Tercel Acapulco HC 500

[herios]

Draw:

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/current/acapulco/807/draws

 

[El Dude]

I'm excited to see how Thiem and Fritz do, although Fritz has a difficult first round opponent in Chardy.

 

[herios]

Yey for Fritzy!!

He scores his second top 50 scalp, eliminating Chardy:
6-4, 3-6, 6-3
:clap

 

[El Dude]

Dimitrov vs. Young. No players exemplify the weakness of the 89-93 group more than these two, in my opinion - as will be discussed in the next part of my Open Era Generations series.

 

[herios]

Dimitrov vs. Young. No players exemplify the weakness of the 89-93 group more than these two, in my opinion - as will be discussed in the next part of my Open Era Generations series.

Despite his last 2 seasons of under achievements, Grigor is a different category of player than Young.
Young came nowhere close to even win titles on the main tour and has been a top 40-100 at best.
Grigor is still a top 30 player, although everybody expected a whole lot more from him.

 

[El Dude]

Absolutely - and I still hold out hope that Grigor can at least win a Masters or two, maybe even in a Slam. But they both represent different shades of failure, or at least disappointment and are, in my mind, very representative of their generation.

 

[nehmeth]

Watching Thiem on concrete... LOTS of errors off his backhand.

Playing a tiebreak with Tursunov.

 

[herios]

Taylor Fritz wins against Estrella Burgos 6-1, 6-3.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

18yr old fritz sweeps away 35yr old estella burpos.

the old guy breaks into top100 18months ago for 1st time giving hope to all the players chugging around the challengers for years, and fritz goes from nowhere to 70s rank in 8months or so, encouraging the young guns.

 

[isabelle]

Ferrer and Nishi are out

 

[Great Hands]

Fritzy is putting together some impressive wins.

 

[Great Hands]

What's going on with Nishi these days? He really shouldn't be losing to a guy like Querrey at this stage.

 

[nehmeth]

What's going on with Nishi these days? He really shouldn't be losing to a guy like Querrey at this stage.

Querrey is playing some good tennis lately. Nishi may not have played his best, but part of it was due to the fact that he wasn't allowed to.

 

[Great Hands]

What's going on with Nishi these days? He really shouldn't be losing to a guy like Querrey at this stage.

Querrey is playing some good tennis lately. Nishi may not have played his best, but part of it was due to the fact that he wasn't allowed to.

I hear what you're saying, I'm just sort of thinking of the Nishi of 2014 who beat Fed, was highly competitive with Rafa, and who beat Milos in 5, Stan in 5 and then Novak in 4 at the USO etc. He looked like he was going to challenge the big boys. I know he's had injury issues, but he's o.k. physically this year, so far, isn't he?

 

[El Dude]

Querrey is a pretty solid player and can be dangerous. The guy has won eight titles, including an ATP 500. He's a player that if you look at his record, it doesn't quite match his ability.

But yeah, Nishikori is better and should have won. But their h2h is close: 5-4 now, to Nishikori, although Nishi had won the previous last four.

 

[nehmeth]

What's going on with Nishi these days? He really shouldn't be losing to a guy like Querrey at this stage.

Querrey is playing some good tennis lately. Nishi may not have played his best, but part of it was due to the fact that he wasn't allowed to.

I hear what you're saying, I'm just sort of thinking of the Nishi of 2014 who beat Fed, was highly competitive with Rafa, and who beat Milos in 5, Stan in 5 and then Novak in 4 at the USO etc. He looked like he was going to challenge the big boys. I know he's had injury issues, but he's o.k. physically this year, so far, isn't he?

Not sure about the injury bug with Kei (presently), but it is something that will follow him his whole career. He's added muscle, but he's just not sturdy enough to stay healthy for long periods.

You know as well as I, when a guy bursts onto the tour and has a huge impact like Kei did in 14', the rest of the players go to work with their coaches, pouring over tapes and looking for what they can exploit in order to win. They've done that with Kei, successfully. Now he's got to up his game.

 

[El Dude]

Kei is an interesting case. No one else on tour has a similar resume: he's got 11 titles, 6 of which are ATP 500s but none are higher than that. The only active players with at least 5 ATP 500 titles are Federer, Djokovic, Nadal, Murray, Ferrer, and del Potro - and all of those guys have at least Masters, and all save Ferrer have Slams.

 

[Great Hands]

Kei is an interesting case. No one else on tour has a similar resume: he's got 11 titles, 6 of which are ATP 500s but none are higher than that. The only active players with at least 5 ATP 500 titles are Federer, Djokovic, Nadal, Murray, Ferrer, and del Potro - and all of those guys have at least Masters, and all save Ferrer have Slams.

I guess those stats kind of define Kei's level. He's a perennial 500 winner. A shame, since he has the potential to be more than that.

 

[herios]

Querrey is a pretty solid player and can be dangerous. The guy has won eight titles, including an ATP 500. He's a player that if you look at his record, it doesn't quite match his ability.

But yeah, Nishikori is better and should have won. But their h2h is close: 5-4 now, to Nishikori, although Nishi had won the previous last four.

If Kei has a bad day on his service game, meaning low first serves in, he is very vulnerable. On top of that, Querrey is riding a hot streak, after winning Delray.

 

[Front242]

Nishikori's serve is usually more bad than good but it can occasionally be very good. Most of the time though he's netting first serves and hitting double faults. Couple that with a 6' 6" opponent with a big serve and it's easy to see how Querrey beat him.