If Stockholm Open 2015 ATP 250

[Billie]

The If Stockholm Open was first held in 1969 and has been held at the Kungliga Tennishallen except for 1989-1994, when it was held at the Globe Arena. There have been six different Swedish titlists in the tournament's history. Thomas Johansson was the last home-grown titlist in 2004.

 

October 19 - 25, 2015   Draw: SGL 28  DBL 16  Surface: Hard

Top seeds:  1. Tomas Berdych  2. Richard Gasquet  3. Gilles Simon  4. Bernard Tomic

5. Grigor Dimitrov  6. Jeremy Chardy  7. Jack Sock  8. Gilles Muller

 

Full draw:  http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/current/stockholm/429/draws

 

[Billie]

Order of play on Monday, not all qualifying is completed:

 

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/current/stockholm/429/daily-schedule

 

[Billie]

Ha ha..the year should be 2015, @britbox please fix it, thanks. :scratch:

 

[britbox]

Ha ha..the year should be 2015, @britbox please fix it, thanks.

Done, thanks for the topic Billie

 

[Billie]

Billie wrote:
Ha ha..the year should be 2015, @britbox please fix it, thanks.

Done, thanks for the topic Billie

Thank you BB.

I hope people who can, get to watch some of these matches.  The seeds are impressive for ATP250 tournament.

Sasha Zverev beat another young promising guy Ymer in tight 3 sets.

Dimitrov is scheduled for tomorrow.

 

[isabelle]

Darcis and Sock won

 

[Billie]

Dimitrov also.

Tomic vs Baghdatis could be interesting (if Marcos is in good form), Sock will take on Verdasco and Simon is going against Leonardo Mayer.

 

[Billie]

And Baghdatis beat Tomic today.   I wish I could have watched this today, but alas work...damnation!

Verdasco put up a good fight but lost in 3 sets to Sock.  Simon and Muller also won.

 

Alright Sasha Zverev is facing Berdych tomorrow.  If anybody gets to see this match, could you please post some comments about it? 

Chardy is facing Delbonis

Darcis vs Gasquet

Almagro vs Dimitrov

 

And we bid farewell to Jarkko Nieminen today:  http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/nieminen-calls-it-a-career-at-stockholm-2015

Happy retirement Jarkko!

 

[isabelle]

Nice effort from Baggy, hope he can qualify for semi

 

[Billie]

Berdych beat young Zverev and said that Zverev is a guy with a great future in front of him.

Two Frenchmen, Gasquet and Simon, as well as Dimitrov are through to the quarter finals.

So the match ups look like this:

Sock vs Simon

Chardy vs Gasquet

Berdych vs Dimitrov (they met in the final last year)

Baghdatis vs Muller.

 

My pics are:  Simon, Chardy, Berdych and Baghdatis.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

skeletor done sir grigor in straights. oh no.

 

[Billie]

Gasquet and Sock disagreed with my choices. B-)  so they will contest 1 semi final and Berdych will take on rejuvenated Baghdatis in the semi #2.

 

 

[isabelle]

Hope Richie can make the final and why not clinch the title   Allez Richie !!

 

[Billie]

Unfortunately Isabelle, Richie lost.   Berdych is up a break at the start of his match vs Baghdatis.

 

[Billie]

And Baghdatis retires after losing the first set.  Berdych vs Sock is the final.

 

[herios]

This is a great week for Jack Sock. I am happy to see him playing well.  In the live ranking he has the same number of points like Grigor

 

[britbox]

This is a great week for Jack Sock. I am happy to see him playing well. In the live ranking he has the same number of points like Grigor

Yeah, Sock is really making a statement. Let's see if he can maintain it.

 

[herios]

Jack will face Tomas. Does he have any wins over top 10 players yet?

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

^^mr sock defeated nishikori at last years shanghai masters..thats his lone top10 win so far.

 

[Billie]

I am also not sure about this final.  Tomas should win it and perhaps he will, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sock does it.  But at least we have a younger guy in the final, finally.