This is one of the few rounds in any type of comp where you can actually defend your (doubled) points from last year by getting to the same round, so it's all a bonus from here for Boggo. 4th time he's won a round at AO Q in 6 years too, but he hasn't gone further in that time.
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
hmm reading back am probably quite glad i slept through some of that!
now i have to try an back to sleep, get and extra hour or so will be nice.
thanks for all the updates btw guys.
great sign to see alex battle back from behind in a decider, although a bit worrying he missed a fair number of bp's towards the end of the 3rd, still he got the one that mattered
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QR2: Alex Bogdanovic WR 184 v Sebastien de Chaunac (FRA) WR 252 (CH=152 2/2002)
6th on Court 5, probably at around 07.00 GMT, but very hard to estimate.
De Chaunac inflicted a 3-set defeat on Boggo soon after DC last year and beat Bloomers in 2008 too. In fact, the Frenchman is on an 11-match winning streak (12 if you count a w/o v Rusedski) against Brits since losing 9-7 in a 3rd set t/b v Alan Mackin way back in 2000. He is now aged 31 though and it's time for the Bogmeister to break the streak, as he should have done when they met in October.
The winner of Slabba's match won't play tomorrow, I don't think.
-- Edited by steven at 07:34, 2009-01-14
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