Week 24 - Queen's Club ATP - London

goldfish · Futures qualifying

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

Salmon · Tennis legend

Sheddie, we had 6 in 2006 - the big three, plus Alex and Baker as WCs. And Martin Lee qualified.

steven · Tennis legend

Excellent

let's hope they think it's worth a proper story too. I wonder when's the last time we had two qualifiers (checking)

steven · Tennis legend

2004 - Flan & Del, but there were 7 qualifiers that year. This is only the second time this century we've had more than one qualifier, and given the smaller number of places available and how few players we had in the qualifying draw in the first place, it's got to be classed as the better performance of the two. smile

-- Edited by steven at 13:41, 2008-06-08

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Phew! 2 hours 41m 59s for a qualifying match!!!

Salmon · Tennis legend

None of the draws that the qualifiers can get are exactly desirable, I guess, barring the match against Boggo. Other options are Gonzo, Safin and Grosjean...

Also, how on earth did Vallverdu (I hadn't heard of him before) get a wild card with Andy?

The only explanation I can come up with is this - Vallverdu happens to play for the Univ. of Miami and he probably hits with Andy when he is in Florida.

And there's nothing I can say of Nadal, obviously. Right after the RG final, he decides to play doubles - as you can see, the ATP is very harsh and all his injuries are caused by their illogical schedule.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 13:57, 2008-06-08

steven · Tennis legend

Aargh - Bloomers gets Gonzo, Ward gets Safin.

Boggo gets Sirianni.

Muzza will play Seba or de Voest.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

boggo got sirianni
ward got marat
blooms got gonzo

steven · Tennis legend

Small consolation - at least Bloomers and Ward should both get on Centre ... but that's two years in a row that Bloomers has had the worst draw of all the Brits (though he has some competition for that accolade this year!) cry

QUALIFYING RESULTS - worth seeing all in one place, I think!

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 beat Woong-Sun Jun (KOR) WR 230 by 4-6 7-5 7-6(8) biggrin

FQR: (WC) James Ward WR 488 beat Danai Udomchoke (THA) WR 182 by 6-4 4-6 7-5 biggrin

MAIN DRAW BRITS

L56: (Q) James Ward WR 488 v Marat Safin (RUS) WR 73
L56: (Q) Richard Bloomfield WR 376 (10) Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) WR 25
L56: (WC) Alex Bogdanovic WR 242 v (Q) Joseph Sirianni (AUS) WR 165
L56: (WC) Josh Goodall WR 274 v (11) Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) WR 28
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 (Q) Rik de Voest (RSA) WR 130

-- Edited by steven at 14:54, 2008-06-08

steven · Tennis legend

OOP - play starts at 12.30 on all courts

Josh 2nd on Centre
Wardy 3rd on Centre
Andy doubles 5th on Centre

Boggo 3rd on Court 1

(how did I know the one winnable match for a GB player would be on the court I can't get into LOL - Boggo had better just win and get on Centre on Tuesday wink

- otherwise, a lot to look forward to smile

)

I assume Bloomers will play on Centre on Tuesday, with Dan playing on Tuesday as well.

-- Edited by steven at 14:18, 2008-06-08

Smidster · Challenger level

Actually I am not unhappy with Wards draw.

Being honest the chances of him winning any of the possible matches was low so surely he will benefit more from being on the main stage against such a quality player?

steven · Tennis legend

That's true - and Safin's always capable of imploding too. I think Josh and Richard are the unfortunate ones, both of them would be capable of winning had they got better draws, especially with so much grass court match practice!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Nice draw for Boggo. Sirianni isn't as grass happy as most people from Australia are (not that he is bad on it) and Boggo beat him in straights in Cherbourg this year. Nothing needs to be said about the draws that Rich, Josh or Ward have, but let's see. At least Ward will gain a lot (and I'm not just talking about money) from his match!

Every player barring one of the qualifiers would have been bad for Evo, I guess, but it could have been far, far worse than Malisse. Hopefully he'll impress us with a good show.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

The BBC 2 are covering Stella Artois this week, I guess it will be centre court and not sure if they will use interactive to cover others.

Salmon · Tennis legend

The Artois site mentions that Wardy is no more is with JCF's academy. His absence from the list of players on the Equelite site confirms it.