Post Tagged with: "Go Soeda"
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Berdych out of Chennai Open, Tipsarevic through to SFs
Top seed Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic suffered a suprising defeat in the Chennai Open quarter-final. His conqueror was Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, who prevailed in three sets 7-5 2-6 6-3. Agut, who posted his biggest win on the tour with this win, didn’t show any signs of nervousness as [...] -
Davydenko beats Wawrinka in first round of Basel
Nikolay Davydenko rolled back the years with an excellent performance to defeat Stanislas Wawrinka in straight sets 7-6 (7) 7-6 (3). The Russian started slowly, dropping serve in his first service game, but would later show some of the form that saw him a constant in the top 10 in years [...] -
Tsonga and Berdych advance into Stockholm quarterfinals
Top seeds Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Tomas Berdych were untroubled in the second round of the Stockholm Open 2012. Baghdatis and Stakhovsky also proceed. 87th-ranked Estonian Jurgen Zopp may have held his first serve to love, yet he was never a contender in the opening set. Czech Berdych confirmed his second [...] -
Cilic and Verdasco through to second round of Shanghai Masters
Croat Marin Cilic needed 1 hour and 33 minutes to advance into the second round of the 2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters as he defeated Polish qualifier Lukasz Kubot in straight sets 7-5 6-3. 10th seeded Cilic, who overpovered Kubot from the baseline and served quite well throughout the whole match [...] -
Raonic and Nishikori move into second round of Tokyo
Milos Raonic was victorous in two sets, while Kei Nishikori turned around the match to reach second round of Japanese Open. Sixth-seeded Raonic was never really under pressure against Czech Radek Stepanek. It was a positive start for the six foot five tall Canadian as he broke the Czech veteran [...] -
Verdasco and Simon reach Thailand Open 2012 quarterfinals
Fernando Verdasco and Gilles Simon make it to 2012 Thailand Open quarterfinals after eliminating 2011 finalist Young and Soeda in straight sets. Last year’s runner-up American Donald Young fought a good battle against fifth-seeded Spaniard Verdasco. The opening ten games of the last sixteen match on the hard court of [...] -
Monfils advances into second round in Bangkok, Karlovic also through
The evergreen Ivo Karlovic showed his younger opponent that he’s still got what it takes, hitting nine aces past Australia’s Marinko Matosevic to reach round two of the Thailand Open 2012. The Croatian, ranked 80 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings, produced two solid sets winning 76 per cent [...] -
Federer demolishes Benneteau, moves into third round at the Olympics
Roger Federer made sure not to repeat his marathon match against Julien Benneteau from Wimbledon this year, when he had to fight back from two sets down to win the match. In the second round of the 2012 London Olympics, the Swiss destroyed his French opponent in merely and hour, [...] -
Muller Sails through Soeda for Spot in the Atlanta Finals
World no. 63 Gilles Muller earned his place in the BB&T Atlanta Open finals following a dominant performance against the world no. 54 and 8th seed Go Soeda. Both were coming off impressive straight-sets victories in the quarterfinals, with Muller dismissing the Australian Matthew Ebden and Soeda defeating his compatriot [...] -
Soeda Defeats no. 3 seed Nishikori, sets up Clash with Muller in the Atlanta Open Semis
In the first ever all-Japanese quarterfinal match at the BB&T Atlanta Open, world no. 54 Go Soeda defeated his countrymen Kei Nishikori convincingly in straight sets. Despite a 1st serve percentage of well under 50%, Soeda successfully saved 3 break point opportunities in the first set and managed to break [...] -
Matosevic beats no.1 seed Gasquet in Eastbourne
Australian qualifier Marinko Matosevic eliminated no.1 seed Richard Gasquet in the second round of the Aegon International in Eastbourne, beating him 1-6 7-6 (5) 7-6 (3). Aftrer the Frenchman stormed to take the first set in just 26 minutes, Matosevic fought his way back and with no breaks of serve, [...] -
Nalbandian and Querrey through to second round at Queen’s
Former Wimbledon runner-up David Nalbandian moved into the second round of this year’s AEGON Championships at the Queen’s Club in London after overcoming Canadian Vasek Pospisil 4-6 6-2 6-2. He will now face Belgian qualifier Ruben Bemelmans, who defeated Tunisian Malek Jaziri 6-4 1-6 6-3. American Sam Querrey, winner of [...] -
Reynolds beats Karlovic in Houston
American Bobby Reynolds defeated the big serving 8th seed Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 7-6 (5) 2-6 6-3 in the first round of the Houston tennis event and set up a match against fellow Ryan Sweeting in round two. Despite Karlovic hitting 19 aces, his ground strokes let him down and [...]
