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Cincinatti Masters
Jochen Weigle had yet another early disaster. It's at the point where it's surprising when he doesn't. It's beyond absurd for a player this good to play this bad. Anyway, it was de Laurentiis who did the honors, later beaten again by Johann Przalowik. The rest of the quarterfinals were the expected players.
Oleg Urazov returned to give Ben Faille his toughest match of the tournament; 6-3, 6-2. You read that correctly. Faille was apparently rather cheesed off at having lost last week. Both his semifinal and championship matches resulted in 3 total games surrended in each. That's ... uh, turning it on. On the top of the draw, a competitive win by Renke Cananis over Przalowik before he was given the treatment. On the bottom, it was the Spanish Show. Leon Polychroniadis was narrowly beaten in the best match of the round by Bardales, 7-6(5), 5-7, 6-3. Then Themis Xanthos lost to Ene Caballero in one of the rising phenom's best wins to date. In an all-Spanish semi, Caballero edged out the first set but ultimately lost in three. He's not quite King of Spain .... just yet. And then Bardales was smashed like everyone else when he went up against Faille.
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