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7/2006

Kitzbuehel, day six.


This was the final day of my magical time in Kitzbuehel. It was as great as many of the other days, I had a blast.

 

Kohlschreiber/Koubek d Suk/Marach 6-2 6-3

This match was the warm-up for the real final, as far as the crowd was concerned, but it was a really fun match. Ancient Suk was really interesting, as this is a guy who reached his highest singles rankings the year I was born! His technique is quite speciel, it's nice to watch. He also hit some nice volleys, but most of his first serves were hit below the 140 kmph mark, that is really slow!

 

Marach was pretty good, but nothing really speciel, he was tow to tow with Koubek on the long court, but couldn't live with Kohlschreiber on the cross court. Koubek wasn't really at his best today, after that amazing preformance in the semi-final, and Kohlschreiber was the best player on court by miles, he was so great to watch. There were a couple of points that made the crowd go crazy - both of them were made out of long net-rallies and finished with Kohlschreiber hitting an amazing cross-court passing shot on the run.

 

The Austrians got their wish - a local champion, and who's better to fill that spot than Koubek, the veteran?

 

Calleri d Chela 7-6 (9) 6-2 6-3

The first set of the last match of my dreamy week was of avarage quality. Both players held serve throughout apart from my favourite for the title (Calleri) breaking to go 5-4 up, but blowing it while serving for the set. The tie-break, though, was thrilling. Calleri achieved mini-breaks time and time again on Chela's second service point (to the deuce court, a bit surprisingly), only to play some ridiculously bad points to lose his own delivery straight afterwards. Chela had a couple of set-points at 4-6 and then at 6-5 on his own serve - but couldn't capitalise. Calleri's back-hand was absoloutly a disaster throughout the first set - each Chela shot that went to that wing made me pee my pants, but luckily it held quite fine for most or the tie-breaker. When the two last played, they had a tie-breaker that went 13-11, so I was expecting quite a dule.

 

They didn't let me down - Calleri finally won the breaker by eleven points to nine after quite a rally, and there was no stopping him from that point. He broke Chela at 1-2 in the second set, Chela next held for 4-2, but then Calleri won four straight games, going 7-6 6-2 2-0. There were a few huge rallies along that run, including one that allowed the first break in the second set and one during the game in which Calleri first broke in the third set.

 

At the beggining of the third set, Chela looked spent. He hit a first serve at a mind-boggling velocity of 119 kmph, and I thought he was going to call the trainer on, but credit for him, he kept playing and recovered mentally, breaking back and starting to live on court again. He won back-to-back games for only the second time in the match to make it back to 2-2, but then Calleri held serve, broke Chela and held again for a 2-5 third set lead. When Chela served to stay in the match, Calleri sort of used those four points to warm up for the serving-for-the-match game, hitting four balls out of the court and allowing Chela to hole to love.

 

Augustin was solid when serving the match out, and finished it with a great rally that included two big back-hands and one huge fore-hand which forced a Chela shot long. Calleri fell to the clay and looked extremely happy - at twenty-nine years of age, he finally won a second ATP tour title, more than three years after the first. He and Chela hugged and looked like they really like each other, and then sprayed some champagne all over each other after the ceremony. Great ending to a great week.

 

Props and Slops.

Props:

  • Best player - Augustin Calleri, the owner of the most awesome forehand I ever got to see live.
  • New discovery - Philip Kohlschreiber, only 22 years of age, a really exciting player that will do really well once he works on some problematic aspects of his game - especially his head.
  • Most enjoyable players - Max Mirnyi, Andrei Pavel, Jurgen Melzer and Gaston Gaudio.
  • Best single shot - Gaudio's backhand is some sight, Calleri's forehand comes in a close second, Massu's forehand a third and Mirnyi's serve a fourth.
  • Best match - Gaudio d Gremelmayr 6-7 (1) 7-6 (7) 6-0.
  • Speciel mentions:
  • Jurgen Melzer gave a great week, he's some player when his head is working. So flashy, so smooth, so elegant.
  • Stefan Koubek reminded me of why I liked him during his January runs of 2002 and 2003. He is so energetic! 
  • Mikhail Youzhny plays a very creative and attractive game, even on clay.
  • Sergio Roitmann's backhand is delightful.
  • Fernando Verdasco is a bit problematic as far as the head is concerned, but techniquly speaking, he was the best player of the week, I believe.
  • Max Mirnyi was great to watch, he was perhaps the player who's game I'll remember the most. An inspiration for a net-play lover like myself.
  • Andrei Pavel - the artist. Enough said.
  • Cyril Suk, so many people should learn the love of the game from him.
  • Nicolas Massu - el Vampiro is such a strong guy, with talent and strenght just pouring out of him. He has the game to dictate play against anyone, even against the mighty Calleri. Too bad he is mentally weak.
  • And of course - Gaston Gaudio. What a player. When his head was working, he played some points that so many players can only dream of playing. Talent bursts out of him like water from a fountain, watching him was truly a dream come true. Thank you Gaston, despite tanking a whole set, for giving me some sweet memories.

Slops:

  • Worst player - Christopher Rochus played a horrible match, I'll never forgive him for that.
  • Least enjoyable players - Alex Calatrava is on top of this list, I'm afraid. The most defensive player I've seen. Alongside him, Chela in singles was quite boring most of the time, plus he has an ugly on-court personality. Pala was extremely boring in doubles.
  • Worst match - Rochus versus Gremelmayr was a bore-fest. Luckily for the German, he was also a part of the best match I witnessed this week.
  • Worst single shot - Cyril Suk's serve wins the honours in this competition.
  • Speciel mentions:
  • Nikolay Davydenko, for tanking a match to Nicolas Lapnetti, thus not letting me watch the top seed of the tournament. The son of a bitch.
  • Jarkko Nieminen, from whom I expected to put quite a show, but played a pretty bad tournament.
  • Alexander Waske, a miserable attitude and a player who argued with the umpire more than any other player, and showed some awful ignorance regarding the rules on clay-courts. Apart from that he's nice to watch, though.
  • Jurgen Melzer, a fantastic player, but he checks EVERY ball that lands near the line, this is so annoying and time wasting. The balls he checks are always good, so he always ends up just cleaning the line with his foot.
  • Marcos Daniel - it might be amusing to watch him, but he's really quite a lunatic, and was also ten minutes late for his second round match against Pavel. Bad stuff.
  • Julian Knowle - for being ranked pretty high in doubles despite having very little visible talent.


 

Well, that's it for now, I enjoyed watching and writing about this wonderful tournament for the week. I hope you enjoyed reading about my experience as well. In a few days time I'm going to be posting plenty of photos, so stay tuned.

 

Good-bye for now,

Nimi.

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