Indian Wells Qualies draw

XCW4EVA · County player

Indian Wells Qualies draw

steven · Tennis legend

Just as a footnote, Dlouhy has drawn Wesley Moodie in R1, the winner to have a crack at, you've guessed it, Andy Murray.

steven · Tennis legend

Apparently John Lloyd was watching Boggo's match (perhaps someone told him Boggo was playing well and he arrived at 6-4 2-1 ... hmmm) and remarked at the end that it was "back to the drawing board then".

If this is true and there was no injury, that means there must have been a Boggo brain fart that lasted ELEVEN games.

Tell me I'm wrong ...

Count Zero · Tennis legend

a little it of info fom telegraph:
Dlouhy, from the Czech Republic, is ranked 109 in the world and is known as more of a doubles specialist than a singles player. But while he may never set the world alight with his tennis, he knows what it takes to be a professional.

Getting angry with himself in the second set, he vented his frustration by whacking the ball out of the stadium but then rediscovered his concentration and got on with the job.

Once he cracked Bogdanovic's serve, he never looked back. In return, Bogdanovic surrendered his own serve as Dlouhy tightened his grip on the match.

and from the times:

“All of a sudden there’s a different feel to the team, with what Andy brings to the table. I’m really excited to be involved again. I’ve practised a couple of times here with Alex [Bogdanovic] and I can’t stress enough what a beautiful striker of the ball he is. What goes on inside his head in Davis Cup ties is something else, but we can work on that.”

A veritable shame, then, that, appearing to be qualifying for a Masters event for the first time yesterday, Bogdanovic won a set and had four chances to lead 2-0 in the second before slipping to a 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 defeat by Lukas Dlouhy, another Czech. As John Lloyd, the Britain captain, said: “Back to the drawing board.”

looking less like an injury, well not a major one wanyay

johnnylad · Tennis legend

oh dear! Maybe he could go to dallas and do this brain game thing that the Craigs do?

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

That scoreline really looked as though he had been injured. If he wasn't - then oh dear, oh dear. I really thought he was beginning to be over these problems. Very worrying.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i dont know if anyone kept track of how many points he won after he missed those bp's? it couldnt have been many. possibly the match just suddenly spiraled out of control for alex, it can happen after all (esp with JL watching grr) Arsenal FC in 11 days anyone?

it s a one off match, its a dissapointment, but its not the end of the season etc.
This will surely keep him out the dc team, but thats ok, dc has done al more harm than good recently

Alex heads to sunrise qualies now, if he can quickly recover from this loss, either mentally or physcially, then he can pick up his excellent level he had been playing at. *(both tim and andy saying al is a great player publicly recently)

i hope he doesnt play delic again, twice he has beaten him this year, then twice after he has lost matches he should win.

RobC · All-time great

wonder if we could pay Lloyd to stay away from Boggo matches ?