U.S. Summer Hard Court Season!/LA, DC, Binghamton and now USO Qualies!
 

Binghamton main draw: :)

[1] DABUL, Brian ARG vs WARD, James GBR
LINDAHL, Nick AUS vs QUALIFIER
CAPDEVILLE, Paul CHI vs BALLERET, Benjamin MON
NISHIKORI, Kei JPN vs [5] KIM, Kevin

Full draw:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2010/670/mds.pdf

Official site:
http://www.tennischallenger.com/

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Washington main draw:

[7] Wawrinka vs Bye
Nalbandian vs Ram
Dabul vs Chiudinelli
[10] Stepanek vs Bye

[13] Simon vs Bye
Kunitsyn vs Nishikori
Becker vs Zemja
[2] Roddick vs Bye

Full draw: http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2010/418/mds.pdf

Washington qualidying draw:

(1) ANDERSON, Kevin v KLEC, Ivo
(WC) ORE, Junior A. v (12) NISHIKORI, Kei

OOP for Saturday

STADIUM
Matches Start At: 10:00 am
Kevin ANDERSON (RSA) vs Ivo KLEC (SVK)
Junior A. ORE (USA) vs Kei NISHIKORI (JPN)
Donald YOUNG (USA) vs Michael SHABAZ (USA)
Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND) vs Denis KUDLA (USA)

Official site: http://www.leggmasontennisclassic.com/

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LA Qualifying draw
http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2010/423/qs.pdf

[1] CLEMENT, Arnaud (FRA) vs SMYCZEK, Tim (USA)
NISHIKORI, Kei (JPN) vs COOK, Lester (USA)
GONZALEZ, Santiago (MEX) vs BAKER, Jamie (GBR)
LINDAHL, Nick (AUS) vs [7] BOGDANOVIC, Alex (GBR)

Good luck, Kei!! :D

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OOP for Saturday:

SYCAMORE 4
Matches Start At: 10:00 am

Steve JOHNSON (USA) vs Marinko MATOSEVIC (AUS)
Kei NISHIKORI (JPN) vs Lester COOK (USA)
Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND) vs Mao-Xin GONG (CHN)
Daniel KOSAKOWSKI (USA) vs Ilija BOZOLJAC (SRB)

Ganbatte! Kei!

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good to see kei again:)

cant do live scoring but he's won the first set 7-6(7-2) and just got the break to open the second set

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it doesnt sound like he played his best..or that good at all but he got the job done:)

7-6, 6-4

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Well done, Kei! :yippee:

From facebook:
won 7-6, 6-4. Played pretty good. Getting ready for the next match. :)

OOP for Sunday:

SYCAMORE 2
Matches Start At: 12:00 noon

Tim SMYCZEK (USA) vs Kei NISHIKORI (JPN)
Giovanni LAPENTTI (ECU) vs Benjamin BALLERET (MON)

Good luck, Kei! :yeah:
I won't be able to follow the livescore because the match will start at 4 a.m. my time, but hopefully he can repeat his victory over Smyczek at Sarasota in spring. :)

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Thanks bunny, any wins from Kei makes me happy.

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lost 3-6, 4-6 to smyczek:sad:

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:sad:

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I did not see this one coming.
geez...no more chances of seeing Kei play this week.

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I know i was kinda surprise as well....i guess we'll have to wait another week

Maybe Tim really played well :(

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Pity he lost... :sad:

This is his blog from Sunday:
(Again, it's NOT AN OFFICIAL translation so please do not quote it anywhere. All the mistakes are to be blamed on me.)


Today I couldn't play my game at all and lost.

Tim Smyczek 3-6 4-6

Once one shot didn't get in, I started thinking about too many things and then other part of my game also got into trouble.
It might have been the worst match I've played recently.
After the match, I was not so much frustrated as I was fighting with this irrepressible feeling towards my being unable to play my game.
From now on, I have to make more time for tennis and practice hard so that I can get confidence in every shot.
I don't think the situation is terrible, but I won't be able to beat strong guys if I go on like this.
I have to change something. Otherwise I can't get my confidence back, and more than anything else I can't win a match.
I've already had discussions with my coach about this so now I've just got to do it.

My next match will be qualifying in Washington, but before that I'll return to the academy to train.
My mind is still panicking a bit, but I have no time to rue the defeat, so I'll just go for the next step.

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better luck to him in washington i guess

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Washington OOP for Saturday

STADIUM
Matches Start At: 10:00 am
Kevin ANDERSON (RSA) vs Ivo KLEC (SVK)
Junior A. ORE (USA) vs Kei NISHIKORI (JPN)
Donald YOUNG (USA) vs Michael SHABAZ (USA)
Somdev DEVVARMAN (IND) vs Denis KUDLA (USA)

(Added the same post in the opening post.)

Goooooood luck, Kei! :bounce:

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Kei leads Ore 6-3 *2-1 :)