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TENNIS CRITIC

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Monaco, Chela Advance at Argentina/Spanish Open

Play continued at the Argentina /Spanish Open, formerly known as the U.S. Open, on Sunday, as five of the 16 men playing today hailed from Argentina and four of the others from Spain.
Agustin Calleri of Argentina, who defeated the most obnoxious player on the tour the previous round (Come on, who else could we be talking about but Lleyton Hewitt?), fell to dreamboat Juan Monaco, also of Argentina. Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina defeated the all-time Grand Slam underachiever other than Tommy Haas, Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia, while an Argentine actually lost. David Nalbandian was upset by David Ferrer of Spain. Juan Martin Del Potro, also of Argentina
will be losing to Novak Djokovic of Serbia later today.
Other Spaniards advancing included Rafa, Rafa, Rafa Nadal in a cakewalk. He's not looking quite so gimpy now. Tommy Robredo and Carlos Moya play later today. And where do the remaining five come from?
Well, there's one from Switzerland (Wawrinka in the bottom half of the draw rather than you know who), one from Latvia (Ernests Gulbis), a German (Philipp Kohlschreiber), one from France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and one from, now where's the place?--oh, the USA, Robby Ginepri. So, I suppose maybe we can still call it the U.S. Open.
Plus, Serena's making sure the American flag can wave proudly today, cruising into the quarters in style. Yes, the really big news today was that her pink hat didn't clash with her dress. At least it didn't seem to on my crappy TV. Rolle and Young did well to get to the third round before bowing out. And Venus is holding her own so far against Ana Ivanovic.
And James Blake and A-Rod (who started that anyway? Is it really legal to call anyone by such an idiotic nickname?) are doing the Stars and Stripes proud in the top half of the draw.

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