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6/23/09 12:20 AM | Ricky Dimon
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nicolas Almagro open their Wimbledon campaigns with wins on Monday afternoon. They are joined in round two by French Open runner-up Robin Soderling.
(9) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga d. Andrey Golubev 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(4), 7-6(5)
Tsonga was tested all day long by Golubev, but he managed to scrape through his Wimbledon opener after three hours and 21 minutes on Monday afternoon. The No. 9 seed dropped serve once in the first set, but overcame it with two breaks of his own. He cracked again, however, while serving to stay in the second set at 5-6, thus allowing Golubev to level the match at one set apiece. From there only tiebreakers could separate the two players, as neither man could break serve a single time throughout the final two sets. Tsonga, who finished with 15 aces and three double-faults, had too much power and too much experience in the deciders. The Frenchman wrapped up the fourth set seven points to five in the 'breaker, setting up what should be an entertaining second-round clash against Simone Bolelli.
Nicolas Almagro d. Juan Monaco 6-7(3), 6-7(7), 7-6(5), 6-4, 8-6
Almagro stormed back from the brink of straight-set defeat to outlast Monaco in three hours and 58 minutes. Not only was Almagro down two sets to love, but he also saw Monaco serve for the match at 5-4 in the third and get a look at one match point. Almagro saved it, went on to break serve, forced a fourth set by winning the third-set tiebreaker, and eventually prevailed. Neither man could break serve in the fifth set--although Almagro had all the chances (seven in total to none for Monaco)--until the victorious Spaniard finally struck at 6-6. Almagro then served things out at 7-6 to book a second-round encounter against Karol Beck. Beck also went deep into a fifth set, upsetting No. 21 seed Feliciano Lopez 10-8 in the final set.
(13) Robin Soderling d. Gilles Muller 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-1, 6-2
Soderling advanced to the second round in a quick two hours and five minutes despite needing four sets to oust Muller. After losing the first set in a tiebreaker, this year's French Open runner-up sprinted through the final three sets. The last two alone took a mere 45 minutes to complete. Soderling was in devastating form all day long, even during the set that he dropped. Wimbledon's No. 13 seed finished the proceedings with an amazing 59 winners to 10 unforced errors. He also blasted 31 aces while double-faulting only twice. Muller played a clean match himself, but had no answer whatsoever for Soderling following the first-set tiebreaker. Next up for the Swede is Marcel Granollers, a four-set winner over Andreas Beck.
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Sorry .. still not the same without Nadal ... but I am kind of looking forward to the Tsonga vs Bolelli match.
smr , 6/23/09 2:02 AM