Barcelona Review from the man on the grounds, no PR propaganda here

The best way to watch tennis is from the grounds and we all know this, so whoever wants to submit a report from an event, they go to and yes that includes the grass ones, then let me know.

This a review from Deivid who was at the Barcelona event and saw some quality matches and the Granollers bandwagon is there in Catalunya.

Here it is, read it and enjoy it.

This year we were there just until Wed , as usual a group of friends of mine and me arrived on Saturday morning to see qualies, but as even more usual, we ended up drinking and not going to the club on that day, so basically we went for a couple of hours on Sunday, to see some trainings and qualifying matches, where I could see a good match between that motherfucking fixer Schukin and Marc López, a guy that
used to play good tennis on dirt, but has been niggled by injuries during the last years, sadly. It was a good match and we liked the chances of the winner to win a couple of rounds if draw was kind enough, both were playing good stuff out there.

One funny thing was to see Marcel Granollers being assaulted by many people around as if he was some kind of new Borg, when we´ve always seen there totally unnoticed and almost carrying other´s rackets during past years. That´s what recent success carries with, a lot of cocksuckers making queue to salute him that didn´t even bother to say hello a few months ago. Talking about him. he was too tired in the 3rd set against Montañes to keep fighting and folded like a cheap tent after a promising 5-0 start in 1st set.

We always have tickets on the right corner of the same stand, as it´s the place where you can see all the 4 main courts (of course if a bit of height doesn´t make you dizzy) and although I went down to the outside courts sometimes, I basically spent my time there. Zverev was a toy in Ancic´s hands, when he doesn´t serve well, Misha has a lot of trouble, and that was the case that day, he definitely needs to get more on that serve of his if he wants to develop and turn into a dangerous player.
Polaco Brzezicki is still a cunt and a cheating bastard. He threw the match against his good friend Cuevas and even his girlfriend sounded like she didn´t have a clue about what was happening. I asked a friend of mine to go down and find out something by talking to her, but she was looking at his man a bit in disbelief, “He doesn´t look today like himself, looks a bit careless” lol . Shame on him.

It was good to see Dani Gimeno playing some good tennis, as I always thought he should have done much better with his career, but don´t know why he´s stuck in the rankings and with no convincent glimpses of improving too much. Ventura looks like he doesn´t like that court 1, I´ve seen a couple of awful matches from him there and this was another one. Starace looked way sharper in his match against Luczak than against Lapentti in MonteCarlo, he´s reaching top form when it counts most for him as he showed in the first set against Nadal later. Wawrinka had too much for both Sanchez de Luna, who has absolutely nothing to hurt Stan on his racket and against a good Schukin who at least made it competitive. Stan is growing as a player every year and it´s only a matter of time he´s reaching top 10 imo. RRH vs Gremelmayr was an excellent match from both players, it was clear the one who was winning that 1st set had a very good chance not only at winning that day, but going deep in the draw as well. Oscar played well, but Willy outgrinded him, at some point he just couldn´t find a way to win the points and if you think about it that was just bound to happen. Calleri played a very clean 1st set against David, but decided to play a bit of baseball for 5 minutes in the 2nd set, just enough to help Nalbandian a bit not to throw the match away and ended up paying a high price for that.

Tipsarevic rolled his ankle in the 2nd set against Gulbis, Minar had a thigh injury, Acasuso a brain injury, Troicki a Bermuda jetlag injury and that can easily summarize those matches.

Coria vs Tsunami was an interesting match, Coria started nervous, he made like 3 or 4 df´s in his first 3 service games, but after being 2-5 down, he cut them down and with some help of Tsunami´s brainfarting he scored 5 games in a row to win the set but he was not playing well and Gabashvili took the 2nd set. The third one was a very good set of tennis from both players, Coria was up 4-2 in it but although he basically made no ues/dfs in that last set, Tsunami hitted easily like 15 winners since he was broken and had too much for Coria to handle, but it was a pretty decent effort, fair to say.

Kukushkin played two excellent matches against Nieminen and Cuevas, both won fairly comfortably and he was hitting good length, changing directions smartly and without a problem and going for it when it was the right choice to do. Surely this is not his usual level, but he showed he has the ability, that´s for sure

On Wed afternoon he had to leave back home and I´ve not been able to watch anything bar the final yesterday, so that´s all from my side.