Great news! It made my day and it's well deserved by Pete.
Hopefully he can get a kinder draw this year and and eventually qualify for RG again. He has wins at the AO and Wimbledon so it's the only thing missing for a guy who has picked up so many points on clay and seems to relish playing the best of 5 format. It won't be easy but this is a great boost and I'm sure he'll feel more confident going into 2011 after receiving the wildcard so early.
Pete stepped it up indeed, matching and beating Dimitri Tursonov, coming from a set down (46), to win the 2nd in a tie-break, showing ticker to hang in and after not converting 3 set points, eventually closing off the breaker 8-6. Looch got a break mid 3rd set and saved a break-back point when serving for the match to win the 3rd set 6-4. Well done done Peter.
Great win for Pete and humble as always in victory. Would be great to see him in the main draw but as Audacity said, Berankis will be extremely tough. Best of luck mate.
Berankis, who is the same type of player as Pete but with a better serve and great groundies and of course youth on his side, was too strong for Pete, winning in 3 sets
Great news for Looch. He deserves a break, almost qualified against good opposition and is a hard worker. He will give his best no matter what the score or who the opposition is.
I'm not normally a Luczak fan, but I'm just loving his draw. Ljubicic isn't who he used to be, then Paire or a Qualifier, and Almagro isn't good enough to be the 14th seed.
Legenda will still be tough for Pete at the moment. Hope it will be a hot day out on MCA and Looch can be consistent and run the big man around. Good luck mate.
Ljubicic hasn't been too great at the AO since 2006 with only three wins (Kubler, Golubev and Kunitsyn). He finished off the year with a couple of decent performances but it is hard to see whereabouts he is at in 2011 and I don't think you can read too much into the exho performances. IMO Ljubicic is the deserved favourite but it won't be overly surprising if Looch could pull out an upset here. Hopefully it's a hot day.
Shame to see Looch go out in the first round. Didn't get to watch it. How did Looch go?
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