[Christy]

Well that went alright. Made a mistake with Aas. Had not realised I had him signed up for another 500. Ah well, nice to see him show signs of life with that 250 win after some pretty poor results.

Perez was saving himself for Shanghai and really showed a powerful serve. He had a comfortable enough win against Haas and managed to deny Molyneaux a single break point in the quarter final! Dominated on his own serve and decent on the return.

His match vs Hart have all gone the distance recently and this one was no different. Well it was finally a little different in that Perez managed to sneak out the win on the other side to reach his 3rd masters final of the year.

There he met another surprise finalist in Dogic making a late (probably too late push). Again Perez was dominant on serve. He won 5 service games to love in the opening set, losing 2 in the final game. He only managed to break once but it was enough.

The second set things were a bit more even but he managed to win enough return points for his first masters shield and second professional title!

Dogic had a great competition as well going through Meiklejohn, Solberg and Solheim in a tough route to the final. I noticed in the final set tie break Solberg had 3 match points against him and still lost (Solberg managing to double fault on the only match point on his own serve).

Chiba sent notice to Brian that the last few weeks were not a sign of revitalisation with a second round loss to another aging player.