Itsy-Bitsy Tourneys - Geneva & Lyons

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Shouldn't these be sticky?

Geneva projected QF (acc. to seedings, as of 23/05)
Wawrinka (1) v Querrey (6)
Ramos-Vinolas (3) v Tipsarevic/Stebe
Isner (4) v Johnson (5)
Nishikori (2) v Anderson [Nb. both already reached the QF]

Harrison (9) and Lorenzi (7) already lost. Not sure who was the original 8th seed, but it doesn't seem to matter much.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/scores/current/geneva/322/draws
 

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Surprises continue:

In Geneva Ramos lost to Kuznetsov and in Lyon DelPotro was defeated by Elias
 

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By the way the so called itsy Bitsy tourneys have unusual number of high ranked players, in between the 2, 3 top 10 players and other 3 ranked 11-20.
 
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Geneva QF
Wawrinka (1) v Querrey (6)
Kuznetsov v Stebe
Johnson (5) v M. Zverev
Nishikori (2) v Anderson

Sad to see Tipsarevic retire against Stebe. He has just been getting back into normal tournaments following his return from surgery for a foot tumor. I hope it is nothing serious. Does anyone know more?
 

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Lyon projected QF (as of 23/05)
Raonic (1) v Elias
Berdych (3) v Simon (5)
Basilashvili v Kicker
Tsonga (2) v Khachanov.

Tsonga v Khachanov could be potentially interesting.
 
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Geneva QF
Wawrinka (1) v Querrey (6)
Kuznetsov v Stebe
Johnson (5) v M. Zverev
Nishikori (2) v Anderson

Sad to see Tipsarevic retire against Stebe. He has just been getting back into normal tournaments following his return from surgery for a foot tumor. I hope it is nothing serious. Does anyone know more?
I saw a bit of the Wawrinka and Nishikori matches. They both had hard fights. I thought Kei looked especially good on the clay. Hopefully that's the final.
 

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Stan screwing his chances at RG by winning back to back matches here. If he does not stop right away, I am willing to write him off from being a contender at RG.
 

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Stan screwing his chances at RG by winning back to back matches here. If he does not stop right away, I am willing to write him off from being a contender at RG.
I don't agree with that at all. Of course, Stan's career path of the last few years is one of the great contemporary mysteries in tennis, but if he wins at home, he could go into RG with a load of confidence, compared to his fairly paltry year thus far. I would say it could be the springboard he needs. He's not a wimpy guy, and he hasn't played huge amounts of tennis so far this year. I think he'd be fine for the Major.

To your point, I don't normally think that real contenders play the smaller tourneys right before a Major, but, in his case...hey, it's anybody's guess. :)
 

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Stan gets appearance fee at Geneva and that is why he plays, despite being a pretender.
 

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Stan gets appearance fee at Geneva and that is why he plays, despite being a pretender.
Sure, but I'm saying I don't think it hurts him, especially as he hasn't done deep at any clay event.
 

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Sure, but I'm saying I don't think it hurts him, especially as he hasn't done deep at any clay event.

You are missing my point. He tends to do well when he is under the radar. If he wins or even reaches the final of Geneva, he cannot be considered to be under radar.
 

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You are missing my point. He tends to do well when he is under the radar. If he wins or even reaches the final of Geneva, he cannot be considered to be under radar.
That's a bit of a fine point, and I didn't realize that you were making that one. Winning Geneva isn't winning MC, Rome or Madrid. I don't think it puts him that much on the radar beyond what he already is, to say so. And it gives him that bit of confidence. Let's not pretend he's totally off the radar, or that winning Geneva makes him a world-beater. I'm just arguing it's a bit of a leg-up.
 

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Stan screwing his chances at RG by winning back to back matches here. If he does not stop right away, I am willing to write him off from being a contender at RG.
Stan's unpredictable, you may never knows with him
 

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I didn't know this. But, this is the first time ever that Tsonga has reached the finals of a clay tournament of any level.
 

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hope Tsonga can won his 1st clay event
 

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Tsonga and Stan win in Lyon and Geneva. The results I was hoping for.

They may both play each other in the QF in RG.