October
Ends up there was one tournament to talk about, with Girish Girsh heading back to the Valencia Open(500, Indoors), which he won last year. Anil Mehul took the week off. It was really a tough call both ways, right on the line as to whether both players should enter. Girsh, the top seed and prohibitive favorite to repeat, cruised except for a semi-final clash with Mugur Kinczllers. That he barely survived, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, before flattening surprise finalist Xavier Caminha, who'd knocked off Trulsen to get there. Girsh dropped just two games in the anticlimactic title match.
And so it's on to Paris. All four of my players are in action next week -- it's always an important one as the last event for most of the world's best, those who aren't headed to the Tour Finals.
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