Montpellier - 250

[herios]

Seeds:

1. Gasquet
2. Simon
3. Janowicz
4. Tursunov
5. Monfils
6. Nieminen
7. Roger-Vasselin
8. Benneteau

Stan Wawrinka was entered initially in this event, but he has pulled out last week.
Good decision!

 

[britbox]

Seeds:

1. Gasquet
2. Simon
3. Janowicz
4. Tursunov
5. Monfils
6. Nieminen
7. Roger-Vasselin
8. Benneteau

Stan Wawrinka was entered initially in this event, but he has pulled out last week.
Good decision!

Yeah, Stan will be cooked after all his recent commitments and travel.

 

[herios]

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Yeah, Stan will be cooked after all his recent commitments and travel.

And he still is set to go next week to Rotterdam. He needs to pace better himself to avoid injuries which would be a set back at this point.

 

[Front242]

Gicquel who is 36 years old is kicking some major ass here. First he beat Llodra and now Simon. In some thread a while back I picked him as a candidate to retire soon based on his age but those are two very good wins for him. I didn't watch any of these matches, just saw the scores. 7-6 (4) 6-3 against Simon today. Impressive.

 

[Moxie]

QFs tomorrow:

Gasquet v. Olivetti
Janowicz v. Roger-Vasselin
Monfils v. Istomin
Niemenen v. Gicquel (Battle of the Oldsters - 32 v. 36)

 

[Luxilon Borg]

Seeds:

1. Gasquet
2. Simon
3. Janowicz
4. Tursunov
5. Monfils
6. Nieminen
7. Roger-Vasselin
8. Benneteau

Stan Wawrinka was entered initially in this event, but he has pulled out last week.
Good decision!

Yeah, Stan will be cooked after all his recent commitments and travel.

some horrific results here with Davy and Ryhmin Simon gone etc.

 

[herios]

Seeds:

1. Gasquet
2. Simon
3. Janowicz
4. Tursunov
5. Monfils
6. Nieminen
7. Roger-Vasselin
8. Benneteau

Stan Wawrinka was entered initially in this event, but he has pulled out last week.
Good decision!

Yeah, Stan will be cooked after all his recent commitments and travel.

some horrific results here with Davy and Ryhmin Simon gone etc.

Yeah, Davydenko was downed by a young frenchman Albano Olivetti (love his name, very italian, who is ranked only 249, I bet he will move up nicely after winning 2 matches already on a ATP250 event.

Are there older active players on tour than Gicquel?

 

[Luxilon Borg]

Seeds:

1. Gasquet
2. Simon
3. Janowicz
4. Tursunov
5. Monfils
6. Nieminen
7. Roger-Vasselin
8. Benneteau

Stan Wawrinka was entered initially in this event, but he has pulled out last week.
Good decision!

Yeah, Stan will be cooked after all his recent commitments and travel.

some horrific results here with Davy and Ryhmin Simon gone etc.

Yeah, Davydenko was downed by a young frenchman Albano Olivetti (love his name, very italian, who is ranked only 249, I bet he will move up nicely after winning 1 matches already on a ATP250 event.

Are there older active p^layers on tour than Gicquel?

Thanks for that info.

I think Gicquel may be the oldest, with Haas a close second.

Geez I remember watching Gicquel struggle at US Open qualifying ten years ago!

 

[isabelle]

A good opportunity for Richie to clinch the title. Allez Richie !!!

 

[herios]

Gicquel who is 36 years old is kicking some major ass here. First he beat Llodra and now Simon. In some thread a while back I picked him as a candidate to retire soon based on his age but those are two very good wins for him. I didn't watch any of these matches, just saw the scores. 7-6 (4) 6-3 against Simon today. Impressive.

Yeah, I remember you making a list of those who could retire, it was during the break between 2012-2013 season. The majority of them are still around
We are in a dinosaur era of tennis , those over 30 are better than the vast majority of young players, never mind the teenagers.

In the battle of the oldsters, "young" Nieminen prevailed in a very tight 3 set, decided by a tiebreaker. It was a very good event indeed for Gicquel.

 

[Front242]

And Bjorn Phau in Zagreb! Unreal. Oldies but goldies

 

[herios]

And Bjorn Phau in Zagreb! Unreal. Oldies but goldies

Right. Why retire, when you could still make a good buck for living and you don't need to give a ride to your kids to go to kindergarten? Or you make enough to pay a nanny to do just that

 

[Front242]

And Bjorn Phau in Zagreb! Unreal. Oldies but goldies

Right. Why retire, when you could still make a good buck for living and you don't need to give a ride to your kids to go to kindergarten? Or you make enough to pay a nanny to do just that

Exactly and doing something you enjoy. It's like getting paid for playing computer games minus the travelling.

 

[Moxie]

SFs are set:

Gasquet v. Janowicz

Monfils v. Niemenen

 

[isabelle]

Good luck Richie

 

[Front242]

Janowicz has really improved his return of serve a lot.

 

[Front242]

His grunting has also got way worse. Ridiculous now.

 

[Front242]

Good headless chicken Roddick approaches from JJ :nono

 

[Front242]

Gasquet was 5-1 up in the TB and now 6-6.

 

[Front242]

Nice point to win the set there by Gasquet but he really almost let that lead slip.