Just today the Men’s and Women’s draws were released today by USOpen.org (the official page of the 2011 US Open), I printed the draws and have selected my picks for the men who will advance to round two – I will be posting my US Open predictions each day until I reach the finals, I will write in more detail when I reach the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. Below are my first round predictions for the 2011 US Open mens’ draw.
In the top half of the first round:
- Novak Djokovic [1] will beat the qualifier he will face.
- Carlos Berlocq will beat Pere Riba
- Potito Starace will take out Michael Berrer
- Ivan Dodig [32] will end Nikolay Davydenko
- Alexandr Dolgopolov [22] over Frederico Gil
- Kei Nishikori over Cipolla
- Ivo Karlovic takes out Fernando Gonzalez
- Richard Gaquet [13] over Sergiy Stakhovsky
- Tomas Berdych [9] will beat Qualifier
- Fabio Fognini over Horacio Zeballos
- Philipp Petzschner over Albert Ramos
- Janko Tipsarevic [20] will take out the qualifier
- Xavier Malisse takes out Marcel Granollers [31]
- Albert Montanes over Mikahil Kukushkin
- Juan Carlos Ferrero over Pablo Andujar
- Gael Monfils [7] over Grigor Dimitrov
- Roger Federer [3] over Santiago Giraldo
- Thomaz Bellucci over Dudi Sela
- Bernard Tomic over Qualifier
- Ryan Harrison beats Marin Cilic [27]
- Radek Stepanek [23] over Philipp Kohlschreiber
- Juan Monaco over Andreas Seppi
- Tommy Haas over Qualifier
- Viktor Troicki [15] takes Alejandro Falla
- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [11] over Yen-Hsun Lu
- Andreas Haider-Maurer over Qualifier
- Qualifier beats other Qualifier
- Fernando Verdasco [19] over Jarkko Nieminen
- Michael Llodra [29] over Victor Hanescu
- Kevin Anderson takes Qualifier
- Thiemo De Bakker beats Qualifier
- Mardy Fish [8] beats Tobias Kamke
Bottom half of the men’s draw round 1:
- Robin Soderling [6] over Qualifier
- Alex Bogomolov Jr. beats Steve Johnson
- Robby Ginepri over Qualifier
- John Isner [28] over Marco Baghdatis
- Juan Martin Del Potro [18] beats Filippo Volandri
- Karol Beck over Diego Junqeira
- Guillermo Garcia-Lopez takes out Daniel Gimeno-Traver
- Giles Simon [12] over Ricardo Mello
- Stanislas Wawrinka [14] takes Maximo Gonzalez
- Donal Young takes Qualifier
- Dmitry Tursunov over Steve Darcis
- Juan Ignacio Chela [24] takes out Marinko Matosevic
- Feliciano Lopez [25] takes out Tatsuma Ito
- Qualifier takes Lukas Rosol
- Robin Haase over Rui Machado
- Andy Murray [4] takes out Somdev Devvarman
- David Ferrer [5] over Igor Andreev
- James Blake over Qualifier
- Oliver Rochus takes the Qualifier
- Florian Mayer [26] takes out Adrian Mannarino
- Andy Roddick [21] over Michael Russel
- Marc Gicquel takes out Jack Sock
- Ryan Sweeting over Denis Istomin
- Nicolas Almagro [10] takes Julien Benneteau
- Ernests Gulbis over Mikahail Youzhny [16]
- Gilles Muller over Edouard Roger-Vasselin
- Igor Kunitsyn over Matthias Bachinger
- Jurgen Melzer [17] over Eric Prodon
- Ivan Ljubicic [30] over Blaz Kavcic
- David Nalbandian over Bobby Reynolds
- Nicolas Mahut over Qualifier
- Rafel Nadal [2] over Andrey Golubev
I think that’s a pretty fair and accurate 2011 US Open first round prediction. Some seeds will fall, some men will face some tough opposition. Either way, a solid start to the 2011 US Open, right? Your thoughts on my first round predictions?
Based in sunny Southern California, raised in Argentina & USA; lover of all things tennis, USRSA Master Racquet Technician (MRT), ATP/WTA Pro Level Stringer; reviewer of tennis strings, tennis racquets, and any interesting tennis gadgets I come across. Plays NTRP 4.5 singles and some doubles. Singled handed backhand with a wicked affection for cured meats and Asado.
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