Day 4: The Heat Is On

Yes, surprise surprise an entry that wasn't late this is mainly due to the awfully hot weather and didn't watch too many matches.

First of all there were two major upsets, the first one was the hot Hungarian otherwise known as Martin Fuscovics who took out Thousand Oaks finest Sam Querrey who has never been great heat. It will be interesting to see how he comes up in the next round where he is the favourite against the Argentine Nicolas Kicker who took out the erratic Lukas Lacko to follow up from his win against Lleyton Hewitt's favourite guy Jordan Thompson.

Julien Benneteau the man who keeps scrapping manages to beat Michael J Fox lookalike David Goffin. Normally Benne doesn't handle the heat well but Jules is inspired and recovered well from failing to serve out the match in the 4th. The tiebreaker not sure what Goffin was doing though not sure it was tennis related and the man from Boulogne-Billancourt was rewarded with the win.

Fognini vs. Donskoy

Managed to get a seat fairly easily which hasn't always been the case these past few days, perhaps the stinking weather helped. One thing I noticed that lots of Japanese fans were coming into the court, then I realised it was because there was a WTA match after this one.

Donskoy early in the piece was hitting the ball well, he and topspin aren't on friendly terms. The Fog was slow out of the blocks and was only mildly muttering to himself nothing really amazing or theatrical from the Fog after the loss off the 1st set.

My peace watching this match was ended fairly quickly when these 5 drunken guys who were cheering on the Fog decided to sit near me and act fairly loudly. I just straight out to a couple of them. "You have money on Fognini don't you?". They answered yes and asked was it that obvious. My response was well poker face isn't your strong point, they were on the border of being obnoxious but not as bad as some.


The Fog

The Fog decided to dig in the 2nd set and cut back on the errors, he was able to use that big forehand to push Donskoy around the court who then started going for more shots and wasn't able to control them. Once the Fog took the 2nd set he was in control of the match and really never felt like in much danger.

There was a funny incident where the Fog hit a backhand pass which bounced out of the court hit the pole holding up the tarpaulin covering the court bouncing back hitting the security guard in the face just as he was taking a drink. He spilt water over his face and had a good laugh. The Fog looked over and had a chuckle as well.

Fognini decided to turn up and play well enough this was definitely not the total listless I don't give a shit Fog, but far from his best then you only need to be good enough on the day to win. There is a big opportunity for the fourth round as he plays Benneteau.

Short one for today as tomorrow will be even warmer, the viewing will include Seppi vs. Karlovic and Schwartzman vs. Dolgopolov for sure but strange things happen.