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Posted: 12.05.09 17:40. Post subject: Кубок Дэвиса: Украин..
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Кубок Дэвиса: Украинцы поедут в Бельгию
Определился соперник сборной Украины в матче плэй-офф за выход в Мировую группу Кубка Дэвиса. 18-20 сентября сборная Украины сыграет в гостях со сборной Бельгии.
Несколько лет назад украинцы принимали Бельгийскую команду в Киеве в рамках матча в Первой группе Евро-Африканской зоны. Тогда наши соперники одержали победу 4-1.
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Posted: 12.05.09 22:57. Post subject: хруня пишет: цитат..
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Лидер сборной Украины - Сергей Стаховский (№110 в рейтинге АТР). Первая "ракетка" Бельгии Кристоф Рохус занимает в мировом рейтинге более высокое 58-е место.
Лучшие теннисисты Украины и Бельгии (число - текущий рейтинг АТР): Украина .................................................. Бельгия 110. Сергей Стаховский ........................... 58. Кристоф Рохус 214. Сергей Бубка ................................... 89. Кристоф Влиген 244. Илья Марченко ................................. 98. Стив Дарсиз 333. Иван Сергеев ................................... 127. Оливер Рохус
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Posted: 16.05.09 12:51. Post subject: Деннис Молчанов заяв..
Деннис Молчанов заявлен в квалификации турнира в Австрийском Китцбюэле, первый соперник некий австриец KAMITZ, Gerald , играет с ним сегодня 3 запуском на корте KUCHENMEISTER
I watched a few games of both sets. As I said earlier, Sergeyev is very impressive from the back of the court and he looks pretty fit, so getting into long rallies with him would make him only happy. Goodall started the match with trying to play his game, which also depends on solid groundstrokes from back of the court, and clearly Sergeyev had better strokes of the two and won majority of the long rallies.
The thing with Sergeyev is he can't hit many winners and at times his shots land short, but at defense he is really impressive and turned the rallies around many times with good defending, so he is a tough, annoying opponent to play. His mobilty on the court, stubborn personality and being smaller than some other guys is helping his quick move around the court.
Goodall didn't give up by any means; he tried to play something different with coming to net to finish quicker but failed. He had few BPs in the last game, but Sergeyev saved them to finish the match. He was delighted at the end.
Sergeyev d. Rehnquist 63 64
This was the only match at the time played since Stadium schedule was over quickly so there was a good number of crowd in, and the match was also a very nice one, even though it changes from where you look.
I knew this was going to be a long one since both play similar games. I remember Rehnquist from last year: fit player who loves to trade groundstrokes from baseline. He has a nice BH where he tries to take so early for a change and come to net. Problem for Rehnquist, Sergeyev was so similar to him.
So there were long long rallies with some quality play included, but after 30 minutes it was still 2-2 and the quality started to drop.
Sergeyev tried to change the rhythm with some moonballing, high balls and stuff, he was so passive at one stage, standing KMs behind the baseline moonballing Rehnquist. Rehnquist, who himself is not an aggressive player at all, tried to take those high balls early, especially with his BH, but he was clearly uncomfortable with those high junk balls and eventually made some mistakes.
When Rehnquist opened a gap, he went for it. but Sergeyev was behind of every ball and he never gave up, his fight on the court is admirable and crowd loved it as well. So after probably 2 hours Sergeyev closed out the match with much of his delight, but he shouldn't be that passive in his next match even though it is worked this time. Also his 2nd serve can be a weakness at times, it lands way too short and even Rehnquist hit some nice winners with his FH which is hardly an aggressive shot.
Kudryavtsev, Elgin, Bubka, Kedriouk, Labadze and his player and some other players watched the match and supported Sergeyev.
Bubka d. Berrer
Sergei played an amazing match, he really put one of the best performances of R1.
Berrer tried a lot of different things but Sergei was always there with the answer, and you can't do much against it.
I really enjoyed the watch Sergei's compact all court game; I wonder why he really cant make his breakthrough (probably we will see this in his next match).
Despite playing high standard game he didn't miss much either, some of his BHs were flying pass Berrer who was trying to come in. Berrer tried everything, he tried to serve to different directions, to come in, stay back. Actually one of the key performance here from Bubka was his return; he rarely gave cheap points to Berrer on his serve, which looked like as a big weapon. Impressive display from the Ukranian.
Goodall d. Sergeyev
For the contrast it was a quality and actually intense match. They played at quallies and the Ukrainian won the match on Sunday, so to see them play again is strange but it happens I guess lol.
Goodall actually learned his lesson from his qualiie match; straight away you could notice it, he was trying to rally from back of the court on Sunday, today he was geting into net lot more, looking to be aggresive and clearly trying to avoid getting into long rallies with his opponent.
Sergeyev on the other hand was trying to empose his gamestyle to him to actually get into long rallies with the Brit.
First set was close all the way and eventually it went to the TB, it was close again, but Goodall's aggressive brave tactic worked out, just a few points here and there made the difference.
In the 2nd set Sergeyev got into 4-1 lead with some mistakes from the Brit but from then on the Brit levelled the match and got even more fired up with both shouting "come on"s to each other's face and complaining to the umpire about each other's attitude. Umpire was in control of things though. In the TB again Goodall was better and won the points followed by more shouts at the face of Sergeyev and after the MP he did "shhh" a'la Berdych lol.
Of course they didn't shake hands and Sergeyev was complaining to the Supervisor. Sergeyev is far from an angel but I would say immature attitude from the Brit.
Levy d. Bubka
Watched most of the 1st and found out the reason why Bubka cant make his breakthrough.
His BH is weak and on the day when his FH can't back up his BH then he is in trouble.
Most of the first set went with serve with Levy playing safe game with lot of net actions from both sides on the other hand Bubka tried to attack especially with his FH but he was nowhere near the consistency he had against Berrer in R1.
The first set went to the TB and suddenly more errros sneaked into Ukranian's game and he found himself 0-5 down with much of his frustration and Levy won the set few minutes later.
I didn't watch the 2nd set and seems like he used this momentum to finish things up.
Lorenzi d. Marchenko
When I saw the matchup I knew that it was going to be tough.
With Lorenzi playing classic Italian claycourter game and Marchenko choosing to stay at the baseline, it had a long match written all over it.
Pattern was obvious, Lorenzi just retrieving the ball with such topspin balls with very high net clearence from both sides, refusing to make errors and Marchenko playing just bit more aggressive tennis actually looking to hit more to the lines more aggressively and come to net afterwards.
Straight away they had a long game then another then another, until the change at 2-1 they already played 20 mins of tennis.
Marchenko got the break and moved ahead. 5th game was the classic,game got back to deuce 12756 times and finally Lorenzi broke back.
They were also slow between points, going to towel and taking time to serve so it was a slooooow paced match.
Towards end of the set high percantage defensive game of Italian worked and he got the break he needed to win the set.
In the 2nd set,nothing has changed, long rallies, long games.
Lorenzi got the break at the 7th game,then moved to 5-3,Marchenko held serve at another deuce game to make it 5-4.
Lorenzi served for the match and of course it was deuce again, another 15 min game and after saving 4 BPs and wasting 5 MPs Italian won the match which lasted something like 2.30 hours.
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