Grass Season - s'-Hertogenbosch #1



s'-Hertogenbosch Tournament

 After Halle Greg travelled to Holland for the qualifying of the s'-Hertogenbosch ATP250 grass tournament, he and Greg Oulette getting a lift with Jan Hernych, who beat Greg in the final round of qualifying at Halle and then proceeded to get to the third round. His first round opponent was 30 year-old Czech Lucas Dlouhy, who now concentrated mainly on the doubles tour and thus had no singles ranking, but had a high ranking of 73 in 2006 and has a current doubles ranking of 45 with a high of 5. They had played each other once before about four years ago in the Australian Open qualifying and Dlouhy had triumphed in three sets. 

Lukas Dlouhy

Greg dominated the first set, breaking Dlouhy to go 3-1 up and then skipped away to win the first set 6-1, serving well and facing no break points, whilst forcing Dlouhy to face 5 break-points and converting twice.

Serving first in the second set, Dlouhy picked up his game, and games went with serve to 3-3. Greg then had Dlouhy at 15-40 but Dlouhy saved both break-point opportunities and held serve to get to 4-3 up. Greg was serving well and again did not face a break-point opportunity and games went to the tie-break at 6-6.

In the tie-break Greg got an early break and then continued on, holding serve and then breaking Dlouhy again to win the tie-break 7-3 and progress to the second round with a 6-1, 7-6 win.