Pacific Life Open

Welcome Tennis fans to TennisCast. What a way to begin this new site. At the very beginning of two wonderful back to back Master Series Tournaments. Starting out of course with none other than that Pacific Life Open. Matches began the 5th of March but main draw play was underway on Friday and we have all the results including today's play. As we write this entry play is continuing over at Indian Wells so make sure to check out all the live action coverage provided by ATP Master Series TV. You can find the link to the right of this page. Live feeds, Interviews, Highlights and much more is available so make sure to check it out it will be worth your time...trust me on this one. Action has been heavy these past two days given the many matches in play so we have a lot to cover. For all the official list of results please make sure to visit the Pacific Life Open website at http://www.pacificlifeopen.com/1/results/. So far we've had all first round games being played with the exception of the Acasuso vs Youzhny match and the Nadal vs Clement match and of course the current live matches going on but we'll cover those in a second.

It's been a pretty hectic first round with some key matches and a couple of surprises and a couple of "yeah thats what we expected moments." Speaking of surprises Canas absolutely dominated the court today almost posting double bagels by defeating J. Hayek with a score of 6-1, 6-1. Canas is off to a great start this year, coming out of his recent suspension, to win the outdoor clay tournament at Costa Do Sauipe, Brazil back in Febraury. Another Latin American with surprising good results was Luis Horna who won a three setter against Volandri 6-0, 4-6, 6-2. Horna led the way for his Davis Cup team of Peru earlier this year to defeat Venezuela in the first round. He's had success with an 8-4 record this year and a tournament win to his credit. We'll see how he faces up against a top 20 opponent when he battles number 14 David Ferrer in the second round. In a not so surprising match TennisCast heroe Moya defeated qualifier Capediville in a pretty standard 6-4,6-4 win. That was his only freebie for the tournament as he now has to face endurance player Radek Stepanek in the second round and most probably if he wins against him Federer in the third so it will be a long road for the previous top Spaniard player. Speaking of TennisCast heroes...Kuerten was unfortunately defeated by the youngest player on tour Juan Martin del Potro 7-6(5) , 6-2.

In pretty ordinary matches Srichaphan was defeated by Tipsarevik 6-4, 6-2 proving meditation does not mean instant success, and Guillermo Garcia Lopez ousted former Olympic champ Nicolas Massu 6-3, 7-6. In an effort to get out of our Double Faultin' list Robby Ginepri posted only his 3rd win of the season over Kendrick with a close 7-5, 7-6 win. He'll prove himself in the second round where he faces rising star, and in our humble opinion soon to be top 10 Novak Djokovic. Now that we mention rising stars on tour Sam Querry kept proving to us that he is no fluke as he came on top over one of the Rochus brothers...I can never tell the difference between the two other than their first names. He'll face a very top challenge when faced against sponsorless yet tireless Davydenko (hey, he uses the prince O3 and that is good enough for us here). A pretty tight and thrilling match involved the classy veteran Jonas Bjorkman. He moved into the second round after saving a match point and winning a very tight and entertaining three set match with a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 score. Grosjean was taken out early by Acasuso 6-4, 6-4, who played today in the second round versus commander Mikhail Youzhny whom he defeated in probably the biggest upset of the day with a 7-6(9), 6-4 score. In more second round news Nadal passed onto the third round where he'll probably face Fernando Verdasco. Nadal beat Clement 6-3, 7-6.

Live Scores are just coming in from Indian Wells so lets get you updated:

Richard Gasquet is on top of Juan Martin del Potro with a set lead and 3-1 in the second.

Tomorrow's daylight savings time brings some great matches so set those watches and get ready for some great tennis. Here are some interesting matches to look forward to:

[21]M Fish (USA) vs P Mathieu (FRA)

[1]R Federer (SUI) vs G Canas (ARG)

[19]L Hewitt (AUS) vs J Tipsarevic (SRB)

F Serra (FRA) vs [6]J Blake (USA)

F Dancevic (CAN) vs [5]F Gonzalez (CHI)

[23]M Safin (RUS) vs N Mahut

C Moya (ESP) vs [25]R Stepanek (CZE)

[12]N Djokovic (SRB) vs R Ginepri (USA)

[4]N Davydenko (RUS) vs S Querrey (USA)


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