The lta ended up in a bit of a pickle when murray wanted rid of brad and they had him on conract at big bucks for a year, so they came to a compromise. Brad is on reduced hours and salary and will work with alex for 20 weeks during the year, accompnay him to 12 events. This one is the 1st of those events. i think he will also be with him in cherbourg too.

in some ways its a bit of a mess for Alex, as his coaching keeps chainging all the time, and despite them all being big names he doesnt get time to settle with someone that works well for him. he was going well with peter lundi and they get on really well toegther, it may have been better to stick with him. alex also gets on good with paul anacone, but its a lot of 'cooks' for alex's game.

we will have to see if brad can put the confidence into alex to win matches.

Boggo first up on the centre court at 09.30 GMT (10.30 CET) tomorrow!

*  For the record, the fifth seed & (presumably) one of the local favourites, Thierry Ascione (whose name the site is incabable of spelling correctly:  someone missed the "s" out of his surname...! ), has bitten the dust, in straight sets (4 & 4) to the Yank, Kevin Kim...

Boggo 2-1 up, on serve. Chardy doesn't hit the all very hard, does he? Nice volleyer though.

-- Edited by wolf at 09:51, 2008-02-19

TB, is stil lthink alex looskl slow out there? or is it just me.

I think it's just a slow-motion picture! Alex won the tie-break, he was 4-2 down but got it to 5-4 up, and then the video went funny so didn't see the rest, but the scoreboard said he won it.

Alex just broken to 15
3-5

alex must realluy serve well now. he hasnt got close to chardy serve, maybe just 1 duece. best bet is another tb.