Bet-At-Home Open Hamburg

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Name: bet-at-home Open
Category: ATP World Tour 500
Place: Hamburg, Germany
Date: 27.07.2015-01.08.2015
Draw Size: S-32 D-16
Surface: Clay
Defending Champion: Leonardo Mayer

Singles Draw / Doubles Draw

Top Seeds:

1) Rafael Nadal (Champion)
2) Tommy Robredo (lost in 2nd round)
3) Roberto Bautista Agut (lost in 2nd round)
4) Andreas Seppi (lost in semfinals)
5) Pablo Cuevas (lost in quarterfinals)
6) Juan Monaco (lost in 2nd round)
7) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (retired in 1st round)
8) Fabio Fognini (lost in final)

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Nadal plays Verdasco in the first round. Tricky!

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Yes, it is bit tricky. But, I think Rafa will win as

1. He will be "calm" after multiple weeks of vacation.
2. Verdasco sauce likes hard courts better than clay.

 

[Carol]

I'm surprised how many players are playing on clay just a few weeks before the HC season :huh:
Maybe it's not a bad idea like I thought before, the players know what to do better than us

 

[herios]

2 matches in R1 are repeats of a few days ago:
Robedo - Zverev
RBA - Coric

The youngsters were defeated in both, can they turn around the table?

 

[memad]

can some1 put daily schedule here as it is very hard to retrieve from atp site. Because for some reason, it keeps on buffering.

 

[Kirijax]

can some1 put daily schedule here as it is very hard to retrieve from atp site. Because for some reason, it keeps on buffering.

Here's Monday's Schedule!

Monday, July 27, 2015 / Day 3

CENTER COURT STARTS AT 11:30 AM
1ST RD (Q) Taro Daniel vs. Jerzy Janowicz

NOT BEFORE 13:30
1ST RD (WC) Florian Mayer vs. (Q) Albert Montanes
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD (PR) Nicolas Almagro vs. Albert Ramos-Vinolas
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD (1) Simone Bolelli / Fabio Fognini vs. (WC) Jaume Munar / Rafael Nadal

ARRIBA COURT NOT BEFORE 13:00
1ST RD (Q) Inigo Cervantes vs. (Q) Lucas Pouille
NOT BEFORE 15:00
1ST RD Guillermo Garcia-Lopez / Fernando Verdasco vs. Dominic Inglot / Robert Lindstedt

 

[memad]

thanks kirijax for putting up the schedule.

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coH_PdQbaTU[/video]

 

[tented]

1ST RD (1) Simone Bolelli / Fabio Fognini vs. (WC) Jaume Munar / Rafael Nadal

Anyone ever heard of this guy Rafa's playing doubles with? His ATP profile doesn't even have a pic. :s

 

[Carol]

1ST RD (1) Simone Bolelli / Fabio Fognini vs. (WC) Jaume Munar / Rafael Nadal

Anyone ever heard of this guy Rafa's playing doubles with? His ATP profile doesn't even have a pic. :s

Jaume Munar is a very young player and also from Mallorca

 

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Monday's Results:

Jerzy Janowicz d. (Q) Taro Daniel — 6-4, 6-3
(WC) Florian Mayer d. (Q) Albert Montanes — 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
(Q) Lucas Pouille d. (Q) Inigo Cervantes — 7-6(2), 6-4
Albert Ramos-Vinolas d. (PR) Nicolas Almagro — 6-4, 7-6(3)

 

[tented]

Order of Play: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Day 4

CENTER COURT STARTS AT 11:30 AM

Borna Coric v. (3) Roberto Bautista Agut

NOT BEFORE 1:30 PM

Benoit Paire v. Philipp Kohlschreiber
(1) WC Rafael Nadal v. Fernando Verdasco
(2) Tommy Robredo v. (WC) Alexander Zverev

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ARRIBA COURT STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(6) Juan Monaco v. Ernests Gulbis
Lukas Rosol v. Simone Bolelli
(5) Pablo Cuevas v. Diego Schwartzman
(3) Jamie Murray / John Peers v. (PR) Florian Mayer / Jiri Vesely

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COURT M2 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(4) Andreas Seppi v. Martin Klizan
(8) Fabio Fognini v. Jeremy Chardy
(Q) Frank Moser / Jan-Lennard Struff v. Albert Ramos-Vinolas / Andreas Seppi
(2) Alexander Peya / Bruno Soares v. Jeremy Chardy / Lukasz Kubot

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COURT M3 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

Aljaz Bedene v. Daniel Gimeno-Traver
(7) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez v. (WC) Jaume Munar
Jiri Vesely v. Andreas Haider-Maurer

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBJ1jhvbsY[/video]

 

[the AntiPusher]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBJ1jhvbsY[/video]

What, Rafa got caught up in the Fog again ..darn it

 

[Kirijax]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBJ1jhvbsY[/video]

What, Rafa got caught up in the Fog again ..darn it

At least they can't meet until the finals in singles. Lucky break for Nadal?

 

[Moxie]

What, Rafa got caught up in the Fog again ..darn it

At least they can't meet until the finals in singles. Lucky break for Nadal?

What a woeful state of affairs that we have to worry about Verdasco in the first round, and feel lucky that Rafa doesn't get Fognini until the final...on clay. But, this is the reality, right now.

As to the doubles, Bolleli/Fognini are a good team. Won AO this year. And from what I saw of the match, their strategy was "hit to the kid." And the kid was pretty good. Decent 1st and 2nd serve. Interesting to note that Moya is 10 years older than Nadal, and mentored him. And Nadal is 11 years older than Numar, and now he's helping out a fellow Mallorcan who's coming up. And Moya is back to working with Rafa? It seems so. I like it.

 

[memad]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBJ1jhvbsY[/video]

What, Rafa got caught up in the Fog again ..darn it

At least they can't meet until the finals in singles. Lucky break for Nadal?

In fact, I would want Rafa face fognini, Brown and all those in this summer hard court season who had defeated him this year....hopefully win n get over that jinx..

 

[Fiero425]

^^They must have been truly desperate for star power showing Nadal playing doubles with his compatriot from Majorca on TCC! I caught the last few games! Why bother if you don't volley at least one ball? Rafa looked like an idiot backing up to the fence just blasting groundstrokes! He was so vulnerable to drops!

 

[Puppet Master]

This is the first time this year that Nadal's gear looks good. Is this a sign fellow Nadalities?

 

[isabelle]

Tabasco can be dangerous sometimes, Nadal have to be careful