BA-CA Tennis Trophy

Vienna, Austria, October 6-14, 2007

Tournament website

Singles Draw

1. Djokovic
2. Gonzalez
3. Ljubicic
4. Gasquet (withdrawn, replaced with LL Haider-Maurer)
5. Cañas
6. Moya
7. Chela
8. Baghdatis

Djokovic - Chela
Ljubicic - Baghdatis
Moya - ? (possibly Nalbandian, who is unseeded :yikes:)
Gonzalez - Cañas

This one has quite a strong field, and an interesting one. Gonzo is at position number 7 in the race, but only 16 points ahead of number 13 Moya and 17 ahead of number 14 Ljubicic, so all of them need to get some points here if they want to increase their chances of making Shanghai. The no. 5,7 and 8 seeds probably don't have much chance to make Shanghai, but I think they are theoretically still in the running. I would like to see Baggy do well here; he has dropped out of the top 20 in the rankings and really belongs to be in there imo.

i'd like to see Moya do well here as to help him pip his way into Shanghai.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Singles - First Round

F Lopez (ESP) d W Eschauer (AUT) 63 62
[LL] T Zib (CZE) d F Mayer (GER) 61 64
M Fish (USA) d N Almagro (ESP) 67(4) 62 64
J Ferrero (ESP) d [5] [WC] G Canas (ARG) 36 63 76(5)
J Melzer (AUT) d [WC] A Peya (AUT) 64 63
J Benneteau (FRA) d [Q] I Minar (CZE) 64 62
[1] N Djokovic (SRB) d R Ginepri (USA) 63 64
[7] J Chela (ARG) d G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 61 63
D Nalbandian (ARG) d [Q] S Galvani (ITA) 63 76(3)


A minor upset today with Canas going out against Ferrero. This deals another blow to the Argentine's slim hopes of still qualifying for Shanghai. The biggest upsets happened yesterday, with Moya falling to Koubek, and Baggy to Seppi :yikes: :( .

Nalbandian wins his first-round match against a qualifier. Can the donut-man emerge from his seedless quarter of the draw? Neither Wawrinka nor Lopez are easy opponents though, and Koubek took out Moya so must be in good form too. So we'll have to wait and see.

I hope Gonzo comes through from his half of the draw. He's really got a fairly tame quarter, with Ferrero the most dangerous opponent, so hopefully he will show us that (despite the poor DC performance) his slump is really over.

well done Moya :(

c'mon JCFerrero, do you still win tournaments??

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Singles - Second Round

[2] F Gonzalez (CHI) d J Vanek (CZE) 63 64
J Ferrero (ESP) d J Benneteau (FRA) 76(2) 16 62
A Seppi (ITA) d R Haase (NED) 75 63
[3] I Ljubicic (CRO) d M Fish (USA) 67(4) 62 76(4)

Gonzo continues his resurgence to make the quarters. :clap: He will meet Ferrero next.

Ljubicic continues his unbeaten run in Vienna. :yawn: Djoko will take care of him in the semis, I imagine - but neither of them are there yet.

well done JCF :clap:

Results - Thursday, October 11, 2007

Singles - Second Round

S Wawrinka (SWI) d D Nalbandian (ARG) 57 63 61
F Lopez (ESP) d S Koubek (AUT) 64 36 64
[1] N Djokovic (SRB) d [LL] T Zib (CZE) 64 64
[7] J Chela (ARG) d J Melzer (AUT) 46 63 62


Good result for Stan against the Donut-Loving Argentine, who has really fallen off the radar this year. :yikes:

The semifinal line-up is

Djokovic - Chela
Ljubicic - Seppi
Lopez - Wawrinka
Ferrero - Gonzalez.

ferrero is capable of beating gonzalez and lopez to reach the final, but would probably lose rather handidly to djokovic.

and those are quarters, right MJT ;)

Oops. :doh:

Well, it was late at night ...

Results - Friday, October 12, 2007

Singles - Quarterfinals

[1] N Djokovic (SRB) d [7] J Chela (ARG) 63 57 76(2) - Saved 2 M.P. :o
J Ferrero (ESP) d [2] F Gonzalez (CHI) 63 46 64 :(
A Seppi (ITA) d [3] I Ljubicic (CRO) 63 63 :o
S Wawrinka (SWI) d F Lopez (ESP) 67(8) 63 64 :clap

I looked at the livescores yesterday just at the exact moment when Djokovic was facing those two match points. Maybe he now really is, like Fed and Nadal, in a place where he is confident that he can get out of any situation?

Semifinals - Saturday, October 13, 2007

[1] N Djokovic (SRB) vs A Seppi (ITA)
S Wawrinka (SUI) vs J Ferrero (ESP)

oh ferrero, go djokovic.

Results - Saturday, October 13, 2007

Singles - Semifinals

[1] N Djokovic (SRB) d A Seppi (ITA) 64 63
S Wawrinka (SUI) d J Ferrero (ESP) 75 61


Good result for Stan! :clap:

Rather unsurprisingly, Djokovic won --- with a bagel in the second set as well! :o

Djokovic d Wawrinka 6-4 6-0

well done novak :)

and interesting little fact from the ATP website: