ATP - The Nottingham Open

Salmon · Tennis legend

ATP - The Nottingham Open

steven · Tennis legend

Recap:

R1: (Q) Josh Goodall WR 227 lost to Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) WR 85 by 5 & 3 cry
R1: (WC) Richard Bloomfield WR 190 lost to (4) Jonas Bjorkman WR 31 by 2 & 0 cry
R1: (Q) Jamie Baker WR 243 lost to Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) WR 55 by 4 & 2 cry
R1: (WC) Alex Bogdanovic WR 110 lost to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) WR 67 by 6-4 7-6(13) cry
R1: (WC) Tim Henman WR 78 beat Michael Russell (USA) WR 69 by 6-1 7-6(5) biggrin

A bad day in Nottingham, apart from Tigger, who put in a good performance. I know all the rest were ranked below their opponents, but this is a grass court event with home advantage, so it's very sad that none of them even managed to win a set. cry

Bloomers suffered from yet another dire draw of course, but even so, just two games against the aging Bjorkman is worse than I thought he would do, though in fairness JoBjo has won this tournament twice and reached the Final only last year.

Josh and Jamie at least managed to be competitive in their 1st sets, but then fell away. However, the biggest disaster of the day though has to be Boggo - yes, GGL is more than the 'just a clay courter' that some of us made him out to be, but to be 5-1 up in the tiebreak, get pulled back, then miss 7 or 8 set points and hand the tiebreak to your opponent 15-13 on his second match point with a double fault really takes some doing! ashamed

R2: (WC) Tim Henman WR 78 v (2) Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) WR 24

Tigger has a 1-4 record against Tursunov, his only win against him was on grass at Queen's last year, when the bouncy tiger was in much better form than he is now.

steven · Tennis legend

From someone who was at the Bloomers-Bjorko match, slightly paraphrased:

Richard's 1st set was better than the score suggests, but he lost his cool a bit in the 2nd and went down a bit too easily. Lundgren said Bjorkman was playing very good tennis though.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

A tip for anyone going to Nottingham.

buy your tickets online before you go. Link for tickets on official website.

I bought my ticket online 7.30am yesterday morning and printed my receipt, arrived about 11.30, walked past the 300 yard long queue stretching into the car park and arrived at the 'tickets for collection' window with about four people in front of me!

RobC · All-time great

Booty and Stretch ate 4-1 up in the first. Calleri/Lapentti serving.

(by the way - what a line- up on Center court today: Booty & Stretch, then Henman, then Gasquet!! - and there's tennis on three out ofsix sports channels, but not one of them is in Nottingham - Sky are in Liverpool, I ask you!)

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i think sky are mixing it between lpool and notts.

RobC · All-time great

5- 2 B&S

mjd · Challenger qualifying

My earlier post was duplicated 2 hr 15 mins later- no idea how or why.
I dont seem to have a delete option - sorry folks

-- Edited by mjd at 12:28, 2007-06-20

-- Edited by mjd at 12:45, 2007-06-20

RobC · All-time great

Jamie and Eric take the first set 6-3

1-0 Calleri/Lapentti with serve in the second.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

grr, Booty and stretch are broken for 1-3* second set.

RobC · All-time great

...and can't convert a break point on the SOuth Amerricans' serve...4-1*

RobC · All-time great

S&B hold: 4*-2

RobC · All-time great

5-2* against Jamie and Eric: Serving to stay in the set

RobC · All-time great

from 40-0 to 40-30....second serve...and hold. 5*-3 to C&L

RobC · All-time great

Calleri serving: 15-0 ....30-0... 40-0

3 set points.....Double fault!

40-15.....40-30....c'mon! Second set to C&L

6-3 3-6 CTB time......c'mon guys remember who the CTB kings are!

-- Edited by RobC at 12:58, 2007-06-20