{"id":197,"date":"2011-03-29T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2011-03-29T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:58:35","slug":"tuesday-topspin-17-men-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/tuesday-topspin-17-men-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Topspin: 17 Men Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Round of 17: <\/em>All eight matches in the round of 16 are scheduled for today, but before the draw is set, <strong>Alexandr Dolgopolov<\/strong> will have to finish his match with <strong>Jo-Wilfried Tsonga<\/strong>. \u00a0The players split sets in their rain-muddled match, and will resume in a few hours at 3-2 in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at each of the fourth-rounders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rafael Nadal<\/strong> vs. TBA. Here&#8217;s a tall order: finish off a match that went late, take a few hours rest, and come back to face Nadal. \u00a0Not exactly a recipe for success. \u00a0Whoever comes through to meet him, it will be Rafa&#8217;s first real challenge since Indian Wells. \u00a0The fact that Tsonga played Dolgo to a draw is promising&#8211;after the loss in California to <strong>Xavier Malisse<\/strong> and the near-crash against <strong>Teymuraz Gabashvili<\/strong>, it wouldn&#8217;t have been that surprising if Dolgo had run away with it last night.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Florian Mayer<\/strong> vs. <strong>Tomas Berdych<\/strong>. \u00a0Berdych played what was, to me, the most interesting of yesterday&#8217;s matches. \u00a0He barely held off <strong>Carlos Berlocq<\/strong>, 7-6 7-5. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been a little rough on Berlocq lately, since he has no hard-court track record, yet he made it to the third round and pushed a top-10 player to a tiebreak. \u00a0He crumbled under pressure a few times with very inconvenient double faults, but generally played a very aggressive game from the baseline. \u00a0Consider me impressed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roger Federer<\/strong> vs. <strong>Olivier Rochus<\/strong>. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a big tournament for the Belgian, who upset <strong>Mikhail Youhzny<\/strong> yesterday after the Russian bludgeoned him in the first set. \u00a0Rochus has never beat Federer, but he has won a set three times, including a match in Halle five years ago, which was decided by a third-set tiebreak. \u00a0It&#8217;s been said that Federer has a harder time playing against guys he likes, and he certainly likes Rochus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Janko Tipsarevic<\/strong> vs. <strong>Gilles Simon<\/strong>. \u00a0What a day for the Serbian&#8211;he breezed through his third-rounder against <strong>Philipp Petzschner<\/strong>, then teamed with <strong>Oliver Marach<\/strong> to defeat the Bryan brothers in doubles. \u00a0Simon had a tougher time of it, dropping the first set to <strong>Pablo Cuevas<\/strong>. \u00a0The oddsmakers give Simon a slight edge, suggesting he has a roughly 57% chance of reaching the quarters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Ferrer<\/strong> vs. <strong>Marcel Granollers<\/strong>. \u00a0Granollers has fought through three three-setters, an upset every one, while Ferrer lost only nine games in his first two matches combined. \u00a0It&#8217;s hard to imagine this one going any differently for the sixth seed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mardy Fish<\/strong> vs. <strong>Juan Martin del Potro<\/strong>. \u00a0Delpo made a huge statement in the third round with a drubbing of <strong>Robin Soderling<\/strong>. \u00a0Even if the Swede was far from his best, del Potro demonstrated why he belongs in the top five. \u00a0Delpo beat Fish in straights last month en route to the Delray Beach title, and today should be no different.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Isner<\/strong> vs. <strong>Kevin Anderson<\/strong>. \u00a0I won&#8217;t be watching this one. \u00a0Someone will win 7-6(4) 6-4, and then he&#8217;ll lose to Djokovic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong> vs. <strong>Viktor Troicki<\/strong>. \u00a0Last time the two friends played, Troicki won a single game. \u00a0This week, in two matches, Djokovic has lost only three games. \u00a0This match should take just about as long as the conclusion of the Tsonga-Dolgopolov contest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, lots of great tennis today. \u00a0It all starts at 11:00 EST, with the Delpo-Fish match leading off. \u00a0See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round of 17: All eight matches in the round of 16 are scheduled for today, but before the draw is set, Alexandr Dolgopolov will have to finish his match with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. \u00a0The players split sets in their rain-muddled match, and will resume in a few hours at 3-2 in the third. Let&#8217;s look at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/tuesday-topspin-17-men-standing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday Topspin: 17 Men Standing<\/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":[24,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-recaps","category-miami"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}