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10/20/09 11:13 PM | Cheryl Murray
Belgium’s Olivier Rochus and Jarkko Nieminen breezed into the second round of the If Stockholm Open with straight-set victories.
Jarkko Nieminen def. Grigor Dimitrov 6-0, 6-2
Bulgarian wildcard Grigor Dimitrov was soundly outplayed in this first-round matchup against Finnish veteran Jarkko Nieminen. Dimitrov has yet to live up to the hype surrounding the youngster. At the moment the 18-year-old is struggling to win matches even on the Challenger level, much less in an ATP level tournament.
Nieminen plundered the Bulgarian’s serve at every opportunity. Nieminen secured five service breaks in the 50-minute match. Dimitrov was dreadful on the return. He won just six points on the Finn’s serve in the entire match and had no opportunities to break. It will be back to the drawing board for Dimitrov, and onto the second round for Nieminen, where he will play the winner of Tommy Haas and Florent Serra.
Olivier Rochus def. Andreas Vinciguerra 6-3, 6-2
Sweden’s Andreas Vinciguerra had a good start to his first-round match against Olivier Rochus. The Swede won his first two service games at love. He could not hold onto the level of play, however. Rochus jumped on an opportunity to break at 2-3, and secured a 4-2 lead in the match. The Belgian dominated the rest of the set and carried good momentum into the second.
The second set was all Rochus, who secured a service break at 1-1 on the strength of a string of unforced errors from Vinciguerra. The Swede had trouble holding serve the rest of the match. Rochus broke again at 3-1, and had a chance to break for the win at 5-1. Vinciguerra held that one off, but Rochus easily served the match out for 6-2.
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I attended the Nieminen-Dimitrov game, and was really disappointed with the game that Dimitrov displayed yesterday. I mean he plays beautifully with great talent and technique, but he still lacks the coolness, speed and precision of e.g Federer.
He has an attacking game, and yesterday he missed a lot and wasted many opportunities, while all Nieminen basicly did was to get the ball over the net and let Dimitrov handle the rest.. But still we saw some flashes of brilliance that showed us what we could expect in the coming years.
And I noticed that he still needs to get stronger and "bigger" physically to be able to compete at this level, but I guess that will come the more he plays..
bjawad , 10/21/09 10:34 AM