Week 22: Rijeka, Croatia (Winner : Rui Machado)

Moder · May 30, 2011

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Qualifying Round
(8)Gabriel Trujillo-Soler (ESP) d. (1)Jonathan Eysseric (FRA) 6-4 6-2
(6)Nicolas Devilder (FRA) d. (2)Fernando Romboli (BRA) 6-3 7-6(6)
Pedro Sousa (POR) d. Jose (rubin) Statham (NZL) 6-2 6-1
(4)Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA) d. Michael Linzer (AUT) 1-6 7-5 7-5

MD, Q placed:

First Round
(1)Blaz Kavcic (SLO) vs Frank Dancevic (CAN)
(q)Gabriel Trujillo-Soler (ESP) vs Augustin Gensse (FRA)
Olivier Patience (FRA) vs (q)Pedro Sousa (POR)
(WC)Nikola Mektic (CRO) vs (5)Paolo Lorenzi (ITA)
(4)Eric Prodon (FRA) vs (WC)Kristijan Mesaros (CRO)
Attila Balazs (HUN) vs Julio Silva (BRA)
Facundo Bagnis (ARG) vs (ALT)Antonio Veic (CRO)
Alessio Di Mauro (ITA) vs (8)Grega Zemlja (SLO)
(6)Brian Dabul (ARG) vs (WC)Borut Puc (CRO)
Adrian Ungur (ROU) vs Matteo Viola (ITA)
Jurgen Zopp (EST) vs Adam Kellner (HUN)
(WC)Dino Marcan (CRO) vs (3)Rui Machado (POR)
(7)Vincent Millot (FRA) vs Simone Vagnozzi (ITA)
David Guez (FRA) vs Juan Pablo Brzezicki (ARG)
(q)Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA) vs Andres Molteni (ARG)
(q)Nicolas Devilder (FRA) vs (2)Diego Junqueira (ARG)

Help with results in steve’s forum is needed. The current team is great but it could be bigger.

Nathaliia · May 31, 2011

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lmao Balazs beating Silva 6-1 so far, maybe too much Croatian party for Julio

Sauletekis · May 31, 2011

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Pedro Sousa (the only player who won a set to D-Pot in Estoril) is getting cofident. He got the game, and it seems he's getting his head into to it. 6-3 6-4 against Patience! I expect dozens of places up in the rankings, with this 9 points, and (who knows?) even more.

FORÇA PEDRO!

Machiavelli · May 31, 2011

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Mesaros def. Prodon 6/4,2/6,*6/5 ret. what was this???
Vagnozzi def. Millot 6/2,6/4
Guez def. Brzezicki 6/1,6/1 ; too good on clay Guez
Balasz def. J.Silva 6/1,6/2 ; gutsy performance from the brazilian, so much heart
Molteni def. Arnaboldi 6/1,4/6,7/6(4)
Sousa def. Patience 6/3,6/4

Sauletekis · May 31, 2011

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Machiavelli said:
Mesaros def. Prodon 6/4,2/6,*6/5 ret. what was this???
Vagnozzi def. Millot 6/2,6/4
Guez def. Brzezicki 6/1,6/1 ; too good on clay Guez
Balasz def. J.Silva 6/1,6/2 ; gutsy performance from the brazilian, so much heart
Molteni def. Arnaboldi 6/1,4/6,7/6(4)
Sousa def. Patience 6/3,6/4

Yes, very strange retirement to say at least. Or it must be very serious, or seems like someone is not learning the lessons of crazy Dani...

Sombrerero loco · May 31, 2011

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balazs :hearts:

Filo V. · May 31, 2011

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Eric was serving for the match at *5-4 and lost it, and then just ended the match really afterward. I'm guessing a mental injury as much as physical.

Dominant wins for Balasz, Junqueira and Guez. I'm very surprised about Guez winning that easily. Polaco usually puts forth better efforts than that.

Filo V. · May 31, 2011

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Lorenzi playing now, up a break in the first set at 5-*3. Wonder if he can back up his nearly beating Rafa in Rome result or if he'll just go back to mediocrity.

Nathaliia · May 31, 2011

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lorenzi chokes a bit

6-2 4-2 to 4-4

but should win

Filo V. · May 31, 2011

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Lorenzi won it 6-3 6-4. Comfortable victory.

Match of the tournament is tomorrow, between Kavcic v Dancevic.

RonaldGomez · May 31, 2011

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Prodon was injured in French Open after his match against Beck, maybe he was still suffering.

Moder · May 31, 2011

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First Round
(1)Blaz Kavcic (SLO) vs Frank Dancevic (CAN)
(q)Gabriel Trujillo-Soler (ESP) vs Augustin Gensse (FRA)
(q)Pedro Sousa (POR) d. Olivier Patience (FRA) 6-3 6-4
(5)Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) d. (WC)Nikola Mektic (CRO) 6-3 6-4
(WC)Kristijan Mesaros (CRO) d. (4)Eric Prodon (FRA) 6-4 2-6 6-5 ret.
Attila Balazs (HUN) d. Julio Silva (BRA) 6-1 6-2
Facundo Bagnis (ARG) vs (ALT)Antonio Veic (CRO)
Alessio Di Mauro (ITA) vs (8)Grega Zemlja (SLO)
(6)Brian Dabul (ARG) vs (WC)Borut Puc (CRO)
Adrian Ungur (ROU) vs Matteo Viola (ITA)
Jurgen Zopp (EST) vs Adam Kellner (HUN)
(WC)Dino Marcan (CRO) vs (3)Rui Machado (POR)
Simone Vagnozzi (ITA) d. (7)Vincent Millot (FRA) 6-2 6-4
David Guez (FRA) d. Juan Pablo Brzezicki (ARG) 6-1 6-1
Andres Molteni (ARG) d. (q)Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA) 6-1 4-6 7-6(4)
(2)Diego Junqueira (ARG) d. (q)Nicolas Devilder (FRA) 6-1 6-2

Any help in steve’s results forum is appreciated. Even if just for a few minutes.

Sombrerero loco · Jun 1, 2011

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thanks moder for the results =)

Crowdmaker · Jun 1, 2011

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Filo V. said:
Lorenzi won it 6-3 6-4. Comfortable victory.

Comfortable only by the scoreline.
Metkic had 2 break points, early in the 1st set, then fell apart after not converting them, from 3-3 to 6-3.
This continued in 2nd set.However Lorenzi game was much weaker in 2nd set, making Metkic way back with re-break for 4-4.
How Metkic lost his last service game is better not to talk about.Overall the real differnce in this match was "head" only.

Crowdmaker · Jun 1, 2011

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RonaldGomez said:
Prodon was injured in French Open after his match against Beck, maybe he was still suffering.

Prodon had 5-2 in the 3rd set.
Then scoreline was Mesaros 6-5 and 30-15...next thing you know Prodon cannot continue!?
Ha, ha...good one Prodon :rolls:

Crowdmaker · Jun 1, 2011

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OK, now few words about tournament in general.
I have to correct myself (previous report), as the organizers put some +- 100 seats for the central court.
This is of course just for the tournament.
General sponsor of the event is local oil industry "INA".
People are obviosly not amused with a whole thing as the most atractive match yesterday Mektic-Lorenzi was followed with
about 40 to 50 spectators.Atmosphere on stands was rather more appr. for theater then some sports event.
Veic, Zovko, Puc were amongst Mektic supporter's.
I had a word with one of the organizers, who is a bit pesimistic about events future or actually local clubs limits.
Veic had nice training session early in the morning and overall seems to be really nice bloke.Today he is expecting much bigger support from his friends and family.He is originally from one of the nearby islands, so to be a student in Rijeka is like a tradition which is followed by a lot of his friends.Hopefully this support will help him to win over Bagnis today at 1800 who is really a difficult player.
So far from local players, Mesaros is in 2nd round, whilst Mektic is out.
Besides Veic, Puc and Marcan are playing today, but with hard draw to advance further.
Probably the best chance here would have Skugor, but is unable to play due to injury.
If there's some chance will try to write some more.

clansman · Jun 1, 2011

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so here's the story...there are confirmed stories that nine matches on the tournament had been fixed. six from yesterday's programme and three from today's. the word is that huge amounts of money had been bet in romania on those matches including Prodon - Mesaros where the bet had been on prodon. as far as you know Prodon led 5-2 in the third then retired on 5-6* 15-40*
today trujillo soler had to beat gensee what as you know happened (odds 2.70), kellner had to beat zopp but he retired at 2-0. i suppose that he maybe had some threats...
the last match is di mauro-zemlja...if di mauro wins, the romanian bookies will loose around 500.000 euros...

lephter · Jun 1, 2011

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I see no one writes about the match fixing that is going on at this tournament.
There should be an investigation going on cause around 8-10 matches from the 1st round are supposed to be fixed by betting mafia.

A lot of French players involved in the betting scam: Millot, Prodon, Devilder ,Patience and Gensse all lost on command, while Brzezicki ,Julio Silva and Dutra Silva also lost here on porpouse.

Big money were placed at local betting shops on combo bets here in Romania, Croatia,Poland,Serbia,Bosnia etc.

It seems like every year there are couple of situations similar to this one.

Millot should be banned for life...same as Koellerer.

Link from Romanian newspaer: http://www.prosport.ro/sport-life/s...-meciuri-trucate-care-ar-fi-adus-castiguri-de-150-000-8300363/galerie-2#picture

Filo V. · Jun 1, 2011

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Damn, a fixed event. Sad shit. But not surprising in the least.

Nathaliia · Jun 1, 2011

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I am on an online betting detox now :tape:

until I catch up with my writing jobs deadlines but I entered a local bookie yesterday ( :angel: ) to ask for a Djokovic RG outright prize and also noticed there were no Rijeka challenger matches (perhaps good for me or I could have lost on Brzezicki over Guez).

Today Zopp's prize was going up like crazy up to nearly evens and then Kellner retired at 0-2. Either a reverse fix or overplotting

Trujillo d. Gensse 6-3 6-3
Puc d. Dabul 7-6(1) 6-4
Ungur d. Viola 6-4 6-2
Machado d. Marcan 6-2 6-3

RAIN :rain:

Week 22: Rijeka, Croatia (Winner : Rui Machado)

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