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Originally Posted by izulde
what better house targaryen or house kaspar
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I dare not respond to this -- it could be fatal.
Shanghai
Shyam Senepathy qualified here, and lost to Maliagros in a good first-round match, 7-6(3), 6-3. My 'lesser players' were also in Challenger action.
Anil Mehul(tier-2 Tiburon) dropped a first-round singles match but won the title in doubles. As one might expect,
Sushant Chiba(tier-1 Rennes) was somewhat the opposite; first-round doubles loss, and a very tight defeat in the singles quarterfinals.
Lucas Kaspar got him there, 7-6(5), 7-6(4). Both continue to be headed in the opposite direction, but fairly expected results.
Back at Shanghai,
Vinnie Cone continued his upset-minded ways, narrowly missing an upset bid against Castegali. (12)
Benno Duhr was not so lucky, dropping an instant classic 6-3, 6-7(8), 7-6(11) to Besson. The Swede is the only player to upset one of the seeds in the first round. One more fell in the second, also going three, with American
Rob Lock doing the honors against 15th-seeded Alenichev. Mooljee had some trouble, losing a set against unseeded
Milos Schmucker before rallying to win, and Nikitin was pushed also.
A whole bunch of expected results in the third round, except this:
Prakash Mooljee doesn't escape this time, 6-7(5), 6-2, 7-6(5) the final in a match that could have gone either way against (11)
Dick Blake. It's actually a round further than Mooljee made it a year ago but still not what he was looking for. Blake was the better player here though, and a perfect 4-for-4 in break chances. He was the only player to spoil an otherwhise-pristine QF party, and proceeded to get competitively straight-setted by Dircx. Elsewhere it was Kaspar trouncing
Ruben Piazzola -- AGAIN --
Martin Zarco an upset victim against Fangio, and
Hsuang-tsung Teng giving Dudwadkar a serious battle before falling 7-5, 7-6(9).
Guus Dircx threw a bit of a scare into Kaspar in the first semi, 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-2, but it still seemed little more than a hiccup.
Gillo Fangio is within a match of having his personal series with
Ritwik Dudwadkar evened after the Italian lost in straight sets there.
Mateo Kaspar handled the final 7-6(5), 6-1, Dudwadkar's ninth meeting with him just this year ... and eighth loss. 1-8 against the King, 71-2 against everybody else. That's quite the split.