Miami Open, FL, USA, ATP Masters 1000

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Blast from the Past...

Federer v Agassi, 2005.

 

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Results Wire

D Kudla d. H Chung 6-3, 3-6, 6-1

S Stakhovsky d. N Jarry 7-6(9-7), 7-5

A Mannarino d. I Marchenko 2-6, 6-2, 5-3

T Ito d. N Mahut 7-6(7-3), 6-2

D Dzumhur d. L Mayer 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

M Kukushkin d. B Baker 6-4, 6-2

A Kuznetsov d. R Dutra Silva 6-2, 6-3

P Herbert d. L Rosol 7-5, 6-4

T Smyczek d. T Paul 6-4, 5-7, 7-5

S Giraldo d. P Mathieu 6-2, 2-6, 6-3

F Delbonis d. E Ymer 6-1, 4-6, 6-3

D Istomin d. B Coric 4-6, 7-5, 7-5

A Bedene d. R Carballes Baena 4-6, 6-2, 6-3

J Millman d. P Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-2

A Seppi d. D Young 6-3, 6-1

 

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Baghdatis cruising to join the rest of the winners. Always liked Marco's game... nice to see him showing some form recently.

 

[isabelle]

Bagman is certainly a great player and a nice guy

 

[herios]

Cilic and Thiem win.
Roger has withdrawn with a stomach virus

 

[Moxie]

Lucky Loser Horacio Zeballos gets even luckier, beating Del Potro in straights. The bad news is, the left wrist is causing Juan trouble again, and he had to take a pill mid-match. How can this be happening again? Poor guy. I just about cried to see it.

 

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Lopez (losing to qualifier Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4 6-4 ), Chardy (losing to Verdasco 6-4 6-4) and Garcia -Lopez (losing to Pouille 6-2 6-4 ) are the seeded casualties of the day.

Did you watch the full Delpo match @Moxie?

 

[Moxie]

Pretty much, what they showed. He seemed hampered from early on. Some beautiful shots, and he stuck it out to the end, but a lot of slice bh's, too. Trainer looked at the wrist, gave him some tablets. He seemed to wince just to put the headband back on.

 

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Fritz gone too... although I thought Ferrer would be a handful for him.

 

[Carol]

They say that everything happens for a reason, I think it was too early for Roger to play on HC because his knee, it's much better that he starts in Montecarlo like he said before

 

[Moxie]

Everyone keeps saying, (by which I mostly mean commentators,) that Djokovic has no weaknesses. Another dumped drop shot. His hands are not always the softest. Young Edmund is making a decent show, anyway.

 

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Cool move...

 

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Results Wire

(1) Novak Djokovic bt Kyle Edmund 6/3 6/3
(7) Tomas Berdych bt Rajeev Ram (W/O)
(8) David Ferrer bt Taylor Fritz 7/6(6) 6/1
(10) Richard Gasquet bt Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6/4 6/4
(11) Marin Cilic bt Dn Lajovic 6/4 6/1
(14) Dominic Thiem bt Sam Groth 7/5 6/2
(15) David Goffin bt Marcel Granollers 6/4 6/4
(18) Gilles Simon bt Juan Monaco 7/5 6/1
(19) Viktor Troicki bt Inigo Cervantes 6/7(6) 7/6(9) 7/6(3)
(20) Benoit Paire bt Mikhail Youzhny 6/3 6/4
Yoshihito Nishioka bt (21) Feliciano Lopez 6/4 6/4
Fernando Verdasco bt (28) Jeremy Chardy 6/4 6/4
(31) Steve Johnson bt Alexander Zverev 7/6(9) 7/6(3)
Lucas Pouille bt (32) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6/2 6/4
(33) Joao So bt Vasek Pospisil 6/7(1) 7/6(5) 6/2
Horacio Zeballos bt Juan Martin Del Potro 6/4 6/4

 

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Horacio Zeballos bt Juan Martin Del Potro 6/4 6/4

 

[Moxie]

That was hard to see. Rafa was so sick he had to retire. First time in 8 years. Maybe the heat, or the bug that's going around, or both.

 

[Mastoor]

So what is this? Fedal kaput, Wawrinka too? And what about equality? Only JJ fell off on the other side.

I watched the first set of Nadal match adn they both played well and interesting game especially considering the strong wind. Then I was surprised later to see that Rafa had to retire (was that heat, injury or stomach flu?), but kudos to young Bosnian dude Joom-hur.