Lukas Rosol loses to Tommy Haas on a point penalty during semifinal action on Saturday in Vienna. Meanwhile, Ernests Gulbis collapses in Stockholm and sends David Ferrer through to the title match.
Erste Bank Open semifinals: Tommy Haas d. Lukas Rosol 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(0)
Rosol won the first set, but he dropped the second and was eventually pushed to a third-set tiebreaker. Haas promptly won all seven points of the decider–including the final one on a point penalty. Rosol–who had already incurred a warning–destroyed his racket after an errant forehand at 0-5, thus ending the match.
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If Stockholm Open semifinals: David Ferrer d. Ernests Gulbis 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
Gulbis fought back from a break down in each of the first two sets to find himself ahead 6-3, 4-4, Ferrer serving down 15-40. The Latvian missed a backhand on his first break chance, could not return a Ferrer serve on his second opportunity, then obliterated his racket. Ferrer held and Gulbis did not win another game until trailing 0-5 in the third.
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I see, it’s that idgeet (Rosol), again……………….
I can’t decide whose meltdown was better until I see a video of Gulbis. Rosol’s was absolutely hilarious! He was still arguing about it after the match was over. No wonder this guy hasn’t done anything since he beat Rafa at Wimbledon last year!
But I have to see Gulbis losing it. I thought for sure he would beat Ferrer. Typical of him.
I will post it later
Thanks!
> No wonder this guy hasn’t done anything since he beat Rafa at Wimbledon last year!
He won his first ATP title in Romania beating two top-twenty players (Simon and Seppi), rose from 100 to a peak ranking of 33 (currently 44 so not too far off).
He hasn’t matched his great upset perhaps but it’s not acurrate to say he’s stagnated either.
what would be accurate?
final picks – https://tenngrand.com/2013/10/19/final-picks-ferrer-vs-dimitrov-haas-vs-haase-gasquet-vs-kukushkin/
updated with the GIF of the Gulbis meltdown
Thanks for that GIF of Gulbis!
I think Ernie wins with another of his stellar racket smashing clinics! 🙂
plus the ensuing display of tennis was beyond horrendous
as in, probably even worse than going a whole tiebreaker without winning a point (Rosol)
Style points, I’ll go with Ernie. But results, gotta go with Rosol, since it immediately cost him the match. So using my own admittedly odd criteria, I pick Rosol as the winner.