Week 24 - Queen's Club ATP - London

Drew · Jun 7, 2008

RE: Week 24 - Queen's Club ATP - London

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Drew wrote:

No sign of the MD yet..are we sure its today ?

Main draw: Saturday, June 7, 4:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, June 7, 6:00 p.m.

That's what it is according to the fact sheet.

Normally takes an hour or so to show up online (at least it did for Halle and Wroclaw this week), so some point in the next hour or so I'd expect the draw to come out

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

I know Wroclaw is the best Polish city, though this week they hold a tournament in Warsaw.

Daniel, would you be kind and check a PM on my website in answer to yours. I am sorry I was away for so long and let you wait.

As for me and Queens, there were doubts regarding my health state if I could go, but I decided to go anyway.

Cheers.

steven · Tennis legend

Had to watch Ana win RG then fell asleep, but very happy to come back and find out we got 2/3 through

I know this is a broken record now, but it seems so unfair that they get no ranking points for winning these matches, when playing these same (or possibly even weaker) opponents in Challengers and getting these results, they'd have amassed about 30 ranking points between them!

Here's a summary and mini-preview:

QR1: (WC) Richard Bloomfield WR 376 beat Harel Levy (ISR) WR 159 by 4 & 3 biggrin

QR1: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR 334 beat (q2) Gilles Muller (LUX) WR 125 by 7-6(1) 7-6(8) biggrin

QR1: (WC) James Ward WR 488 beat (q6) Stephane Bohli (SUI) WR 144 by 7-5 ret. biggrin

QR1: (WC) Jamie Murray UNR lost to Lukasz Kubot (POL) WR 202 by 5 & 3 cry

QR2: (WC) Richard Bloomfield WR 376 beat Simon Stadler (GER) WR 168 by 7-6(8) 6-7(5) 6-3 biggrin

QR2: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR 334 lost to Danai Udomchoke (THA) WR 182 by 3-6 6-4 6-3 cry

QR2: (WC) James Ward WR 488 beat Ivo Klec (CZE) WR 266 by 3-6 6-3 7-6(6) biggrin

FQR: (WC) Richard Bloomfield WR 376 v Woong-Sun Jun (KOR) WR 230
FQR: (WC) James Ward WR 488 v Danai Udomchoke (THA) WR 182

Jun lost 6-2 3-6 2-6 to Jamie Baker in Auckland ATP qualifying earlier this year, beat Hutch and lost to Aucks in 2005 is both won and lost against Josh in 2004 when just 17.

As well as beating Slabba in three sets today, Udomchoke beat Boggo 6-3 3-6 6-0 on grass in Newport last July and beat Josh 4 & 4 in the Bronx Challenger two years ago. He has played against lots of GB players over the years, with winning records against most of them.

-- Edited by steven at 16:58, 2008-06-07

steven · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:
And I've just seen the nice article on the Queens homepage about qualifying round 1.... talks about Jamie Murray's loss and has some quotes from him, but neglects to mention Ward, Bloomers and Slabba's win.

Surprised?

Well yes, actually, it's even more blatant than I thought it would be. Huge story for GB tennis - 5 really good wins today and they headline it "Murrays Singles Bid Halted At Artois Championships" and don't even mention the others.

They might as well say "we don't give a s**t about GB tennis unless the name Murray is in there and we think you're all so shallow that you don't either" furious

Bladetiger · Pro player

Churlish as it may sound, for me its:

QR1: (WC) Jamie Murray UNR lost to Lukasz Kubot (POL) WR 202 by 5 & 3 biggrin

Think Jonny might have put a better fight??

Er yes, actually! But let's hope Jamie's had a right good laugh.

steven · Tennis legend

L56: (WC) Alex Bogdanovic WR 242 v Qualifier smile

L56: (WC) Josh Goodall WR 274 v (11) Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) WR 28 bleh

L56: (WC) Daniel Evans WR 978 v (WC) Xavier Malisse (BEL) WR 236

L32: (6) Andy Murray WR 12 v Sebastian Grosjean (FRA) WR 57 or Qualifier, in Roddick's quarter and Nadal's half unfortunately bleh

-- Edited by steven at 17:45, 2008-06-07

XCW4EVA · County player

wow, really rubbish draws for yoshi, how many games u reckon josh is going to manage?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Goodall doesn't stand much of a chance against Hewitt as his game just matches up nicely for Hewitt.... at least he should be on a show court though and will get on BBC which will be good for him.

Not a great draw for Evans, but Malisse has been short of matches recently and is almost always injured, but I'd be surprised if he got more than 6 games or so.

Boggo though? Finally a good draw for him and I'd be disappointed if he lost that match - De Voest would be the only person I'd slightly worry about, so knowing him he'll draw him, but a chance to score some points (and Karlovic in round 2, so always a chance there as well)

Qualifiers get Boggo, Gonzo, Safin and Grosjean, so it's pretty obvious who the qualifiers would want in round 1 (although is out of form so I'd want Bloomers to draw him, and Ward to get Boggo)

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Nathaliia wrote:

I know Wroclaw is the best Polish city, though this week they hold a tournament in Warsaw.

Daniel, would you be kind and check a PM on my website in answer to yours. I am sorry I was away for so long and let you wait.

As for me and Queens, there were doubts regarding my health state if I could go, but I decided to go anyway.

Cheers.

Done

Have fun at Queens

Count Zero · Tennis legend

very qucik thoughts.

saw both slabbas matches. he played really well and was unlucky with such a tough draw. the only downside was he needed a lot of chances to break and close out sets/matches
(i am sure u saw on LS) imo best brit on display. deserves wc's for the other 2 grass events.

jamie did better than expected, but kubot was no great shake and very suprised that he made the fqr. jamie just rushed the net at every chance. i think he'd have been better off playing surbs qualies to be honest. a top 250 guy straight off was always going to be tough.

only saw a bit of ward and bloomers. imo ward's game didnt look much diferent to last year. i think he will need to raise it big time ve danai and get more agressive.
bloomers served well but i didnt see enough else to really comment. i have never heard of jun but he looked good.

as for the md i think boggo should be happy with a q really (but he does get tight in the matche she is expected to win). cant see goodall or evans progressing tho.

edit i had thought of going tomorrow, but i have seen that all 4 matches are on at the same time :( so i am not sure its really worth it.

-- Edited by Count Zero at 19:03, 2008-06-07

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Dire draw for Josh. Can't see him getting many gamea off Hewitt. Be interesting to see what Dan can do against Malisse. You never know. Hope James Ward wins his final quali as that's two cracking wins from him so far.

Silver · County player

Awesome stuff from Bloomers and Wardy

A shame for Slabba though but looks like he put in a good fight all the way. Nice to see. Hopefully we'll see him at Wimbledon!

Good luck to Rich and James tomorrow! Another couple of Brits in MD would be awesome

Count Zero · Tennis legend

doubles draw is out.

jamie and max get a bye.
Andy murray has temaed up with some guy called daniel vallverdu (ven) and got a wc, they play dammit & mahut
the other wc went to nadal and mariano hood (arg)

bit disapointing. esp to see andy choosing not to play with a fellow brit. has he really burnt all his bridges with the dc skip and then the book? is this daniel guy one of andy coaches?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Not impressed with the doubles wild cards at all - Hutchins, Auckland and Delgado are all doubles specialists and so should be on the list to get a WC here and probably deserve it, so one should have gone to Aucks and Delgado, with the other to Hutchins and Huss

If Nadal and Murray wanted to play doubles they should have found someone higher ranked to play with, not a former drug cheat or some unknown Venezualen with no ranking.

Terrible decision really, and Murray not playing with another Brit knowing none of them would get in is a very poor choice and isn't going to help with his popularity within British tennis, which isn't very high at the moment.

Hate to say it, but Murray is making it harder and harder to like him with his words and actions at the moment