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Frederico Gil

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Fredrico Gil

This guy is playing in his home countries only ATP Event this week in Estoril, Portugal and he doesn't even need a Wild Card! Vamos!
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

This thread is dying! Gil almost in the final of Tunis Ch again and in doubles is in SF too... And next to come, ESTORIL:worship: VAMOS GIL!
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Frederico is in the semifinals of ATP Estoril after defeating his countryman Machado 4-6 7-6 (1) 6-3!!!! He also beat Florian Mayer in 3 sets in the first round, and Santiago Giraldo in straight sets in the second round. He plays Garcia-Lopez in the semifinals with the potential to play Roger in the final in front of the home fans!

With his results this week he will move up in the rankings from #133 to around #110 and with a win tomorrow, he would be right around/in the top 100 next week! Good luck Frederico, hopefully you get the victory to continue the best week of your career!
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Frederico is in the semifinals of ATP Estoril after defeating his countryman Machado 4-6 7-6 (1) 6-3!!!! He also beat Florian Mayer in 3 sets in the first round, and Santiago Giraldo in straight sets in the second round. He plays Garcia-Lopez in the semifinals with the potential to play Roger in the final in front of the home fans!

With his results this week he will move up in the rankings from #133 to around #110 and with a win tomorrow, he would be right around/in the top 100 next week! Good luck Frederico, hopefully you get the victory to continue the best week of your career!
I'm very happy for him, but it's sad that Machado didn't win it too, because he will surely become a top 100, by def. Gil. And Rui deserve top 100 by a long time. But Gil is a mentally stronger player, so hope he will use that to beat GGL... Not going to be easy, tought... it would be magic to have a Portuguese player in an ATP event, especially in front of his fans, in Estoril.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Frederico won 6-2 5-7 6-3 over Garcia Lopez and is in the final of his home countries tournament in Estoril!!!! He was serving for the match at 5-4 in the second set but got nervous and choked. He broke immediately to start the third set but was re-broken. But he found a way to fight through and win the match by breaking GGL three times in the set!!! What an amazing week for Frederico and Portuguese tennis fans, and the Estoril tournament.

Even more positively, Frederico should be right around 100 next week in the world rankings, just in time for the main draw of Wimbledon!!

Tomorrow he plays Albert Montanes who beat Federer in the semi-finals. The best way to cap off this amazing week would be with a win but regardless, Frederico has had the best tournament of his life and should be very proud. Congrats to you Frederico, and good luck tomorrow!
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Frederico came so close to the victory but came up just short in the final, 2-6 7-6 (4) 5-7 to Montanes. Frederico was being completely outplayed and was down 6-2 5-3 and Montanes had opportunities to go ahead a double break in the second set, but Frederico fought back two times when Montanes served for the match, and took it to a tiebreaker he won by playing aggressive and just hitting out on all his shots. In the third set Frederico rode the wave of momentum and got ahead a double break on Montanes! But Montanes came all the way back and Frederico got a little tired, and Albert broke 3 times in the 3rd set to win the match.

It was an exciting, intense, dramatic and very fun final to watch with decent quality---at times. Regardless of the result, this is the biggest tournament in Frederico's career, and is a career changing event for him and for all of Portugal when it comes to tennis. Frederico put tennis on the map in Portugal and hopefully the fight and desire he showed this week in Estoril will rub off on any youngsters who want to get in the sport.

Frederico's ranking will move up to around #104 with this result with nothing to defend these next months, so a return to a top 100 place is basically an inevitability. Congrats Frederico on this fabulous week, you have done your fans and country very proud!!
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Frederico will play on Tuesday (or maybe Wendesday if Jonh asks for another day to heal his injury) against the giant player, Isner. The american guy is injured. Wonder if he will play or Gil will will play agains some LL.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

After reachig USO doubles Last Of 16, Fred will have a mini-holidays according to portuguese newspapper. He will be back only in Week 39 to defend the Napoli CH tittle of last year... But next week he will play the DC Playoff's against Bosnia, to help Portugal to be in I division of Europe/Africa zone...
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Trying to revive a bit this forum about Gil. I'm major fan, think he is doing a lot for tennis in Portugal.
But, doesn't it seem strange that he already said that his last two tournaments of the season will be Montpellier and Valencia? Such strong fields, and IMO he still didn't secure enough points for dirrect acceptance at the Aussie Open. Long way to travel to risk the qualifying... Shouldn't he play one or two challengers instead?
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Trying to revive a bit this forum about Gil. I'm major fan, think he is doing a lot for tennis in Portugal.
But, doesn't it seem strange that he already said that his last two tournaments of the season will be Montpellier and Valencia? Such strong fields, and IMO he still didn't secure enough points for dirrect acceptance at the Aussie Open. Long way to travel to risk the qualifying... Shouldn't he play one or two challengers instead?
Quoting myself!, just to say that, after this win today against Roger-vasselin, IMO Gil is at the Aussie Open directly.
I've been taking a good look at the ranks, and at least 10 guys above him will lose a lot of points until the end of the season, so he's safe to finish now at the Top-100, I think, even if he looses the rest of his games (Tsonga and Valencia Qualies).
If I'm correct, congrats, Gil, at a season were he played so irregularly (more frequently playing poorly), but with the best result of his (or of any portuguese) career, at home, at the Estoril Open, that epic run to the final! A lot of heart through out the season, just like today again.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Gil eliminated from Valencia early on Qualies with 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4).

Considering the fact that he was one break ahead in 2nd set and 1 mini-break in 3rd set Tie-Break, this is awful. I hope he comes back way stronger than he actually is.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Gil eventually finished his season at 101, but with the same points of 100... He is now into Chennai and AO (entry list just released, uff!) and will play Sidney Qualy in the middle.
I hope he does better at this first tournaments than last season, finally advances at least one round at a grand Slam, and hope to see him in South America, for the golden Swing in February, playing at Santiago, Costa do Sauipe and Buenos Aires.
Go, Gil!! :)
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Good idea, Ad Win, and definitely a right one. He should play events like Meknes and Marrakech. Big points, clay events, weaker draws. He needs as many points as possible before Estoril.

He should have a better season next year with a full season of ATP competition under his belt and some good rest, but he needs to get better on HC. When he first came up, he did it by mixing good clay results with some good HC results, but the last year and a half, he's become only a clay courter. Now that Rui is ahead of him in the ranking, he should have extra motivation for 2011.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Good idea, Ad Win, and definitely a right one. He should play events like Meknes and Marrakech. Big points, clay events, weaker draws. He needs as many points as possible before Estoril.

He should have a better season next year with a full season of ATP competition under his belt and some good rest, but he needs to get better on HC. When he first came up, he did it by mixing good clay results with some good HC results, but the last year and a half, he's become only a clay courter. Now that Rui is ahead of him in the ranking, he should have extra motivation for 2011.
Good post Filo! Completely agree!:wavey:
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

After a disappointing loss against Berdych, Gil is now playing Sidney qualies. In the first round Gil defeated Dudi Sela(2) 6/4, 4/6 and 6/1 and Matosevic with 3/6, 6/3 and 6/3. Considering that he played 6 sets yesterday he will face some problems against Greul who defeated Kukushkin without troubles.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Through to second round after Nieminen withdrew with a knee injury after the first set. Hard to tell how he was playing when Jarkko was injured, but neither player looked particularly bad at all. He will play Simon or Lu next.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Simon and Lu will play 11:00 AM (local time) and will finish the match. 6-0, 3-2 for the frechman. Would be very interesting for Fred if this went to a decider set, but i think Gilles will win in 2, and won't be that tired, against Gil.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

Spectabulous! Great to see him finally winning a match at a Grand Slam. Totally deserved.
Great start of the season (for his level). Good run at hard-court down-under swing. Good wins against Dudi Sela and Simon Greul, and now Cuevas!
He has some (tiny) chances against Monfils (he also played a five-seter, and was nearly ousted).
After the AO, he will play one of his favourite parts of the season, the South American Golden Swing. Up until now, he only has direct acceptance in Chile, but I hope he manages to round-up with good number of points after February, to approach his best ever rank (66th) and start compensating for future loss of points in Estoril (another final would be a dream come true).
He really needs an improvement on that serve, if he wants to stick permanently at top-75, and have a go at entering top-50. But with that height...
Anyway, huge contribution to portuguese tennis, like no other!!
Go Gil.
 
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Re: Fredrico Gil

A good look at the ranks leads me to say that Gil has now a decent chance of getting directly in ATP 1000 Miami, and is safely directly accepted at Casablanca, Estoril and Roland Garros. So, lots of ground for a good run in the ranks this year. He really played decently against Monfils at the Aussie Open, so good prospects for the near future... Every point counts now, since he has a lot of points to defend in the mid-season.
 
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