1 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 99 2 Kim, Kevin USA 130 3 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 150 4 Fleishman, Zack USA 165 5 Okun, Noam ISR 167 6 Odesnik, Wayne USA 179 7 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 180 8 Bloomfield, Richard GBR 183 9 Warburg, Sam USA 188 10 Ram, Rajeev USA 192 11 Mamiit, Cecil PHI 194 12 Reynolds, Bobby USA 201 13 Sela, Dudi ISR 210 14 Clemens, Tobias GER 220 15 Vico, Uros ITA 222 16 Soeda, Go JPN 223 17 Tourte, Nicolas FRA 228 18 Stoppini, Andrea ITA 244 19 Baccanello, Paul AUS 246 20 Simmonds, Phillip USA 247 21 Baker, Jamie GBR 269 22 Oudsema, Scott USA 270 23 (SE) 24 (SE) 25 (WC) 26 (WC) 27 (WC) 28 (WC) 29 (Q) 30 (Q) 31 (Q) 32 (Q)
Alternates 1. Lindahl, Nick AUS 271 2. Smeets, Robert AUS 286 3. Ledovskikh, Mikhail RUS 288 4. Widom, Todd USA 307 5. Levy, Harel ISR 312 6. Whitehouse, Wesley RSA 313 7. Cleveland, Tyler USA 336 8. King, Phillip USA 340 9. Jun, Woong-Sun KOR 343 10. Jenkins, Scoville USA 350 11. Sarstrand, Marcus SWE 351 12. Brands, Daniel GER 359 13. Fruttero, John Paul USA 371 14. Scherrer, Jean-Claude SUI 376 15. Dodig, Ivan BIH 386 16. Francis, Alberto USA 399 17. Cook, Lester USA 403 18. Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 409 19. Kretschmer, Gero GER 414 20. Moser, Frank GER 419
bravo Arka. I'm still working on becoming a tennis legend (at 4200) it keeps being hindered by my going away for a few days!
Hopefully Baker can have another stunning challenger run on his return to that level. I guess he and Bloomers will take the same plane on Sunday afternoon after they've both played a dead rubber each perhaps?!
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I'll just add in the relative rankings and a bit more preview ... apologies for any repetition!
R1: Jamie Baker WR 242 v Nick Lindahl (AUS) WR 272 R1: (3) Alex Bogdanovic WR 147 v Robert Smeets (AUS) WR 280 R1: Richard Bloomfield WR 183 v Scott Oudsema (USA) WR 284
Lindahl has reached two finals and two semi-finals in his last four tournaments, all Futures in NZL and AUS. The winner of Jamie's match with him will probably have to play no. 1 seed Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) WR 96 in R2.
Boggo has never played Smeets, but Bloomers beat him in the Bath 1 semis a couple of weeks ago. The other seed in the 2nd quarter is (7) Wayne Odesnik (USA) WR 191. With a draw like this, Boggo (who has three sets of Challenger QF points to defend in a row this month) has to be looking to get to at least the semis.
Oudsema has only won one of his last 8 matches, and that was a 3 set win against a Korean ranked outside the top 500, Jamie Baker beat him in straight sets in Waikoloa. The winner of Richard's match with him is likely to face no. 2 seed Kevin Kim (USA) WR 126 in R2 though.
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richard's got a chance here - oudsema and kim on poor runs - just dunno how well his game will be suited to non-indoor courts!
to be honest, its a fairly open draw, no outstanding players in it! very hard to pick a winner. i expect boggo will win a couple of matches then succumb to a disappointing defeat...