Acapulco open 500 draw

Yesterday began the Acapulco open in Mexico . 

Juan Carlos is present and will start the competition at 3 pm(local time) on centre court against the Swiss player Stanlislas Wrawinka. 

Good luck to him !

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now here's the draw :

1 David Ferrer 

WC S. González 

Lukasz Kubot 

WC Daniel Garza 

Pablo Andújar 

Leonardo Mayer 

5 Florian Mayer 

Q Facundo Bagnis 

3 Gilles Simon 

Carlos Berlocq 

Potito Starace 

Q A. Giannessi 

D. Nalbandian 

S. Giraldo 

7 M. Granollers 

T. Bellucci 

6 Juan Mónaco 

Albert Ramos 

J. Ferrero 

S. Wawrinka 

Jérémy Chardy 

Rui Machado 

A. Montañés 

4 Kei Nishikori 

8 F. Verdasco 

F. Volandri 

J. Chela 

WC César Ramírez 

Benoît Paire 

Q J. Cabal 

Q Pere Riba 

2 N. Almagro

Copa Claro 2012 : men's single draw

Starace, Potito (ITA)

Almagro, Nicolás (ESP-2)

 Gil, Frederico (POR)

 Delbonis, Federico (ARG-Q)

 Kavcic, Blaz (SLV)

 Andreev, Igor (RUS-Q)

 Verdasco, F. (ESP-7)

 Prodon, Eric (FRA)

 Nishikori, Kei (JPN-3)

 Ferrero, J. C (ESP)

 Hanescu, Victor (RUM)

Andújar, Pablo (ESP)

 Paire, Benoit (FRA)

 Martí, Javier (ESP-Q)

 Wawrinka, S. (SUI-6)

 Zeballos, H. (ARG-WC)

 Mónaco, Juan (ARG-5)

 Volandri, Filippo (ITA)

 Nalbandian, David (ARG)

 Odesnik, Wayne (USA-LL)

 Berlocq, Carlos (ARG) 

Riba, Pere (ESP) 

Machado, Rui (POR) 

Simon, Gilles (FRA-3) 

Ramos, Albert (ESP) 

Chela, J. I (ARG-8) 

González, F. (CHI-WC) 

Montañés, Albert (ESP) 

Mayer, Leonardo (ARG) 

Bagnis, F. (ARG-WC) 

Ferrer, David (ESP-1)

Molteni, Andrés (ARG-Q)

(source : http://www.copaclaro.com )

Brazil open : Juan Carlos lost in first round

No respite for Juan Carlos since after the Davis Cup he flew to Sao Paulo in order to take part to the Brazil tournament. Unfortunately Juan has lost in the first round to the Argentinian player Leonardo Mayer in 2 sets 7-6 / 6-2. After a very disputed first set lost in the tiebreak(Juan led 4-1 in the decisive game !), Juan has been virtually non-existent in the second set. It must be said that Mayer has raised his level of play and especially his service since he has served not less than 11 aces!

It's a pity for Juan Carlos because i think he had the potential to win this game and go further in this tournament!

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Now let's look at the statistics of the match :

 Juan Carlos Ferrero vs Leonardo Mayer

*Service Statistics 

-Aces 

1 vs 11 

-Double Faults

3 vs 2 

-1st Serve % 

70% vs 58% 

-1st Serve Points Won 

29/46 (63%) vs 33/43 (77%) 

-2nd Serve Points Won 

11/20 (55%) vs 18/31 (58%) 

-Break Points Saved 

4/6 (67%) vs 5/5 (100%) 

-Service Games Played 

10 vs 10 

*Return Statistics 

-1st Return Points Won

10/43 (23%) vs 17/46 (37%) 

-2nd Return Points Won 

13/31 (42%) vs 9/20 (45%) 

-Break Points Won 

0/5 (0%) vs 2/6 (33%) 

-Return Games Played 

10 vs 10 

*Points Statistics 

-Total Service Points Won 

40/66 (61%) vs 51/74 (69%) 

-Total Return Points Won 

23/74 (31%) vs 26/66 (39%) 

-Total Points Won 

63/140 (45%) vs 77/140 (55%)

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    Juan Carlos next tournament : Buenos Aires , Argentina 

Happy Birthday Juan Carlos !

Juan Carlos Ferrero celebrated his 32nd birthday in an original way this year as he celebrated it with his friends of the Davis Cup Spain team in Oviedo ! 

Just after Spain had won his fifth match against Kazakhstan, the public sang "Happy birthday" and Juan partners reserved him a small surprise with his birthday cake !

Here i a small statement of Juan :

"I don't remember [the last time] that I spent my birthday here, usually I spend the day playing in Brazil, so it was very special to spend it here with all the team, here, very nice . I expect something but I didn't expect the cake and all the people so I'm very happy about how they treat me here so I felt very special today."

       ¡ FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS JUAN CARLOS  !

Davis Cup : Spain in quarters !

last weekend was held the first round of the Davis Cup. among the meetings there was one between Spain and Kazakhstan. 

To compose his team, Alex Corretja decided to combine the experience with the fire of youth, a unique team! 

* Composition of teams:

- SPAIN: 

* Juan Carlos Ferrero 

* Nicolas Almagro 

* Marcel Granollers 

* Marc Lopez

                          Captain: Alex Corretja - 

-Kazakhstan: 

* Mikhail Kukushkin 

* Andrey Golubev 

* Evgeny Korolev 

* Yuriy Schukin

                       Captain: Yegor SHALDUNOV 

* Friday: 

- 1st match: Ferrero vs Kukushkin

victory of Ferrero 6-1, 4-6, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4

- 2nd match: Almagro vs. Golubev victory Almagro 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 

* Saturday: 

- 3rd match : López-Granollers vs Schukin-Korolev

victory of the Spanish pair 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 

* Sunday: 

- 4th match: Almagro vs. Korolev

victory of Almagro 6-3, 6-4. 

- 5th match: Granollers vs Golubev

victory of Granollers 6-3, 6-7 (2), 

So Spain has won this 1st round by 5 points to 0 and will receive the Austrian team for the quarters on 6 to 8 April.

Juan Carlos blog : To the Davis Cup !

"Hello everybody !

Hope everything is going well. Today has been a hard day because of several interviews of TV, radio, etc. but, finally, I'm back home and let's watch a film on the sofa. The truth s that I'm really happy with being called for the Davis Cup and hope I could show my real level. I will send you a picture from Oviedo. Big hugs!! Follow us on Twitter on @EqueliteFerrero."

                                           Juan Carlos Ferrero

(source : http://www.juancarlosferrero.com/blog )

And in bonus here are some pics (from the Equelite twitter) of Juan Carlos and Nicolas training in Villena and Oviedo to prepare the 1st round of the Davis cup .

(source of the pics : http://www.twitter.com/equeliteferrero )