Indian Wells Masters 1000 (2016)

[El Dude]

Borna Coric handily defeats Bellucci in two sets. Borna's looking good.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Very interesting doubles Spain(Nadal /Verdasco) vs USA((Bryans)

 

[kskate2]

Frances takes the opener off McFly

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Very interesting doubles Spain(Nadal /Verdasco) vs USA((Bryans)

It is a battle of decliners.

 

[El Dude]

Tiafoe is going to be good. He's pretty raw, making lots of errors and gets a bit flustered at every lost point, but he also seems to have the skills and the swagger to be a top 10 player.

A really nice group of young Americans:
Taylor Fritz (18)
Francis Tiafoe (18)
Jared Donaldson (19)
Tommy Paul (18)
Noah Rubin (20)
Stefan Kozlov (18)

 

[the AntiPusher]

Very interesting doubles Spain(Nadal /Verdasco) vs USA((Bryans)

It is a battle of decliners.

U and nehmeth are some real Debbie downer s

 

[the AntiPusher]

Tiafoe is going to be good. He's pretty raw, making lots of errors and gets a bit flustered at every lost point, but he also seems to have the skills and the swagger to be a top 10 player.

A really nice group of young Americans:
Taylor Fritz (18)
Francis Tiafoe (18)
Jared Donaldson (19)
Tommy Paul (18)
Noah Rubin (20)
Stefan Kozlov (18)

Who's Tiafoe"s coach Ernest Gublis+? Man that's a funky wind up on his fh

 

[El Dude]

Yeah, his serve is weird, too - very quick, like he's swatting a fly.

 

[the AntiPusher]

The umpire just gave Obi Wan a time code violation, I thought only Rafa gets those penalties, lol

 

[rafanoy1992]

Guys here are the pictures from Indian Wells:

https://goo.gl/photos/geFNn48fxHKe7rrZ9

 

[nehmeth]

rafanoy, thanks for posting the picks... but no selfie??

 

[10isfan]

I didn't think much of Tiafoe when I first saw him because of his terrible mechanics, but he did improve quite a bit recently.

 

[herios]

Some remarkable upsets yesterday, pulled off by: Mayer, Kuznetsov and Pella defeating Troicki, Chardy and Cuevas respectively.

 

[tented]

Sunday, March 13, 2016 Day 7

STADIUM 1 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(23) Grigor Dimitrov VS Alexander Zverev
Mikhail Kukushkin VS (5) Kei Nishikori
(1) Serena Williams VS Yulia Putintseva
(1) Novak Djokovic VS (Q) Bjorn Fratangelo

NOT BEFORE 7:00 PM
(4) Rafael Nadal VS Gilles Muller

NOT BEFORE 8:30 PM
(30) Ekaterina Makarova VS (5) Simona Halep

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STADIUM 2 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(3) Agnieszka Radwanska VS (32) Monica Niculescu
(Q) Vincent Millot VS (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Vasek Pospisil VS (16) Gilles Simon
(19) Jelena Jankovic VS CoCo Vandeweghe

NOT BEFORE 6:00 PM
(9) John Isner VS Andreas Seppi

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STADIUM 3 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(11) Dominic Thiem VS (Q) Jozef Kovalik
Johanna Larsson VS (8) Petra Kvitova
Denis Kudla VS (27) Philipp Kohlschreiber
(Q) Michael Berrer VS (21) Jack Sock
(30) Steve Johnson VS John Millman

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STADIUM 4 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(Q) Kateryna Bondarenko VS Lesia Tsurenko
Yaroslava Shvedova VS (Q) Nicole Gibbs
(Q) Kurumi Nara VS Barbora Strycova
Fernando Verdasco VS (25) Martin Klizan
Juan Sebastian Cabal / Robert Farah VS Dominic Inglot / Robert Lindstedt

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STADIUM 5 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(1) Jean-Julien Rojer / Horia Tecau VS Lukasz Kubot / Marcin Matkowski
(31) Sam Querrey VS Thiemo de Bakker
(18) Feliciano Lopez VS Guillermo Garcia-Lopez

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STADIUM 6 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

Mikhail Youzhny VS (14) Roberto Bautista Agut
Adrian Mannarino VS (19) Benoit Paire
(8) Edouard Roger-Vasselin / Nenad Zimonjic VS (WC) Nick Kyrgios / Alexander Zverev
(1) Martina Hingis / Sania Mirza VS Vania King / Alla Kudryavtseva

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STADIUM 7 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

Daniel Nestor / Radek Stepanek VS Raven Klaasen / Rajeev Ram
Daria Kasatkina / Elena Vesnina VS Julia Goerges / Karolina Pliskova
David Goffin / Joao Sousa VS David Marrero / Bernard Tomic
(PR) Juan Martin Del Potro / Leonardo Mayer VS (2) Ivan Dodig / Marcelo Melo

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Just caught the last game of Zverev-Grigor. Solid win for the youngster.

 

[rafanoy1992]

rafanoy, thanks for posting the picks... but no selfie??

Sorry nehmeth, I don't like selfies

As for your favorite, Novak Djokovic: Man, I could see on why other players are having a hard time beating him these days. Even at live practice, he is so balance and have great reflex. It's hard to put the ball by pass against him. Literally, Taylor Fritz hit the ball as hard as he can, but Djokovic returned it with ease. He put Fritz in some awkward positions in some of those practice rallies.

By the way, he is still "edgy" even at practice :snicker

 

[rafanoy1992]

Next year, I will try to watch some Murray and Federer practices. They are the only Big 4 players who have I not seen practice live. Heck, I have not seen Federer play a match live either!

As for the young guns, I will try to watch Fritz again and hopefully see Zverev and Coric practice in the practice courts.

Sorry, I don't feel Tiafoe yet...

 

[Carol]

I can't understand why Rafa is playing doubles with Verdasco instead with Lopez...they have done pretty well before uzzled

Though it seems they didn't play so bad even losing against the best doubles couple

http://www.foxsports.com/tennis/story/rafael-nadal-bob-bryan-mike-bryan-fernando-verdasco-doubles-was-some-great-tennis-031316

 

[herios]

I can't understand why Rafa is playing doubles with Verdasco instead with Lopez...they have done pretty well before uzzled

Because he thinks he could learn some stuff from Fernando, who lately owns him
:laydownlaughing

 

[the AntiPusher]

I can't understand why Rafa is playing doubles with Verdasco instead with Lopez...they have done pretty well before uzzled

Because he thinks he could learn some stuff from Fernando, who lately owns him
:laydownlaughing

Actually , they played pretty well last night, unfortunately Rafa had too many hiccups serving in the super Tiebreaker. Verdasco also had a hiccups in his last service game in the 2nd set .They're are a good team and I wouldn't be surprised to see them capture the gold in Rio