Jared7
Active Member
The anticipation and excitement is building in Cancun for Jerry Lopez's attempt to tie or set a record for the most titles won in a single day by alums of a single U.S. university on the pro tennis tour. Basically, like Sharm el Sheikh and Antalya and a number of tourist locations around the planet, Cancun holds a series of consecutive ITF events over the span of a few weeks just to give the well-heeled tourists an opportunity to see high level tennis while vacationing at a tourist trap. Lopez routinely takes advantage of this and gets a bunch of tourneys in. He's got kind of a sweet gig - he's on the Mexican Davis Cup team and is one of their top players, so he's kind of a minor celebrity on the Mexican scene. He doesn't play a lot of tourneys and doesn't seem all that interested in the kind of grind that Rybo is on in constantly trying to improve his ranking; essentially, he just plays events in Mexico and only occasionally ventures across the border for a U.S. event (or sometimes the Dominican Republic). But that's good enough to maintain a high enough ranking to qualify for the events that he wants to play. He got into Los Cabos a year or so ago by teaming with Cam Norrie in doubles for his first-ever ATP event, but he primarily just plays ITF events. He's currently ranked ATP#640, with a CH of #505. Angele is from France and is currently ranked #891, with a CH of 807. Lopez will be favored today.
