Week 46 - Challenger (€30k+H) - Jersey, CI

Vandenburg · Futures level

RE: Week 46 - Challenger (€30k+H) - Jersey, CI

Akhenaten · Pro player

Vandenburg wrote:

well done slabinsky, tho he does have supberb record in challanger 1st rounds!!!

You're right about that. Slabba has now won 10 of his last 12 Challenger 1st rounds.

Very good win over Sirianni!

I noticed Sirianni getting on now, he's 33 (11 yrs older than Slabba), thought he might be in career decline, but actually he's at a career high ranking of 138 (well 2 weeks ago). He'd only spent 1 week inside the Top 200 before a year ago.

Hopefully Goodall can beat Lugassy, to set up a match with Slabba.

I'm surprised at Boggo's loss cry

, thought this was going to be his bounce back tournie, he often goes through streaks of 1st round losses then comes back with a tournie win. Thought this was going to be it.

I've often thought Boggo should drop down to play a futures once or twice a year, just to get some wins and confidence under his belt when he goes through these losing streaks. But he's not played a futures for years.

2009...will be the year of the Boggo, I'm sure. biggrin

Count Zero · Tennis legend

yeah, Boggo seems to have decided he will shun futures totally.

i think he is just playing these last few events for the sake of it really. from what i gather he is pretty burnt out.

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:
shows how shoddy the bbc are not bothering to mention slabbas win!!

Looks like the BBC spotted the bar that said 'contempt' on it and decided to duck beneath it. What gratuitous crap from them. Slabba's win was at least as newsworthy as Boggo's loss and surprising as his loss was, why do they have to keep getting at Boggo when he's played as many tournaments as any other Brit this year and easily racked up the most air miles.

Edit: I meant to add that I realise we have a go at Boggo too from time to time, but the difference is that we balance it by putting at least as much emphasis on when he does well.

-- Edited by steven at 11:36, 2008-11-12

Gary · Social player

Vandenburg wrote:

has anyone been to jersey? is it nice? is it like our equivlent of the faroe islands?

Yes. A very nice place to visit. Only 9 miles by 5, so not much to explore.
Tends to be the older generation who holiday there.

The only reason I've been so often is to visit friends.

Gary · Social player

steven wrote:

Count Zero wrote:
shows how shoddy the bbc are not bothering to mention slabbas win!!
Looks like the BBC spotted the bar that said 'contempt' on it and decided to duck beneath it. What gratuitous crap from them. Slabba's win was at least as newsworthy as Boggo's loss and surprising as his loss was, why do they have to keep getting at Boggo when he's played as many tournaments as any other Brit this year and easily racked up the most air miles.

It's called lazy journalism. Why let the facts get in the way of a good story?

steven · Tennis legend

Just to add to that - GB top 30 ordered by tournaments played this year (just Q, just MD or Q+MD all count as a single tournament), ties split by ranking points gained, up to and including yesterday:

34 Alex Bogdanovic 224
34 Josh Goodall 194
34 James Ward 119
34 Matthew Illingworth 25
34 David Rice 10

33 Alex Slabinsky 98

32 Chris Eaton 77
32 James Feaver 16

29 Jonathan Kinsella 11

27 Richard Bloomfield 122
27 Ken Skupski 33
27 Sean Thornley 18
27 Joshua Milton 22

25 Andy Murray 3580
25 Neil Bamford 26
25 Dan Cox 16
25 Burnham Arlidge 14

23 Edward Seator 19

22 Alexander Ward 9

20 Dan Evans 53

19 Maniel Bains 6

18 Jamie Baker 69
18 Dan Smethurst 10

17 Myles Blake 19
17 David Brewer 5

15 Jonny Marray 60

14 Miles Kasiri 10
14 Ian Flanagan 13

12 Colin Fleming 30

5 Marcus Willis 9

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i don't mind when the bbc report boggo's losses, but its the fact that they never report his (or other brits for that matters) wins at challenger level.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Vandenburg wrote:

has anyone been to jersey? is it nice? is it like our equivlent of the faroe islands?

I spent the first 20 years of my life there... nice place, if not the most democratic in the world.

indiana · Tennis legend

Re the BBC, last veek must have been so annoying for them. So many wins and so few losses to talk about.

But, at least this week they got some early losses to mention, and hey let's just disregard any wins.

Sorry, I was giving them the benefit of even being aware of all that success last week that was going on, well apart from Laura and a coutesy line or two about Anne.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Koning def. Evans 6-7 6-4 7-6

from mtf so not 100% and the guy says:

My info is from the Dutch tennissite www.tennisactueel.nl. There they also have a reaction from Koning. He said that it was a good match, but in the beginning of the match it was hard for him to keep himself concentrated after the dead of his granddad last week. After a quick break in the second set the match was more easy.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Richard unable to repeat his win over Dodig from last month - losing in two tie-break sets 6-7(7) 6-7(5)

Count Zero · Tennis legend

thats a shame. very tight tho.

wonder how ward and josh will do.

mike did you get any idea how the courts are playing?

James · Satellite level

Unlucky for both Daniel & Richard, both close matches - promising for Dan that he appears to only be a point/game or two away from competing with Challenger level players.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:

Koning def. Evans 6-7 6-4 7-6

from mtf so not 100% [...]

Score confirmed on the ATP live score site, but without any indication of the points won/lost in the two TBs.