[Eden]

[Smoke944]

Nice week for him, he lost in the final in a 15k in Portugal.

[Smoke944]

In the final of another 15k in Portugal, let's see if he can take the title this time, GL

[LutherReigns]

ATP Basel

lost to PH Mathieu 2:6 5:7

I was in Basel and saw the game. In Set 1, PHM played incredible, like a Top 10-Player, so Henri had no chance for sure. In Set 2 after PHM played "normal", Henri had good chances to win the Set. His problem is the 2nd Serve - is too slow at this moment.

What i want to say: He's got good potential. He should become Top 100 in the next 2 years. Next, he will play Challenger in Geneva. Hopefully, he can reach something.

[RNW]

Originally Posted by LutherReigns

ATP Basel

lost to PH Mathieu 2:6 5:7

I was in Basel and saw the game. In Set 1, PHM played incredible, like a Top 10-Player, so Henri had no chance for sure. In Set 2 after PHM played "normal", Henri had good chances to win the Set. His problem is the 2nd Serve - is too slow at this moment.

What i want to say: He's got good potential. He should become Top 100 in the next 2 years. Next, he will play Challenger in Geneva. Hopefully, he can reach something.

Thanks for the informations.
Very interesting.
I was not able to see the match because of WTA Masters.

He said himself he had to improve his backhand.

[RNW]

ATP Challenger Genf/ Geneve

R1: Laaksonen (WC) d. De Voest 67 (8) 76 (5) 76 (6)
R2: Laaksonen (WC) d. Jaziri 75 76 (8)

Good results. Tight matches, but he won both, good tiebreaks.

[KontNiem]

For those who didn't see the match against Jaziri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPMFBomvP9k

[RNW]

ATP Genf Challenger

QF: Laaksonen (WC) d. Marchenko 63 67 (4) 75

Was 0-3 in third set. Great win again.

SF: Bachinger d. Laaksonen (WC) 75 61

35 Points for Laaksonen, great week.

New ranking: No. 310. With 140 points.

(From 360 up to 310. Very good)

[RNW]

Originally Posted by KontNiem

For those who didn't see the match against Jaziri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPMFBomvP9k

Thanks for posting that.

His forehand is very nice, he has several options, he can hit with a lot of spin, nice crosscourt, nice longline forehand. Serve is alright as well. He moves ok. Sometimes he does not know what to play on backhand: Some slices look good, some not. He clearly prefers to play the forehand and therefore is court positioning is quite extreme sometimes, but because Jaziri was not able to play flat backhand longline, it was no problem.

[RNW]

He plays Toyota this week. A travel to Japan to play a small tournament shows that he want to win some points now as soon as possible.

[RNW]

At Davis Cup - against Berdych he lost in 4 sets (indoors, hard).
36 26 76 16.

He played ok. Some things were very nice and great.
Some of his forehands are huge, he can play with huge topspin.
His serve is alright.

All in all, he clearly showed that he has the potential to reach Top 200 (this year.)

But there were not so good things as well.
His backhand is not very impressive, some ugly errors.
He did not play many good topspin forehands.
The slice is more of a Plan B because he probably do not want to play topspin backhands all the time.
Movement is up-and-down, ok. And mentality ok as well.

All in all, a solid performance with some great shots.
Not very impressive throughout, but ok.

[Sombrerero loco]

qualified into quimper challenger this week, as 8th seed
good luck in main draw!! get some victories please

[Sombrerero loco]

facing ungur in some minutes, there will be a stream

[LutherReigns]

He lost 67 26. It was a really bad draw for him. Somebody know when he plays next?


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[Sombrerero loco]

he is not listed on swiss futures, so he may be playing some challenger qualies maybe? i dont know