. Diego Schwartzman 36 ARG
10. Kevin Anderson 40 RSA
11. Ryan Harrison 41 USA
12. Robin Haase 42 NED
13. Jiri Vesely 45 CZE
14. Kyle Edmund 47 GBR
15. Horacio Zeballos 48 ARG
16. Thomaz Bellucci 52 BRA
17. Donald Young 55 USA
18. Daniil Medvedev 60 RUS
19. Bernard Tomic 61 AUS
20. Frances Tiafoe 63 USA
21. Jared Donaldson 65 USA
22. Nicholas Mahut 77 FRA
23. Jeremy Chardy 80 FRA
24. Dusan Lajovic 82 SRB
25. Cameron Norrie (Wild card) 235 GBR

The Tournament:

After two years in Nottingham, the ATP World Tour event returns to Eastbourne. The Eastbourne International is a tennis tournament on the Women's Tennis Association Tour and the ATP World Tour held at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, Eastbourne, United Kingdom.

Held since 1974, it is classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the WTA Tour. Also, it was an ATP World Tour 250 series on the ATP World Tour from 2009 to 2014. The tournament is played on outdoor grass courts, and is generally considered a "warm-up" for the Wimbledon Grand Slam event, which begins the following week.


About Eastbourne:

Eastbourne is a large town, seaside resort, and borough in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, 19 miles (31 km) east of Brighton. Eastbourne is immediately to the east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain.

With a seafront consisting largely of Victorian hotels, a pier, and a Napoleonic era fort and military museum, Eastbourne was developed by the Duke of Devonshire from 1859 from four separate hamlets. It has a growing population, a broad economic base, and is home to companies in a wide range of industries.

Tourism Guide:

 

[Moxie]

 

[Moxie]

 

[Moxie]

Djokovic has taken the WC into his first tune-up pre-Wimbledon since 2010. Does anyone else think that Mischa Zverev might be over-playing to be here before Wimbledon?

 

[kskate2]

Results from Round 1 Eastbourne's Men's Singles matches on Sunday

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Is this the only ATP tourney this week? What happened to Nottingham?

 

[Moxie]

Is this the only ATP tourney this week? What happened to Nottingham?

Antalya is the other one, (debut year.) Eastbourne got the tournament back over Nottingham, I believe. WTA still plays there, (Vekic won this year.) Nottingham has been downgraded to a Challenger on the ATP calendar.

 

[isabelle]

if Nole's unable to win that....he can worry about himself

 

[britbox]

Results from the Eastbourne International Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday

Cameron Norrie (Britain) beat Horacio Zeballos (Argentina) 6-4 7-6(4)
Robin Haase (Netherlands) beat Nicolas Mahut (France) 6-4 7-6(4)
Bernard Tomic (Australia) beat Norbert Gombos (Slovakia) 7-6(3) 6-3
Kevin Anderson (South Africa) beat Thomaz Bellucci (Brazil) 6-3 6-1
Vasek Pospisil (Canada) beat Jiri Vesely (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-4
Jared Donaldson (U.S.) beat 8-Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) 7-6(5) 3-6 7-5
Donald Young (U.S.) beat Kyle Edmund (Britain) 6-4 3-6 6-3

 

[Moxie]

 

[Moxie]

Djokovic kicks off his grass tune-up tomorrow v. qualifier Pospisil. Donald Young faces young Jared Donaldson. (Couldn't resist that.) And Gasquet gets my buddy Frances Tiafoe. Go Frances!

 

[Mary]

Weather at Eastbourne and NW of London where I am is awful, wet, dark, cold and forecast for week grim. Amazed there is play at Wimbledon. So sorry for Eastbourne crowd still sat in rain. It's such a popular tournament.

 

[Moxie]

With all the rain today, I suspect tomorrow's OOP doesn't look that different from today's, but here it is, anyway:

 

[Mary]

Novak returning well and looking relaxed. Stand up applause from Eastbourne crowd. Some great tennis from both in this match. Thank goodness rain held off for a few hours.

 

[Puppet Master]

Novak is still his 2017 self, just not bad enough to lose to a doubles specialist. Today, at least.
What I did notice, is that his game has become quite impotent. If Pospisil didn't have the movement and anticipation of a concrete block, he would have made a match out of this.
If it weren't for all those botched net approaches and Vasek's horrible returning, Djokovic would not have hit a single winner.
I know he isn't the type to hit the cover off the ball, but this performance was Ferrer like, on days that Ferrer would feel especially defensive.
With this game, I can see him bombing out to the first decent grass courter he faces, in both Eastbourne and Wimbledon.

 

[Mary]

Novak is still his 2017 self, just not bad enough to lose to a doubles specialist. Today, at least.
What I did notice, is that his game has become quite impotent. If Pospisil didn't have the movement and anticipation of a concrete block, he would have made a match out of this.
If it weren't for all those botched net approaches and Vasek's horrible returning, Djokovic would not have hit a single winner.
I know he isn't the type to hit the cover off the ball, but this performance was Ferrer like, on days that Ferrer would feel especially defensive.
With this game, I can see him bombing out to the first decent grass courter he faces, in both Eastbourne and Wimbledon.

Didn't look like that to me and I head a great view!

 

[Shivashish Sarkar]

Djokovic was careful and defensive but hit some good shots here and there. At least he won. So, that's good obviously for him. Let's see if he will be more aggressive going forward.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Damn Tiafoe let Richie G slip off the hook. DYJr advanced

 

[Moxie]

Damn Tiafoe let Richie G slip off the hook. DYJr advanced

I was sorry Frances couldn't get the job done. He got pretty close.

 

[Moxie]