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6/10/09 6:45 AM | Ricky Dimon
Tomas Berdych and Dmitry Tursunov will contest their second-round matches at the Gerry Weber Open on Wednesday. Four Germans are also on the schedule.
Philipp Kohlschreiber vs. (6) Dmitry Tursunov
It will be the first career head-to-head encounter between Kohlschreiber and Tursunov when they square off in th second round off th Grry Weber Open on Wednsday. Tursunov is seeded sixth while his opponent is unseeded, but Kohlschreiber recently passed the Russian in the rankings (24th to 27th) thanks to his fourth-round showing at the French Open. The German is 22-11 on the season and scored an upset of Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros. Tursunov, meanwhile, has been plagued by injuries and he did not play a single match in between the Masters Series Miami and the French Open. Given his edge in current form and a home-court advantage, Kohlschreiber should take this in three sets.
Mischa Zverev vs. (5) Tomas Berdych
Zverev and Berdych will be meeting for the third time in their careers on Wednesday. The head-to-head series is all tied up at one apiece after Berdych dominated a hard-court clash in 2007 and Zverev prevailed on the clay courts of the Masters Series Rome earlier this season. Berdych is the clear favorite on paper as the No. 5 seed and 21st-ranked player in the world, but he has not been in great form this season. The 23-year-old Czech, as always, has been inconsistent. He reached the fourth round of the Australian Open before blowing a two-set lead against Roger Federer, then won a title on the clay courts of Munich prior to the French Open.
Aside from those performances, however, Berdych has done little of not and he lost in the first round at Roland Garros to Simone Bolelli. Zverev is enjoying a solid year and he is up to a career-high 45th in the world. He will have the German crowd behind him, but Berdych's power game could be too much to deal with on grass. The Czech in three is the pick.
Meanwhile, eighth-seeded Rainer Schuettler will take on Benjamin Becker in an all-German showdown. Schuettler is technically the favorite on paper as the No. 8 seed, but he has no business whatsoever being seeded at ATP events right now. The German's ranking is inflated as a result of a surprising run to last year's Wimbledon semifinals, but he is struggling to win matches of any kind at the moment. Becker is just 81st in the world and 2-2 at the ATP level in 2009, but he has the game to make this competitive. Look for Schuettler to pull this one out in three.
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