PREDRAG RUSEVSKI IS ITF PLAYER OF MAY
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Macedonian tennis player, Predrag Rusevski, is the International Tennis Federation featured player for the month of May. During this month, 24 year old Predrag competed in three Futures tournaments, all in Bosnia & Herzegovina on clay courts.
The first tournament, BIH F2, was held in Sarajevo and Predrag was the number 1 seed. Predrag managed to get into the Semi final where he defeated Croat Ante Nakic and took him in the final against Cypriot Photos Kallias. Predrag won a close first set, this time 75 before wrapping up the title with a 60 second set triumph. Also at this tournament, Predrag partnered Lazar Magdincev, also from Macedonia, to the doubles title winning all their matches in straight sets and dropping a total of just 6 games, including an emphatic 60 60 semi final win.
Next was the BIH F3 tournament held in Brcko. He won all the matches which lead him too final and eventually claimed his second successive singles title with a 75 75 win over number 2 seed Ivan Dodig. Once more, Predrag entered the doubles event, again partnering Lazar Magdincev, and as in the previous week they claimed the title without dropping any sets.
Going into BIH F4 held at Prijedor, Predrag was seeded 2 and also at his career highest in the ATP singles and doubles rankings, 351 and 357 respectively.
After winning the opening two rounds in straight sets, Predrag finally lost his first set in three events. Despite the loss of the opening set in the quarter final, Predrag recovered to take the next two sets to move into the semi final against Swiss opponent, Patrick Eichenberger. In he final Predrag played Blaz Kavcic from Slovenia and he was unable to prevent Predrag from winning 63 64 and thus claiming his third straight singles title.
A rather successful month for Predrag, three singles titles from three tournaments dropping just the one set, two doubles titles from two tournaments without dropping a single set and also moving to his career highest ranking in both the ATP singles and doubles rankings lists. The three titles won this month took Predrag’s singles titles total for 2007 to five – all on clay.
MD: Congratulations to Predrag! He is doing great and let's hope he can lift Macedonian tennis to the maximum!
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