O. Rochus (BEL) d (8)I. Ljubicic (CRO) 62 62

I can't believe noone posted a thread on this yet. ;)

Oliver!!!! :bounce: :bounce:

olli :yeah:

ivan :o :help: :cuckoo:
you didn't have to show up if you were going to play so bad

:yippee:

ivan :o :help: :cuckoo:
you didn't have to show up if you were going to play so bad
ivan played as usual, olli just played marvelous :)

Ivan :smash:

ivan played as usual, olli just played marvelous :)
if ivan played half as well as he did in the beginning of the year, he would have won easily. the fact that rochus won more points on his second serve than his first is pathetic when you take into consideration how poor his serve is in the first place

Oli :woohoo:

Clay and Ivan will never be best buds.

:woohoo: I was expecting an upset, but it was more wishful thinking there than an actual make-sense thought. Congrats, Rochus! I hope he has a good tournament!

Clay isn't Ljubicic's best surface but it's not like he sucks at it, didn't he reach the semifinals of one of the clay AMS events last year? Forgot which one now.

first match on clay for ivan - can't read too much into this

Ivan .. :sad:

What happened there Ivan???

Ollie! :)

:sad:

Olivier! :banana:
:woohoo:

Ivan is a very good player, and has been playing great. That's why I was so happy to see that Oli won!

I hope Ivan does better in his next tournament..... so long as it's not at the expense of one of my faves. :)

:banana:

It's his first match on clay and it's not a big surprise that he lost. I'm only surprised by the result. :mad:


He will do better in the next tournament. :cool:

Ollie :bounce:

Congrats Ollie! :hug:

Well done, Ollie :banana:

:yippee: olivier!!

When does Ivan play next Rome? month away?

he's playing a Munich April25th...should be #1 seed.

if ivan played half as well as he did in the beginning of the year, he would have won easily. the fact that rochus won more points on his second serve than his first is pathetic when you take into consideration how poor his serve is in the first place

One funny lesson our Croatian fellas have taught me lately is:

When Iván loses don´t dare to doubt Iván is the better player on that surface. He lost bc he played crap, if he played well we only would lose to Roger. ;)

Ollie, well done!

That's what happens when you can't control the baseline rallies.

One funny lesson our Croatian fellas have taught me lately is:

When Iván loses don´t dare to doubt Iván is the better player on that surface. He lost bc he played crap, if he played well we only would lose to Roger. ;)

if he was the better player he shouldn't have played like crap.. :p good job, Olli :woohoo:

Congrats Oli :worship: :hug:

Ollie :worship:

Ljubicic only play good in hard for his server, nothing else.

pfff Ivan:rolleyes::rolleyes:

I did have to rub my eyes and blink when I first saw the scoreline, Rochus has had a good start to the year himself but not at the same level as Ljubicic and it's remarkable that someone who just lost quite easily to Kuerten on his comeback from surgery could demolish a player who beat Pavel and Youzhny on clay to make the semis of Hamburg last year. Maybe Ljubicic just doesn't play well on "home soil", as it were; this is the second match in a row he has lost 2 and 2 in Monte Carlo, after the third-round drubbing at the hands of Kolya last year, and I can't imagine his supporters were very impressed...

was actually expecting a rochus win here.