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-- Edited by Count Zero at 20:02, 2007-08-14

Boggo lost 7-5 6-1

What an awful awful week for British tennis

And it opens up the question once more of who gets that 4th place in the DC team.

Alex looked a shoe in earlier on in the year but now I really can't see him being picked.
Jamie B filled the role last year but he's not done much of note for a while either.
Bloomers has done nothing at all for ages

I have a feeling he will revert to the good old last resort of Jamie Delgado. With his incredible 0-93 Davis Cup record, we can't fail but hammer the Croats.

Methinks, big Ivan will be trembling at the thought of taking on Tim and Andy right now. That's if he even bothers to play. I think Karlovic and Cilic will probably take care of us right now.

alex is still injured. i am guessing he was trying hard in the 1st set, but let his performance drop in the 2nd, very similar scoreline to the stoppini match last week.

of course after thsi length of time i think hsi confidence will have taken a bit of a blow too.

just hope he recovers fully soon, it has lasted so long now, cant see him winning any matches at the usoq let alone qualifying, hopefully he will be recovered for the indoor season at least.

-- Edited by Count Zero at 22:00, 2007-08-14

Wow the optimism is just oozing from this thread.

Boggo is injured so his loss though dissappointing is hardly unexplainable, I seem to remember in the past he's been injured and come back in some great form.

Baker had a great chance this week, sure and his loss is perhaps the hardest to take but he's still steadily rising up the rankings and putting in the hard work, very very few players make the break by winning challenger after challenger it's a process and Baker is moving in the right direction.

As for the DC, it's over a month away still, Andy's injury is nearly fixed and it's now just a matter of playing himself back into some form, I see no reason why he won't have done that by late September. Tim I've got less positive things to say about but he always brings his best to the DC and Wimbledon and here we've got both together, just look at his first round Wimby match, I'd wager a whole lot of money that had the match been played in any other tournament/country in the world, Tim would've lost. And as for filling the final spot, the change in Boggo's results from Queens and Wimby to now (just over a month) proves that form can completely turn around in that amount of time not to mention his injury again. Same with Baker, though I'm not sure he's ready for the Croatian team yet.

Hopefully this post creates a spark of hope in this dreary thread!

slightly better scorelines so thats good but I'm still gutted.

Hernych is the only seed left in the draw and he's in the bottom section.

Its such an open event now! A real pity...

johnnylad wrote:

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No Aucks in the doubles but Hutchins teams up with Zverev as 3rd seeds.

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They must have fought pretty hard, judging by the score, but sadly, they lost, 6-7(10) 7-6(2) [10-12].   So we're now down to a 25% Brit interest in one single tournament this week - & that won't be for very much longer, unless Bhups & Stretch can do a Carlos Moyà...