Week 31 - Belo Horizonte [35K+H] - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31 - Belo Horizonte [35K+H] - 2008.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

I'm sure Delgado, Auckland and Hutchins have all played doubles events in Africa at some point as there's a couple of 100K challengers, where they may have played.

steven · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:
Rusedski played in Bermuda in 2004 during his comeback from one of his many injuries, but lost in the first round.

Yes, you're right, though I think that was after the 'drugs' ban. I've got no idea why he played a Challenger on clay. He went out in R1, not surprisingly, embarrassingly beaten by Bjorn Phau!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Marray gets Borvanov, which is a good draw.

http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/234/mds.pdf

It's sad to see that Borvanov will represent the US and not Moldova any more.

I guess the change happened in the last few days.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Don't think that Jonny can complain about that draw at all and he should win his opener there really... nice chance to get a few points to his name, and Quereshi in the second round is having a poor season, so that's a winnable match as well

Salmon · Tennis legend

Jonny teams up with Andrew Coelho for doubles - link.

He plays both his matches tomorrow. Link to OOP.

Current time in Belo Horizonte - http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_BR-MG.aspx?city=Belo_Horizonte

steven · Tennis legend

A.U.H.Qureshi's no. 1 fan Imran (who pops up on Rusedski.co.uk and MTF quite a bit, usually to ask if Mr Q is going to get a WC for Wimby, Toronto, the Olympics or wherever), is getting very excited about the prospect of Mr Q potentially meeting Jonny in R2.

A bit of stirring produced ...

"MARRAY NO CHANCE FOR QURESHI!!"

Quite!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Jonny won 7/6(7-3) 6/7(3-7) 6/3.

No sign of the promised stream, but the site is good with updating scores after the match is over.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

excellent work Mr Marray!

Vandenburg · Futures level

great result for Jonny,great to see him competeting at the challanger level
do we think he can get back into 250 range n then push again?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Just for the record, he will play Qureshi (5) in R2, the latter having seen off the Colombian qualifier, Galán, 3 & 2. In the other half of the draw, the second seed, Robert Smeets, is out, beaten 2 & 2 by his compatriot (& doubles partner (2)), Adam Feeney!

Talking of the doubles, Jonny & his Aussie partner, Andrew Rabbit, sorry, Coelho, won their doubles encounter with the local pair, Dias & Pereira, 7-6(3) 7-6(6), & will play either the top seeds, Qureshi & Santiago González (MEX), or Julio César (

) Campozano & Carlos Salamanca (ECU/PER), in the QFs.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Nice, that's 490 dollars earned today in whole.

Jonny doesn't win enough outdoor hard Challenger matches, which makes today's win even better. A quarters here would be great!

steven · Tennis legend

Nice win ... now he HAS to see off Qureshi or I'll never hear the last of it from Imran!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Two nice wins for Jonny, as he's done his first job which was to win his opening match here.

Quereshi has had a terrible season though, as on hard courts he's very beatable as his serve isn't effective and his baseline game is very poor (I think Jonny's is better than his)

Bladetiger · Pro player

Vandenburg wrote:

great result for Jonny,great to see him competeting at the challanger level
do we think he can get back into 250 range n then push again?

If he stays fit then I dont see any reason why he cant get back to #250 or so, he isnt a worse player than he was then and so there's no reason why he cant make it back to that level. Whether he can be better in future than he was in the past is always a difficult question, few players do much better after 24 or so than they did before it, but serve volleyers do tend to go on longer and peak later so maybe he can.

I do also think he understands himself better now and which sort of events he does well in, and so I hope to see more of him playing at better quality events and less futures type events now which could also help.