Week 22 - Challenger (€64,000) - Izmir, Turkey

seagull · Hall of fame

Week 22 - Challenger (€64,000) - Izmir, Turkey

Count Zero · Tennis legend

typcial, hopefully he can do it though

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Bloomers vs. Nielsen will come down to who serves best and so probably a matter of who wins the key points (and could well go to tiebreaks, so good practise for the grass)

Hope to see him qualify and get some confidence ahead of the grass season where he'll be looking to do well (and there's a Queens WC up for grabs as well)

Boggo may be here as well if he has made the trip so good luck to him if he is here and hopefully he can build on the first 3 and 1/2 sets he produced last week and have a good strong run here ahead of the grass

steven · Tennis legend

A pity there aren't more Brits here in qualifying really - what a weak Q draw for the most valuable Challenger of the week!

QR2: (q5) Richard Bloomfield WR 372 v (WC) Cenk Uludag (TUR) UNR

Uludag seems to be making his ITF debut. (q1) Nielsen however is WR 307. He beat Ken 2 & 3 in Jersey this year and has a 19-match winning streak against Brits (all in straight sets too!) since he lost to Colin Fleming in July 2006. However, Bloomers did beat him 7-6(1) 2-6 7-5 in the Dublin Challenger earlier that month.

This would be the kind of match Bloomers has to be winning on one of his favoured surfaces if there is to be any hope of him regaining former heights.

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Week 22 - Challenger (€64,000) - Izmir, Turkey

Count Zero · Tennis legend

RE: Week 22 - Challenger (€64,000) - Izmir, Turkey

steven · Tennis legend

Greenleaf wrote:

Wow, 19 matches is too long. I wonder if anyone out there has one that's longer?

A longer Brit-bashing streak you mean? It's hard to imagine that there would be, isn't it, can anyone think of any possibilities?

Come to think of it, don't post that here (the Count might get into one of his off-topic strops wink

), I'll set up a new thread where we can add long winning and losing streaks against Brits as we notice them.

Suffice to say here that even Tsonga only managed a nono-decuple Brit-bash before he lost to Andy in Metz last year, so another win for Nielsen would beat that.

-- Edited by steven at 10:14, 2008-05-24

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Richard is on court 1 at 1.00pm BST (3.00pm local time.)
Court 1 'only' has seating for 1000 spectators so I guess some will be unlucky! biggrin

Centre court seats 5000 but I expect this will only be used for the finals?

steven · Tennis legend

mjd wrote:
Richard is on court 1 at 1.00pm BST (3.00pm local time.)
Court 1 'only' has seating for 1000 spectators so I guess some will be unlucky!

Very droll biggrin

He must be playing now then. *avatar crosses ears*

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Main draw is out, and Bogdanovic has drawn an old foe in George Bastl in the first round, with the 7th seed in round 2, and then the top seed in round 3.

Ledovskikh is definately beatable in round 2 though, and while Lu has been in great form this season, he's going to be tired after two long weeks in India.

Qualifier get Ledoskikh (7), Golubev (6), Udomchoke, and Altuna, who is an unranked WC. Very obvious who Bloomers will hope to get if he qualifies then!

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Richard won 6-2 6-1 and will meet Frederik Nielsen of Denmark (who beat Ryan Young 6-4 6-2) in Sundays quallifying round at 9.00 BST.

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

Good news to all Boggotards and Bloomfieldtards, I'll have a coverage from this event on my website. In Cherbourg it was a lucky fact ;)

steven · Tennis legend

Hey, you love us really. biggrin

Anyway, I thought 'tards only applied to Fedtards, Rafatards and Djokotards? ... still, it's nice to have Bloomers and the Bogster elevated to that level, even if only fleetingly moment. wink

Anyway, I think you'll find we've all turned into Wardinatards the last couple of weeks ... at least until he lost in qualifying on Saturday. cry

QR1: (q7) Richard Bloomfield WR 376 beat (WC) Cenk UIludag (TUR) UNR by 2 & 1 smile

FQR: (q7) Richard Bloomfield WR 376 v (q1) Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 312

L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 242 v (SE) George Bastl (SUI) WR 294

So, can Bloomers prevent Nielsen from outdoing Tsonga by completing the icosa-Britbash? (beating Brits 20 times in a row) It's not just my big fluffy ears I'll be crossing for this one! wink

As for Boggo, Bastl has got his SE and has moved up 86 places in the 26 May rankings by reaching the Final of the Fergana Challenger, where he lost to Snobel in straight sets. Boggo beat him 4 & 2 in Sunrise earlier this year, coincidentally making the H2H record 4-2. The full record between them is:

2003 Surbiton Ch QF won 6-3 3-6 6-1 smile

2005 Wrexham Ch R2 lost 7-6(1) 6-1 cry

2005 Wroclaw Ch R1 won 6-3 4-1 ret. smile

2006 Newport ATP R2 won 6-1 7-6(6) smile

2007 Aus Open R1 lost 3 & 4 cry

2008 Sunrise Ch R1 won 4 & 2 smile

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i hope alex can get another win over bastl, the uzbek challenger is hardly taxing, he only bt 1 top 300 player. perhaps alex should have hone there am sure he cdould have go somme good points, although it may be a bit dodgy over there.

come on bloomers

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

I think the term "Boggotard" appeared after Bogdanovic had many votes in MTF's "player of the year" poll, and then one guy LK_22 called himself a Bloomfieldtard ;).

Anyway good luck to your guy; I don't believe Bastl can be so consistent, I suppose he'll lose, uhmm, let's see! One thing is sure, I watched their match in Wrocaw and cheer for Boggo, but Marc Rosset sat next to me and looked like he was gonna throw me down from the balcony, so I left after first set.