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The Championships, Wimbledon II - Gentlemen's Doubles
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Wow. That's the sort of comprehensive victory that we needed. On and off the court in quick time.
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The Championships, Wimbledon II - Gentlemen's Singles
GRAND SLAM - Sunday (Rest Day) - Wimbledon, With both the singles and the doubles teams taking a well-earned rest, we'll quickly preview Monday's eight fourth round showdowns. Tom Vollan NOR vs. 23-Heath Davis FRC Talk about a fourth round matchup no one expected. Davis has been absolute dynamite this week, though he's been monstering players of less ability than him for sure. He's yet to drop a set, and meets a player who has dropped at least one in each of his three matches so far. The plus for the Norwegian is that he holds a victory over the World No. 1, but on the back of a pretty taxing showdown with Ion Andueza he might find it tough. The weekend break will help him, and it will clearly be a question of who serves best in the battle of the big men. Prediction: Davis in four. Markets: Davis $1.50, Vollan $2.46. 16-Jojo Mustard FRC vs. 6-József Boros HUN József Boros continues to perform admirably on the grass after finally producing a pretty good display in the third round against Jarkko Maxum after a scratchy win in the second round against Gunther Heug. Mustard, meanwhile, was forced to come from two sets down to oust nineteenth seed Oneil Stewart in a gutsy performance and will no doubt takes bundles of confidence from that win. Boros, though, is an all-courter - last year he beat the likes of Morgan Carter and Henry Charles before succumbing to Jason Hall in the quarter finals, and he has had a lot more time to recover than Mustard who also competes in the doubles. That could be decisive. Prediction: Boros in five. Markets: Boros $1.63, Mustard $2.18. 4-Darcy Cowan USA vs. 10-Dwayne Murdoch USA The defending champion has dropped just one set this week, and finally put his best foot forward with a 6-0, 6-0, 6-3 mauling of British journeyman Roger Warren in the third round. Now he faces his biggest task yet - Dwayne Murdoch is a serial pest in Grand Slams and has tasted the quarter finals already having lost to Radek Spidla last season. The two are very different players - Murdoch loves the baseline and plays a more versatile game while Cowan can at times rely too heavily on his big serve. That being said, he's 10-0 at Wimbledon and has really started to click into gear. Murdoch starts as an outsider and probably deserves to as Cowan should edge this one in four sets. Prediction: Cowan in four. Markets: Cowan $1.59, Murdoch $2.26. 21-Davis Kennedy CAN vs. 26-Morgan Carter USA It was one of the upsets of the third round, but Canadian 21st seed Davis Kennedy was ultimately too good for Season I semi finalist Zoltán Varga. After a horrendous run with injuries this season, this is the Kennedy we are familiar with and in Carter he has a great chance to make the quarters. Carter produced some solid tennis to oust Rob Bowenburg and is riding high after taking the Eastbourne title. Kennedy came through his first real test unscathed, but we still wonder what the Canadian's fitness is like as we move into the second week. As a result, we go with safety first. Prediction: Carter in four. Markets: Carter $1.83, Kennedy $1.89. 8-Jefferson Drake CDR vs. Javier Villaneuva ESP For the second Slam running, Villaneuva finds himself in the round of 16 against all odds. His 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 mauling of Patrick Pascaul stunned pundits, and he's only dropped the one set this week - the first against Carlo Amato. Drake has also dropped the one set, but came through a tight second round meeting to bookend his first week with big victories. You suspect he's only just warming up, though he plays a similar style to Pascaul. If Villaneuva wants to win, he needs to take advantage of Drake's notoriously slow starts. I suspect he can, but I don't think he will. Prediction: Drake in three. Markets: Drake $1.35, Villaneuva $3.02. Christopher Durand FRA vs. 3-Radek pidlá CZE Radek pidlá was almost unbackable to win last year's Wimbledon yet somehow found a way to lose it. He's gone through the first week without dropping a set and, despite an injury concern leading into Wimbledon, is on the second line of betting behind Cowan. Durand will no doubt benefit from this week in financial terms, but his scalps look unimpressive - Bre, Day and Narang are hardly on the same level as pidlá on grass. Prediction: pidlá in three. Markets: pidlá $1.04, Durand $9.50. 5-Sven Oxenstierna FRC vs. 15-Diego Hurtado COL Diego Hurtado's name is basically mud here at the All England Club after the Colombian came back from the dead to oust Henry Charles in five sets. He's dropped at least one set in all his matches so far, but has clearly improved on grass since his Season I loss to Charles in the second round (4-6, 0-6, 6-3, 1-6). The Colombian faces another player who isn't particularly comfortable on grass; The Ox won Halle impressively, but was beaten in the opening round at Rosmalen. His first week was fairly uninspiring with no convincing victories. There could be an upset brewing. Prediction: Hurtado in five. Markets: Oxenstierna $1.72, Hurtado $2.04. 12-Rick Henson USA vs. 2-Daniel Páez Blanco ESP There aren't really many matches to look forward to as much as this one as we finally put to the test Blanco's grass ability against Henson's fitness. Henson has never really found his feet on the PTA Tour after a couple of bad injuries, but showed great composure to clinically dispose of the inform Chinese player Zhijun Sun on Saturday (6-4, 6-1, 6-2). Blanco also had a straight sets win against David Champion (7-6(3), 7-5, 6-0) and it was clearly his best performance after two scratchy wins over qualifiers. This is Henson's real chance, and on grass he won't blow it. Prediction: Henson in four. Markets: Henson $1.78, Blanco $1.90. PREDICTED QUARTERFINALS DAVIS vs. BOROS COWAN vs. CARTER DRAKE vs. SPIDLA HURTADO vs. HENSON |
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Nah look a Colombian winning on grass? That's less realistic than people writing insightful responses to computer-generated tennis results.
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Poo to be out, but congrats to doubles partner Davis who is playing awesome at the moment. Would love to see him lift both singles and doubles trophies. Unfortunate way to go out in what could possibly be Mustard's last singles match.
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Gutted for Mustardo, and the tests really start here. I've had a pretty damn easy route to the quarters - can I lift my game up another couple of notches for Boros?
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The Championships, Wimbledon II - Gentlemen's Doubles
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The Championships, Wimbledon II - Gentlemen's Singles
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If the Czech star thought he was on the cusp of victory he was wrong as the World No. 8 earned just his second break of the match immediately in the fourth set. From there he played a stunning set of tennis as pidlá almost resigned himself to a deciding fifth. Dropping it 1-6, a fool would have written the Season I finalist off as he came back more determined than ever and stuck close to the eighth seed. Serving second, Drake earned his third break of the match as late as 8-8, but when given the chance to serve out the match the Czech star earned his first break of the match. But that was it for pidlá who could not muster another break point as Drake served the match out with a great backhand down the line 7-5, 6-7(0), 6-7(3), 6-1, 12-10 to advance to a maiden Grand Slam semi final.
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This is how the seeds have fared so far:
Code:
Seed Rk Player ESP I II F W NEW
Points WIM WIM Points
1 1 Hall 10295 900 45 9440
2 2 Blanco 9660 70 720 11510 12310 10310
3 3 Spidla 7695 1400 360 6655
4 7 Cowan 4975 2000 180 3155
5 4 Oxenstierna 5990 300 360 6050
6 5 Boros 5575 500 360 5435
7 6 Olesen 5095 150 45 4990
8 8 Drake 4670 300 720 6290 7090 5090
9 12 Varga Z 3380 900 90 2570
10 10 Murdoch 3630 500 720 5050 5850 3850
11 16 Micic 2890 150 45 2785
12 13 Henson R 3195 70 180 3305
13 19 Pascaul 2685 300 90 2475
14 15 Brdar 2890 150 45 2785
15 14 Hurtado 2915 70 180 3025
16 18 Mustard 2770 150 180 2800
17 22 Charles 2345 300 90 2135
18 24 Amato 2235 300 10 1945
19 20 Stewart 2465 10 90 2545
20 21 Zhijun 2440 10 90 2520
21 25 Kennedy 2030 70 360 2320
22 29 Benaglio 1740 70 10 1680
23 26 Davis 1975 70 720 3825 4625 2625
24 35 Vollan K 1395 500 10 905
25 27 Carter 1825 150 180 1855
26 30 Emelio 1565 300 10 1275
27 34 Champion 1399 300 90 1189
28 31 Cohen 1526 10 90 1606
29 37 Haas 1360 150 10 1220
30 33 Orlov 1420 10 45 1455
31 36 Maxum 1365 100 90 1355
32 32 Joaquin 1430 10 45 1465
9 Altman 4290 300 0 3990
11 Daneu 3480 150 0 3330
17 Smeltz 2795 150 0 2645
23 Moreno J 2305 500 0 1805
28 Bachunelli A 1790 150 0 1640
Code:
LW NEW Player NEW Points 2 1 Blanco 10310 (11510) (12310) 1 2 Hall 9440 3 3 Spidla 6655 4 4 Oxenstierna 6050 5 5 Boros 5435 8 6 Drake 5090 (6290) (7090) 6 7 Olesen 4990 9 8 Altman 3990 10 9 Murdoch 3850 (5050) (5850) 11 10 Daneu 3330 13 11 Henson R 3305 7 12 Cowan 3155 14 13 Hurtado 3025 18 14 Mustard 2800 16 15 Micic 2785 15 16 Brdar 2785 17 17 Smeltz 2645 26 18 Davis 2625 (3825) (4625) 12 19 Varga Z 2570 20 20 Stewart 2545 21 21 Zhijun 2520 19 22 Pascaul 2475 25 23 Kennedy 2320 22 24 Charles 2135 24 25 Amato 1945 27 26 Carter 1855 23 27 Moreno J 1805 29 28 Benaglio 1680 28 29 Bachunelli A 1640 31 30 Cohen 1606 32 31 Joaquin 1465 33 32 Orlov 1455 36 33 Maxum 1355 30 34 Emelio 1275 37 35 Haas 1220 34 36 Champion 1189 35 37 Vollan K 905 |
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