Well done Bloomers. A challenger semi combined with the wrexham final is more than he's done in a whole year at this level thus far in his career.

Peya Next.

Hopefully it was more of a prediction!

Quality stuff from Bloomers so far this week, he must be playing well and returning well to beat Klec 1 and 2.

Stadler is more of a clay-courter but has had a good results on all surfaces (including qualifying for Wimbledon 2006), so it was a great win.

Hopefully Richard can get revenge over Peya today. He should have a good chance as Peya's not been at his best so far this week, dropped sets in each of his matches so far. Just edged past German qualifier Summerer 6-7, 7-5, 7-5 in rd2.

In Besancon, Richard's serving was superb, he was let down by too many ues which really cost him on the key points. He also gave Peya way too many cheap points on the Peya serve which isn't particularly big. Richard needs to cut those out and play more consistently.

johnnylad wrote:

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If I remember rightly, new perfromance director Paul Hutchins wants all the players to play more dubs so the situation may improve.

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Yeah he especially wants Bloomers, Goodall and Baker to play more doubles as he feels that will really help their singles games. Hutchins wants all of them to play more of an all-court game and move up the court more, following big shots into the net. From what I've seen/heard about all 3 in the past 8 months, it sounds like they're starting to do that more and it's showing in the results.

Btw, it's good and interesting to hear a performance director talking in technical terms about what our current crop of players need to do to improve, for once. In the past, interviews with them have all been about emphasizing the "grass-roots" and making tennis more appealing to the young. This is important, but I've often felt in the past that they're too focused on that and not focused enough on helping the current batch to maximise their potential. The Draper regime seems to have got the focus a lot better so far and I've been impressed.

 

 

Unfortunately, whoever has been updating the results on the Wolfsburg site seems to have disappeared - the Rehnquist match (the one before Richard's) started over 3 hours ago and no result has been posted yet.

Having enjoyed Bloomers v Peya part 1 so much on the live scores last week (apart from the final result, obviously!), it's really frustrating that Bloomers v Peya part 2 must be almost over now and we have no idea what's going on.