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| | Mar 5 2008 08:24:26
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Login to give Aces | | Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS) at Dubai ATP (UAE) - Hard Court, Round of 16 << |
| | Ledovskikh held his own for the first eight games until Nadal found his form and after the first break of serve the result never looked in doubt. For those of you that have never seen Ledovskikh play, he has a big serve, plays predominately from the baseline and has pretty flat groundies, given more experience at ATP level it is possible he could crack the top 100. |
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| | Mar 4 2008 18:24:22
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Login to give Aces | | Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS) at Dubai ATP (UAE) - Hard Court, Round of 16 << |
| | Nadal was hardly convincing against Kohlschreiber and that match could easily have gone the other way. This looks a very comfortable match up for the Spaniard and it is hard to see him not going through in straight sets against the Russian qualifier, who usually plys his trade on the challenger circuit. |
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| | Mar 3 2008 08:23:30
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Login to give Aces | | Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS) vs Mahmoud-Nader Al Balushi (UAE) at Dubai ATP (UAE) - Hard Court, Round of 32 << |
| | Considering some of the first round ties, heres a couple of players that hardly roll off the tongue. I can only find three matches for Al Balushi, the last of them two years ago in a futures event where he lost in straight sets and won just three games. At 27 I'm not anticipating he's about to spring into life and come through this match. Ledovskikh must think it's his birthday, he came through qualies without losing a set and although he plays mainly in challengers, made three finals last year winning one. That form should win him through with something to spare. |
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| | Oct 25 2007 04:23:43
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Login to give Aces | | Potito Starace (ITA) vs Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS) at St Petersburg ATP (RUS) - Carpet, Round of 16 << |
| | Ledovskikh is very much an unknown to most, he has a very strong first serve and won 95% of first deliveries in the last round but just 33% on second and with 20 aces in that match we can assume serve is a very important element to the young Russians game. He did win 65% of his opponents second serve suggesting he must be reasonable off the ground and also has a challenger title in the bag, so this guy is no mug. Starace had been largely anonymous on anything other than clay until beating Vliegen last time, I doubt that signals a turn in fortunes for the Italian on faster surfaces, he still lost serve four times in that match and won a modest 43% on second serve. I'll take a step into the unknown with Ledovskikh after those Karlovic like serving stats and hope the Russians first delivery is firing. |
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