US Men's Clay Court Championship Houston

[herios]

Seeds:
1 J. Isner
2 B. Paire
3 F. Lopez
4 J. Sock
5 S. Querrey
6 S. Johnson
7 M. Baghdatis
8 P. Lorenzi

 

[Riotbeard]

THanks for posting. The draw here is a good bit better than Turkey.

 

[Fiero425]

Poor Steve; out already by Young! When is he supposed to break through? ;-(

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_U.S._Men%27s_Clay_Court_Championships_%E2%80%93_Singles -

 

[isabelle]

Paire (seed 2) out

 

[the AntiPusher]

Poor Steve; out already by Young! When is he supposed to break through? ;-(

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_U.S._Men%27s_Clay_Court_Championships_%E2%80%93_Singles -

with the lone exception of Isner, all the rest of the Americans especially Young are like a box of chocolates, "You Never Know what you will get"

 

[Front242]

Can only hope that Fritz keeps improving. Been a while since there was a truly successful American player on the ATP tour and it'd be nice to add some spice to the mix of Europeans dominating.

 

[herios]

QF:

Querrey - Monaco
Lopez - Smyczek
Isner - Chung
Sock - Baghdatis

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgjwKNFn5ys[/video]

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iz-q7Y7nu4[/video]

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urJ_Pv8CQOk[/video]

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h34fGQBfHKM[/video]

 

[Kirijax]

Nice win for Jack! Going for 2 in a row! :clap

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TFmNjihaiA[/video]

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Nice win for Jack! Going for 2 in a row! :clap

Actually, Monaco won. This is why you should not post without watching. :cover

 

[herios]

Nice win for Jack! Going for 2 in a row! :clap

Actually, Monaco won. This is why you should not post without watching. :cover

You just shoot yourself in your foot GSM.
Kirijax posted that in reference to Sock's win over Isner in the SF....

 

[isabelle]

Congrats to Piquito whose's last win was in 2014

 

[Thrash13]

I'm a big fan of Jack Sock, but his attitude can definitely sway his performance a little more than I'd like to see. Monaco got in his head a little, and it killed him during most of the 2nd set and pretty much all of the 3rd set. It was a great win for Monaco, but these are the kind of matches Sock will have to win if he's ever going to get to the next level (Top 10 or 15 at least). Hopefully he'll have a solid clay court season. He's one of the Americans who enjoys the clay surface, and I hope it ends up in some success the next couple months.