HAMBURG TUESDAY PREVIEW –  GERMANS LOOK TO MAINTAIN CENTRE COURT SUCCESS
After a 3-0 opening day start, four more Germans take to Centre Court on Tuesday at bet-at-home Open German Tennis Championships 2011 in first and second round action.

In the opening match,qualifier Marsel Ilhan of Turkey meets No. 3 German Philipp Petzschner. Ilhan is 3-7 on the season and he’s making his Hamburg debut. Petzschner, who is ranked No. 78, enters with a 19-14 record this year (6-3 on clay). He’s played well on home soil, reaching the final in Halle last month (l. to Kohlschreiber), the semi-finals in Munich in May (l. to Mayer) and winning the doubles title last week in Stuttgart (w/Melzer).

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In the second match, German wild card Tobias Kamke and No. 7 seed Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina square off for the first time in a second round battle. Kamke had the easiest opening day match, a 61 61 victory over Spaniard Pere Riba. Kamke reached his first career ATP World Tour semi-final in Newport 10 days ago (l. to Isner). Chela is making his 10th showing (8-9) in Hamburg and his best result was the quarter-finals in 2005.

In the third match, another wild card, Julian Reister, attempts to win his second round meeting against No. 14 seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain. In their previous encounter in the first round of Basel in 2006, Garcia-Lopez prevailed in straight sets. Last year Reister reached the third round here, losing in a final set tie-break to Denis Istomin. Garcia-Lopez is making his fourth appearance in Hamburg (3-3 mark) and his best result of the season was a semi-final in Zagreb (l. to Dodig) in February.

In the final match, defending champ Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan looks to post his first ATP World Tour match win on clay this season as he faces No. 2 German Philipp Kohlschreiber for the second time. In April, Kohlschreiber won a tight three-setter at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo. Last year Golubev came in ranked No. 82 and he broke through to capture his first ATP World Tour title (d. Melzer). But he’s struggled this season with a 4-20 mark, including 0-12 on clay. Golubev is trying to break a 16-match losing streak since his last win over Florian Mayer in 1st Rd. of ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells in March.

On outside courts, there are nine matches, four including seeds – No. 4 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia, No. 5 Gilles Simon of France, No. 10 Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine and No. 15 Fabio Fognini of Italy. In addition, 20-year-old German wild card Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, the youngest player in the draw, meets former No. 1 and Stuttgart champion Juan Carlos Ferrero.

TUESDAY  FED-EX HEAD 2 HEADS – In Order of Play by Court

Centre Court 

(Q) Marsel Ilhan (TUR) vs Philipp Petzschner (GER)   First Meeting

Ilhan FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 3-7 (1-1 on clay)
YTD Titles: 0/Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: June 11, 1987
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 117

Petzschner FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
F: Halle (l Kohlschreiber); SF: Munich (l Mayer); QF: Dubai (l Berdych)
YTD W-L: 19-14 (6-3 on clay)
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 1
Date of Birth: March 24, 1984
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 78

(WC) Tobias Kamke (GER) vs (7) Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)  First Meeting

Kamke FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
SF: Newport (l Isner)
YTD W-L: 9-14 (2-4 on clay)
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: May 21, 1986
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 90

Chela FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
F: Buenos Aires (l Almagro); SF: Costa Do Sauipe (l Almagro); QF: Santiago (l Giraldo); Roland Garros (l Murray)
YTD W-L: 23-14 (20-9 on clay)
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 6
Date of Birth: August 30, 1979
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 21

(WC) Julian Reister (GER) vs (14) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) Garcia-Lopez Leads 1-0
06 Basel (Switzerland) Carpet R32 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6(4) 6-2

Reister FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 2-6 (2-3 on clay)
YTD Titles: 0/Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: April 2, 1986
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 155

Garcia-Lopez FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
SF: Zagreb (l Dodig); QF: Doha (l Tsonga); Houston (l Cuevas)
YTD W-L: 16-18 (8-8 on clay)
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 2
Date of Birth: June 4, 1983
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 37

Andrey Golubev (KAZ) vs Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)             Kohlschreiber Leads 1-0
11 ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo  Clay R64     Philipp Kohlschreiber 5-7 7-6(6) 6-4

Golubev FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 4-20 (0-12 on clay)
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 1
Date of Birth: July 22, 1987
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 46

Kohlschreiber FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
W: Halle (d Petzschner); QF: Auckland (l Ferrer); Munich (l Stepanek)
YTD W-L: 20-17 (6-8 on clay)
YTD Titles: 1
Career Titles: 3
Date of Birth: October 16, 1983
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 43

M 1 Court

Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs (WC) Andreas Beck (GER)  Stepanek Leads 1-0
09 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Shanghai Hard R32 Radek Stepanek 7-5 6-4

Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) vs (5) Gilles Simon (FRA)  Simon Leads 1-0
10 Valencia (Spain) Hard R32 Gilles Simon 6-3 6-3
Other Meeting:
05 Besancon CH (France) Hard R16 Gilles Simon 6-4 6-7(3)  7-6(2)

Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) vs (WC) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) First Meeting
 
M 2 Court

(Q) Simone Bolelli (ITA) vs Juan Monaco (ARG)  Monaco Leads 1-0
08 ATP Masters Series Hamburg (Germany) Clay R32 Juan Monaco 6-2  6-1
 
(10) Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) vs Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) First ATP Meeting
Other Meeting:
10 Marrakech CH (Morocco) Clay F Jarkko Nieminen 6-3 6-2

(4) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) vs Carlos Berlocq (ARG)   First Meeting

M 3 Court

Marcel Granollers (ESP) vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) First ATP Meeting
Other Meetings:
05 Spain F7 (Lleida) Clay F Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-4 6-1
05 Oberstaufen CH (Germany) Clay R16 Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3 7-5
07 Guayaquil CH (Ecuador) Clay SF Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-1 6-3
08 Tanger CH (Morocco) Clay F Marcel Granollers 6-4 6-4
10 ATP Masters 1000 Rome Q   Clay -- Marcel Granollers 6-2 6-4

Julien Benneteau (FRA) vs Pablo Andujar (ESP)  Andujar Leads 1-0
11 Nice (France) Clay R16 Pablo Andujar 6-3 6-4

(15) Fabio Fognini (ITA) vs (Q) Victor Crivoi (ROU)  First ATP Meeting
Other Meeting:
09 Napoli CH (Italy) Clay SF Victor Crivoi 7-6(2)  6-4

ATLANTA TUESDAY PREVIEW – HEWITT MEETS SIMMONDS, WILD CARDS HAAS, GINEPRI SQUARE OFF
There are seven first round matches on Tuesday’s schedule at the Atlanta Tennis Championships with a trio of former Top 20 and  21-under players in action.

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In the first match on Stadium, former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt takes on American qualifier Phillip Simmonds, who is playing in his first ATP World Tour level match since the ’06 US Open. It is the 25-year-old’s third career tour level match (’05 Washington). Hewitt, who underwent foot surgery earlier this season, comes in ranked No. 174, his lowest since Mar. 9, 1998 when he played his first full year on the ATP World Tour. He is 8-7 on the season with three quarter-final finishes in back-to-back weeks in San Jose and Memphis in February and Halle last month.

In the next match, wild cards Tommy Haas and Robby Ginepri meet for the sixth time. Haas leads 4-1 and their last meeting came in the third round at the ’06 US Open with Haas prevailing in a fifth set tie-break. The previous year in Flushing Meadows, Ginepri edged out the German 6-3 in the fifth set en route to the semi-finals (l. to Agassi). Haas, who ranked a career-high No. 2 in May 2002, is 1-4 on the season and in his last tournament in Newport, he retired in the second round (vs. Yani) due to lower back pain. Haas, who underwent hip and elbow surgery in March 2010, was sidelined for 14 months before returning at Roland Garros in late May. He comes in ranked No. 585. Ginepri is playing in his first ATP World Tour tournament since breaking his  elbow in a biking accident at Kennesaw Mountain in September last year. Ginepri, of nearby Marietta, ranked a career-high No. 15 in December 2005. He’s played in two Challengers in the past month, in Winnetka, Illinois where he reached the quarter-finals (l. to Young)  and last week in Aptos, Calif. where he lost in the first round.
 
On Court 1, 19-year-old American Ryan Harrison, the youngest player in the draw, takes on Japanese qualifier Yuichi Sugita, No. 5 seed and 20-year-old Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov makes his Atlanta debut against qualifier Rajeev Ram, and on Court 2, 21-year-old Lithuanian Richard Berankis returns for the first time since March due to a hip/thigh injury. All three have reached career-high rankings this season, Harrison at No. 101 on July 4, Dimitrov at No. 59 on July 11 and Berankis at No. 73 on Jan. 31 after reaching the 3rd Rd. at the Aust. Open.

TUESDAY FIRST ROUND FED-EX HEAD 2 HEADS – In Order of Play by Court

Stadium

Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) vs (Q) Phillip Simmonds (USA)   First Meeting

Hewitt FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
QF: San Jose (l Del Potro); Memphis (l Roddick); Halle (l Kohlschreiber)
YTD W-L: 8-7 (5-4 on hard)
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 28
Date of Birth: February 24, 1981
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 174

Simmonds FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 0-0
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: May 18, 1986
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 428

(WC) Tommy Haas (GER) vs (WC) Robby Ginepri (USA) Haas Leads 4-1
04 Houston (U.S.A.) Clay R32 Tommy Haas 7-6(5) 6-4
04 Los Angeles (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Tommy Haas 6-4 6-3
04 Vienna (Austria) Hard QF Tommy Haas 4-6 6-3 6-4
05 US Open (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Robby Ginepri 7-5 6-7(3) 6-4 2-6  6-3
06 US Open (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Tommy Haas 7-6(1) 6-4 3-6 3-6  7-6(1)

Haas FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 1-4 (0-0 on hard)
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 12
Date of Birth: April 3, 1978
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 585

Ginepri FastFacts:
2011 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 0-0
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 3
Date of Birth: October 7, 1982
South African Airways 2011 ATP Ranking: 369

Court 1

(6) Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) vs (Q) Marinko Matosevic (AUS) First ATP Meeting
Other Meeting:
11 Delray Beach Q (U.S.A.) Hard -- Marinko Matosevic 1-6 6-3 6-3

(Q) Yuichi Sugita (JPN) vs Ryan Harrison (USA)   First Meeting

(Q) Rajeev Ram (USA) vs (5) Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)  First ATP Meeting
Other Meeting:
10 Aachen CH (Germany) Carpet R32 Rajeev Ram 3-6 7-6(5) 7-6(4)

Court 2
 
Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) vs Matthias Bachinger (GER)  First ATP Meeting
Other Meetings:
06 Caloundra CH (Australia) Hard R32 Yen-Hsun Lu 6-4 6-1
08 Kyoto CH (Japan) Carpet SF Matthias Bachinger 6-3 6-2

Richard Berankis (LTU) vs Nicolas Mahut (FRA)   First Meeting