Legg Mason tennis Classic 2010: Thiemo de Bakker and Ryan Sweeting triumph
One of the tennis tournaments of the hard court summer season that is held on annual basis includes the Legg Mason Tennis Classic competition. The event is contested at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Centre in Washington. It was played on the very first occasion back in 1969 as the Washington Star International championship. After some time, it was given a new name as the Sovran Bank Classic. Initially, the competition was contested on clay surface however after 1986; it was shifted to hard court.
The Legg Mason Tennis Classic tournament is now one of the US Open series of hard surface competitions heading to the United States Open championship in the month of September. SFX Media and Events serve as the producers of the competition whereas a financial services company by the name of Legg Mason are the leading sponsors of the event. It features both the doubles as well as the singles matches on the hard surface of Washington D.C.
In its first round match this season, Thiemo de Bakker met Lukas Lacko yesterday on the hard court. Thiemo went on the win the round number one battle after knocking down Lukas in a total of three sets. The final match score was 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.
In another match, Ryan Sweeting also cruised into the round number two of the competition after defeating his compatriot opponent James Blake in a total of three sets.
De Bakker, in his encounter with Lukas, won the battle in a time period of two hours and five minutes. In spite of the fact that he lost the set number one of the first round match, De Bakker later on read the situation well and made effective use of one break to register a lead of 5-4. The twenty one years old Dutch player led 40-15 in the game number tenth however he lost a total of two set points as a result of double fault. Lacko took full advantage of the situation and went on to win the next two games of the set.
Afterwards, De Bakker came back strongly and dominated for the rest of the match. The forty six ranked player in the world prevented all six of the break points in both the sets and ended the set in style at 5-3. Although, Lacko had few opportunities to come back in the game but the Slovak could not utilize either of them and as a result lost the round number one match of the Legg Mason tennis Classic competition in Washington D.C.
De Bakker will face the American tennis ace, John Isner in his next round match in Washington; Isner has entered the tournament as a fifth seeded player.
As far as the match of Ryan Sweeting versus James Blake is concerned, Sweeting won their clash with a final match score of 3-6, 6-3, and 6-4.
In spite of the fact that James Blake cruised into the quarterfinal rounds in Los Angeles a week ago, he could not continue with his winning momentum in Washington. Ryan knocked down his compatriot fellow in a time period of one hour and thirty three minutes on Monday. As a result of this victory, Ryan has reached the second round of the Legg Mason tennis Classic competition.
Although, the American tennis player James Blake started off the match pretty nicely and went on to grab a total of two break points in set number one of the match but Ryan played better than his elder compatriot opponent in the second set and did not give any come back chance to Blake even in set number three of the match in Washington.
Sweeting will face the fourteen seeded Michael Llodra in his next round match of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic tournament.
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