Last time Boggo will be able to make main draw of one of these super-challengers till he gets back into top 130. Ridiculously strong draw though, I mean 14 top 100 players is just crazy.....looks like going for Kolding 50K+H would have been a better idea, with the Madrid Masters this week, all the players outside the cut flood to the challengers. Like with Mons, it's looking tough to spot a decent rd1 draw here... maybe Delic who Alex has beaten twice this year or the crazy guys Koellerer and Luzzi.
Alternates: IN Zib, Tomas CZE 139 OUT Hernych, Jan CZE 146 IN Marach, Oliver AUT 147 IN Rochus, Christophe BEL 156 IN @ Kratochvil, Michel SUI 169 2. Karanusic, Roko CRO 170 3. Bracciali, Daniele ITA 175 4. Minar, Ivo CZE 177 5. Kubot, Lukasz POL 181 6. Dolgopolov Jr., Oleksandr UKR 191 7. Guez, David FRA 193 8. Lopez, Marc ESP 198 9. Levy, Harel ISR 203 10. Bachinger, Matthias GER 204 11. Petzschner, Philipp GER 207 12. Klec, Ivo SVK 209 13. Minar, Jan CZE 211 14. Ledovskikh, Mikhail RUS 212 15. Haehnel, Jerome FRA 215 16. Chardy, Jeremy FRA 216
The website doesn't look too bad. Hmm, a closer look means that I'm changing my opinion of it, I guess it'll depend on how often they update during the week.
Good luck to Boggo, I doubt he'll get a good round 1 draw but he's surprised us in the past and I remain firm in the hope he'll do so again
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(6) Diego Hartfield vs. (WC) Jeremy Chardy Alex Bogdanovic vs. Qualifier Qualifier vs. Federico Luzzi Lukas Dlouhy vs. (2) Jose Acasuso
Now that is a gift of a draw for a 125K challenger! Honestly, Boggo is the best indoor player out of all of them there, and only Acasuso (who has had a terrible year) should actually give him a challenge. If Alex is fully fit, and mentally there, he should have no trouble in reaching the SF's (but he will have to play better than he has done over the last few weeks)
SF will likely be against a clay courter (pretty much everyone in that section is a clay player), so this is a good chance to reach a final, as all the top players and dangerous players are in the top half of the draw
I hope you are right, but with Boggo's luck he will probably get a qualifier on a red-hot streak!
Top seed is ranked 258, 8th seed is ranked 641, so no-one in the draw that is a threat to him in terms of ranking (but Bastl is there, as is Lipsky, and they were 2 of the most disappointing losses of the year)
good draw for Alex, although will have to see which qualifer makes it through, esp after last weeks dissapointing loss Alex could really do with some good results here, so he is feeling good going into barnstaple next week and then onto the States, i think it important that he can carry a form through for the rest of the year and salvage his ranking.
shame the website is v.poor again. the french sites initaly look better than the GB ones, but they are both very poor, so little of the information that goes up is genuinly interesting to tennis fans you feel.
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he has been putting in alot of work for ages now and really deserves to break the top 100. after queens i thought it woul dhappen from there but he ha sbeen generally quite unlucky