Thursday Results: Queens, Halle

I’ll blog about my day at Queens today (disclaimer: it was probably not as interesting as my Tuesday, so if you thought that made for dull reading …). But for the moment …

Queens

No alarms and no surprises today. We could pretend that Gilles Simon getting beaten by Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets is a surprise, but we’d be fooling no-one, now would we?

Murray proceeded over Garcia-Lopez, and Andy Roddick defeated Lleyton Hewitt in two tiebreak sets in the match of the day.

 

Oh, and Juan Carlos Ferrero put out Xavier Malisse. Did you know Malisse was playing this tournament? I saw him practicing on Tuesday, and even I didn’t know he was playing this tournament.

Juan Carlos commands you to fear him, peasants.

Singles – Third Round
[1] A Murray (GBR) d [16] G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 64 64
[2] A Roddick (USA) d [15] L Hewitt (AUS) 76(2) 76(4)
[14] M Youzhny (RUS) d [3] G Simon (FRA) 61 26 62
[6] J Blake (USA) d S Querrey (USA) 64 46 63
[8] M Fish (USA) d [10] F Lopez (ESP) 61 64
[9] I Karlovic (CRO) d [Q] N Mahut (FRA) 63 64
J Ferrero (ESP) d [Q] X Malisse (BEL) 64 76(4)

Doubles – Second Round
S Aspelin (SWE) / P Hanley (AUS) d [1] D Nestor (CAN) / N Zimonjic (SRB) 64 36 10-8
[6] M Melo (BRA) / A Sa (BRA) d I Karlovic (CRO) / L Zovko (CRO) 46 63 10-6
[7] J Coetzee (RSA) / J Kerr (AUS) d J Erlich (ISR) / J Murray (GBR) 63 60
J Benneteau (FRA) / M Llodra (FRA) d [8] S Huss (AUS) / R Hutchins (GBR) 75 62

Halle

It was a cold day in Halle as Florent Serra held five match points over Novak Djokovic. Kitten came through in the end, but seriously, Nole. If you can’t win *this* tournament …

Back to the forest of death and blood with you, Serra.

Singles – Second Round
[2] N Djokovic (SRB) d F Serra (FRA) 57 75 61 – saved 5 M.P.
[7] J Melzer (AUT) d N Kiefer (GER) 61 ret. (abdominal muscle tear)
A Beck (GER) d [LL] L Lacko (SVK) 75 76(5)
[Q] O Rochus (BEL) d P Petzschner (GER) 57 75 62

Doubles – Semi-finals
[WC] A Beck (GER) / M Chiudinelli (SUI) d N Kiefer (GER) / M Zverev (GER) W/O (Kiefer – abdominal muscle tear)

Doubles – Quarter-finals
C Kas (GER) / P Kohlschreiber (GER) d A Clement (FRA) / R Schuettler (GER) 36 61 13-11
[WC] T Haas (GER) / M Kohlmann (GER) d T Berdych (CZE) / D Vemic (SRB) 67(5) 64 10-4
[WC] A Beck (GER) / M Chiudinelli (SUI) d M Gicquel (FRA) / J Tsonga (FRA) 64 16 10-8