Week 29 - Aptos Challenger [75K] - 2008.

Silver · County player

RE: Week 29 - Aptos Challenger [75K] - 2008.

Shhh · Challenger level

Bad day at the office for Alex if MTF has it right. Apparently he dropped a game (tsk tsk) against Weintraub, still at least he pulled himself together in the 2nd set!

Alex Bogdanovic d. Amir Weintraub 6-1, 6-0

goldfish · Futures qualifying

That's amazing - fantastic score for Alex. It's getting better and better.

Next up - Andrea Stoppini (307)

Count Zero · Tennis legend

great score - stunned. -he bviosuly didnt want to hang around on court

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Nice going Boggo!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

sounds like an Ogani performance

-- Edited by Count Zero at 07:56, 2008-07-17

Count Zero · Tennis legend

from a local report:

With Delics loss, the field seems opened up for some of the lesser-known players in the draw. One player who looks primed to make a run at the title is Alex Bogdanovic, the No. 7 seed, and a pupil of former world top-10 player Brad Gilbert.

Bogdanovic, an Englishman, cruised through a 6-0, 6-1 slaying of Israeli Amir Weintraub Wednesday on Center Court, effortlessly countering Weintraubs flat backhand with pinpoint accuracy to the corners. Bogdanovic, ranked 186 in the world and fresh off a challenger win in Canada last week, broke Weintraubs first two serves of the day en route to a shockingly efficient win.

It just shows you how tough it is, Bogdanovic said of the rapidly crumbling bracket. Everybody can beat everybody. Im just taking it one match at a time just do my business and see where I end up.

Bodganovic was steady on his first-serves throughout the match, and never sent a game to deuce on his serve.

I just try to stay aggressive out there, he said. My games to use my serve and stay aggressive, and thats what I did today.

Gilbert, who has coached Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and most recently Andy Murray, said he was impressed by his newest disciples performance Wednesday.

The most important thing for him is to just keep improving, Gilbert said. Obviously his goal is to become a top 100 player, and I think hes plenty good enough to do that, and its just a matter of time before thats going to happen.

steven · Tennis legend

Wow, that's a great result, now Boggo can even win when Gilbert's there! biggrin

I wonder if he's ever been called "shockingly efficient" before. smile

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i am not sure if brad was in granby or not, but its great to see him back up that week with thsi win, at leats it getsh the who, win 1 week lose 1st amtc hnest week monkey off his back.

hopefuly he will bt stoppini. its 5.30 local and you assume that will suit alex more. stoppinin has never really doen much tennis wise so hopefully depsite to 0-2 h2h alex can come through. only seed left is scoville in alex half so it could be another godo week if he can continue to keep his level high

steven, did you get a chnace to check my email yet?

-- Edited by Count Zero at 10:25, 2008-07-17

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

I think we will all be happy with a 6-1, 6-0 win in the first round of a challenger, and it obviously didn't take him long to adjust to the courts or get used to playing in a different part of North America.

Weintraub isn't a great player, but dropping just 1 game to him is pretty impressive, and hopefully he can keep this form up for as long as possible.

He shouldn't lose to Stoppini next, and if he keeps playing like this, then he'll win it easily.

And with him last on again, it looks like they are treating Boggo as the marquee home player here, so he's getting all the favours from the organisers, which has to be helping him as well

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:

[...] It just shows you how tough it is, Bogdanovic said of the rapidly crumbling bracket.[...]

Is that Americanese for the strength of the draw?

P.S. Pardon my ignorance, FD, but what's a "marquee home player"?

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 12:28, 2008-07-17

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Stircrazy wrote:

Count Zero wrote:

[...] It just shows you how tough it is, Bogdanovic said of the rapidly crumbling bracket.[...]
Is that Americanese for the strength of the draw?

P.S. Pardon my ignorance, FD, but what's a "marquee home player"?

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 12:28, 2008-07-17

Basically, it would like Andy Murray at Wimbledon, who is always put on the best court in prime-time, for the biggest match of the day.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Stircrazy wrote:

P.S. Pardon my ignorance, FD, but what's a "marquee home player"?

Basically, it would like Andy Murray at Wimbledon, who is always put on the best court in prime-time, for the biggest match of the day.

Cheers!

Interesting, though, that they'd do that with the likes of Kevin Kim (3), Scoville Jenkins (4), Michael Yani (6) & even Alex Kuznetsov (8) still in the draw!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Silver wrote:
Ackerman posts on tennisforum.com and I think I remember him saying the one he faced in that doubles match was his nephew. Not sure about the other one...

*edited cos this was mostly wrong.

Cool! I read it first there, too (but didn't read the later posts). smile

Well done to Alex. Hopefully he'll meet Kash in the quarters.

Shhh · Challenger level

Andrea Stoppini ITA d. Alex Bogdanovic GBR [7] | 6-3 6-7 (5) 6-3

Thats a bit crap. I know he's played a lot of matches recently, but this was another great chance to pick up more points.