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Post Info TOPIC: Week 25 - ATP Nottingham - 2008 - Qualification Draw (Dan Cox beats Bellucci WR68 !)
How Many Brits will Qualify ? [17 vote(s)]

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RE: Week 25 - ATP Nottingham - 2008 - Qualification Draw (Dan Cox beats Bellucci WR68 !)


Although actually looking at the rankings Eaton and Cox would have benefited far more from the 5 points.

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If only the qualifiers being placed in the draw could go perfectly right for the Brits this time (basically the WCs avoiding Nishikori & Groth) instead of virtually perfectly wrong as at Queen's ... (ok, Sirianni didn't look bad for Boggo there, admittedly)

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L32: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR 324 v (Q) Vince Spadea (USA) WR 110
L32: (WC) Jamie Baker WR 250 v (Q) Samuel Groth (AUS) WR 304
L32: (Q) Alex Bogdanovic WR 243 v (WC) James Ward WR 495

... this is a copy from the main draw thread, where all comments on the main draw should go.

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Well done to Alex and making him do qualies worked out so well. See... now he must be feeling a lot more confident since he's there by right, and if he lost in qualies, he wouldn't have won a main draw match anyway. And the 5 points can only help his cause to get back to the top 150 by the year end.

Shame about Chris but he now gets to play Wimbly qualies. smile.gif And Spadea is far better than many top 100 players on grass, so it was actually quite good a scoreline

Extremely impressed by Dan here. 8 games off a person who has won a Tour title this year plus took Nadal to three sets a few days ago is brilliant - I would have been happy with anything not less than 4! From the stats, Nishikori was serving too neatly and Dan's own wasn't good enough to get him into a tiebreak. The only drawback was that he rarely got even to 30 on his opponent's serve, but if he can sort it out and keep up this level of tennis, he's going to move up the rankings in no time at all.



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Well done to Alex biggrin.gif Weather permitting, one Brit on centre court on Wednesday at least!

Or Thursday. Anyone with superpowers, take the rain away!

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Apparently there will be live commentary on BBC Radio Nottingham throughout the week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/local_radio/

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GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html



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As Dan Cox went back into the tennis centre yesterday I heard a woman ask him if he was OK to go and do a radio interview and he said yes. I was on my way home at that point and we turned on radio nottingham in the car but didn't hear him on there.

Anyone have any idea who this interview would have been with and did anyone hear or see a transcript of it?

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Just doing my geeky research as I do...& I am surprised at the quality of opponent Kunitsyn has beaten in the past, here is a list just to name a few-

Nalbandian
Fish           X2
Haas          X2
Rusedski    X2
Clement     X2
Santoro
Safin
Hewitt - In Australia
Monfils @ Wimbledon
Berdych
Ancic
Davydenko
Youzhny
Goodall - 6-1 6-1

Obviously he is top 100 & would have posted good wins but I was surprised at the quantity of good wins, Coupland did very well in having the oppotunity to serve for the 2nd set & at the time you dont realise how well he is doing/done to push Kunitsyn that far & I know Coupland can play better, as does George himself.
Boggo beating him in 2 is a fantastic win & I really hope he can push on & break the top 100 & be playing this level of player on a weekly basis, thats where he should be.
For Coupland I hope he can push on with the confidence gained from this match & go deep in some draws on the grass at some futures over the next 5-6 weeks.

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We didn't call him "Evil" Kunitsyn on the Rusedski board for nothing, you know! wink Yes, he's very dangerous, and on fast surfaces too, and Boggo beating hin in straights was at least as good as dropping a set in QR1 was weird.

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