Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE, ATP 500

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and Tomas Berdych through to the Quarters.

 

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Borna Coric joins Chung among the young guns who got schooled a little today by seasoned veterans.

He went down 6-2 7-5 to Kohli.

 

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Nick Kyrgios has just won - 6-2, 6-2. Looks like the tiredness has been overcome. Klizan was the tougher test in the first round.

 

[herios]

Nole wins 6-1, 6-2 against Jaziri and marks his 700 career win! Congrats!!!

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

well I tried to watch big nick k. vs mr uzghghnazlk but it wasn't on skysports 3, or any pirate feeds, saw about 10mins of djokovics match, after about 7mins of resistance the serbinator walked off with the victory..

fdjokovic is about to become the highest win percentage bloke of open era, just below borg at the min.

nk had easy win with zero drama, nick k is now 9-1 this season..shame borna coric and huyeon chung lost..at least they won respective 1st rd ties.

 

[Mastoor]

Feliciano shouldn't be a problem for No1e, but Bautista may be tricky in the semi. He is in some good form.

 

[Moxie]

Feliciano shouldn't be a problem for No1e, but Bautista may be tricky in the semi. He is in some good form.

I'd be shocked if RBA even takes a set. I'm already hoping for a Djokovic/Kyrgios final.

 

[Mastoor]

I'd be shocked if RBA even takes a set. I'm already hoping for a Djokovic/Kyrgios final.

I'd be surprised too, but I think Bautista is likely to take more than 0, 1 or 2 games per set other players somehow manage to squeeze from No1e these days.

 

[Moxie]

I'd be surprised too, but I think Bautista is likely to take more than 0, 1 or 2 games per set other players somehow manage to squeeze from No1e these days.

LOL! Fair enough. If he does better than 1 and 2, I suppose we could consider it a pyrrhic victory. I'd like to say that Feli might do better than that, too. He has a good serve and strong net game. But I doubt he'll take a set, either.

 

[Mastoor]

LOL! Fair enough. If he does better than 1 and 2, I suppose we could consider it a pyrrhic victory. I'd like to say that Feli might do better than that, too. He has a good serve and strong net game. But I doubt he'll take a set, either.

Yes, he can do well too, but I don't think he will resist for more than a set.

 

[Moxie]

Since it will almost certainly be Nole in the final, who'd you rather see on the other side of the net: Wawrinka or Kyrgios?

 

[EdbergsGhost]

Kyrgios. Just because we've seen the Stan/Djo show more than a few times.

 

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Results round-up from Dubai

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<td align="center" width="7%"><strong>2</strong></td>
<td align="center" width="7%">6</td>
<td align="center" width="7%">6</td>
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<td align="left"> Young D.</td>
<td align="center"><strong>0</strong></td>
<td align="center">3</td>
<td align="center">4</td>
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<td align="left" width="38%"> Querrey S.</td>
<td align="center" width="7%"><strong>2</strong></td>
<td align="center" width="7%">6</td>
<td align="center" width="7%">6</td>
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<td align="center">4</td>
<td align="center">3</td>
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<td align="left" width="38%"> Fritz T. (Q)</td>
<td align="center" width="7%"><strong>2</strong></td>
<td align="center" width="7%">6</td>
<td align="center" width="7%">6</td>
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<td align="left"> Estrella B. V.</td>
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<td align="center">1</td>
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<td align="left" width="38%"> Tursunov D.</td>
<td align="center" width="7%"><strong>1</strong></td>
<td align="center" width="7%">77</td>
<td align="center" width="7%">3</td>
<td align="center" width="7%">4</td>
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<td align="left"> Thiem D. (4)</td>
<td align="center"><strong>2</strong></td>
<td align="center">65</td>
<td align="center">6</td>
<td align="center">6</td>
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Kyrgios. Just because we've seen the Stan/Djo show more than a few times.

Kyrgios would be interesting but the Stan/Djoker clash is usually pretty good and in recent times it's been fairly uncertain.

 

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Nick Kyrgios serving for the match against Berdych.

 

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GSM Nick Kyrgios.... beats Tomas for the 2nd time in two weeks.

Books his place in the Semis. 6-4 6-4, 1hr 26 mins.

 

[Tennisproguru.com]

As tired as Kyrgios look one would not expect such good tennis plays he shows .. want to see him in Final against Djokovic (but would be fine to have some rest for Nick before
Berdych is BErdych .. looks his best times is over, currently he can not compete with top 10, or maybe top 20 players

 

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As tired as Kyrgios look one would not expect such good tennis plays he shows .. want to see him in Final against Djokovic (but would be fine to have some rest for Nick before
Berdych is BErdych .. looks his best times is over, currently he can not compete with top 10, or maybe top 20 players

Agreed TPG. I think an NK v Novak final is what the world wants to see.... but Stan would be a fairly good alternative too. You might be right about Tomas... and also today, if you were to label one of the two "Easy Power'... it would have been NK.

 

[isabelle]

Birdie must hate bad Nick !!