Roddick Breezes, Ginepri Collapses at Aussie Open
Posted on January 18, 2006American No. 13 seed Robby Ginepri made a shock exit Wednesday at the Australian Open, for the first time in his career blowing a 2-0 set lead in a 2-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 loss to 24-year-old No. 177-ranked German Denis Gremelmayr, who had only one career tour win to his credit entering Melbourne.
Other upsets on the day were orchestrated by Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis (d. (17) Stepanek in five) and France's Gilles Simon (d. (19) Berdych in four).
Seeded players into the third round Wednesday were (2) Andy Roddick (d. Moodie), (4) David Nalbandian (d. Wawrinka in four), (7) Ivan Ljubicic (d. Kohlschreiber), (8) Gaston Gaudio (d. Burgsmuller), (10) Thomas Johansson (d. Malisse in five), (11) David Ferrer (d. Bracciali in four), (18) Mario Ancic (d. Hernych), (20) James Blake (d. Faurel in four), (26) Jarkko Nieminen (d. Y.-T. Wang), and (31) Feliciano Lopez (d. Muller in four).
"It wasn't the cleanest of matches to be perfectly honest, but luckily five minutes after it's over it doesn't matter if it was the best performance you ever put on or you just scraped by," said Blake after coming from a set down against the qualifier Faurel. "A win's a win. I'm allowed to play in the third round."
Ljubicic overcame foot problems to advance in straight sets.
"It's not ankle, it's toes," Ljubicic said. "Yeah, I have some problems with the toes, the skin on both toes. It's little bit -- well, it's not really -- it's like burned skin, you know, so I need those toes to be taped to protect that the toe is not touching the shoe, but sometimes it goes off. But, I mean, no really problems."
In the only two all-unseeded match-ups on the day, France's Julien Benneteau straight-setted Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, and countryman Fabrice Santoro did likewise to Andrei Pavel.
Lining up for Thursday are (1) Federer vs. Mayer, (3) Hewitt vs. Chela, (6) Coria vs. Luzzi, (15) Ferrero vs. Tipsarevic, (24) O.Rochus vs. Luczak, (25) Grosjean vs. Monaco, Goldstein vs. Haas, (5) Davydenko vs. K.Kim, Healey vs. Delic, in doubles (1) Bryan brothers vs. Hanescu/Pavel in a Davis Cup preview, (21) Kiefer vs. Pashanski, (28) Verdasco vs. Vliegen, Bogomolov Jr. vs. Mathieu, Phau vs. Horna, (30) Mirnyi vs. Sanguinetti, (12) Hrbaty vs. D.Norman, and (23) Andreev vs. Sluiter.
Other upsets on the day were orchestrated by Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis (d. (17) Stepanek in five) and France's Gilles Simon (d. (19) Berdych in four).
Seeded players into the third round Wednesday were (2) Andy Roddick (d. Moodie), (4) David Nalbandian (d. Wawrinka in four), (7) Ivan Ljubicic (d. Kohlschreiber), (8) Gaston Gaudio (d. Burgsmuller), (10) Thomas Johansson (d. Malisse in five), (11) David Ferrer (d. Bracciali in four), (18) Mario Ancic (d. Hernych), (20) James Blake (d. Faurel in four), (26) Jarkko Nieminen (d. Y.-T. Wang), and (31) Feliciano Lopez (d. Muller in four).
"It wasn't the cleanest of matches to be perfectly honest, but luckily five minutes after it's over it doesn't matter if it was the best performance you ever put on or you just scraped by," said Blake after coming from a set down against the qualifier Faurel. "A win's a win. I'm allowed to play in the third round."
Ljubicic overcame foot problems to advance in straight sets.
"It's not ankle, it's toes," Ljubicic said. "Yeah, I have some problems with the toes, the skin on both toes. It's little bit -- well, it's not really -- it's like burned skin, you know, so I need those toes to be taped to protect that the toe is not touching the shoe, but sometimes it goes off. But, I mean, no really problems."
In the only two all-unseeded match-ups on the day, France's Julien Benneteau straight-setted Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, and countryman Fabrice Santoro did likewise to Andrei Pavel.
Lining up for Thursday are (1) Federer vs. Mayer, (3) Hewitt vs. Chela, (6) Coria vs. Luzzi, (15) Ferrero vs. Tipsarevic, (24) O.Rochus vs. Luczak, (25) Grosjean vs. Monaco, Goldstein vs. Haas, (5) Davydenko vs. K.Kim, Healey vs. Delic, in doubles (1) Bryan brothers vs. Hanescu/Pavel in a Davis Cup preview, (21) Kiefer vs. Pashanski, (28) Verdasco vs. Vliegen, Bogomolov Jr. vs. Mathieu, Phau vs. Horna, (30) Mirnyi vs. Sanguinetti, (12) Hrbaty vs. D.Norman, and (23) Andreev vs. Sluiter.