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ASB CLASSIC: DAY 2 MEDIA NOTES Tuesday, January 12, 2016 ASB CLASSIC: DAY 2 MEDIA NOTES Tuesday, January 12, 2016 ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, New Zealand | January 11 – 16, 2016 (Saturday Final) Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: $520,070 | Surface: Outdoor Hard ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com www.asbclassic.co.nz/ Mark Epps [email protected] @ATPWorldTour @NZFestOfTennis Press Room: +64 2187 5209 facebook.com/ATPWorldTour facebook.com/nzfestivaloftennis SEEDS PAIRE, FOGNINI, BAUTISTA AGUT; VESELY, VENUS IN ACTION DAY TWO: There are five singles matches on Centre Court on Tuesday’s schedule, led by No. 5 seed Benoit Paire, No. 6 Fabio Fognini and No. 8 Roberto Bautista Agut. In addition, defending champion Jiri Vesely and local wild card Michael Venus are in action. In the opening match, Germans Philipp Kohlschreiber and qualifier Benjamin Becker meet for the second time. Kohlschreiber, who won the title in 2008 and reached the final in ’13, won the previous meeting in Vienna in 2014. In the next match on, Fognini brings a 2-1 Fed Ex ATP Head 2 Head advantage against Portuguese No. 1 Joao Sousa. They split last year’s matches with Sousa winning in the QFs in Umag before Fognini prevailing in the 1R at ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai. That was also their only hard court meeting. In the third match on, British No. 2 Aljaz Bedene looks to level his record against American Sam Querrey, who won the previous meeting at the Queen’s Club in London in 2013. Querrey was a runner-up here in 2009 (l. to del Potro) and SF in ’13. Bedene is making his debut in Auckland. In the evening session, Bautista Agut and Vesely square off for the first time. Bautista Agut was a semi-finalist two years ago and Vesely is coming off his maiden ATP World Tour title. The young Czech Republic native qualified into the main draw and beat fellow left-hander Adrian Mannarino in the final. In the next match on, Venus and Paire meet for the first time. Venus reached the 2R last year and Paire, who is coming off a semi-final showing in Chennai last week, was a quarter-finalist here in 2012. The 26-year-old Frenchman earned ATP Comeback Player of the Year honors last year after jumping from No. 118 to No. 19. REIGNING CHAMPION: Jiri Vesely qualified into the main draw last year ranked No. 63. He won two qualifying matches and five in the main draw to capture his maiden ATP World Tour title. He defeated Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in an all-left-handed final. Afterwards he jumped from No. 63 to No. 39 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. Later in the season Vesely reached the final in Bucharest (l. to Garcia-Lopez). He finished as the No. 2 player from the Czech Republic with a 24- 30 match record and No. 41 ranking. FIRST-TIME ATP WINNERS (6): Vesely and Paire are two of the six first-time winners on the ATP World Tour last season in action on Tuesday (Estrella Burgos and Sock also in the draw): Age Tournament Jiri Vesely 21 Auckland Victor Estrella Burgos 34 Quito Jack Sock 22 Houston Dominic Thiem 21 Nice Denis Istomin 28 Nottingham Benoit Paire 26 Bastad ASB Classic Day 2 – Tuesday, January 12, 2016 Page 2 of 6 www.ATPWorldTour.com TUESDAY FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS – In Order of Play by Court Centre Court Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) vs [Q] Benjamin Becker (GER) Kohlschreiber Leads 1-0 14 Vienna (Austria) Hard QF Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 7-6(3) Kohlschreiber 2015 FastFacts: W: Kitzbühel (d Mathieu); F: Munich (l Murray); SF(2): Metz (l Tsonga); Moscow (l Bautista Agut); QF(4): Montpellier (l Sousa); Barcelona (l Ferrer); Stuttgart (l Monfils); Umag (l Monfils) 2015 W-L: 32-23 (13-12 on hard) 2015 Titles: 1 / Career Titles: 6 Date of Birth: October 16, 1983 Emirates ATP Ranking: 34 Auckland W-L (Best Result): 24-8 (Winner in 2008) • The No. 1 German comes in with a 24-8 match record in Auckland and second-winningest player in draw (behind Ferrer-26). Won title in 2008 (d. Ferrero), reached final in ’13 (l. to Ferrer), SF in ’10 and ’12 and QF four other times (’04, ’07, ’11, ’14) • In 2015, German earned 30+ wins and finished in Top 50 of Emirates ATP Rankings for 9th straight season (2007-15) • Enters ’16 having been ranked in Top 50 each week since Oct. 17, 2011 • Rode bike from residence and captured 6th career ATP World Tour title at Kitzbühel, snapping Thiem's 10-match win streak in SF before beating qualifier Mathieu in final • Led GER to Davis Cup Play-off win over DOM by sweeping 9 sets in singles (d. Estrella Burgos and Hernandez-Fernandez) and doubles w/Petzschner • Failed to win back-to-back matches at 1st 7 events before Barcelona QF (l. to No. 8 Ferrer) • Followed Barcelona with run to Munich final (l. to No. 2 Murray 76 in 3rd) • Reached Stuttgart QF (l. to Monfils) before difficult draws at Halle (l. to No. 2 Federer in 1R) and Wimbledon (l. to No. 1 Djokovic in 1R) • Advanced to Australian Open 2R (l. to Tomic), Roland Garros 2R (l. to Andujar) and US Open 3R (l. to No. 2 Federer) • Owns 0-8 record vs. World No. 1 and 15 straight losses vs. Top 10 since beating No. 9 Gasquet in 2014 Rotterdam 2R (21-72 overall) Becker 2015 FastFacts: SF: Kuala Lumpur (l Ferrer) 2015 W-L: 11-20 (9-14 on hard) 2015 Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 1 Date of Birth: June 16, 1981 Emirates ATP Ranking: 98 Auckland W-L (Best Result): 0-1 (1R in 2013) • The 34-year-old German qualified into main draw and he’s making his second appearance. In 2013, qualified and lost to Gael Monfils in 1R • Last week qualified in Doha and lost in 1R to Leonardo Mayer 61 62 • In 2015, German finished in Top 100 of Emirates ATP Rankings for 8th time in 10 years at No. 97 • Best ATP result of season was SF at Kuala Lumpur (d. Dimitrov in QF,l. to No. 8 Ferrer in 3-sets) • Went 3-0 in 5-set matches after starting career 0-6, reaching 3R at Australian Open (d. Hewitt in 5 sets, l. to No. 8 Raonic) and Roland Garros (d. Bemelmans and Verdasco in 5 sets, w/o vs. No. 5 Nishikori) • Won back-to-back matches at 3 of 21 events, losing 14 times in 1R and 4 times in 2R • Earned 1st Davis Cup victory after 6 losses in dead 5th rubber of Germany’s 4-1 World Group Play-off win over Dominican Republic (d. Cid) • Posted 11-5 record at Challengers, reaching final on home soil at Eckental, GER in November (l. to Youzhny) • Enters ’16 on 13-match losing streak vs. Top 10 opponents (6-30 overall) ASB Classic Day 2 – Tuesday, January 12, 2016 Page 3 of 6 www.ATPWorldTour.com [6] Fabio Fognini (ITA) vs Joao Sousa (POR) Fognini Leads 2-1 14 ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo Clay R64 Fabio Fognini 5-7 7-5 6-4 15 Umag (Croatia) Clay QF Joao Sousa 6-2 3-6 7-6(6) 15 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai (China)Hard R64 Fabio Fognini 7-6(2) 6-3 Fognini 2015 FastFacts: F(2): Rio de Janeiro (l Ferrer); Hamburg (l Nadal); SF: Beijing (l Nadal); QF(5): Sao Paulo (l Giraldo); Barcelona (l Andujar); Umag (l Sousa); Kitzbühel (l Kohlschreiber); Vienna (l Ferrer) 2015 W-L: 32-26 (11-13 on hard) 2015 Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 3 Date of Birth: May 24, 1987 Emirates ATP Ranking: 21 Auckland W-L (Best Result): 0-2 (1R in 2010-11) • No. 1 Italian is looking for his first win in Auckland after 1R losses in 2010 (l. to Melzer) and ’11 (l. to Nalbandian) • In 2015, Italian finished as top-ranked singles player from his country and ended in Top 25 for 3rd straight season. Also peaked at No. 7 in doubles on July 20 • Posted best Grand Slam singles result at US Open, snapping 9-match hard-court losing streak en route to 4R (d. No. 8 Nadal from 2 sets down, l. to F. Lopez) • Along with Djokovic, Federer and del Potro, 1 of 4 players to defeat Nadal 3+ times in a season (Rio de Janeiro SF, Barcelona 3R and US Open 3R) • Reached 2 ATP World Tour 500 finals on clay: Rio de Janeiro (d. No. 3 Nadal, l. to No. 9 Ferrer) and Hamburg (l. to Nadal) • Advanced to Beijing SF (l. to No. 8 Nadal), his 1st hard-court SF since reaching 2012 St. Petersburg final • Teamed with countryman Bolelli to win Australian Open doubles title (d. Herbert/Mahut), becoming 1st All-Italian team to win men’s doubles major in Open Era • Italians also reached finals at ATP Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells (l. to Pospisil/Sock), Monte- Carlo (l. to Bryan/Bryan) and Shanghai (l. to Klaasen/Melo) • Qualified for Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in w/Bolelli, going 1-2 in RR (d. Bopanna/Mergea) • In Davis Cup, accounted for 3 wins in ITA’s 4-1 World Group Play-off victory over RUS Sousa 2015 FastFacts: W: Valencia (d Bautista Agut); F(3): Geneva (l Bellucci); Umag (l Thiem); St. Petersburg (l Raonic); SF: Montpellier (l Janowicz); QF: Gstaad (l Goffin) 2015 W-L: 38-31 (19-17 on hard) 2015 Titles: 1 / Career Titles: 2 Date of Birth: March 30, 1989 Emirates ATP Ranking: 33 Auckland W-L (Best Result): 0-1 (1R in 2015) • The Portuguese No.
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