Week 20 - Challenger $50K - New Delhi, India

Count Zero · Tennis legend

RE: Week 20 - Challenger $50K - New Delhi, India

Count Zero · Tennis legend

bottom half of draw:

Alex Bogdanovic GBR vs. Nick Lindahl AUS | 7-6 (4) 3-6 6-2
Kristian Pless DEN [3] vs. Ilia Marchenko UKR [Q] | 6-3 6-7 (5) 7-6 (5)
Brendan Evans USA [7] vs. Adam Feeney AUS | 6-4 6-4
Samuel Groth AUS vs. Travis Rettenmaier USA [Q] | 6-7 (2) 6-4 6-3

got to say if boggo can find a way past pless then will be great chance to make final.

good luck alex

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Indeed - good luck and play well, Alex.

Silver · County player

Have they played before? Alex and Pless?

steven · Tennis legend

Silver wrote:

Have they played before? Alex and Pless?

Copying from the last page:

Alex lost to Pless 6-2 7-6(4) in the Cherbourg semis three months ago and in 2005 he lost to him 7-6(5) 6-4 in Southampton having earlier beaten him 7-6(3) 7-6(4) in Cardiff. It's about time he beat him again, if you ask me. It's a good bet there will be at least one tiebreak, though, and that whoever wins it will win the match!

seagull · Hall of fame

"Hold up in play
A dust-storm and a heavy spell of rain in combination with gusts of wind stopped the proceedings for three hours and 25 minutes at deuce on Ashutosh's serve in the first game of the second set. "

That explains delay in results yesterday - wonder when we will get word today?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

no news yet, assuming no holds up i think the matches should be over by now, but those are some interesting conditions Seagull, i doubt its that easy for the players over there - at least boggo is playing out of his comfort zone!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

alex lost. dont know score

seagull · Hall of fame

Oh balls

James · Satellite level

Disappointing.

seagull · Hall of fame

One bit of good news - he has made it into RG qualifying

Salmon · Tennis legend

Although I'd prefer it if he dropped his clay plans, stayed in India, qualified for next week's Challenger and did well there. Honestly... what's the point of playing in RG? As such it is his worst surface by a mile, on top of that he hasn't had played a warm up tournament for Roland Garros! I understand that there's a financial side to it, which is of course very fair, but other than that it's not the best decision.

Shame that he lost but Pless is ranked much higher than him, so he can't be blamed unless he lost cheaply.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i dont know the reason but he always planned on playing RG if he could. maybe he likes being in paris on his birthday?

he hasnt played a clay warm up event thats true, but he has played a bit of clay this year for the DC at least. As far as i know alex had only ever missed one GS qualies when he opted to skip the AO a few years back.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Oh, yes, I was forgetting about the DC tie. It gives him some clay experience, I'm sure, but it's not even half a substitute for playing two or three weeks on clay before the qualies. But knowing how unpredictable Boggo can be, he'll probably go on and qualify this time!

I think Boggo should play qualies at Portschach this weekend. Will give him some good practice and with luck, some points, too.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Report :

In other quarterfinal, Dane Kristian Pless came from behind to register a hard-fought 2-6,7-5, 7-5 victory over Alex Bogdanovic of Britain. An error-prone Pless struggled with his forehand in particular as he sprayed ball all over the court in the first set.

Just when it looked Bogdanovic will close the match in straight sets, breaking Pless in tenth game of the second set to make it five-all, the Dane broke back as the Briton double-faulted. Pless won the next game to force a third set.

In the decider, Pless was the dominant player, playing with confidence and hitting fluently down the line. His aggressive play forced Bagdanovic to go on the defensive. Still, it was not all that easy for the Dane to take the set.

So close!