{"id":18,"date":"2011-02-22T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-02-22T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:16:09","slug":"tuesday-morning-withdrawals-and-third-set-tiebreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/tuesday-morning-withdrawals-and-third-set-tiebreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Morning: Withdrawals and Third-Set Tiebreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulling out: <\/em>I guess we won’t be seeing Milos Raonic<\/strong> play on clay after all, at least not for another several weeks. \u00a0He withdrew from Acupulco with a shoulder injury. \u00a0That makes room for yet another lucky loser–the third in Mexico, to go along with three in Delray Beach.<\/p>\n

Andy Roddick<\/strong> also withdrew from his tournament, but Americans still make up the top three seeds. \u00a0John Isner<\/strong>, however, is already gone, double-faulting away match point in a third set tiebreak against\u00a0Teymuraz Gabashvili<\/strong>. \u00a0Also out of the Delray Beach draw is Ryan Harrison<\/strong>, who lost a three-setter against Florent Serra<\/strong>. \u00a0Too bad for Harrison, losing a winnable match on home turf.<\/p>\n

Today: <\/em>Half of the Dubai action is over, but still coming is Roger Federer<\/strong>‘s first match since the Australian Open, in which he faces HT.com favorite Somdev Devvarman<\/strong>. \u00a0I was going to make a comment about how Devvarman’s chances of winning barely merited making the trip, but then I looked it up. \u00a0First-round losers in Dubai take home better than $11,000 for their efforts. \u00a0Not bad.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Dubai, file this under “matches I want on DVD.” \u00a0Richard Gasquet<\/strong> made handy work of Grigor Dimitrov<\/strong>–nothing too surprising or thrilling, but imagine what a clinic that was for those of us with one-handed backhands!<\/p>\n

In Acupulco, Nicholas Almagro<\/strong> works toward a third straight title by facing Victor Hanescu<\/strong>. \u00a0You have to wonder why Hanescu chose the golden swing: He lost in the first round in Brazil, then the second round in Buenos Aires, and now he’s almost guaranteed a third-straight early exit. \u00a0The best match of the day follows Almagro’s, as a battle of the lefties features Fernando Verdasco<\/strong> and Thomaz Bellucci<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Finally, the headliner in Delray is Juan Martin Del Potro<\/strong> against Richard Berankis<\/strong>. \u00a0Del Potro is starting to look strong again, and with Roddick out of the draw, you might have to consider him a favorite. \u00a0Crazy as it sounds, if Berankis plays well, he may prove to be Del Potro’s toughest opponent of the week.<\/p>\n

Challengers<\/em>: With three ATP-level tournaments going on, there aren’t a lot of “name” players in the Casablanca and Wolfsburg challengers this week. \u00a0What there is: Polish 20-year-old Jerzy Janowicz<\/strong> is playing in Wolfsburg, and he beat Olivier Rochus<\/strong> in a third-set tiebreak yesterday to open his week. \u00a0He’s likely to face Sebastian Rieschick<\/strong> in the next round.<\/p>\n

See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pulling out: I guess we won’t be seeing Milos Raonic play on clay after all, at least not for another several weeks. \u00a0He withdrew from Acupulco with a shoulder injury. \u00a0That makes room for yet another lucky loser–the third in Mexico, to go along with three in Delray Beach. Andy Roddick also withdrew from his … Continue reading Tuesday Morning: Withdrawals and Third-Set Tiebreaks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-recaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}