This weeks ATP/WTA events

Ok normally I am going to try and do this every Sunday but i've been busy working during the weekend. Here is a list of the weeks ATP/WTA tournaments:-

WTA

tournament - Budapest Grand Prix

location - Romai Tennis Academy in Budapest

surface – clay

seeds:-

Lucie Šafářová Alizé Cornet Simona Halep Annika Beck

Johanna Larsson Chanelle Scheepers María Teresa Torró Flor Anna Tatishvili

So far the only two seed to fall is the top two! Safarova lost 1-6 0-6 to Russian Valeria Solovyeva and alizé corner lost 4/6 2-6 to Andrea Hlavackova.

Tournment - Internazionali femminili di Palermo

Surface – clay

location - Country Time Club, Palmeo

Seeds

Sara Erani Roberta Vinci Kristina Mladenovic Klára Zakopalová

Lourdes Domínguez Lino Irina-Camelia Begu  Silvia Soler Espinosa Karolína Plíšková

The only seeds out so far is irina-camelia begu first round lost to former Czech top 100 renata voracova 5-7 2-6 and Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino retired in the first round match.

ATP

Hall of Fame Tennis Championship

surface – grass

Location - International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island,

seeds:-

Sam Querrey (First round)  John Isner  Igor Sijsling  Lleyton Hewitt

Édouard Roger-Vasselin   Marinko Matosevic   Kenny de Schepper   Rajeev Ram

This fiorst round saw half of the seeds fall of the first hurdle including number 1 seed Sam Querrey. Querrey who also lost in the first round of wimbledon was beaten by compatriot Tim Smyczek 4-6 6-7 (8-10). Édouard Roger-Vasselin was beaten my former top 20 vetran Ivo Karlovic in a close two setter (6-7 4-6). Kenny de Schepper who produced his best ever grand slam performance by reaching the 4^th round of wimbledon was brought back to reality by Ukrainian born American Alex Kuznetsov (3-6 4-6). Finally Marinko Matosevic retired after the first set of his first round match citing fatigue against American Jack Sock.

MercedesCup

Location - Tennis Club Weissenhof

surface clay

seeds:-

Tommy Haas Philipp Kohlschreiber Jérémy Chardy Benoît Paire

Fabio Fognini Florian Mayer Lukáš Rosol Martin Kližan

Only two seeds have fallen so far in Germany. Lukáš Rosol was beaten in the first round by Brazillian Thomas Bellucci 4-6 4-6 and in the second round it was 2006 french open boys champion Martin Kližan who lost to world number 58 and amazingly spains number 11 Roberto Bautista-Agut (7-6 1-6 4-6). Also a quick mention goes to Briotains Alexander ward who defeated Dustin brown to reach the main draw of this event, a good performance by the brit. Unfourtnately he lost 3-6 5-7 to Italian 5^th seed Fabio Fognini

2013 Swedish Open

Surface – clay

Location - Göteborg
Seeds:-

Tomáš Berdych Nicolás Almagro Juan Mónaco Tommy Robredo

Grigor Dimitrov Viktor Troicki Horacio Zeballos (First round) Fernando Verdasco

In the tournment with the most seeds left in (as at 1pm 10/7/13) Horacio Zeballos is the only seed to go out, which was in the first round to his countryman Carlos Berlocq 4-6 3-6.