Estoril Open 2018, Portugal, ATP 250

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DATE: April 30 - May 06 2018
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY: €501,345
FIELD SIZE: 28
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Pablo Carreno Busta

Seeds:

1 ANDERSON, Kevin
2 CARRENO BUSTA, Pablo
3 EDMUND, Kyle
4 MULLER, Gilles
5 RAMOS-VINOLAS, Albert
6 HAASE, Robin
7 MAYER, Leonardo
8 MEDVEDEV, Daniil


Estoril Open - Center Court by Hugo Cura, on Flickr

About Estoril:

Estoril is a town and a former civil parish in the municipality of Cascais, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Cascais e Estoril.

Estoril is a popular tourist destination for Europeans. It's also a popular venue for motorsports and was once one of the venues on the Formula One calendar.

 

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The Draw:

 

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Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) beat Pablo Andujar (ESP) 7-6(2) 6-3
Roberto Carballes Baena beat Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 7-6(1) 6-3
Cameron Norrie (GBR) beat 6-Robin Haase (NED) 6-4 3-6 6-3
Joao Sousa (POR) beat 8-Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 7-6(1) 7-5
Federico Delbonis (ARG) beat 5-Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-2 6-4
Simone Bolelli (ITA) beat Joao Domingues (POR) 6-3 6-2
Nicolas Jarry (CHI) beat 7-Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 3-6 7-6(7) 6-4
Ricardo Ojeda Lara (ESP) beat Frederico Ferreira Silva 6-4 7-5
Nicolas Kicker (ARG) beat Tim Smyczek (USA) 6-2 6-2

Stefanos Tsitsipas continues his nice vein of form. A good run here will be good for him.

 

[herios]

Stefanos starts with a victory over Andujar. Next he will play top seed KA.

 

[El Dude]

Tsitsipas takes out Anderson in three sets. His breakout seems legit - will be interested to see how high he can go.

(Nice to find a Fedal-Free Zone on this forum)

 

[herios]

Tsitsipas takes out Anderson in three sets. His breakout seems legit - will be interested to see how high he can go.

(Nice to find a Fedal-Free Zone on this forum)

Very nice result by him

 

[herios]

Tsitsipas takes out Anderson in three sets. His breakout seems legit - will be interested to see how high he can go.

(Nice to find a Fedal-Free Zone on this forum)

By the way, based your statement, like you had doubts that he was legit after what he has done last week.
I did not needed the confirmation to defeat Anderson. By now he went through enough high ranked players to convince the followers that he will be a force.

 

[El Dude]

I didn't have doubts really, just that it is further confirmation. Plenty of young players have had strong tournaments that looked like breakouts than fallen back. But now it remains to be seen just how high he'll go.

 

[Moxie]

Tsitsipas takes out Anderson in three sets. His breakout seems legit - will be interested to see how high he can go.

(Nice to find a Fedal-Free Zone on this forum)

Let's be honest, even WE'D (the collective TF "we") have a tough time shoe-horning Roger and Rafa into an Estoril thread. I think Carreño Busta v. Jarry is an interesting match for tomorrow.

 

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By the way, based your statement, like you had doubts that he was legit after what he has done last week.
I did not needed the confirmation to defeat Anderson. By now he went through enough high ranked players to convince the followers that he will be a force.

Yep, Stefanos continuing his run of good form.

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) beat 1-Kevin Anderson (RSA) 6-7(3) 6-3 6-3
Roberto Carballes Baena beat Cameron Norrie (GBR) 5-7 6-2 7-6(1)
Nicolas Jarry (CHI) beat Ricardo Ojeda Lara (ESP) 6-3 7-6(6)
2-Pablo Carreno Busta beat Nicolas Kicker (ARG) 6-1 7-5

 

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Estoril Players Party

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Let's be honest, even WE'D (the collective TF "we") have a tough time shoe-horning Roger and Rafa into an Estoril thread. I think Carreño Busta v. Jarry is an interesting match for tomorrow.

What Nonsense? Estoril has the distinction of being a clay tournament that Roger won, but Rafa has never won (it shares the distinction with Istanbul though).

 

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What Nonsense? Estoril has the distinction of being a clay tournament that Roger won, but Rafa has never won (it shares the distinction with Istanbul though).

I agree with GSM. Nadal's failure to secure an Estoril crown has to place a massive asterix against his clay court achievements.

 

[kskate2]

Young Greek in trouble. Served for the match at 5-4 and dumps serve at love. Now down in the TB

 

[Moxie]

And yet, he pulls it off! Go, Stefanos!

 

[kskate2]

He turns it around winning 7 pts in a row to close out the TB

 

[Moxie]

Good on Frances Tiafoe for making the SFs!

 

[herios]

Edmund was eliminated by Sousa, but Next. Gen. members Tsitsipas and Tiafoe are in the semis.
By the way, for those complaining about the difficult name Stefanos has, use a smart phone. As soon as I type TSI, his full name comes up as an option, all I have then to do is to press on it

 

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Quarter-final ..

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) beat Roberto Carballes Baena 6-7(21) 6-2 7-6(3)
Joao Sousa (POR) beat 3-Kyle Edmund (GBR) 6-3 1-6 6-0
Frances Tiafoe (USA) beat Simone Bolelli (ITA) 7-5 6-2
2-Pablo Carreno Busta beat Nicolas Jarry (CHI) 6-2 2-6 6-1

 

[kskate2]

The Greek in another dogfight. 5-5 in the decider