Blake exits, Baghdatis advances at Pilot Pen
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08/26/2010 -
New Haven, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two-time champion James Blake was a
second-round loser, while top-seeded Marcos Baghdatis was a third-round winner
Wednesday at the $750,000 Pilot Pen Tennis event, a final hardcourt U.S.
Open tune-up.
The Cypriot Baghdatis, a former Aussie Open runner-up and finalist at the
U.S. Open Series event in Washington, D.C. three weeks ago, dropped the
first set to 14th-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina, but rallied to win
1-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Seventh-seeded rising Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov dismissed the wild card
Blake in 6-4, 6-2 fashion at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale in a
match that was suspended because of rain here on Tuesday night. The struggling
former top-five star Blake, who grew up in nearby Fairfield, captured New
Haven titles in 2005 and 2007.
Dolgopolov also had to play his third-round match on Wednesday, but fell to
10th-seeded Serbian Viktor Troicki 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-1), 6-2.
Mild third-round upsets came when Russian qualifier Teymuraz Gabashvili
grounded fifth-seeded Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (9-7) and
12th-seeded Dutchman Thiemo De Bakker drove out eighth-seeded German Florian
Mayer 6-7 (2-7), 6-1, 7-5. Lastly, Radek Stepnaek of the Czech Republic downed
16th-seeded Romanian Victor Hanescu 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4.
In other third-round play, 15th-seeded Uzbekistanian Denis Istomin held off
Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 and Russian Evgeny Korolev topped
Ukrainian Illya Marchenko 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
Stakhovsky reached the third round with a 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-1) come-from-
behind victory over Aussie Peter Luczak, while another second-round result saw
Troicki handle Finnish veteran Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 6-3.
The final third-round match between sixth-seeded Tommy Roberdo and ninth-
seeded Sergiy Stakhovsky was suspended due to rain with the first set tied
6-6.
The 2010 Pilot Pen champion will collect $93,630.
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In what should be an outstanding Saturday of March Madness betting action, the top four teams in the South and West Regions square off in what should be extremely close match-ups. Three of the four teams are coming off extremely close games on Thursday evening, only UCLA won semi comfortably over Pitt 64-55.
Ohio State is coming off their second game in a row where in all reality they should have lost. Of course that doesn’t matter now since the name of the game is “survive and advance” but as the tournament continues, they can’t afford to keep getting down to their opponents early. Kansas also avoided a scare by holding off a scrappy Southern Illinois squad. In the third thrilling game of the evening Memphis pulled off the minor upset (+3.5) despite being the higher seed to Texas A&M.
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Memphis vs. Ohio State
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