the times mentioned his results in granby so far  in the net post, but it was more about gilbert jnr playing aptos. will be interesting to see if they run anything else.


-- Edited by Count Zero at 22:37, 2008-07-14

The Bogster is back!

so he needs about another 80pts to make the top 150.

he has 5 weeks till the usoq, so its not impossible, but also not that easy,
really needs to go deep in a few of the weeks, of course another title will help :)

what do we think should be a realistic goal for him for the rest of the year? top 150, top 125, top 100? (he would need to more than double his current points to do that)

i think top 125, i doubt he will get enough to get de into the AO tho.

report, sounds like Alex was very to lucky walk away with this title, udom really is a choker!:

Serve lets down Udomchoke in final of Granby Challenger

It wasn't difficult for Danai Udomchoke to pinpoint the source of his troubles during the final of the $50,000 National Bank Challenger tennis tournament.

"I made too many double-faults on too many important points," the second-seeded Udom-choke said after he lost to fifth-seeded Alex Bogdanovic of Britain 7-6 (12), 3-6, 7-6 (6). "And when I did serve a double, it wasn't even close. The serves were way out."

The 27-year-old from Thailand went through a litany of his gifts to Bogdanovic.


"I had a set point at 13-12 in the first tiebreaker and I served a double-fault," he said.

"Then I serve another double-fault to lose that tiebreaker. Then, I was up a break in the third set and I double-faulted on a break point when I was leading 3-2."

And then there were two crucial double-faults in the third-set tiebreaker. Udomchoke missed a chance to go ahead 6-4 when he double-faulted and then followed that by double-faulting on match point.

"I don't know why," he said. "I was playing well except for my serve. It was very disappointing." Bogdanovic, who took up tennis after his family moved from Serbia to London when he was eight years old, said he was happy to win his first tournament since last April.

"But the most important thing is that I'm healthy," said Bogdanovic, who moved to No. 186 on the ATP computer rankings, six spots ahead of Udomchoke. He was ranked as high as No. 108 at this time last year, but a back injury ended his climb in the rankings.

Udomchoke is also battling his way back up the ladder after injuries. He was a career-high No. 77 after reaching the fourth round of the 2007 Australian Open.

"Then I was a little unlucky," he said. "I went into the clay-court season and that's not my best surface. And then I hurt my wrist."

Between the clay and injuries, Udomchoke lost in the first round of 11 consecutive tournaments and his ranking dropped.

Bogdanovic gave away his share of points and said the conditions were less than ideal for the final, which was rained out on Sunday.

"I think both of us were a little nervous," he said. "There was

also a bit of wind out there and I think that probably affected Danai on his serve."

Bogdanovic collected $7,200 for his efforts, while Udomchoke earned $4,240

ill add my congratulations to boggo fantastic title

Congrats to Alex from me too. His 8th challenger title!