CAMELOT FANTASIES

congrats to seppi and his fans.

Hewitt pretty much choked in the end. it is really that simple.

seppi hung in there and he went for his shots. Hewitt got tight and it cost him.

Rafa desperately needs match practice. One set against Tomic and now who knows how many sets will Kokkinakkis be able to physically endure in the 108F heat forecast for Thursday.

Monfils was hitting the ball pretty well yesterday, Rafa will be in a world of hurt in R3 if he doesn't find his game until then.

KEY MATCHES - WEDNESDAY, 15 JANUARY 2014

Singles - Second Round
Leonardo Mayer (ARG) vs. [2] Novak Djokovic (SRB)
 Adrian Mannarino (FRA) vs. [3] David Ferrer (ESP)
 [7] Tomas Berdych (CZE) vs. Kenny De Schepper (FRA)
 [8] Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) vs. Alejandro Falla (COL)
 Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) vs. Richard Gasquet (FRA)[9]
 [14] Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) vs. Florian Mayer (GER)
 [15] Fabio Fognini (ITA) vs. Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)
 [17] Tommy Robredo (ESP) vs. Julien Benneteau (FRA)
 [19] Kevin Anderson (RSA) vs. Dominic Thiem (AUT)
 Pablo Andujar (ESP) vs. [20] Jerzy Janowicz (POL)
 Sam Querrey (USA) vs. [23] Ernests Gulbis (LAT)
 Matthew Ebden (AUS) vs. [28] Vasek Pospisil (CAN)
 [29] Jeremy Chardy (FRA) vs. Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)
 [30] Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) vs. Denis Istomin (UZB)
 Damir Dzumhur (BIH) vs. [32] Ivan Dodig (CRO)

Doubles - First Round
Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/Andre Sa (BRA) vs. [2] Alexander Peya (AUT)/Bruno Soares (BRA)
 [6] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Marc Lopez (ESP) vs. Samuel Groth (AUS)/John-Patrick Smith (AUS)
 Benjamin Becker (GER)/Daniel Brands (GER) vs. Daniel Nestor (CAN)[8]/Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)[8]
 [9] Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs. Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
 Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) vs. [10] Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/Horia Tecau (ROU)
 [12] Treat Huey (PHI)/Dominic Inglot (GBR) vs. Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/Robert Farah (COL)
 [14] Lukasz Kubot (POL)/Robert Lindstedt (SWE) vs. Federico Delbonis (ARG)/Albert Ramos (ESP)
 Oliver Marach (AUT)/Florin Mergea (ROU) vs. [16] Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/Scott Lipsky (USA)

robredo removes julien beneteau from the facilities in 4 sets.


nole running through opposition like knife through water.

And so it was.

Gulbis was out of control.

Spraying balls everywhere.

He's like a wild horse.

order of play: day #4



http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/scores/schedule/schedule9.html



andy with the night match and rafa with the afternoon match.

i haven't watched any matches so far and it looks like i am not going to catch any action until the semis.......i will be out for a one week holiday starting this saturday and won't be able to check anything apart from scores on my mobile.......i will miss a lot of action.......you guys don't take your eyes off wawrinka - djokovic and nadal - del potro contests should they happen because they are going to be blockbusters.......

Yay!

Hopefully, Rafa will come on at a decent run.

The Oz tests not only the players' endurance, but spectators too, with the brutal heat and programming.