Rio Open: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (ATP 500)

[I.Haychew]

(1) Marin Cilic
(Q) Carlos Berlocq

Gael Monfils
Horacio Zeballos

Jiri Vesely
Frederico Delbonis

(WC) Casper Ruud
(6) Diego Schwartzman

(4) Albert Ramos-Vinolas
Rogerio Dutra-Silva

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
Nicolas Jarry

(LL) Gastao Elias
Guido Pella

(WC) Thiago Montiero
(7) Pablo Cuevas

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(5) Fabio Fognini
(WC) Thomaz Bellucci

(Q) Roberto Carbelles Baena
Tennys Sandgren

Aljaz Bedene
Andreas Haider-Maurer

(Q) Marco Cecchinato
(3) Pablo Carreno Busta

(8) Fernando Verdasco
Leonardo Mayer

Victor Estrella Burgos
Nicolas Kicker

Pablo Andujar
Gerald Melzer

Dusan Lajovic
(2) Dominic Thiem

 

[I.Haychew]

R1 (Feb. 19)

Cilic def. Berlocq
Ramos-Vinolas def. Dutra-Silva
Jarry def. Garcia-Lopez
Elias def. Pella
Fognini def. Bellucci
Sandgren def. Carbelles Baena
Verdasco def. Mayer

 

[Andy22]

D.thiem likely to win this title, can see anyone beaten him, M.cillic is OK on clay maybe?

 

[isabelle]

incredible match between La Monf and Zeballos

 

[britbox]

 

[I.Haychew]

F3 at it again...

 

[I.Haychew]

Due to rain, the Cilic/Monfils and Cuevas/Elias matches have been postponed until tomorrow. Monfils leads Cilic 6-3, 6-6 (7-7) with Cilic serving. The Cuevas/Elias match never began.

 

[Andy22]

Thiem going for 2 title wins in a row, clearly the second best on clay.

 

[I.Haychew]

QF:

Monfils/Schwartzman
Jarry/Cuevas

Fognini/Bedene
Verdasco/Thiem

 

[Andy22]

QTR finals matches sould be good matches go thiem.

 

[isabelle]

Cilic beaten by La Monf, strange but it's clay

 

[GameSetAndMath]

QF:

Monfils/Schwartzman
Jarry/Cuevas

Fognini/Bedene
Verdasco/Thiem

My picks highlighted.

 

[herios]

My picks highlighted.

After two matches you are completely off, Jarry upset Cuevas, Schwartzman defeated Monfils .

 

[Andy22]

G.Monfils is 3-0 H2h against M.Cillic

 

[Moxie]

The young Chilean Jarry (ranked 94, age 22) also beat Ramos-Viñolas. I'd never even heard of him. A clay-courter on the rise? Anyone see him play this week?

 

[I.Haychew]

My picks highlighted.

As a Fognini fan, I hope you don't go 0-4.
Verdasco def. Thiem 6-4, 6-0.

 

[Moxie]

Verdasco is a funny one, and so is The Fog. I wouldn't have been laying money on either of those matches, pero ¡Vamos, Fernando!

 

[I.Haychew]

Verdasco is a funny one, and so is The Fog. I wouldn't have been laying money on either of those matches, pero ¡Vamos, Fernando!

Both are head cases. Coin flip if that match happens.

 

[herios]

Verdasco is a funny one, and so is The Fog. I wouldn't have been laying money on either of those matches, pero ¡Vamos, Fernando!

I like Fernando, but usually after a good win, hi homes up lame and loses an easier match.
On another note, Nadal goat just got burned in his faith for Thiem.
Thiem last year lost only to Nadal, Djokovic and Goffin on clay, this is his worse loss on clay in almost 2 years.

 

[herios]

The young Chilean Jarry (ranked 94, age 22) also beat Ramos-Viñolas. I'd never even heard of him. A clay-courter on the rise? Anyone see him play this week?

He has entered just recently the top 100, thus tlaying mainly the Challenger tour.
He is just 22y old, same generation as Kyrgios and Edmund, so time is on his side.
And a very interesting detail regarding him, of those fans not so young, does anyone remember Jaime Fillol from Chile who played in the 70's? Well, N. Jarry is his grandson.