Zagreb - 250

[herios]

Seeds:

1. Haas
2. Youzhny
3. Kohlschreiber
4. Dodig
5. Cilic
6. Rosol
7. Stepanek
8. Sijsling

When the AO was still on, I checked the entries, and both Raonic and Dimitrov were among the entries.
They have pulled out, first Grigor, no ideea why then Milos with his ankle injury.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

borna coric lost a close 3 setter to some bloke in the 140s rank.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Seeds:

1. Haas
2. Youzhny
3. Kohlschreiber
4. Dodig
5. Cilic
6. Rosol
7. Stepanek
8. Sijsling

When the AO was still on, I checked the entries, and both Raonic and Dimitrov were among the entries.
They have pulled out, first Grigor, no ideea why then Milos with his ankle injury.

There is some serious experience in that draw, no?

 

[Front242]

I must be a masochist. Watching Brands v Karlovic lol

 

[Front242]

1 point dropped in the whole set on serve by Karlovic and he lost the set! Madness.

 

[secrettennisjunkie]

1 point dropped in the whole set on serve by Karlovic and he lost the set! Madness.

I just came here to post the same thing. Ridiculous! 16 aces in the set, trying to look up the record in a tiebreak set.

 

[secrettennisjunkie]

Brands and Karlovic have now played 7 sets and 6 of them are tiebreaks.

 

[Front242]

1 point dropped in the whole set on serve by Karlovic and he lost the set! Madness.

I just came here to post the same thing. Ridiculous! 16 aces in the set, trying to look up the record in a tiebreak set.

Yeah 16 aces and he dropped serve only once and lost the set! Unreal. I turned it off though. Was boring me to tears

 

[secrettennisjunkie]

Karlovic drops 6 points on his serve in the 2nd set yet breaks Brands and wins it. Brands is still yet to see a break point and Karlovic is up to 29 aces. He's chasing Philippoussis' 3-set record of 44 aces.

 

[Front242]

37 aces now to Karlovic. He has a shot at that 3 set record for sure.

 

[Front242]

Great 2nd serve to the body by Karlovic to end that last service game. Started watching again out of curiosity for the ace record, secrettennisjunkie

 

[Front242]

Some volley there by Karlovic!

 

[Front242]

Well, 40 aces. Reckon he'll beat the record now.

 

[Front242]

If we get a final set tiebreak the record is likely in the bag.

 

[Front242]

Good thing he lost that point. Might still beat the record now

 

[Front242]

Ah man! He only equalled the 44 ace record lol! He was so close to beating it.

 

[secrettennisjunkie]

Nice work by Dr. Ivo to come back from the heartbreaker in 1st set and tie the ace record.

 

[secrettennisjunkie]

That's one of the few ace records for Karlovic where he actually wins the match, go figure.

 

[Front242]

That's one of the few ace records for Karlovic where he actually wins the match, go figure.

So true. Normally huge ace count and loses. A good win for him. I wish he'd made it 45 aces to beat the record though.

 

[Moxie]

BTW, "giant-killers" Stakhovsky and Rosol lost today. (As did Robredo in Viña del Mar, for those who are keeping track.)