Confessions of a Rafael Nadal fan: St Petersburg

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Monday, 1 November 2010

The Winners

Congratulations to Gael, Mikhail & Jurgen on your victories yesterday.

Gael beat Ljubicic in 3 sets to win in Montpellier

Mikhail beat Youzhny to lift his first ATP title, congratulations

And Jurgen stopped the fairytale run in Vienna by beating Haider-Maurer

Match reports

Montpellier - espnstar

St Petersburg - Bettor

Vienna - Bettor

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Wednesday preview

The tour continues in Montepellier, St Petersburg & Vienna. Here are today's previews.

Montpellier - ATP

Really looking forwad to the all French affair of Mahut v Simon. If you can find a link i highly recommend that you watch this match. I can't see any upsets today.

St Petersburg - ATP

Not been following the play in St Petersburg but i hope that Viktor can carry on his good run and that Mikhail keeps picking up the points in his push for London.

Vienna - ATP

Likewise with Vienna, not really been following the results but good luck to Mayer today.

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Tuesday previews

Check out the links below for today's previews, H2H & fastfacts

Montpellier

Vienna

St Petersburg

Monday, 25 October 2010

Monday preview - St Petersburg

The 16th edition of the St. Petersburg Open is led by top seed and 2004 champion Mikhail Youzhny, one of a tournament-high six Russians in the main draw (not including qualifiers). Youzhny, the last Russian to win the St. Petersburg title, is battling for one of the three remaining positions for the year-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London.

The defending champion is No. 2 Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine. Last year Stakhovsky was a qualifier, defeating Argentine Horacio Zeballos in a third set tie-break. Other seeds are: No. 3 Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, No. 4 Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei, No. 5 Viktor Troicki of Serbia who captured his first ATP World Tour title in Moscow on Sunday. No. 6 Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan, No. 7 Jeremy Chardy of France and No. 8 Victor Hanescu of Romania round out the seeds.

On Monday’s schedule, there are four singles qualifying matches, three involving Russians, and three main draw singles matches.

In the first main draw match on Centre Court, Chardy and Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan meet in the first round for the second straight week. Last week in Moscow, Kukushkin won 6-2, 6-4.

The next match features Italian Filippo Volandri and Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili. Volandri won the previous meeting on the ATP World Tour in Rome in 2007 and in two other Italian Challengers, all on clay.

In the final match, wild card Igor Andreev looks to even his record (0-1) against American Michael Russell, who won the previous meeting in March this year at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells.

Courtesy: ATP