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Mount Karlovic…Ivo Erupts in Paris

unnamedJust imagine the build up of frustration. Ivo Karlovic is in yet another third set tiebreak, this time with Eduoard Roger Vasselin today at ATP Paris Indoors – and Ivo loses it. Again. TEN times this season Karlovic has played marathon matches which were decided by “deathbreakers” and TEN times poor Ivo has come up on the short end. 36-year-old Karlovic is ranked an impressive No. 21 in the world right now and won a title this year in Delray Beach – his sixth career ATP singles title – but he’s 0-10 this year in deathbreakers, with nine coming in third sets and the other coming to Jiri Vesely in a five setter (4-7) at the US Open. Understandably, the normally reserved and stoic Karlovic suffered a bit of a meltdown after losing to Vasselin today – he smashed his Head and left it on the court as he furiously trudged back to the locker room after what will be the final match of his season. The agony and ecstasy of tennis…talk about a painful punctuation point to a pretty solid season. Better luck next year Dr. Ivo. [Here’s a look at all ten of Ivo’s deathbreaker failures this season: Doha/Ferrer — Zagreb/Bagdhatis — Acapulco/Harrison — s’Hertogenbosch/Haase — Newport/Ram — Cincinnati/Wawrinka — US Open/Vesely — Shanghai/Nadal — Basel/Gasquet — and today Paris/Vasselin.

10 comments

  • S · November 3, 2015 at 11:12 am

    This sucks and will probably just haunt him in the off season 🙁

  • Moskova Moskova · November 3, 2015 at 11:43 am

    agree – that’s a crappy feeling….poor ivo !

  • Scoop Malinowski · November 3, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Ivo is tough – he will bounce back – but some losses are especially heartbreakingly brutal to move forward from – such as mathieu losing the Davis Cup final fifth match vs Youzhny with a two set lead and 4-4 in the third with the French players and fans all ready to start the celebration – Youzhny pulled out the third then fourth then fifth set and poor Paul Henri was devastated, he let down himself his teammates and the French arena who were already starting to semi celebrate at the end of the third set — Guillermo Coria’s blown French Open final vs Gaston Gaudio was heartbreaking – Coria never recovered and his career crumbled after — a friend I used to train with said he saved ten match points in a college match and beat the guy who proceeded to individually smash all six of his racquets one by one and then threw the mangled messes each over the fence into the woods – tennis can be a brutally painful sport —

  • Andrew Miller · November 3, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    Isner, the last U.S. player standing in an ATP masters tournament. In my enthusiasm for current U.S. players, there is something called reality and reality says that Isner is once again alone at a big tournament. Sock exited, losing quickly to Troicki. DY bowed out in qualies to De Schepper, retiring mid match. Johnson didn’t play and Querrey is MIA.

  • Moskova Moskova · November 3, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    nadal vs rosol again…..some of these draws must be rigged !

  • Scoop Malinowski · November 3, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    Just a coincidence that Rosol and Rafa will rumble again :} Also a coincidence Isner played mahut again at Wimbled :}

  • Moskova Moskova · November 4, 2015 at 8:42 am

    roger on that there scoopy ! 😉

  • Moskova Moskova · November 4, 2015 at 12:59 pm

    rafa creams rosol ! 2 and 2….this should do wonders for his confidence – let’s hope he’s implemented some royal jelly into his juicing regimen as well; for a super-season in 2016 😉

  • Bryan · November 8, 2015 at 12:47 pm

    “Isner, the last U.S. player standing in an ATP masters tournament. In my enthusiasm for current U.S. players, there is something called reality and reality says that Isner is once again alone at a big tournament.”

    Yup. Every year people look for the next big thing and every year Isner is the highest ranked American and last one standing in most tournaments. Yet few give him props.

  • Scoop Malinowski · November 8, 2015 at 4:30 pm

    Bryan you are right – Isner gets no respect – if he wins it’s because he’s just a serve – or (higher ranked player – fill in high ranked player) was off that day – Isner is on the verge of winning a biggie —

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