Pictures from JC's first round match against Lisnard
Pic 1: return
Pic 2: forehand
Pic 3: jump
Pic 4: reach
Pic 5: another return
Pic 6: backhand
Pic 7
Pic 8
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Ferrero Finds His Feet on Grass
Juan Carlos Ferrero seems to be having little trouble adapting from the clay of Roland Garros to the grass of Wimbledon. Following his first Grand Slam success at the French Open earlier this month, the 23-year-old Spaniard was in confident and impressive mood as he dismissed the Frenchman, Jean-Rene Lisnard 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 in just one hour and 21 minutes on Centre Court.
Lisnard, also 23 but ranked 94th in the world compared with Ferrero's ranking of three, was making his Wimbledon debut. It turned out to be a harsh one, with Ferrero's accuracy off the ground putting him on the defensive from the start. At least Lisnard had some inkling of what he might expect, since Ferrero had defeated him in straight sets at the Australian Open in January.
With Wimbledon's slower courts and heavier balls suiting his baseline style to perfection, Ferrero was never troubled. He pocketed the first set in half an hour and did even better in the second, needing only 23 minutes to establish a stranglehold on the match.
Lisnard made a better fight of it in the third set but unforced errors, of which he committed a total of 25, hampered his attempts to get back into the match. Ferrero broke to lead 3-2 and when two match points came up at 5-3 he needed only one, slamming a forehand service return past the Frenchman.
Ferrero hammered six aces and 24 winners, and an indication of his fine form was that he converted seven of the 10 break points that came his way.
Pic 1: return
Pic 2: forehand
Pic 3: jump
Pic 4: reach
Pic 5: another return
Pic 6: backhand
Pic 7
Pic 8
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Ferrero Finds His Feet on Grass
Juan Carlos Ferrero seems to be having little trouble adapting from the clay of Roland Garros to the grass of Wimbledon. Following his first Grand Slam success at the French Open earlier this month, the 23-year-old Spaniard was in confident and impressive mood as he dismissed the Frenchman, Jean-Rene Lisnard 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 in just one hour and 21 minutes on Centre Court.
Lisnard, also 23 but ranked 94th in the world compared with Ferrero's ranking of three, was making his Wimbledon debut. It turned out to be a harsh one, with Ferrero's accuracy off the ground putting him on the defensive from the start. At least Lisnard had some inkling of what he might expect, since Ferrero had defeated him in straight sets at the Australian Open in January.
With Wimbledon's slower courts and heavier balls suiting his baseline style to perfection, Ferrero was never troubled. He pocketed the first set in half an hour and did even better in the second, needing only 23 minutes to establish a stranglehold on the match.
Lisnard made a better fight of it in the third set but unforced errors, of which he committed a total of 25, hampered his attempts to get back into the match. Ferrero broke to lead 3-2 and when two match points came up at 5-3 he needed only one, slamming a forehand service return past the Frenchman.
Ferrero hammered six aces and 24 winners, and an indication of his fine form was that he converted seven of the 10 break points that came his way.
