Tsonga loses to Sijsling @Rotterdam - 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4

Very surprised by the Tsonga result. Sijsling played very well and put him under quite a bit of pressure. Tsonga converted just 1/8 BPs while Sijsling converted 1/5.

Hanescu bt. Janowicz
Klizan bt. Mathieu
Dimitrov bt. Tomic
Viola bt Granollers
Simon bt. Brands

Dimitrov vs Tomic would have been a match I would have liked to see

Viola instrumental in Granollers' defeat.

Davydenko down a break in the first set against Florian M.

Sijs...who?
Was gutted to see Granola bow out.
Dimitrov (lol, my iPad auto corrected that to dimwit) is starting to make more inroads now.

Sijsling performance knocks out Tsonga

From what I read (Gin &) Tomic was winded in the 3rd set...and Grigor was better player throughout. Tomic just isn't putting the hard miles in...still in party boy mode.

Well Tsonga continues to dissappoint, why can't the french produce a fit and consistent tennis player to go along wih all that style and panache.

JuliusHMarx wrote:Viola instrumental in Granollers' defeat.

Wonderful

That must signal the renaissance of the cryptic thread again JHM?

lydian wrote:Tomic just isn't putting the hard miles in...still in party boy mode.

Did he bring his yellow Ferrari to Rotterdam?

The Special Juan wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:Viola instrumental in Granollers' defeat.

Wonderful

Julius.

Double bagel for Monsieur David Goffin from the Finnish baker Nieminen. Did anyone watch the match?

PS: http://www.abnamrowtt.com/news-and-media/latest-news/40th-edition/jarkko-nieminen-rewrites-history-in-ahoy-rotterdam

That is scarcely believable...I see Goffin did 8 DFs in 6 service games, can only presume he had a nightmare at the office. In retrospect this might be the kick he needs as I feel he's not putting the hard hours into the physical development he needs. Bizarre result though. Even more bizarre is that Gulbis won a match!

Minimum Nieminen effort sees Goffin off in record time

@Lydian... I am also surprised that Youzhny lost (retired in the third set). I expected Monfils to put a bit more resistance.

Haase can be up and down too. Probably a bad day at the office like Goffin.

Gulbis tears Haase down

JuliusHMarx wrote:Gulbis tears Haase down

Your efforts are much more commendable than Goffin's today.

Goffin off in no time.

laverfan wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:Gulbis tears Haase down

Your efforts are much more commendable than Goffin's today.

He's scored 0 in my quiz.

It Must Be Love wrote:

laverfan wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:Gulbis tears Haase down

Your efforts are much more commendable than Goffin's today.

He's scored 0 in my quiz.

I really feel bad for Goffin failing IMBL's quiz, but is it as bad as the double bagel?

Why aren't Djokovic, Federer, Murray or Nadal being mentioned in this thread? This is most unusual? Who are all these other players? I think the moderators will need to take a look at this. Something does not feel right.

Edben flows against De Voest opponent ever

Viola beaten by Simon. Not music to my ears.

Davydenko lost to Dimitrov and he was up a set and break on Federer last year in Rotterdam. for Davy.

Henman Bill wrote:Why aren't Djokovic, Federer, Murray or Nadal being mentioned in this thread? This is most unusual? Who are all these other players? I think the moderators will need to take a look at this. Something does not feel right.

@HB... you can partake of the plethora of threads which denigrate the current Top 4. v2 is full of them.

The strangest match (which I could not watch) was Baghdatis v Paire 6-0, (3)6-7, 4-0. Indicates some injury or fatigue issues. ATP site confirms illness for Paire.

Over Sao Paulo Chardy has just lost to an 27 y.o. Argentinian who had only ever won 1 ATP match before today (and that was yesterday)

laverfan wrote:The strangest match (which I could not watch) was Baghdatis v Paire 6-0, (3)6-7, 4-0. Indicates some injury or fatigue issues. ATP site confirms illness for Paire.

Paire down

JHM...

Baggy up a set and break and bagging it against Gasquet.

( Julius, please improve it).

GasMasquet has been released from Rotterdam, damn!

Top Marcos for Baghdatis as Gasquet blown out

Isner knows the way in San Jose

Julius... brilliant.

Ugh, now that Federer has gone off the crowd SO empty for poor Sijsling v Klizan. Apparently 1 hour of Feddy was enough for them. Let's see how many people come back to their seats soon. Not many, I fear.

Hm. to be fair this is pretty dire.

From the sponsors' official website :

Since 1974, the tournament has been known as the largest and best-visited indoor men’s tennis tournament in the world, with as many as 115,894 visitors last year.

That wouldn't include the WTF, which I think has way better attendance figures. But not sure how valid the claim is in relation to other 'normal' tour events ....(?)

Well they all turned up, just didn't stay that long. Is it really #1 indoor? Why exclude the WTF?

WTF is about 30,000 per day for about 7 days so easily tops that.

HB - No, I wasn't the one excluding WTF - just saying that ABN Amro have seemingly chosen to do so .... their only 'defence' perhaps being that they don't regard it as a routine tourney but more a very limited field, invitation only (or qualification-only I guess) event ....

Yes I know it wasn't you. Anyway, no defence for that, it's just a lie.

Klizan to serve for the match.

Nadal currently beating Joao Souza, the Brazillian one and not the Portuguese one Murray beat at the Aussie Open. Disappointingly they've never played each other.