Week 47 - Challenger(25k+H) - Shrewsbury, Great Britain

christian · Intermediate Club Player

Week 47 - Challenger(25k+H) - Shrewsbury, Great Britain

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

i love confident we all are that the slabba result is true!!!

Seriously though that's excellent from Slabs

Shame for Skupski but he did well to keep it close in the second set and not just give up after the breadstick of the first. Looks like he was learning Guez's game as he went along which is positive (of course it's also complete speculation on my part so could be rubbish!!)

Great to see Boggo win what was a tricky round 1 draw. I hope his injuries have all cleared up. And far from being distracted by the news of Brad being his coach, I think he'll be hungry to prove himself worthy of it in this final tournament of the year. I think that could be a really positive partnership (so long as personalities don't clash horribly). Brad can teach Alex the thing he needs the most, the ability to 'win ugly'.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I hope those results are right!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i know its not the place but has anyoen else noticed that the bbc has stopped putting uk results up. maybe they got fed up with poor service from lta?

XCW4EVA · County player

Some awesome results again, Boggo back on track and Slabba, Wow, that is impressive

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Count Zero wrote:

i know its not the place but has anyoen else noticed that the bbc has stopped putting uk results up. maybe they got fed up with poor service from lta?

I have noticed that todays results on BBC are sometimes there and sometimes not -"now you see it - now you don't)

Sportinglife also only have first 4 results, so I suppose LTA have not provided press agency with latest results.

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:

i know its not the place but has anyoen else noticed that the bbc has stopped putting uk results up. maybe they got fed up with poor service from lta?

The BBC seems to put up results once a day now (though I can only find the link when mjd posts it on MTF, it's no longer linked to from the place on the BBC site it used to be linked from.

Sporting Life now seem to have a results update service that updates at about the same speed the BBC one used to, which probalby makes it the quickest way to get updates without calling the tournament or being in touch with someone there.

http://www.sportinglife.com/tennis/results/

steven · Tennis legend

SNAP! (to mjd) wink

If Slabba really beat Chramosta that convincingly, maybe there's hope for Josh against Evil tomorrow after all ... it would be similarly unexpected.

-- Edited by steven at 17:33, 2007-11-20

steven · Tennis legend

If Slabba did win, that'll mean we have four players in the 501-600 range next Monday. That's been unusual recently.

In fact, I noticed while skimming through the 1973- 2007 year-end rankings that it's been very common for us to have players all the way down to the 400s and lots of players in the 600s but nobody in the 501-600 range, it must be a coincidence though.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Sporting life now has this

Add 1st rd:
Igor Sijsling (Ned) bt Jaroslav Pospisil (Cze) 7-6 (7-1) 6-3,
Adrian Mannarino (Fra) bt Frederik Nielsen (Den) 6-1 4-6 6-4,
Alex Bogdanovic (Gbr) bt Karol Beck (Svk) 6-4 6-4, biggrin

Alexander Slabinsky (Gbr) bt Ladislav Chramosta (Cze) 6-1 6-3, biggrin

Artem Sitak (Rus) bt Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen (Spa) 6-4 6-1,
Michel Koning (Ned) bt Lars Uebel (Ger) 7-6 (7-4) 7-5,
Jesse Huta-Galung (Ned) bt Julian Reister (Ger) 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 6-3,
Andis Juska (Lat) bt Tobias Kamke (Ger) 2-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-5

DJ · County player

With Alex producing form like this, perhaps he'll be the first of our four-man field to reach that magic top 500, pipping Miles, Ed and James. Live totals are, I think: Miles, 41; Ed, 39; Alex and James, 36 - the 500th place is, at the moment, held with 50 points.
Imagine, though, our dream scenario: Ed winning in Kampala, James beating Miles in the Israel final, and Alex reaching the Shrewsbury semis. That would give our lads totals of 56 (ES), 54 (JW), 53 (AS) and 52 (MK); what a difference that would make to Steven's graph! (Though it would take till a week on Monday for this to appear in the ATP tables, given the 'Futures timelag'.)
Sweet dreams, all!

wolf · Tennis legend

Doubles R1

Edward Allinson / Ian Flanagan d. Alexander Slabinsky / Kiantki Thomas (USA) 6-3, 7-5
Neil Bamford / Martin Pederson (Den) d. Jaroslav Pospisil (Cze) / PaveL Snobel (Cze) (4) 4-6, 6-2, 13-11

Doubles Q/F

Joshua Goodall / Ken Skupski v Frederik Nielsen (Den) / Rasmus Norby (Den)
Edward Allinson / Ian Flanagan v Neil Bamford / Marting Pederson (Den)
Richard Bloomfield / Thomas Schoeck (Ger) v Karol Beck (Svk) / Ladislav Chramosta (Cze)

wolf · Tennis legend

Singles R2

Alex Bogdanovic (5) v Kamil Capkovic (Svk)
Richard Bloomfield v Alexander Slabinsky
Joshua Goodall v Igor Kunitsyn (Rus)

XCW4EVA · County player

Who do people whant to win Slabba or Bloomers?

seagull · Hall of fame

Personally I would like Slabba to win but on the previous couple of times they have played he hasn't taken a set