Week 28 - Challenger ($50K) - Granby, Canada

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RE: Week 28 - Challenger ($50K) - Granby, Canada

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

He won, which is all that matters, but didn't expect it to be as close as it was, but well done to him to pulling through in the tiebreaks.

Udomchoke is beatable in the final, and he should beat win in my opinion, but he's had a great week already for him and should be back in the top 200 after this week.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Actually my calculations on the other page may not be right. SteveG has this as a 50K+H but ATP as a 50K.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

atp says 42/60 pts for final

just wnated to say congrats to alex, great to see him back iin a final. i think he found the semi tough as it was earlier in the day and the high humidty gets him, so great to fight through so tight a match. looks like they are fast cts and widom had a big serve.

this week sets him up great for the rest of the year as he has basivly defneded everyhting he has left! and if he cna stay fit and heatly going into the indoor season cant see why a possible assult on the top 100 cant be back on the cards for ealry next season.

James · Satellite level

Count: Are you drunk? [ wink

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Salmon · Tennis legend

50K+H, then.

I agree with you but that's what's so frustrating about him. When you expect him to do well, he'll lose everything in sight for two months and when you write him off (not that I wrote him off), he'll do something like win nine matches in two weeks.

The opportunities are definitely there, though. If he can finish the USO ranked something like top 150, he could get a direct entry into the AO after a good show at the indoor Challengers and maybe one or two Tour qualies.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Exactly, James!

You just don't know what the next month will bring with Alex. Maybe he'll be top 100, maybe he won't win another match. Who knows....

john · Top national player

This is great news to see Alex back winning matches again. Hopefully he goes on one of his hot runs now and boosts his ranking right back up to top 150 by the US Open

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

After another disappointing Wimbledon it is great to see Alex back to winning ways and in the final here. If his points earned this week have taken care of the second half of last year then he really does have a massive chance of getting back up where he belongs in the top 130. He's had good results in challengers so you would think he could be right back up there by the end of the year and yes if he does really well maybe get close to the top 100 again. But with Boggo you dare not look too far ahead as it is like tossing a coin each week to see which Alex is going to turn up. Let's hope he stays fit and healthy and gets right back up there and have us all cheering him on finally into the top 100.

steven · Tennis legend

Greenleaf wrote:
I agree with you but that's what's so frustrating about him. When you expect him to do well, he'll lose everything in sight for two months and when you write him off (not that I wrote him off), he'll do something like win nine matches in two weeks.

If I hadn't known you were talking about Boggo here, I'd have sworn you were writing about Dammit Gasquet, Gonzo, Berdbrain or even Numpty Nalby!

Seriously though, it's great to see Boggo put a few good matches together, I'm really happy for him. The scoreline for the semi is so un-Boggo like too - not only did he not collapse after losing the 2nd set, he actually fought out a tight 3rd set and won the tiebreak. Brilliant

I hope you-dumb-choker (poor guy, what a name for a tennis player! wink

) lives up to his name in the Final and Boggo gets a title.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Haha, that is true.

Sort of a coincidence - Boggo played Danai last time in this very week in 2007, when he lost by 3-6 6-3 0-6 in Newport. He beat him by 7-6(4) 7-5 at the finals of the Sunderland Challenger in 2006.

This is Boggo's 12th Challenger final, and it'll be his 8th title if he wins it. So he has a great record in finals when you consider that two of the losses have been in big Challengers (Mons and Surbiton) with quite a few top 100 players.

He begins in about 25 minutes. Shame that we won't have LS.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 18:59, 2008-07-13

Count Zero · Tennis legend

it was also the match were alex got his back spasms so fingers crossed whatever the resut he comes through healthy.

ho does have quite a good record in finals doesnt he, i think also in semis too. often plays well at the sharp end of a week. his probs are often 2nd rd loses.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

The 4 losses he's suffered were to Niemeyer (who barely lost a point on serve that day if I recall what was posted here), Tipsarevic, Tsonga and Moodie... so he doesn't often lose to mugs in finals.

(Amazingly, Moodie is the only one of them to have won an ATP title (and a GS in doubles), but no-one good claim that he was better than Tsonga and Tipsy)

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yeah, but Tsonga will probabaly win quite a few titles later on. But I still can't believe that Tipsy hasn't got a title with the big match record that he has!

True, Count. That makes Boggo sort of strange, I think. When you say mentally not strong enough, you would think of someone with a terrible record at the latter stages (i.e where the crowds often turn up at Challengers) but not with him! Maybe he isn't weak like he is portrayed - just too patchy.

Drew · Jul 13, 2008

Some mtf guy from canada says unlikely to be played today due to rain ??