News - Thomaz Bellucci
John Isner blasted 21 aces en route to a first-round win Monday at the $608,500 Thailand Open tennis tournament in Bangkok. Isner, seeded eighth and ranked 41st, used the big serves to get past wild-card entrant Kittipong Wachiramanowong in the hard-court tournament 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5).
Thomaz Bellucci, who had to qualify to get into the Swiss Open, won the event Sunday with a straight-set decision over Andreas Beck in Gstaad, Switzerland. The Brazilian player defeated the German 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) for his first tournament win on the ATP tour. Bellucci is the first Brazilian to win an
Unseeded Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil and Andreas Beck of Germany will meet Sunday in the final of the Swiss Open. Both won semifinal matches Saturday. Bellucci, who got into the main draw as a qualifier, beat third-seeded Russian Igor Andreev, 6-4, 7-5.
Igor Andreev, the 2008 runner-up, beat Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-3 during Friday's quarterfinals at the Swiss Open tennis tournament in Gstaad. Andreev, the event's third seed, is trying to win for the first time since 2005, when he captured three tournaments. Friday, the Russian saved the one break point he faced and won 70 percent of his first serve points, avenging a 4-6, 6-4, 4-6 loss to his French opponent at the Medibank International at Sydney in January. Also Friday, sixth-seeded Nicolas Kiefer of Germany lost 3-6, 1-0 to Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci.
No. 3 seed Igor Andreev of Russia and No. 5 Jeremy Chardy of France led Wednesday's second-round winners at the Swiss Open in Gstaad, Switzerland. Andreev, the 2008 Gstaad runner-up, topped Jan Hernych of the Czech Republic 6-4 6-1.
