Upset Corner - RG 2019 Edition

[GameSetAndMath]

Your one stop thread for upsets at RG'19 is here. Before I could get my act together Marco, seeded #16 is gone. While Marco's exit is not that surprising, it is surprising that he went out to Mahut.

Anyway, enter your predictions of upsets for Monday before the game starts.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

On Monday, I fully expect unseeded Chardy to oust seeded Edmund.

Two other probable upsets are as follows:

a. Struff might beat Shapo.
b. Herbert, the doubles player, could possibly beat Medvedev.

 

[don_fabio]

Krajinovic/Tiafoe
Struff/Shapo
Chardy/Edmund

There shoud be one surprise in these 3 matches, just hard to predict which one.

 

[don_fabio]

Londero dispatched Basilashvilli in 3 easy sets.

 

[isabelle]

Krajinovic beat Tiafoe in 5

 

[kskate2]

Americans continue to fall in the early rounds at RG. Kudla and Tiafoe gone in 5 sets

 

[isabelle]

clay's not their cup of tea

 

[herios]

Americans continue to fall in the early rounds at RG. Kudla and Tiafoe gone in 5 sets

Both beaten by Serbians.

 

[isabelle]

Londero beat Basilashvili

 

[kskate2]

Herbert breaks Med at 5-5. Serving for the match

 

[isabelle]

PHH did it...really great for him

 

[kskate2]

Gone. The #12 seed Med packing his bags.

 

[don_fabio]

b. Herbert, the doubles player, could possibly beat Medvedev.

Well spotted. I tought Herbert is too weak for Medvedev. Russian still need to get past the R1 in RG! And well done to Herbert who seems to feed on the home crowd energy.

I picked Krajinovic against Tiafoe and the serb didn't let me down.

 

[tented]

Londero dispatched Basilashvilli in 3 easy sets.

Basilashvili played Lyon last week — rarely a wise decision before a major. I’d love to see statistics showing the average results of players who do this. My guess is they are typically out in the first 3 rounds. I can understand lower-ranked players entering tournaments the week before a major, but if you’re the 15h seed? No.

 

[don_fabio]

Basilashvili played Lyon last week — rarely a wise decision before a major. I’d love to see statistics showing the average results of players who do this. My guess is they are typically out in the first 3 rounds. I can understand lower-ranked players entering tournaments the week before a major, but if you’re the 15h seed? No.

Agree. Completely unecessary to waste energy the week before for the guy ranked that high. Better concentrate on training and use that week to recharge, mentally and phisically and hope for the good run.

 

[kskate2]

I can only see 2 scenarios why a top player would want to play the week before a slam:
- They've been out and would like some reps and matches on the surface before the slam
- They lost early in the previous tournaments and need a few more matches to get their rhythm
With both scenarios they don't need to win the tournament, get a few matches in and withdraw before QF

@don_fabio @tented

 

[kskate2]

shapo gone in straights

 

[tented]

shapo gone in straights

That was a tough draw for the 1st round.

 

[don_fabio]

shapo gone in straights

Way too easy.

Maybe Shapo is still thinking about the guy who stole his backpack a few days ago when he was checking in the hotel in Paris.
And what was in that backpack? I assume maybe a laptop? Not easy to play a slam thinking about all those nude photos of yourself someone now has

 

[herios]

Way too easy.

Maybe Shapo is still thinking about the guy who stole his backpack a few days ago when he was checking in the hotel in Paris.
And what was in that backpack? I assume maybe a laptop? Not easy to play a slam thinking about all those nude photos of yourself someone now has

I have no idea about the back pack but I was thinking Denis would go down to Struff, because he was not playing well the whole clay court season, as simple as that.