definately BT, i actaully wrote my post at the same time so didnt see yours.

those 50 pts are great for now, but if he hasnt really kicked on they can hurt a lot next year, i have seen it so mnay times with boggo, even thsi year 2 great weeks april 07, but for various reasons he dint kick on and it came back and bit him big time this year.

i presume he will try and play as much grass tennis as possible b4 the end of the grass seasonto rack up the points, buts he's also got to try and devlop more on other courts. will be interetsign to see how he does.

also what about the dc team? has his perfomance ehre given him a realistic claim to the team perhaps ahead of boggo?

Well played Chris. Thought he did well today and if he had won the tie break things might of been different. The difference for Chris today was his serving. On Tuesday his stats were amazing, but he had too many double faults and I think at one point it was 18% points won on second serve.

What has to happen here is he's got to take in what has happened this week and instead of living off it he has to push forward to make sure he can experience it again.

The last person who experienced such hype like this was probably Flanaghan at Queens when he had The Sun sponsorship, media hype and the new legions of fans. As I've always said he could of made something of himself but he doesnt have the mental attitude to succeed and is happy where he is. Chris now has to realise he will go back to the dirty background of taxi rides in Uzbekistan but use this experience. I hope he gets some help from the LTA on the mental attitude on how to push forward. From what I have experienced of Chris he should be playing Challenger and has the game of a 200-250 player. He needs a target of around 350 for the end of the year and start to go for it.

quick check he really doenst have much

Good effort by Eaton today as he stuck to his plan of hitting the serve as hard as he could and then coming in behind him all the time, as that was the only way he would win, given that Tursunov would win practically every baseline rally between them.

Just a shame that Tursunov played every big point well and put in a very professional performance, wasn't distracted by the crowd at all, and just did the job of getting enough balls back to trouble Eaton and to win the match.

Now he's got to get back to reality which should begin with Dublin qualifying over the weekend as there's no way he wouldn't qualify unless he gets a stinker of a draw, and with his confidence that he's got at the moment he should try and take advantage of it, play as much on the grass as he can, and then try and find some weak challengers or futures to enter and get that ranking up.

As to whether he plays in the Davis Cup? He's nowhere near the level needed for that and I'd be amazed if the squad wasn't Andy, Jamie, Baker and Boggo providing they're all fit and want to play.

And considering it would be Melzer on day 1, the last thing you want against him is a serve only player considering he owns Karlovic, Ancic, Ljubicic and a couple of other big servers, as Melzer would win in straight sets.

It still should be Boggo playing in the Davis Cup, as on his day he could beat Melzer, something I can't see Baker doing

i think boggo was actaully beating melzer on grass back at newport 06 until he had a brainfreeze/choke.

yes i agree arka aoq is a good aim.

Goodall is also pretty much there! Unless he falls, of course.

I think Slabba should aim for USO qualies, even. The rest, including Seator, for AO qualies.

Well done to Chris Eaton. A positive display out there. Hope he keeps going in the right direction over the next few months because he has a big game and deserves to be up there with that attitude. All eyes will be firmly on him now even at the lower events.