Week 30 - Challenger $50K - Lexington, USA

Drew · Jul 14, 2008

Week 30 - Challenger $50K - Lexington, USA

Count Zero · Tennis legend

why is dudi sela palyigh here?

quite a strong field isnt it?

big week from jamie as he is defending semifinal points

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Count Zero wrote:

why is dudi sela palyigh here?

quite a strong field isnt it?

big week from jamie as he is defending semifinal points

Probably because he isn't going to make the cut for the MS event, and doesn't think he's going to qualify, so is going for the cheaper points at the challenger.

Boggo is the 9th highest ranked player here, so needs someone to withdraw for him to be seeded, while Baker has to hope for a nice draw here, maybe a qualifer or a WC, as he needs at least a round 1 win here to try and defend some points (so he'll get Malisse)

Count Zero · Tennis legend

or one of those guys to drop down right.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Is Dyce in the US at the moment? If he is, he should be playing here as it's played on his uni grounds.

Hopefully Somdev will play here (and win it all).

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Smeets withdraws = seeding for Boggo

Bad news is that Okun has made the cut, so he's the one to avoid, despite him terrible form this year, judging by Stoppini still having the hoodoo over him

Salmon · Tennis legend

Boggo out.

steven · Tennis legend

Kung Fu Panda wrote:
Boggo out.

So it's been confirmed then? I'm afraid so - based on sketchy info, it's due to a pulled muscle during the match against Stoppini. Dreadful luck when that draw was looking so nice. cry

Let's hope it's not too bad and the pull-out is just precautionary, in which case the rest might do him good, and that it's not something serious that's going to keep him out for weeks ... which would be just too cruel.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

He's still in the entry list (or was of this afternoon when the lists were updated on MTF), and I haven't seen anything posted anywhere about an injury, so hopefully it's just something minor that affected him against Stoppini and he can play this week, or have to take this week off, but it's not anything serious.

Boggo though does try to play through injuries, so I could see him showing up here and getting his first round losers cheque, or try and play through the pain, but it may be sensible to try and rest for a week

steven · Tennis legend

Er, why did KFP ask that question then?

Salmon · Tennis legend

No, Boggo is out. Check SteveG!

By the

, I was showing surprise as I wasn't aware of the injury against Stoppini and thought he just wanted rest, which would be weird.

-- Edited by Kung Fu Panda at 22:31, 2008-07-18

Count Zero · Tennis legend

alex definalty injured, pulled a muscle in his leg. i think its an injury he has had before, and unfortunalty at this moment cant say how long it will take to heal.
as we know he will miss lexington, at the moment the plan is to go to vancouver but i think he will have to see closer to the time how its feeling.
sorry i couldnt post anything earlier, was quite hard, esp when seeing FD post that he would be seeded at Lex

and lnowing he was out, but i really wanted to wait till it came out offically.

its a real blow for him as it apperaed he was going about getting his year right on track and now a potentialy serious blow.
if i get anymore info on the severity of the injury i'll let you guys know.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Very sad news!! cry

Salmon · Tennis legend

No Brits in qualies. http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/586/qs.pdf

Fascinating match there between Somdev and Takao Suzuki. I wish both could win.

-- Edited by Kung Fu Panda at 10:51, 2008-07-19

Salmon · Tennis legend

Main draw - http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/586/mds.pdf

So Jamie gets a qualifier. You have to hope that he doesn't get Guccione or Somdev, especially the latter.

Somdev is yet to lose in his 24 matches as a pro (counting doubles and exhos) and last night he beat Marcus Fugate, a solid Futures level player, by 0 and 0.