Week 23 - Surbiton Trophy [$ 50K] 2008.

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 23 - Surbiton Trophy [$ 50K] 2008.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

19.09

Ward wins 2nd set 7-5 saving 3 match points

Broady leads 6-4 3-2 on serve

Smith leads 4-3

Drew · Jun 1, 2008

Good gutsy stuff from James !!!

Is that it finished MJD or are they still playing ?

wolf · Tennis legend

Well Wardy is into a third set Drew.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

19.40

Ward 4-4 in the 3rd

Broady won 6-4 7-5

Smith leads 7-6 1-3

steven · Tennis legend

Such a tight match (Ward's) - we could really do with him winning it to set up an all-Brit QR2 match with Eaton.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

20.01

Ward wins5-7 7-5 7-6(5) biggrin

Smith a break down in the 3rd set hmm

and Now ForeverDelayed goes to see if he can find a train home for a well earned rest.
As I said to him - he has probably seen much more tennis than expected in view of the weather forecast this morning.
Didn't he do well?

Thanks Daniel

Shhh · Challenger level

I've checked the results on and off throughout the day here. Thanks all concerned.

steven · Tennis legend

Well done James biggrin and thanks Daniel for all the scores, and MJD for posting them!

Here's the summary then, subject to confirmation.

Sunday's results

QR1: (WC) Edward Corrie WR 1300 lost to (q1) Frank Dancevic (CAN) WR 111 by 4 & 2 cry
QR1: Sean Thornley WR 986 lost to Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 312 by 3-6 6-4 6-1 cry
QR1: (WC) Jonny Marray WR 1673 beat (WC) Matthew Short UNR by 2 & 2 smile cry
QR1: Jim May WR 903 beat (q7) Izaak van der Merwe (RSA) WR 287 by 3-6 6-4 6-3 biggrin

QR1: Ken Skupski WR 551 beat Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 394 by 7-5 7-6(2) biggrin
QR1: Matthew Illingworth WR 1027 lost to Clement Reix (FRA) WR 653 by 7-6(?) 6-2 cry

QR1: Richard Bloomfield WR 376 beat (WC) Jamie Delgado WR 1194 7-6(?) 6-1 smile cry
QR1: (WC) Jonny Kinsella WR 1492 lost to Sergei Bubka (UKR) WR 635 by 6-4 3-6 6-3 cry
QR1: Edward Seator WR 503 lost to (q8) Rohan Bopanna (IND) WR 310 by 6-2 4-6 6-4 cry

QR1: Chris Eaton WR 644 beat (q4) Adam Feeney (AUS) WR 265 by 6-3 4-6 6-3 biggrin
QR1: James Ward WR 488 beat Brydan Klein (AUS) WR 429 by 5-7 7-5 7-6(5) biggrin after saving 3 match points!
QR1: Neil Bamford WR 802 beat (WC) George Coupland WR 1673 by 6-3 7-6(?) smile cry

Good performances from all the Brits playing non-Brits really, they nearly all did better than would be expected from their rankings. smile

Monday's matches

QR2: Jim May WR 903 v (WC) Jonny Marray WR 1673
(winner to play (q1) Frank Dancevic (CAN) WR 111 or Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 312)

QR2: Ken Skupski WR 551 v (q2) Martin Fischer (AUT) WR 253
(winner to play (q5) Noam Okun (ISR) WR 271 or Clement Reix (FRA) WR 653)

QR2: Richard Bloomfield WR 376 v (q3) Prakash Amritraj (IND) WR 260
(winner to play (q8) Rohan Bopanna (IND) WR 310 or Sergei Bubka (UKR) WR 635)

QR2: James Ward WR 488 v Chris Eaton WR 644
QR2: Neil Bamford WR 802 v Luka Gregorc (SLO) WR 421

To be honest, it's still hard to see any Brits qualifying here, but at least there are some in with a chance, especially in section 4 where there are no seeds left, though even there, Gregorc is probably still the favourite to make it.

Main draw

L32: (WC) Alex Bogdanovic WR 242 v (2) Mischa Zverev (GER) WR 81
L32: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR 334 v Qualifier
L32: (WC) Josh Goodall WR 274 v Brendan Evans (USA) WR 179

Since beating Kohli and Pics in Rotterdam, Zverev has only won 3 of his last 16 matches, admittedly mainly at ATP level. Boggo does have good memories of the one time they played too - he came back from a set down against Zverev to win the Final of the Shrewsbury Challenger in 2006! In fact, this means that Boggo has beaten the two top seeds here the only times he has played them, yet look what's happened to their relative rankings since ...

Evans has lost to Jamie Baker in USO qualifying and to Ken Skupski on grass in the last 12 months.

Drew · Jun 1, 2008

The LTA have it at last....well at least a report...

HERE

Drew · Jun 1, 2008

They also have the qualy draw and OOP up...for Today LOL !!!

Drew · Jun 1, 2008

James or Chris could have a great chance to make it....Hope Bammy wins tomorrow !

Count Zero · Tennis legend

bogoo getting mischa! typical.
the only wins he got on grass last year were at newport.
a loss to stadler certainly gives hope

Bladetiger · Pro player

Very good day today for the men.

Think we've now got an excellent chance in Q4, I expect James Ward to come through that section.

Good win for Bloomers, Delgy is a quality player on grass, though I dont know what sort of shape he is in.

Agree with some of the earlier comments about not enough events on grass, we could do with Wimbledon moving back two weeks and then having an extra two weeks between RG and Wimbledon on grass, it could make a big difference to our guys rankings and would still leave plenty of time before US Open for a hard court run.

On another subject what chance do you think there would be of making a commercial success of an Indoor Hard ATP event in the UK, maybe at NIA or some such, is there enough interest in Tennis for that to work in maybe Feb/ March or Sept/ Oct?

What does anyone think??

PS Good luck Jonny!! (and all our other boys) except Jim May in the nicest possible way!!

Bladetiger · Pro player

James wrote:

Oh really, I must have learnt that from a rather uninformed source. So what would you say Boggo's chances are against him?

-- Edited by James at 15:44, 2008-06-01

Zverev looked reasonably comfortable on grass, but that was wimbledon when he'd probably already played three or four weeks, I guess he's come to surbiton straight from clay, wheras Boggo is an excellent grass court player, so I would expect Boggo to win.

Zverev's in poor form and Boggo plays better when there isnt as much pressure on him with less expectation, so hopefully it can be the start of a good grass court run for him.