San Diego and Metz Tennis tournaments

SAN DIEGO

ROUND 2

Top Half of the Draw

1     Daniel Evans                                   vs             Taro Daniel

Constant Lestienne                                vs              Alejandro Tabilo

3     Marcos Giron                                  vs             Tomas-Martin Etcheverry

James Duckworth                                vs                Mitchell Krueger            

Bottom Half of the Draw

Brandon Nakashima                             vs            Denis Kudla

4      Pedro Martinez                              vs           Daniel Galan Rivieros

Jeffrey Wolf                                          vs            Christopher O'Connell

2     Jensonn Brooksby                        vs            Mackenzie McDonald

METZ/MOZELLE OPEN

ROUND  2

Top Half of the Draw

1      Danill Medvedev                        ns        Stan Wawrinka

Mikhail Ymer                                     vs         Grigoire  Barrere 

4     Holger Rune                                 vs         Benjamin Bonzi

7    Alexander Bublik                           vs        Emil Vuusuvuori

Bottom Half of the Draw

Lorenzo Soinego                                 vs      Gilles Simon

3    Lorenzo Musetti                            vs      Sebastian Korda

5   Nikoloz Basilahsvili                     vs        Arthur Rinderknech

2   Hubert Hurkacz                             vs       Dominic Thiem

QUATERFINALS

SAN DIEGO 

Top Half of the draw

1    Daniel Evans                  l   vs     Constant Lestienne

3    Marcos Giron                      vs     James Duckworth

Bottom Half of the Draw 

Daniel Galan Rivieros              vs       Brandon Nakashima

2     Jenson Brooksby               vs        Christopher O'Connell

QUATERFINALS

METZ/MOSELLE 

Top Half of the draw

Stan Wawrinka                                      vs    Mikhail Ymer 

4     Holger Rune                                   vs    7     Alexander Bublik

Bottom Half of the Draw

Sebastian Korda                                    vs     Lorenzo Sonego  

2   Hubert Hurkacz                                vs     Arthur Rinderknech

I was rather surprised by the fact that the final in San Diego will be played on Saturday and not Sunday as the case is at present    In reality the Quarterfinals will be completed while it is still Thursday in San Diego - the semifinals will be completed on the local Friday and the final while it is still  Saturday in San Diego.    I think the situation has been changed to allow for participants to travel to Europe - where bar three tournaments  -  all the tournaments remaining in 2022 will be played.  

SAN DIEGO

SEMIFINALS     

1    Daniel Evans                     vs          3    Marcos Giron

 Christopher O'Connell          vs           Brandon Nakashima

METZ-MOSELLE

SEMIFINALS

2     Hubert Hurkacz                   vs       Lorenzo Sonego 

7     Alexander Bublik                vs       Stan Wawrinka  

I must admit that I was surprised by the loss of Medvedev against Wawrinka who have never got in the quarterfinals in the past two years in any tournament.     Medvedev's form has been atrocious for months now and one wonders what happened to the player he used to be.   Maybe it is because he lacked the "killer" shots of some players,  In an interview last year Medvedev said if there was one part of the game he would like to introduce it is the forearm shots played by Rublev.   He also said he would have to change his game to achieve those type of shots.    Maybe it is time that like Alcaraz and Rublev - he starts training together with them to improve his shot-making - he could learn from those two players.    Both of Rublev and Alcaraz have made mincemeat of Djokovic and Nadal  when they played them in games this year - so maybe it will improve Medvedev's game by training with at least one of the two players mentioned.               

SAN DIEGO

FINAL

3    Marcos Giron       vs     Brandon Nakashima

Brandon Nakashima won his first tournament win on ATP level.l Congratulations to the guy.   Lets Go Brandon  - and in this case it does not mean FJB.    

METZ-MOSELLE

FINAL

7     Alexander Bublik               vs           Lorenzo Sonego

Congrats to Sonego for winning the first tournament on ATP level.  The eenarest he came to a win was in 2020 when he beat Djokovic in the Vienna Tournament in Round 2 and ran into Rublev in the final and lost that match.