Hamstring hampers champ, but not enough to help CG!
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| photos by Schewe
Windsor Heigths, by Steve England; ESVN (Fair and Balanced) - Hindered by an injured hamstring, the champ faced a challenge today! No one could predict just how the champ's injury would affect his performance, but despite both injury, and recent illness---the champ proved he can win against top talent even when handicapped!
CG has developed a great serve, and demonstrated aggressive shot placement down the line (running the champ around)! All too often however, CG's lack of follow-through resulted in short-shots which brought Sopcic to the net! Once there, the champ dominated---hitting winner after winner! Sopcic also benefited from several lucky netcords, and stepped-up his service game to phenomenal levels! Despite glimpses of brilliant shot placement, CG was generally too conservative! Sopcic took advantage whenever he could, as illustrated by an overhead slam on match-point! The champ plays through the pain, and easily tops his quite worthy opponent! TB wins 6-1,6-3!
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