Queen's Club / Murray to return in Queens

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

Rosol is through against the huge serving Samuel Groth who served 163.4 mph (263 km/h) at a challenger at Busan in May 2012.

fast serve or no..clearly the rest of his game is slow.

 

[herios]

Delpo - Malisse 7-6 in the first set

Vamos!

 

[the AntiPusher]

Rosol is through against the huge serving Samuel Groth who served 163.4 mph (263 km/h) at a challenger at Busan in May 2012.

164 mph, I don't think it's humanly possible

 

[Moxie]

Today's results:

Querry d. Beden 76(11) 57 76(5)
Del Potro d. Malisse 76(5) 16 75
B Becker d. Tomic 64 67(4) 76(4)
F Lopez d. Berankis 36 63 64
Kudla d Paire 63 64
Benneteau d. Mannarino 76(7) 63
Zamjla d. Edmund 64 76(4)
Llodra d. Andjuar 63 61
Rosol d. Groth 67(7) 63 62
Niemenin d. Harnson 63 63
Istomin d. Kuznetsov 76(2) 76(3)
De Schepper d. Ram 67(5) 62 64
Mahut d. R Williams 63 62

 

[Iona16]

The weather in Scotland (and most of the UK) was glorious last week. It's typical that the rain should come just as the tennis starts.

Berdych posted this on twitter today.

Are you home @andy_murray?

 

[Johnsteinbeck]

Benjamin "the man who shot Bambi" Becker is still active? got to say i'm a bit surprised. hasn't really done anything in a long while. but he's entering the new "tennis prime age" at 32 now, maybe he'll take some inspiration from his Landsmann Tommy Haas. at #105 right now, the couple of points here in queens could be crucial to get direct entry into Wimbledon.

 

[isabelle]

Llodra pulled out

 

[herios]

A dissapointing exit by Grigor Dimitrov:
4-6, 3-6 to Hewitt

 

[herios]

Good results by Evans, the british guy eliminated Nieminen today in R2

 

[Johnsteinbeck]

poor Benjamin B, was serving for the set v Rosol, but now they're back to 5-all. i'd really love for Benjamin to get that extra round, then see him at SW19

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

A dissapointing exit by Grigor Dimitrov:
4-6, 3-6 to Hewitt

This is why this guy frustrates everyone...I mean, should you be losing to Hewitt at this stage of your career?:nono

 

[Kieran]

A dissapointing exit by Grigor Dimitrov:
4-6, 3-6 to Hewitt

This is why this guy frustrates everyone...I mean, should you be losing to Hewitt at this stage of your career?:nono

He can only frustrate you if you have expectations of him...

 

[Johnsteinbeck]

A dissapointing exit by Grigor Dimitrov:
4-6, 3-6 to Hewitt

This is why this guy frustrates everyone...I mean, should you be losing to Hewitt at this stage of your career?:nono

no, and definitely not with that scoreline. but still, this is a former wimbledon champ we're talking about, a fierce competitor and most of all a veteran who's been there, done that. there are easier opponents for a youngster (supposably) on the rise. so i do hope he learned something today. not that i'm particularly optimistic that it'll make that much of a difference, though.

 

[herios]

poor Benjamin B, was serving for the set v Rosol, but now they're back to 5-all. i'd really love for Benjamin to get that extra round, then see him at SW19

This week's results will not have any impact on the direct entries list, which has been alrady established.

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A dissapointing exit by Grigor Dimitrov:
4-6, 3-6 to Hewitt

This is why this guy frustrates everyone...I mean, should you be losing to Hewitt at this stage of your career?:nono

no, and definitely not with that scoreline. but still, this is a former wimbledon champ we're talking about, a fierce competitor and most of all a veteran who's been there, done that. there are easier opponents for a youngster (supposably) on the rise. so i do hope he learned something today. not that i'm particularly optimistic that it'll make that much of a difference, though.

If you look at the stats of the match, that is even more depressing for Dimitrov.

Hewitt served at 50% and has faced no BP at all. ! and he broke Grigor 3 times, ho was serving 59%. Add to that Lleyton had also 3 DF.

 

[Johnsteinbeck]

^ that is horrible indeed. thanks for the update regarding direct entries - i was almost gonna ask. the monfils case should've got me realizing it anyway (he had asked for a WC before withdrawing the request, even though he's easily ranked high enough by now). i guess it makes sense - you don't need to know the seeds until right before drawing, but people should know a little earlier if they'll be playing or will have to enter qualification.

so at # 105, i don't think BB will have been close enough. too bad. he did beat Rosol, btw: 7-6(2), 7-5.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

A dissapointing exit by Grigor Dimitrov:
4-6, 3-6 to Hewitt

This is why this guy frustrates everyone...I mean, should you be losing to Hewitt at this stage of your career?:nono

He can only frustrate you if you have expectations of him...

I have , little bit..?

 

[Denis]

Delpo - Malisse 7-6 in the first set

Vamos!

I saw the Malisse - Del Potro match. Malisse is a great grass court player and should have won. Twice up a break in the last set, yet let DP back in the game.

Malisse is a strange guy, he looks so overweight he could challenge Nalby in a sumo match. Like his game though.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

Thursday should be dry with sunny intervals, 18c 64f..

..but it will be very windy out there. :s

 

[herios]

^ that is horrible indeed. thanks for the update regarding direct entries - i was almost gonna ask. the monfils case should've got me realizing it anyway (he had asked for a WC before withdrawing the request, even though he's easily ranked high enough by now). i guess it makes sense - you don't need to know the seeds until right before drawing, but people should know a little earlier if they'll be playing or will have to enter qualification.

so at # 105, i don't think BB will have been close enough. too bad. he did beat Rosol, btw: 7-6(2), 7-5.

JS
The direct entries selection has nothing to do ith the seeding, there are made way far apart in time. The direct entries have been already decided for weeks, as of May 28 rankings, and here comes for you the good news, Becker is in, because he was ranked 94. The last accepted direct entry was Alund, ranked 103.
The other 29 spots will go to WC and Qualifiers.

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Delpo - Malisse 7-6 in the first set

Vamos!

I saw the Malisse - Del Potro match. Malisse is a great grass court player and should have won. Twice up a break in the last set, yet let DP back in the game.

Malisse is a strange guy, he looks so overweight he could challenge Nalby in a sumo match. Like his game though.

I saw th most of the match as well, minus the first set up to 5 all.
Indeed Malisse could have won easily, as DP was having all kind of troubles, beside the slippery stuff. But,in the end when Mallisse was serving for the match at 5-4 in the 3rd, the champion in DP woke up and he was not going to fold. He had an awful line call against him in that game, a warning when serving the next game and then broke Xavier to zero, , to win the match with a great pass .
there is a reason why Malisse has underachieved, he couldn't bring home a match in which he had most of the time the upperhand.

 

[Johnsteinbeck]

^ that is horrible indeed. thanks for the update regarding direct entries - i was almost gonna ask. the monfils case should've got me realizing it anyway (he had asked for a WC before withdrawing the request, even though he's easily ranked high enough by now). i guess it makes sense - you don't need to know the seeds until right before drawing, but people should know a little earlier if they'll be playing or will have to enter qualification.

so at # 105, i don't think BB will have been close enough. too bad. he did beat Rosol, btw: 7-6(2), 7-5.

JS
The direct entries selection has nothing to do ith the seeding, there are made way far apart in time. The direct entries have been already decided for weeks, as of May 28 rankings, and here comes for you the good news, Becker is in, because he was ranked 94. The last accepted direct entry was Alund, ranked 103.
The other 29 spots will go to WC and Qualifiers.

i feel so misunderstood lately. although i did phrase it a bit weird - i know the seedings have nothing to do with the direct entries, and my comment was meant to say that i see the reasons why each is decided at a different point in time.

and thanks for the good news. dunno, i kinda like the guy, even despite the backwards hat thing. i think i still feel bad for him, having to be the guy to end Andre's career in front of a USO crowd.