[Buckery]

Monday:


Stake 4/5:

Bjorkman (Stella Artois)
Blake (Gerry Weber)
Ginepri (Stella Artois)
= -114


Bjorkman is a quality career grass player (30-14 record since 02') and he's off a quality showing at Roland Garros where he matched a career high by making it into the 4th round. He will be upstart for this match, Jonas is a serve and vollyer by nature and Justin Gimelstob doesn't posess much of anything to combat that. He should be pressured here and an average player like Gimelstob being rushed by Bjorkman from then net should give him a lot of grief here. Just like the matchup.

Sam Querrey seems to be a guy trying to get his foot into the door. He's got a modest hardcourt record this year at 9-6 and has played a total of 2 career ATP matches on grass going 1-1. Blake is no stranger to this event and no stranger to the grass putting together a 6-2 record last year. Just based on the fact that Blake had such a poor clay season and his counterpart being American, I'm sure he's no stranger to what Sam Querrey can do here. Querrey has lost to similar style players Tommy Haas and Nikolay Davydenko this year. Both with similar styles to Blake. Everytime Querrey has faced a top 10 opponent he has vowed out nicely. I expect Blake to win here even if it is a little closer than it should be.

Ginepri has been traditionally a good player on all fast surfaces. Currently on a 5 match losing streak Ginepri will welcome the grass and the faster surface, he'll also welcome his unknown opponent Richard Bloomfield who has kicked around for a few years but has never quite made anything of himself yet. The quality of opponents Bloomfield has faced is VERY weak. He's been a challenger player for all time. Ginepri should score a nice win here.


Just typed what popped into my head about these matches...


GL!
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