Valencia Open 250

[Kirijax]

Category: ATP World Tour 250
Place: Valencia, Spain
Date: 26.10.2015-01.10.2015
Draw Size: S-32 D-16
Surface: Indoor Hard
Defending Champion: Andy Murray (not playing)

Tournament Central

Brackets: Singles / Doubles

Projected Quarterfinal Matchups:
Ferrer vs. Chardy
Tomic vs. Paire
Fabio vs. Bautista-Agut
Lopez vs. Garcia-Lopez


Seeds:
No. 1 David Ferrer (8) Withdrew
No. 2 Feliciano Lopez (16) Lost to Johnson in 2nd round.
No. 3 Bernard Tomic (18) Lost to Cuevas in 2nd round.
No. 4 Fabio Fognini (22) Lost to M.Zverev in 2nd round.
No. 5 Bernard Paire (21) Lost to Sousa in 2nd round.
No. 6 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (26) Lost to Johnson in the quarterfinals.
No. 7 Roberto Bautista-Agut (24)
No. 8 Jeremy Chardy (31) Lost to Bedene in the 1st round

 

[GameSetAndMath]

1. Ferrer has indicated that he will likely drop out of this citing some injury.

2. The original tournament site is under renovation. Apparently, they are conducting
it some makeshift place this year.

 

[Kirijax]

1. Ferrer has indicated that he will likely drop out of this citing some injury.

2. The original tournament site is under renovation. Apparently, they are conducting
it some makeshift place this year.

I think the picture is what the site will look like. Pretty cool looking. Hadn't heard that about Ferrer but not surprised. He could easily win this tournament though. I wonder if any one will step in his place.

 

[Fiero425]

1. Ferrer has indicated that he will likely drop out of this citing some injury.

2. The original tournament site is under renovation. Apparently, they are conducting
it some makeshift place this year.

I think the picture is what the site will look like. Pretty cool looking. Hadn't heard that about Ferrer but not surprised. He could easily win this tournament though. I wonder if any one will step in his place.

Ferrer wants to be nice and rested when he's being run to death in his "round robin" matches! Depending on the draw, I doubt he'll win even 1; as usual! :cover :angel:

 

[Kirijax]

David Ferrer: ´It´s one of my best years. I´m not sure if I am going to play in Valencia´

Ferrer withdrew from Wimbledon, Bastad, Hamburg, Toronto and Cincinnati this year due to elbow injury. He hasn't fully recovered: 'I still receive treatment and conduct daily routines', revealed 'Ferru', who doesn't know if he is going to play ATP 250 Valencia this week: 'I have to talk to Juan-Carlos (Ferrero). It is difficult, as my elbow is not at 100%, but I hope to be able playing there'.

 

[Kirijax]

Found an article on the court situation this year.

Valencia Open Is In Trouble

 

[Kirijax]

Tuesday's Schedule

PISTA CENTRAL STARTS AT 12:00 NOON
1ST RD
Aljaz Bedene VS (8) Jeremy Chardy
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Thomaz Bellucci VS (Q) Mischa Zverev
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Nick Kyrgios VS (Q) Daniel Brands
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(6) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez VS Fernando Verdasco
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Andre Begemann/Artem Sitak VS (3) Pablo Cuevas/Marcel Granollers

PISTA UNO STARTS AT 12:00 NOON
1ST RD
Joao Sousa VS Gilles Muller
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(Q) Michal Przysiezny VS (Q) Taro Daniel
NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM
1ST RD
(LL) Norbert Gombos VS (5) Benoit Paire
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Jonathan Erlich/Philipp Petzschner VS Eric Butorac/Scott Lipsky

 

[Kirijax]

No. 8 seed Chardy exits the tournament quickly. Lost 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 to Bedene.

 

[isabelle]

Sousa won

 

[herios]

More upsets today in Valencia:

Bellucci defeated by Micha Zverev (ranked 215)
Nick Kyrgios defeated by Daniel Brands (ranked 170)

 

[Fiero425]

More upsets today in Valencia:

Bellucci defeated by Micha Zverev (ranked 215)
Nick Kyrgios defeated by Daniel Brands (ranked 170)

Most top players are burned out by the end of the season! That's why I'm so shocked that Nole appears to be stronger this time of year than the others! If you look at past eras, it wasn't unusual for Sampras, Agassi, Courier, and others to be knocked out of Paris and have "no-names" winning the YEC! If Nole keeps this up, he'll own all the records except the major one; already the Masters series will be his alone and he'll set #'s hard to surpass in this homogenized group of players now and in the future! :angel: :dodgy: :ras:

 

[Kirijax]

Tuesday's Results!

Round 1
(5) B Paire (FRA) bt N Gombos (SVK)---3-6, 6-3, 6-4
A Bedene (SLO) bt (8) J Chardy (FRA)---3-6, 6-2, 6-1
J Sousa (POR) bt G Muller (LUX)---7-6(9), 6-3
M Zverev (GER) bt T Bellucci (BRA)---7-6(4), 6-7(2), 7-6(5)
T Daniel (JPN) bt M Przysiezny (POL)---4-6, 7-6(2), 6-3
D Brands (GER) bt N Kyrgios (AUS)---6-4, 2-6, 7-6(3)

One seed (Chardy) loses, Kyrgios loses to No. 170 Brands (ayeayeayeayeaye) and Paire continues his very nice season. Nice to see Daniel win. I see and post a lot of names but Polish names give me the biggest fits. Is there a law in Poland that requires every word to have a Z in it?

 

[herios]

Is there a law in Poland that requires every word to have a Z in it?

:laydownlaughing

Where did you see "z" in Kubot??

 

[Kirijax]

Is there a law in Poland that requires every word to have a Z in it?

:laydownlaughing

Where did you see "z" in Kubot??

Huh? I thought it was Zubot? Wait let me check... :snicker

 

[herios]

More upsets today in Valencia:

Bellucci defeated by Micha Zverev (ranked 215)
Nick Kyrgios defeated by Daniel Brands (ranked 170)

Most top players are burned out by the end of the season! That's why I'm so shocked that Nole appears to be stronger this time of year than the others! If you look at past eras, it wasn't unusual for Sampras, Agassi, Courier, and others to be knocked out of Paris and have "no-names" winning the YEC! If Nole keeps this up, he'll own all the records except the major one; already the Masters series will be his alone and he'll set #'s hard to surpass in this homogenized group of players now and in the future! :angel: :dodgy: :ras:

Kyrgios has absolutely no reason to be burnt out, he has played only 42 matches all year long and he is the youngest of the top 30.

The reason he is losing is that he is not really focusing enough and that is why I do think he will never be living up to his talent. His head is not where it should be.

 

[tented]

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Day 5

PISTA CENTRAL STARTS AT 12:00 NOON

1ST RD
Steve Johnson VS Martin Klizan

NOT BEFORE 1:30 PM
2ND RD
(3) Bernard Tomic VS Pablo Cuevas

1ST RD
(7) Roberto Bautista Agut VS (WC) Nicolas Almagro

1ST RD
(WC) Marcel Granollers VS (WC) Andrey Rublev

1ST RD
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez / David Marrero VS (PR) Radek Stepanek / Bernard Tomic

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PISTA UNO STARTS AT 12:00 NOON

1ST RD
(WC) Pablo Carreno Busta / Federico Delbonis VS (2) Lukasz Kubot / Leander Paes

2ND RD
Vasek Pospisil VS Aljaz Bedene

1ST RD
(4) Feliciano Lopez / Max Mirnyi VS Mate Pavic / Michael Venus

QF
Thomaz Bellucci / Colin Fleming VS Julian Knowle / Oliver Marach

 

[Fiero425]

More upsets today in Valencia:

Bellucci defeated by Micha Zverev (ranked 215)
Nick Kyrgios defeated by Daniel Brands (ranked 170)

Brands' no slouch! I seem to remember he gave Nadal all he wanted and more in the 1st round of the FO a couple years ago! He got the 1st set and took Rafa to the limit in a 2nd set TB before closing Brands out in 4! I haven't seen him since, but he has game! Everyone's vulnerable this time of year! ;-) :ras:

 

[tented]

More upsets today in Valencia:

Bellucci defeated by Micha Zverev (ranked 215)
Nick Kyrgios defeated by Daniel Brands (ranked 170)

Most top players are burned out by the end of the season! That's why I'm so shocked that Nole appears to be stronger this time of year than the others! If you look at past eras, it wasn't unusual for Sampras, Agassi, Courier, and others to be knocked out of Paris and have "no-names" winning the YEC! If Nole keeps this up, he'll own all the records except the major one; already the Masters series will be his alone and he'll set #'s hard to surpass in this homogenized group of players now and in the future! :angel: :dodgy: :ras:

Kyrgios has absolutely no reason to be burnt out, he has played only 42 matches all year long and he is the youngest of the top 30.

The reason he is losing is that he is not really focusing enough and that is why I do think he will never be living up to his talent. His head is not where it should be.

He also seems to be focussed almost exclusively on Slams, and doesn't put in the same effort in other tournaments.

 

[isabelle]

What about Ferru ? When will he play ???

 

[tented]

What about Ferru ? When will he play ???

Not until Thursday. He'll need to win four matches in four days to win the tournament.