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Old 05-26-2016, 01:14 PM   #366
Brian Swartz
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Join Date: May 2006
Canada Masters

By now you don't even need me to tell you what Shreya Ujjaval did -- it was predictable in advance. Qualified, won a close first-rounder, lost a one-sided match to Kinczllers in the second round. Lather, rinse, repeat. Girsh and Mehul on the other hand were drawn on the same side of the bracket, so a semifinal matchup loomed if they could both get there. Mehul had the tougher draw, with Girsh basically in the Peruvian quarter -- all four Herreras were there with him, three of them seeded.

The best third-round matchup on paper was Mehul against Elias Trulsen, but he got through easily. Benda and Bourdet was a good one as well, and closer but the German made it through in straight sets. The quarterfinals featured a couple of tight matches and a couple of one-sided ones. Iglar knocked off Caratti easily, while Benda had a lot of work to do against surprising Afanasy Bereznity, who seems to be doing this once or twice a year. Bereznity pushed it to 7-5 in the third, but couldn't come through. Next up was Mehul against Mugur Kinczllers, and after dropping the first set he was fortunate to withstand 19 aces and win 3-6, 7-6(2), 7-5. Girsh has a pretty easy one against Thiago Herrera.

Top four once again in the semis. Iglar had a competitive straight-set win over Benda, while Anil Mehul and Girish Girsh went toe-to-toe in the second one. It was evenly played, but the senior player was best in the biggest moments and prevailed 6-7(7), 7-6(3), 6-3, his fourth win in as many encounters this year. Tough defeat for Girsh. With Mehul still rounding into form, it surprised basically nobody that Iglar prevailed in the final to claim his third Masters of the year.

Elsewhere ...

Ritwik Dudwadkar was the #3 seed at Al Minya. That's a new sensation. He lost a very close semi to the top seed, 6-3 in the final set, and reached the same round in doubles. Enough to bump him up another hundred spots to the low 700s.
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