ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag – Thursday Preview
Published July 29, 2010 | 
The second round wraps up at the Studena Croatia Open Umag on Thursday, with the last four quarter-final spots at stake.
First up on Centre Court is No. 2 seed Jurgen Melzer against Jan Hajek. Melzer has had his best season to date and last week he reached his first ATP World Tour final of the year at the German Open in Hamburg. The Austrian has reached the semi-finals in his only two previous appearances here as well, in 2002 and last year. Hajek’s ranking wouldn’t indicate an upset brewing (he is 63 spots below Melzer at No. 78), but he did beat his opponent’s young brother, Gerald, in the first round here.
Second on Centre Court is No. 3 seed and No. 2 Croat Ivan Ljubicic against wild card Ivan Dodig. Ljubicic will try to snap out of a four-match losing streak, having gone winless since a 10-8 fifth set second round win at Roland Garros. But the 31-year-old Croat is comfortable on these courts, playing this tournament for the 11th time (his best showings were the semi-finals in 1999 and three other quarter-finals). He and Dodig will be playing for the first time.
Two all-unseeded matchups take the Grandstand, pitting Olivier Rochus against Andreas Seppi (Seppi won their only prior meeting, albeit by retirement) and Bjorn Phau against Potito Starace, who won their previous encounter.
ATP Allianz Suisse Open – Thursday Preview
Published July 29, 2010 | 
The quarter-final line-up will be filled up on Thursday at the Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, as the five remaining second round matches take the courts.
First up is top seed Mikhail Youzhny facing wild card Alexander Sadecky. It has been a strong season for World No. 14 Youzhny, as he has reached the quarter-finals or better five times, including winning his sixth career ATP World Tour title at Munich. Sadecky, who is playing in his first ATP World Tour-level main draw, won his first career tour match against a qualifier.
Second on Centre Court will be the conclusion of the Igor Andreev and Marco Chiudinelli match, which was just starting the third set tie-break when it was suspended due to darkness Wednesday evening. Andreev has won 15 of his 20 career matches in Gstaad, reaching the semi-finals or better in four of his five previous appearances here; Chiudinelli is going for his first quarter-final in four tries here.
Third on Centre is Jarkko Nieminen against Jeremy Chardy. Nieminen is ranked 10 spots higher and did win their only previous meeting, but he is playing here for the first time, while Chardy is playing here for the third time – and made it to the quarter-finals in both of his previous attempts.
The last match on is No. 2 seed Nicolas Almagro facing wild card Michael Lammer. Almagro has won 15 of his last 19 matches on clay, including reaching the Roland Garros quarter-finals and winning his sixth career ATP World Tour title two weeks ago in Bastad. He is playing Gstaad for the first time and he had a three-setter in his first round match, but that came against Spaniard Marcel Granollers. Lammer is ranked No. 209.
Out on Court 1, an all-unseeded first-time match-up takes place, as Portugal’s Frederico Gil faces Kazakhstan qualifier Yuri Schukin.
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ATP Studena Croatia Open Umag – Wednesday Preview
Published July 28, 2010 | Second round play begins in Umag on Wednesday as eight players battle for the first four quarter-final spots at the Studena Croatia Open Umag.
First up is Alexandr Dolgopolov, seeded No. 6 and going for his second quarter-final of the year, having made it to the semis of Eastbourne last month. He has a first-time meeting with wild card Franco Skugor, who had never won an ATP World Tour match until a few weeks ago, when he reached the quarter-finals in Bastad as a qualifier.
Second up is No. 4 seed Juan Carlos Ferrero, who will play Pablo Cuevas for the third time with the series tied, 1-1. Ferrero has been one of the most dangerous players on clay this year, picking up two titles earlier in the season at Costa do Sauipe and Buenos Aires. He was also the runner-up here last year. Cuevas has been strong on clay as well though with all four of his quarter-finals this season coming on the surface.
The third match of the day pits No. 1 seed Nikolay Davydenko against Stephane Robert. Davydenko won this title last year, one of his 20 career ATP World Tour titles; Robert reached his first ATP World Tour final in Johannesburg in February.
On the Grandstand, No. 8 seed Juan Ignacio Chela faces qualifier Simone Bolelli. Chela out-ranks Bolelli by over 50 spots and he won his sixth career ATP World Tour title this year in Houston. But Bolelli does hold one major advantage – he has won both of their previous meetings in straight sets.
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