Kremlin Cup

Moscow, October 6-14 2007

Tournament website

Singles Draw

The seeds are

1. Davydenko
2. Youzhny
3. Murray
4. Mathieu
5. Safin
6. Starace
7. Tursunov
8. Kohlschreiber

Projected quarterfinals if the seeds go through:

Davydenko-Safin
Murray-Tursunov
Mathieu-Starace
Youzhny-Kohlschreiber

The upper half of the draw is much, much more interesting than the lower half. Davydenko will hope to consolidate his position at number 4 in the race, play well in his home event and move closer to guaranteeing his place in Shanghai. Andy will want to consolidate his return after his good results last week; he faces a tough opener against Korolev. Safin is back from his wrist injury and his slightly gaga trip to Tibet, so who knows what to expect from him? :shrug:

I hope that either Youzhny or Kohly come through to the final from the lower half of the draw.

i guess Safin'a taken a wildcard into this tournament. we shall see :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

well he was last years finalist so i guess he needs to do well here again

it would be nice. he did lose to davydenko last year :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I didn't think Marat was planning to play for the rest of the season :unsure: maybe the high altitude scrambled his brains :blink:

Yeah, but then, when he decided to chicken out abandon his ill-advised trip to Tibet, he said he was going to try and be ready at least for Madrid. :rolleyes:

All we can hope is that perhaps the trip restored some sense of perspective to him, and he decided he should go and enjoy winning again. But I think that may be too much to ask for. :shrug:

:wacko:

Results - Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Singles - First Round

[1] N Davydenko (RUS) d J Tsonga (FRA) 76(0) 62
[4] P Mathieu (FRA) d S Grosjean (FRA) 62 62
[5] [WC] M Safin (RUS) d [Q] D Matsukevitch (RUS) 76(2) 75
[7] D Tursunov (RUS) d [Q] M Zverev (GER) 64 36 64
M Berrer (GER) d J Acasuso (ARG) 67(5) 75 64
[WC] I Kunitsyn (RUS) d D Hartfield (ARG) 76(1) 16 61
[Q] M Cilic (CRO) d S Bolelli (ITA) 63 64
K Vliegen (BEL) d [Q] V Troicki (SRB) 63 22 ret. (foot)
N Lapentti (ECU) d F Santoro (FRA) 36 63 62


No upsets in sight --- Starace is still the only seed to fall, having gone out against Serra yesterday. Murray and Youzhny are still to play their first-round matches.

:tsk:

:ban:

:P

no. 7 Tursunov lost to Stepanek. why isn't he ever seeded in a tournament??

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Singles - Second Round

[4] P Mathieu (FRA) d [WC] I Kunitsyn (RUS) 63 64
[8] P Kohlschreiber (GER) d [Q] M Cilic (CRO) 76(10) 16 64
R Stepanek (CZE) d [7] D Tursunov (RUS) 36 63 61
F Serra (FRA) d K Vliegen (BEL) 67(2) 64 62

Singles - First Round

[2] M Youzhny (RUS) d E Gulbis (LAT) 63 62
[3] A Murray (GBR) d E Korolev (RUS) 62 64
I Andreev (RUS) d N Mahut (FRA) 63 64


No real upsets today --- yes, Tursunov is a seed going out, but it was against Stepanek.

Good win for Andy against Korolev. Next up is Tipsarevic I think.

Kohly through to the QF. :clap:

but i like Tursy :cry:

Good win for Youzhny :ok: i hope he can do well here :pray: (not ahead of Marat of course..... ;) )

Tipsarevic is quite a tough player so Murray had better be playing well!

He is though :P so it's all good

well Youzhny and Murray are both out.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

gutted.

the seed slaughter moves to the men's side today.

good news for Marat though :pray:

i hope.

2-0 Andreev :unsure: come on Safin, pull your socks up

:pray: :pray: :pray:

Marat had bp in that last game but couldnt convert it :(

come on Marat! bloody win something :angry:

this is so frustrating, Safin keeps getting close on the Andreev serve with no results, yet Andreev has only had 2 bps and has converted them both :banghead:

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Singles - Second Round

M Berrer (GER) d [2] M Youzhny (RUS) 75 64
J Tipsarevic (SRB) d [3] A Murray (GBR) 64 75
I Andreev (RUS) d [5] [WC] M Safin (RUS) 64 64
[1] N Davydenko (RUS) d N Lapentti (ECU) 64 64


Marat. :(
Misha :(
Andy :( :(

Wow. Bad day for the seeds.

The QF line-up is

Davydenko - Andreev
Tipsarevic - Stepanek
Serra - Mathieu
Kohlschreiber - Berrer

It's interesting that three out of the four QF matches are played between players of the same nationality.

the first 2 encounters look like the better ones on paper, and i would tip the tipsarevic/stepanek match-up as the more interesting of those two...

and as for you Marat, the second to last man to beat nadal on clay, but still :angry:

bugger - Marat will lose some points here now :(

a truly truly rubbish day for the seeds though :shrug:

:doh: not too surprised ..... :unsure: I know of a few ATP players like Marat who can take a cue from martina hingis and call it anearly season...... :) a little rest does wonders for the body and mind... especially before the warm and humid aussie season starts.....

Results - Friday, October 12, 2007

Singles - Quarterfinals

[1] N Davydenko (RUS) d I Andreev (RUS) 75 75
[4] P Mathieu (FRA) d F Serra (FRA) 63 63
M Berrer (GER) d [8] P Kohlschreiber (GER) 63 ret. (back injury) :(
J Tipsarevic (SRB) d R Stepanek (CZE) 64 36 63




Semifinals - Saturday, October 13, 2007

[1] N Davydenko (RUS) vs J Tipsarevic (SRB)
[4] P Mathieu (FRA) vs M Berrer (GER)

:yahoo: I do like Tipsarevic, I hope he can do well against Davydenko :pray:

aller Mathieu :)

davydenko is so uninspiring :huh:

Results - Saturday, October 13, 2007

Singles - Semifinals

[1] N Davydenko (RUS) d J Tipsarevic (SRB) 76(6) 61
[4] P Mathieu (FRA) d M Berrer (GER) 75 63

And, in a shocking turn of events :o ...





Davydenko takes the title 7-5 7-6(9). :P