2011年02月24日
デルレイビーチ国際テニス２回戦
木曜日晴れ。
デルレイビーチ国際テニス選手権（アメリカ/フロリダ）２回戦で２００８年の決勝の再現となった錦織圭はＪ・ブレーク（アメリカ）を6-3, 6-4のストレート、それも６３分で勝利してベスト８に進出した。
３回戦は予選から勝ち上がってきたＲ・スウィーティング（アメリカ）と対戦する。ランキングは１１８位その他のデーターは見つけきらず。錦織はSAPオープンの２回戦で１７２位のスマイチェク(アメリカ)に敗れたように、かく下の選手にもろいところがあるので心配、、スウィーティングの戦歴をさがしたところ、平常心で戦いきれば問題はなさそうに思う。しかし年齢も身長等不明の為イメージを描くことが出来ない。
Nishikori beats Blake in rematch of 2008 ITC final.
By Joshua Rey
It’s been a long time since Kei Nishikori swung freely and moved briskly around a tennis court the way he did on Wednesday night, bouncing American wild card James Blake out of the Delray Beach ITC 6-3, 6-4 in 63 minutes.
Hampered with a chronic right elbow problem, the promising Japanese played competed in just one tournament between March 2009 and April 2010.
Now fully healed, he won four Challenger titles, but only three ATP World Tour matches in the final eight months of 2010.
With his two-handed backhand belting winners from all areas of the court, Nishikori dismantled Blake in a rematch of the 2008 Delray Beach ITC final, which he also won.
“It came into my mind tonight that three years ago we were playing the finals,” said Nishikori. “It was a strange feeling to be playing in the second round. We are both different than last time. He had an injury and I had surgery. So it was new for us.”
Time and again, the American mistimed his returns, winning only 14 of 57 points (24.6 percent) in which he was the receiver. Blake did not convert either of the break points he earned in the match, including the chance he had at 2-2 in the first set.
“That’s probably the best I’ve hit the ball in the last three weeks, but I just couldn’t put a return in,” said Blake, who is attempting to come back from a right knee injury. “The only thing that I felt I was doing well the last couple weeks was the return. Then I came here, and that’s the one thing that went off.”
Nishikori held for 3-2 by hitting a leaping, scissor-kick forehand winner, which he hit often during his 2008 run from qualifier to champion.
In the very next game, Blake appeared to be in a winning position at 30-30, knifing a low backhand volley. But Nishikori answered with a sharply-spun crosscourt backhand winner. Blake donated the break with a double fault, and Nishikori closed out the set with an unreturned serve in the ninth game.
“I played well tonight,” said Nishikori. “I tried to not miss much and he’s always aggressive, but at the same time, he’s going to miss a lot. I hit good serves, no breaks.”
Blake’s only other break opportunity came in the second game of the second set. After making his return and engaging in a rally, he mistimed a slice backhand badly into the net. Nishikori went on to hold by serving-and-volleying successfully.
As was the case in the first set, Blake failed to hold serve in the game that followed his own break chance. Nishikori took a 2-1 lead with a crosscourt forehand winner.
デルレイビーチ国際テニス選手権（アメリカ/フロリダ）２回戦で２００８年の決勝の再現となった錦織圭はＪ・ブレーク（アメリカ）を6-3, 6-4のストレート、それも６３分で勝利してベスト８に進出した。
３回戦は予選から勝ち上がってきたＲ・スウィーティング（アメリカ）と対戦する。ランキングは１１８位その他のデーターは見つけきらず。錦織はSAPオープンの２回戦で１７２位のスマイチェク(アメリカ)に敗れたように、かく下の選手にもろいところがあるので心配、、スウィーティングの戦歴をさがしたところ、平常心で戦いきれば問題はなさそうに思う。しかし年齢も身長等不明の為イメージを描くことが出来ない。
Nishikori beats Blake in rematch of 2008 ITC final.
By Joshua Rey
It’s been a long time since Kei Nishikori swung freely and moved briskly around a tennis court the way he did on Wednesday night, bouncing American wild card James Blake out of the Delray Beach ITC 6-3, 6-4 in 63 minutes.
Hampered with a chronic right elbow problem, the promising Japanese played competed in just one tournament between March 2009 and April 2010.
Now fully healed, he won four Challenger titles, but only three ATP World Tour matches in the final eight months of 2010.
With his two-handed backhand belting winners from all areas of the court, Nishikori dismantled Blake in a rematch of the 2008 Delray Beach ITC final, which he also won.
“It came into my mind tonight that three years ago we were playing the finals,” said Nishikori. “It was a strange feeling to be playing in the second round. We are both different than last time. He had an injury and I had surgery. So it was new for us.”
Time and again, the American mistimed his returns, winning only 14 of 57 points (24.6 percent) in which he was the receiver. Blake did not convert either of the break points he earned in the match, including the chance he had at 2-2 in the first set.
“That’s probably the best I’ve hit the ball in the last three weeks, but I just couldn’t put a return in,” said Blake, who is attempting to come back from a right knee injury. “The only thing that I felt I was doing well the last couple weeks was the return. Then I came here, and that’s the one thing that went off.”
Nishikori held for 3-2 by hitting a leaping, scissor-kick forehand winner, which he hit often during his 2008 run from qualifier to champion.
In the very next game, Blake appeared to be in a winning position at 30-30, knifing a low backhand volley. But Nishikori answered with a sharply-spun crosscourt backhand winner. Blake donated the break with a double fault, and Nishikori closed out the set with an unreturned serve in the ninth game.
“I played well tonight,” said Nishikori. “I tried to not miss much and he’s always aggressive, but at the same time, he’s going to miss a lot. I hit good serves, no breaks.”
Blake’s only other break opportunity came in the second game of the second set. After making his return and engaging in a rally, he mistimed a slice backhand badly into the net. Nishikori went on to hold by serving-and-volleying successfully.
As was the case in the first set, Blake failed to hold serve in the game that followed his own break chance. Nishikori took a 2-1 lead with a crosscourt forehand winner.
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