Poto Starace def Agustin Calleri 63 61

OMG :eek: Poto :woohoo:
now Ferrero :rocker2: you can do it :yeah:

Great job, Potito!

good win

he showed a great form in Bracelona and good to see he kept it
let's hope for another win against ferrero

Good start to the Rome masters for the Italian contingent. Now lets hope Bracciali wins the second set and Volandri and Bolelli get wins tomorrow.

A very good win for Potito against such an opponent. He is probably the best form of his career.

expected win by Potito :yeah:

Potitio can play very well on clay, its not really a surprise that he won, but the scoreline suggests that either he played out his skin or calleri didnt play well.

expected win by Potito :yeah:

according to you, everything is an expected win.

according to you, everything is an expected win.

wrong, or do you see that in every thread?

wrong, or do you see that in every thread?

most of the times i see your post, it says that. :haha:

Potito vs. Juanqui next. Interesting, to say the least. Don't know who to root for, I guess *both*. Bring 'em on! :devil: :angel:

Big serve, eh?

Feerro has already 2 wins against Potito this year on clay but Potito is doing much better now

most of the times i see your post, it says that. :haha:

in most of the threads in GM? you are a bad mathematician if you think that.

Feerro has already 2 wins against Potito this year on clay but Potito is doing much better now

he will beat ferrero

in most of the threads in GM? you are a bad mathematician if you think that.

DAMN RIGHT I AM

:help: Gordo

El gran cagazo de nuevo

Ooh, JCF gets another bite at the Potato.

Apparantly, they had some good quality matches down in South America, can't wait to actually see it this time. I hope it's a Wednesday night session.

Yep and in Italy it should be an even better match with Poto in good form.

ummm okay....

Very surprised by this, but well done to Starace.

Impressive display by Starace.

Very nice Potito! :yeah:

What a second set scoreline...

wooow Poto :eek:

Starace is on fire these days, I wouldn't be surprised if he takes out JCF in the next round.

With this result I would think Rome is playing slower than recent years, can anyone please comfirm if that is true or not.

i think today was slower because of the rain

Gordo :sad: :sad: :sad:

Potito :eek:

A win was never out of the question, but this scoreline is amazing.

Very good performance from Starace and Calleri looked disinterested, but now hopefully Starace can take down Ferrero.

For Calleri, this was by far ''the worst match in his life''.

http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/news/story?id=556107&s=ten&type=story

Congrats Starace, he's a really nice game to watch. Hope he keeps winning.

Good Calleri has played quite a lot of tennis in the past 2 weeks and some long matches and hopefully with this shocker out of the way, he can now prepare for Hamburg.

I have a really bad feeling about the next round, with Potito being in hot form and having the home crowd support, but Ferrero's played him recently, so I hope Ferrero has his game all figured out and will disappoint all the italians. Ferrero can and will win!!!

Starace - a dangerous on clay.

Good Calleri has played quite a lot of tennis in the past 2 weeks and some long matches and hopefully with this shocker out of the way, he can now prepare for Hamburg.

Hope so too!

I couldn't follow the match yesterday evening, because I had to get up at 4.30 a.m. :rolleyes: , but I went to sleep with a pretty uncomfortable feeling (Calleri just broken in the 1st set and Cañas on 5-5 1st set after giving up a comfortable 3-0...).

Too bad my "bedtime prayers" only worked for Willy :o