Week 7 - ATP 250 Series - Marseille, France

steven · Tennis legend

Week 7 - ATP 250 Series - Marseille, France

Vandenburg · Futures level

unlucky bloomers

Silver · County player

A shame for Rich there :sad: but nothing to be ashamed of on the face of it. An impressive performance to push Bolelli so close. It's just not the result any of us wanted but that is part of parcel of tennis.

Ah well.

steven · Tennis legend

12 points and 4900 Euros (a bit more than you get for winning a 35K+H Challenger, even if the points aren't so good) is not a bad consolation prize for a player at Richard's level of course, especially when it comes with a big confidence boost as well.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Drew wrote:

Cant believe this is the same guy I saw getting whipped by Evans in Glasgow....taking WR38 to two TBs....well done Rich. He surely deserves a dc playoff spot.

Fleming not Evans actually!
Shouldnt put too much on those early results - In Glasgow he played with a shoulder injury and lttle or no practice then Sheffield had bad cold/flu - It would have looked better if he hadnt played, although he and Jonny did win the doubles.

-- Edited by mjd at 16:34, 2009-02-17

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Shame for Rich but still a decent display. Agree with Steven that Rich should be ranked a lot higher, in the top 200 for sure. Let's hope this is a big boost for him.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great effort from Bloomers to push Bolelli to two tie-breaks and not face a break point throughout the match, but probably Bolelli's clash told in the tiebreaks which got him the win.

Hopefully Bloomers can build on this wherever he's playing next, and if he's pushing top 50 players then he definately should be scoring points in futures/challengers.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:

but probably Bolelli's clash told in the tiebreaks which got him the win.

i agree, i think bringing rock bands onto court to assist goes totally aginst the spirt of the game

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Count Zero wrote:

ForeverDelayed wrote:

but probably Bolelli's clash told in the tiebreaks which got him the win.

i agree, i think bringing rock bands onto court to assist goes totally aginst the spirt of the game

Is this the Count complaining about a typo from someone? disbelief

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i like that smiley, dont get to use it very often tho disbelief

Steven will be happy tho, me targetting some one else, dont worry Steven this was just an aside

steven · Tennis legend

I thought as much ...

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Count Zero wrote:

i like that smiley, dont get to use it very often tho

Steven will be happy tho, me targetting some one else, dont worry Steven this was just an aside

steven · Tennis legend

The BBC did eventually cover Bloomers at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7895341.stm though only after he'd lost, naturally.

On the plus side, they've linked to MJD's site and given him a nice (i.e. wrong) career high - under the pic it says "Richard Bloomfield reached a career-best ranking of 137 in March 2007" - right month, but it was 176. LOL

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

My, my! Isn't George a jammy Bastl? He gets into the MD as a lucky loser after falling to Bloomers in the FQR & then proceeds to "do a Gicquel" & reach the second round by beating none other than Gicquel himself fairly comfortably (4 & 3)! disbelief

Vandenburg · Futures level

lol BBC what a joke.