Bloomers is the third seed in qualies and has a moderately tough draw as he's in the same section as Wolmarans.
(3)Richard Bloomfield (GBR) vs Luka Gregorc (SLO) Vlademyros Mavroupoulos-Stoliarenko (USA) vs Daniel Lustig (CZE) David Martin (USA) vs (WC)Vijay Paul (USA) (7)Fritz Wolmarans (RSA) vs Horia Tecau (ROU)
This is another outdoor hard Challenger with a roof over the head. The surface is the same as what they use at Indian Wells, Plexipave, and that's very slow.
Bloomers not on OOP in Nashville tomorrow so the stage is set for a quick return to Louisville to wrap up the doubles title before qualifying and winning the singles title in Nashville and landing a record contract as part of the Music City Challengers first prize!
ok, getting alittle carried away, but he may be able to hit that doubles final after all!
Bloomers not on OOP in Nashville tomorrow so the stage is set for a quick return to Louisville to wrap up the doubles title before qualifying and winning the singles title in Nashville and landing a record contract as part of the Music City Challengers first prize!
ok, getting alittle carried away, but he may be able to hit that doubles final after all!
I'd love to think that Bloomers had a chance of playing in the Nashville qualies and the Louisville doubles final, but let's not overlook the possibility that Jamie B & Alex K could still qualify in the other half of the draw: John Isner has just been beaten 7-5 6-7(3) 6-7(4) by Matthias Bachinger in the singles SF! There's no way of knowing, however, whether that will work in favour of or against Jamie & Alex when Isner gets back on court with Parrott after the second singles SF!
Great couple of wins for Bloomers yesterday....impressive scoreline against Gregorc, that was never going to be an easy match...although he's only ranked 434 he qualified for ATP Tokyo and won a round last month and beat Oudsema (who beat baker last week) in Calabasas before giving Isner a close match
Good to see Richard showing some form across the pond after a lean few months by his standards, in danger of slipping outside top 300 and not making AO qualies cut. Although gutting, the Isner match must have given him a lot of confidence
so it's Wolmarans/Martin in the final qualies round
Wolmarans beat Boggo last week but struggled through his rd1 qualies match in a 3rd set breaker....he's a huge guy (6ft4) with a huge serve, serve-volleyer...not got any big weapons from the back though and doesn't move that well
Martin is mainly a doubles specialist, good forehand