Stanislas Wawrinka has secured his place in the second round of the French Open after a nail biting victory over unheralded Flavio Cipolla. The Italian new comer looked strong, but was unable to hold back the strength and quality of Wawrinka play as the twenty seven year old Swiss number two fired to a two set lead winning 6-3, 6-3. However the Young Italian fought back in the third set securing a 4-6 and went on to secure his second set of the game with a 3-6 victory in the fourth set. Unfortunately for Cipolla, the world number twenty Wawrinka came back strong to finish the game with a fifth set victory finishing 6-2.
Wawrinka best performance at the French open was a fourth round exit in 2010 and in last year’s competition is hoping to eclipse these efforts by reaching the business end of this year’s competition. However after a slip up in his first round, which in truth should have been a bread and butter victory for the Swiss, this is looking doubtful. 2012 has been a solid if uninspiring year for Wawrinka, who at twenty seven would be looking to hit the peak of his game, but with so many quality players in men’s tennis at the moment, the chances of Wawrinka gaining any ground in grand slam tournaments look few and far between. The Swiss number tow would really need to play well above himself to have any chance of offering any real possibility of challenging the big players.
Outside of open tennis Wawrinka will be more concerned about adding to his gold medal achieved in Beijing earned with fellow countryman and current world number 3 Roger Federer, by achieving a second doubles victory at this year’s London Olympics.
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Stanislas Wawrinka has a German background while he himself is a Swiss tennis player. Wawrinka, unlike others prefers playing on a clay surface and has a kind of advantage when he plays with his backhand as he considers backhand strokes to be his power.
Wawrinka has been ranked world number 9 as of the year 2009 and he has done his country – Switzerland proud by winning the gold medal for his country in the 2008 Summer Olympics. During this event he had Roger Federer as his partner and they together achieved this goal by defeating Swedish Team Simon Aspelin.
Come 2011 and Wawrinka started his session in a very impressive manner indeed. Wawrinka defeated world number 6 – Berdych to win the Chennai Open crown. Going further Wawrinka defeated Xavier Malisse in the final in three sets. Coming to the Australian Open, Wawrinka reached the quarter finals of the tournament after defeating Andy Roddick. Wawrinka was finally defeated by Ronald Young in the second round of the 2011 U.S Open.
A different kind of strange news popped up in the year 2011 in the month of September when he mentioned that he will be no longer under the assistance of his coach – Lundgron. He had taken a decision that he would play the rest of the season without any assistance or without any coach. Coming to the 2011 Swiss Indoors Basel Wawrinka made it to the semi finals defeating Florian Mayer but finally succumbed to Roger Federer giving Federer the title. Wawrinka also played bif matches like the Davis Cup in the year 2009 where the result was tyed with Italy but the interesting part being that he had defeated Andreas Sippi in the first match itself.
Looking for his very first title of the season, world number seven tennis player Spain’s Fernando Verdasco will go one on one against world number twenty-nine Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka in a semi final match of the 2012 Abierto Mexicano Telcel that is one of the eleven ATP World Tour 500 events. Abierto Mexicano Telcel finished the 4 tournament “Golden Swing” through Latin America.
Fernando Verdaso, the former world number seven is looking for his 6th career win on ATP World Tour. Fernando grabbed two titles in the year 2010 and accordingly accomplished his career’s highest ranking of world number seven, but his progress was stopped by inconsistency and injuries. Fernando has an average 7 – 4 win – loss record for this season till now and he needs some good wins in his file got get his form back. Seeded 8th in this event, Verdasco topped his two-time champion and his compatriot Nicolas Almagro with a 6 – 4, 7 – 6 (5) win on Thursday and went into the semi-final of this ATP World Tour 500 championship.
Meanwhile, world number twenty-nine Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka is following his 4th ATP World Tour title. The Swiss master has a nice 7 – 4 win – loss record on tour this year. Stanislas Wawrinka got his career’s highest world ranking of world number nine in the year 2008 after showing some coherent results on tour. The Swiss ace has the ability to take a hop but he requirements to win a some titles to make his presence felt on ATP World Tour.
In head-to-head, both players are equally positioned at 1 – 1 against each other. Their last encounter was in Gstaad in 2005, where Wawrinka beat the the Spaniard in 3 gruelling sets. On Friday, we can anticipate same sort of fight.