Photo: From Roland Garros 2nd Round

We Won

G.Garcia-Lopez d. M.Ilhan 6-4/1-6/6-2/4-6/13-11

Nothing much to tell about match, score speaks for itself.

We won a lot of things with this match, world heard of Marsel and Turkey too...

Let me write about why we started this blog. As you can remember at the beginning of this season things were not going as planned for Marsel. Russell and i were sad, because we knew he was more than that. Those results were nor fair, at least we felt that way. We were talking about what could someone do and we came up with this blog idea. Maybe people would click and recognize him, maybe Marsel would see and feel supported... Of couse it sounds silly but we just wanted to do something.

Today was a day that we felt we were so right about our thoughts of Marsel. According to the things we heard Marsel's calf went purple during second set and he had a time our, but you couldn't tell it from scoreline because he fought that way. In the final set he spent many break points partly due to his lack of movement because od the injury. Do we care? No.

Today we won many things. First of all, we got hope. We got faith and we learnt being patient and working hard pays off.

With this serve, patience and will we expect more from him in Wimbledon . Come on Marsel!

Video: Match Point

Photo: From Roland Garros

From the match with Niland

From the match with Haas

Marsel Won!

Yay! He beat Tommy Haas 64-46-76(1)-64.

It was a pretty close match with Haas hanging on quite well. Marsel went up to 5-1 on the firt set but could close it on second attempt on his serve. Then Haas started with a break of serve but than Marsel won 4 straight games ans score went to 4-2 on the second. Then, it was Haas's turn to win 4 games in a row and he closed the set. Marsel played a wonderful tie break on third and broke when Haas was serving to stay in the match on the fourth and here we go!

He will play G. Garcia-Lopez next.

Come on Marsel!

Marsel's blog says after 2 days of intensive treatmet, swelling on Marsel's calf is gone.

They also told us he did a mild training session yesterday and an intensive one with Bogomolov today and he is ready for his match.

They also believe he has a good chance to win his match if the injury doesn't show up again. His match is the first one on court 17 on Monday.

Yay!