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

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

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

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks for the great report, FD - your description of Boggo's performance brought a smile to my face too. Sounds like he was playing as well as when he carried Safin through a tough doubles match I saw at Queen's last year and looked like the best player on court by some distance.

If only he could sort his head out, but hopefully this (and doing it in front of all the important people (*)) will have given him a much-needed mental boost.

(*) i.e. you and sheddie wink

Boggo-Levy quick preview

Levy, whom Boggo plays tomorrow, is a former top 30 player, of course, but Boggo has good memories of playing him, even on outdoor hard, having beaten him 3 & 2 in the semi-finals of the Valencia Challenger last year, which he went on to win. Since then he has beaten Josh in three sets on grass and Wardy in straights, but if Boggo plays anything like the way he did today ...

Count Zero · Tennis legend

thnaks for the reports FD, and a great job on the texts. if you are going tomorrow i should be able to update here again.

as for boggo i think you highlighted an issue: Zevrev doesnt play a power game so alex can handle it. its the brute force guys that alex just cant cope with.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Count Zero wrote:

thnaks for the reports FD, and a great job on the texts. if you are going tomorrow i should be able to update here again.

as for boggo i think you highlighted an issue: Zevrev doesnt play a power game so alex can handle it. its the brute force guys that alex just cant cope with.

Possibly.... and thinking about it his best win last year was Hyung-Taik Lee who doesn't hit the ball that hard so we could be onto something here...

Don't know whether I go tomorrow yet.... I'd like to but may have too much other stuff on, and if I go I'll only stay for the singles matches.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i am almost certain it is, he has complained in that past that he lost macthes just to pure strength, not because the other guy was a better player. he is working on his strength, but it is hard as in the middle of the season you still have matches to play

DJ · County player

Great stuff again, Dan; thanks a bunch.

steven · Tennis legend

Round up of the site stats for Wednesday

1071 users visited the forum over the last 24 hours (not sure if that's unique or not, probably not)

The most users ever online was 12 member(s) and 144 guest(s) at 12:38pm Jun 04, 2008

More than 10000 hits on the Surbiton men's thread alone smile

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Sheddie wrote:

All matches were played on the 6 outdoor acrylic courts at surbiton.....identical surface to the aussie open.......the brit players looked so comfortable on them, having probably practised on them all year....the results reflect that !

At Surbiton? confused

James · Satellite level

I presume he meant that they were played at the NTC.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i am tryign to post a round up on the bbc boards, a bascially a copy paste of the 2 round ups/previews steven has and it rufses to post them claming their is an offensive word in there. thing is it doesnt say which one??
stupid bbc

Count Zero · Tennis legend

right ok its int the ladies secition which is:

Detailed summary of GB results (subject to official confirmation)

L32: Mel South WR 153 beat (Q) Naomi Broady WR 648 by 3-6 6-1 6-3
L32: (4) Anne Keothavong WR 96 beat (WC) Amanda Elliott WR 395 by 4-6 6-2 6-0
L32: (8) Katie O'Brien WR 112 beat Vania King (USA) WR 113 by 3-6 6-1 6-3
L32: (WC) Georgie Stoop WR 408 beat (WC) Anna Fitzpatrick WR 324 by 7-5 7-6(?)
L32: (WC) Naomi Cavaday WR 196 lost to (3) Marina Erakovic (NZL) WR 80 by 4 & 3
L32: Elena Baltacha WR 144 beat Andreja Klepac (SLO) WR 125 by ?-? 6-1 6-1

Round 2 (subject to official confirmation)

L16: Rika Fujiwara (JPN) WR 178 v Abigail Spears (USA) WR 180
L16: Melanie South WR 153 v Regina Kulikova (RUS) WR 174 - TBC
L16: (4) Anne Keothavong WR 96 v Ahsha Rolle (USA) WR 135
L16: (Q) Carly Gullickson WR 367 v (8) Katie O'Brien WR 112
L16: Monique Adamczak (AUS) WR 170 v (WC) Georgie Stoop WR 408
L16: Melinda Czink (HUN) WR 126 v (3) Marina Erakovic (NZL) WR 80
L16: (5) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) WR 98 v Betina Jozami (ARG) WR 191
L16: Elena Baltacha WR 144 v (2) Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) WR 75

can anyone spot the possible offender? (i cant)

steven · Tennis legend

oh this is a fun competition

(btw, if you do manage to post it, it might be worth replacing the ?s with the real scores now that we know them and removing the TBC, assuming it is Kulikova whom Mel is due to play)

er ... Broad / Erakovic sounds a bit dodgy wink

/ Klepac ... no ,seriously I haven't a clue. None of it got starred out on AM.com, which stars out part of one of the pick 'em entrants' names that doesn't get censored on any of the other boards, so it's a real mystery.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

YES SLABBA! YOU BEAUTY!

That was a really important win because although Okun was woefully short of wins in the last 9 months, Slabba still had to fight for it and has a good scalp on his CV now...

I think the surface change favoured Slabba big time! It might not be so helpful against Dancevic, but Slabba's confidence must be high now!

Thanks for the reports lads!

Is anyone there today???

steven · Tennis legend

Sally from AM.com is at the women's event in Surbiton and will be texting results from there, I don't know if anyone is in Roehampton.

By the way, did either FD or the Shed manage t do or sit in on any player interviews yesterday, or were there no arrangements for anything like that?

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Interesting problem count - you didnt mistype your name did you? biggrin

Which BBC board were you posting on?
Try posting top half first and if that fails then bottom half - I presume you can edit it afterwards?
then quarters etc.