Sony Ericsson Day 2
UPDATE**** Well its 4pm and matches have finally begun, hopefully the rain will hold off. According the the always accurate weather channel, should really start to clear tomorrow early afternoon. So no tennis results to report, but thought this article might interest readers. Seems I was not the only one frustrated with the round robin.
11 am – Some good action yesterday, interrupted every now and then by rain, that saw crowd favortie Gustavo Kuerten fall 2 and 2 to Raemon Sluiter in Stadium Court during the featured night match. Here are the rest of the results:
Results from Wednesday, March 21st:
Singles
Men
First Round
Paul-Henri Mathieu, France, def. Kristof Vliegen, Belgium, 6-1, 6-1.
Martin Vassallo Arguello, Argentina, def. Lee Hyung-taik, South Korea, 6-4, 6-2.
Daniele Bracciali, Italy, def. Max Mirnyi, Belarus, 7-6 (2), 6-4.
Paul Goldstein, United States, def. Ryan Sweeting, United States, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.
Luis Horna, Peru, def. Paradorn Srichaphan, Thailand, 5-2, retired.
Juan Monaco, Argentina, def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4.
Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Gael Monfils, France, 6-4, 6-2.
Teimuraz Gabashvili, Russia, def. Jan Hajek, Czech Republic, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5.
Ricardo Mello, Brazil, def. Jan Hernych, Czech Republic, 6-1, 7-6 (3).
Thomas Johansson, Sweden, def. Alberto Martin, Spain, 6-4, 6-3.
Michael Llodra, France, def. Stefan Koubek, Austria, 6-4, 6-0.
Feliciano Lopez, Spain, def. Nicolas Massu, Chile, 6-3, 6-3.
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, def. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5).
Raemon Sluiter, Netherlands, def. Gustavo Kuerten, Brazil, 6-2, 6-2.
Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, def. Jonas Bjorkman, Sweden, 7-5, 6-1.
Florent Serra, France, def. Chris Guccione, Australia, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (8), 6-4.
Women
First Round
Akiko Morigami, Japan, def. Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada, 6-1, 7-5.
Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portugal, def. Meghann Shaughnessy, United States, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3).
Vasilisa Bardina, Russia, def. Sanja Ancic, Croatia, 6-3, 6-2.
Meilen Tu, United States, def. Romina Oprandi, Italy, 6-3, 6-2.
Alina Jidkova, Russia, def. Petra Martic, Croatia, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Jill Craybas, United States, def. Roberta Vinci, Italy, 6-3, 2-6, 6-0.
Virginie Razzano, France, def. Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 6-4, 6-2.
Anastasia Yakimova, Belarus, def. Maria Elena Camerin, Italy, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2.
Tamira Paszek, Austria, def. Alicia Molik, Australia, 6-3, 6-4.
Ekaterina Bychkova, Russia, def. Aravane Rezai, France, 6-1, 6-4.
Nathalie Dechy, France, def. Camille Pin, France, 6-1, 6-3.
Peng Shuai, China, def. Elena Vesnina, Russia, 6-0, 6-0.
Laura Granville, United States, def. Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, 6-4, 7-6 (0).
Tatiana Poutchek, Belarus, def. Iroda Tulyaganova, Uzbekistan, 0-6, 6-3, retired.
Vania King, United States, def. Sun Tiantian, China, 7-6 (4), 7-5.
Olga Poutchkova, Russia, def. Sofia Arvidsson, Sweden, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
For updated results from today’s matches click here. Some of the best matches of today should be Robby Ginepri vs. Vince Spadea, Amer Delic vs. Julien Benneteau, and Ashley Harkelroad vs. Lauren Albanese (provided the rain lets up).