Andreas Beck sails past Ruben Bemelmans into final eight – Orleans Challenger 2011
Andreas Beck of Germany went head-to-head against the Belgian, Ruben Bemelmans, in the second round of the tournament, hosted in France, on Wednesday October 19th. It was the third encounter between the two players and
the head-to-head tally was lead by the German, 25-year-old, Beck. He tripled his lead in this match and knocked-off the Belgian in straight sets with a score of 6-2, 7-6(4) in an hour and twenty-four minutes.
The Belgian was not enjoying a good run of form and had lost bulk of his games in his previous ten encounters; he luckily had an easy draw in the first round against the lucky loser, Simon Cauvard, so it was clear that he needed
an extra bit of effort and luck to win this one.
On the other hand, Beck, was rocking on the court having won seven of his last nine encounters and had already beaten the eighth seed wildcard entrant, Benoit Paire; it was obvious that he was going to make a massive impact at
the match and provided his superior ranking he was ought to perform in that manner.
25-year-old, Beck, bamboozled his opponent by the initial onslaught and struck three fierce aces across the court which shattered the confidence of Bemelmans. He didn’t allowed a single opportunity to his opponent to break whilst
won two for himself and capitalized on both to thump the youngster on back foot and disorganized him mentally as well.
First serve success rate of 94% and second serve return percentage of 60% clearly depict the level of domination by the German at the pitch. Belgian just managed to win two games and required an all round improved performance in
the second set to challenge his opponent.
Unexpectedly the second set was really extremely close. Both players were not capitalizing on their serves and not a single break point opportunity was won by either of the players. The neck to neck battle continued until the set
was pushed into a tie-breaker.
This time the Belgian struck five aces and looked really impressive with his excellent control over his shots. The set could have gone either way but in the end it was the experience that played his part and won a set to German.
A slight miss-judgment at the end of the last game cost the match to the Belgian.
This victory takes the German tennis icon, Andreas Beck, into the third round of the tournament where he will play the match against his country mate, Dustin Brown.
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