Wednesday, June 08, 2011

QUEENS CLUB ORDER OF PLAY - WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 2011

Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray are playing today. Could be a difficult one for Murray as he plays Xavier Malisse with a ranking of 40 in singles, but has been as high as 19 in August 2002. Malisse was runner up in the Chennai Open this year.


CENTRE
[8] M Cilic (CRO) vs [Q] A Clement (FRA)
X Malisse (BEL) vs [2] A Murray (GBR)
[1] R Nadal (ESP) vs [Q] M Ebden (AUS)
[12] J Del Potro (ARG) vs I Kunitsyn (RUS)
[7] R Lindstedt (SWE) / H Tecau (ROU) vs M Lopez (ESP) / R Nadal (ESP)

COURT 1
[14] J Tipsarevic (SRB) vs M Russell (USA)
[Q] I Bozoljac (SRB) vs [9] [WC] D Nalbandian (ARG)
R Stepanek (CZE) vs [16] I Ljubicic (CRO)
A Mannarino (FRA) vs [6] G Simon (FRA)
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) vs A Fisher (AUS) / S Huss (AUS)

COURT 9
[15] K Anderson (RSA) vs D Young (USA)
M Ilhan (TUR) vs [11] T Bellucci (BRA)
K Anderson (RSA) / J Knowle (AUT) vs [WC] N Mahut (FRA) / J Tsonga (FRA)
S Lipsky (USA) / R Ram (USA) vs [2] M Mirnyi (BLR) / D Nestor (CAN)
X Malisse (BEL) / K Skupski (GBR) vs [5] O Marach (AUT) / M Matkowski (POL)

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Queens Club Order Of Play - June 7th

No big surprises at Queens yesterday. Britains Oliver Golding ranked (982) making his first appearance at this tournament played well, but lost in straight sets to Nicolas Mahut of France. Looks like a great line up this afternoon, here's the order of play starting at 12.30 pm.


CENTRE
[12] J Del Potro (ARG) vs D Istomin (UZB)
F Lopez (ESP) vs [3] A Roddick (USA)
[7] F Verdasco (ESP) vs N Mahut (FRA)
M Berrer (GER) vs [5] J Tsonga (FRA)
M Lopez (ESP) / R Nadal (ESP) vs T Bellucci (BRA) / A Sa (BRA)


COURT 1
X Malisse (BEL) vs M Bachinger (GER)
R Stepanek (CZE) vs G Soeda (JPN)
R Schuettler (GER) vs [13] S Querrey (USA)
X Malisse (BEL) / K Skupski (GBR) vs A Murray (GBR) / J Murray (GBR)
J Del Potro (ARG) / R Stepanek (CZE) vs D Nalbandian (ARG) / A Roddick (USA)


COURT 2
[Q] M Ebden (AUS) vs S Devvarman (IND)
I Marchenko (UKR) vs [9] [WC] D Nalbandian (ARG)
[15] K Anderson (RSA) vs I Karlovic (CRO)
[10] M Llodra (FRA) vs J Benneteau (FRA) or D Brands (GER)


COURT 9
D Gremelmayr (GER) vs M Russell (USA)
[14] J Tipsarevic (SRB) vs B Kavcic (SLO)
A Mannarino (FRA) vs E Gulbis (LAT)
[4] S Wawrinka (SUI) vs [WC] J Ward (GBR)
S Gonzalez (MEX) / T Rettenmaier (USA) vs F Polasek (SVK) / I Zelenay (SVK)


COURT 10
M Cilic (CRO) / L Zovko (CRO) vs A Fisher (AUS) / S Huss (AUS)
S Lipsky (USA) / R Ram (USA) vs S Aspelin (SWE) / P Hanley (AUS)
[WC] C Fleming (GBR) / R Hutchins (GBR) vs I Kunitsyn (RUS) / I Ljubicic (CRO)

Monday, June 06, 2011

Tennis History

This is great for all tennis fans!


Andy Murray talking at The Queen's Club

Queens Club

I love this time this year, usually after a grand slam finishes life seems boring for a while but this month is packed with tennis. Straight after the French Open it's off to Queens Club with a month of lawn tennis. It starts at 12.30 pm, here is the order of play.


CENTRE 
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) vs D Tursunov (RUS)
Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs [WC] O Golding (GBR)
Kei Nishikori (JPN) vs [13] Sam Querrey (USA)
Ryan Sweeting (USA) vs [16] Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)
J Del Potro (ARG) / R Stepanek (CZE) vs D Nalbandian (ARG) / A Roddick (USA)

COURT 1 
Michael Berrer (GER) vs [WC] Ryan Harrison (USA) 
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) vs [11] Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)
Julienne Benneteau (FRA) vs Daniel Brands (GER)
[14] Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) vs Blaz Kavcic (SLO)
K Anderson (RSA) / J Knowle (AUT) vs [WC] N Mahut (FRA) / J Tsonga (FRA)

COURT 2 
[WC] D Cox (GBR) vs [WC] J Ward (GBR)
[Q] Arnaud Clement (FRA) vs Benoit Paire (FRA)
Rainier Schuettler (GER) vs [Q] B Reynolds (USA)
A Bogomolov Jr. (USA) vs I Kunitsyn (RUS)

COURT 9 
Marsel Ilhan (TUR) vs Jan Hajek (CZE)
[10] Michael Llodra (FRA) vs J Pospisil (CZE)
A Haider-Maurer (AUT) vs Donald Young (USA)
M Kukushkin (KAZ) vs [Q] Ilya Bozoljac (SRB)
S Lipsky (USA) / R Ram (USA) vs S Aspelin (SWE) / P Hanley (AUS)

Looks like a good line up, hope you all enjoy it!