WA State Open

Checked out the tourney at the Seattle Tennis Club. Watched some really good singles. The last match I saw was Amir Hadad (The Israeli Tank) vs Patrik Fischer from UW. Really nice match. Hadad won the first set 6-4. Hadad was serving for set at 5-2 but got broken. Fischer held serve to get the match at 4-5 and that's when Hadad held serve to win the set. Next set Hadad seemed to be bothered by the wind and lost some focus. Fischer seemed to have picked up his game and I think he was up 2-0 in the set before I left to go back to work.

These guys were playing on the main court and they had the radar gun set up. Hadad's first serve speed average was around 116mhp, second serve average was around 88mhp. I saw Dean and Geoff Garza sitting in the seats behind the radar gun.

Patrik Fischer is a very solid and smart player. If anyone has watched him play you'll notice he serves left handed and hits ground strokes right handed. I heard he's ambidextrous and can play right or left handed, that's pretty awesome if you ask me. Hope to see more Greenlake regs out there watching.

Some guys to really watch are the Shields brothers from Colorado, they play tennis at Boise State and these guys are super solid. They remind me of Dimitry Tursinov. I watch Luke Shields (#3 Seed in the draw) play David Chu (Another solid UW player) and he beat Chu 3-6,0-6. In the second set it looked like Luke Shields was playing around with David. That's saying a lot since David Chu is a very good player himself. I was sitting by Dean but, he didn't seem impressed.