ATP Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, New York;
WTA St. Petersburg, Hua Hin
The men again traipse on three continents for one ATP 500 and two ATP 250, while the ladies limit themselves to two continents, having a WTA Premier and a WTA International to play.
So let's start with the ladies this time.
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy
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| Yeah I know, this is not The Hermitage, nevertheless it's the tallest skyscraper in Europe! |
WTA Premier (470 points) on HC indoor. First four seeds have byes the other four do not: Bencic, Bertens, Kvitova, Konta, Vondrousova, Sakkari, Vekic, Rybakina. Two top tenners (Oh, Petra, you're sliding down #11) and the rest are all top 25. Pretty tough stuff. Other notable names: Kuznetsova, Ostapenko, Sevastova, Garcia, Kasatkina, Alexandrova, AVU, Mladenovic, Kudermetova. Tough, tough draw!
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| Kiki Bertens and runner-up Elena Rybakina - classic trophies, which after the whole ceremony is a bit of a letdown. |
GSB Thailand Open Presented by E@, Hua Hin
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| See the pony? Forget about it and look at those clouds! |
WTA International (280 points), HC but this time outdoor. They managed to lure a top tenner: Svitolina and one from top twenty: Martic, but they go weak fast: Wang Q., Zhang, Linette, Wang Y., Zhu, Hibino (who's #84). You wanna know the last direct acceptance on MD? Well OK, then, it's Yuan (#225). Yeah. Weak sauce. Svitolina should make room for her next trophy. Let's see if there is anyone else to shout (or better whisper?) about. So there's a 3rd Wang (X1), Peng and Țig (read it as tsig).
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| Magda Linette - That trophy looks cool and at the same time very cheap. |
Onto the gents now.
ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam
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| The Market Hall (AKA The Fantastic Cave Full of Goodies). |
ATP 500, HC indoor. 32 in the draw, so no byes for the eight seeds. Four top ten, the rest top twenty (awesome, right?): Medvedev, The Tsi, Monfils, Goffin, Fognini, RBA, Rublev, The Shap. Who else? Well: Simon, Basilashvili, Evans, The Khach, PCB, Sinner, Dimitrov, FAA. It's pretty impressive overall.
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| Gael Monfils - Last week he got the Sun, this week a plate, I wonder what's the plan for next week... |
Argentina Open, Buenos Aires
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| Puente de la mujer (I'm a sucker for bridges, what can I say?) |
ATP 250, clay, outdoor. Top four seeds with byes as always in these. One in top twenty the other 7 top fifty: Schwartzman, Pella, Lajovic, Coric, Garin, Djere, ARV, Ruud. Other notables: Cuevas, Cecchinato, Verdasco. It's quite OK, really.
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| Casper Ruud - His first title ever and he gets a weird one, at least he'll be able to drink mate like a real gaucho! |
New York Open
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| Nassau Colliseum - pretty spiffy venue, if you ask me. |
Another ATP 250, but HC indoor this time. This draw is a bit weaker than the one on clay. Isner, Raonic, Opelka and Humbert have byes while Tennys Sandgren (full name mandatory!), Kecmanovic, Norrie, and Edmund do not. A few more Yankees in the draw but not as many as I expected: Johnson, Sock, Paul, Giron, Shi (never heard of these last two). One more Canuck: Schnur and also Karlovic, Dzumhur, Seppi, Thompson.
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| Kyle Edmund - So it's a vase. So what? Ginger Power! (he qualifies, right?) |
That's all folks!
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