Week 7 - ATP 250 Series - Marseille, France

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

RE: Week 7 - ATP 250 Series - Marseille, France

wolf · Tennis legend

Bastl has just defeated Istomin 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-5 in a match lasting 2 seconds over 3 hours.

So it will be Bloomfield v Bastl sometime tomorrow.

MAC · Junior player

Bastl is solid - do Richard Bloomfield and he have any history? Richard's got this far before without qualifying, when was the last time he managed to pull it off?

wolf · Tennis legend

Bloomers qualified for Queens last year! Only one meeting between them which Bastl won 6-4, 7-6(3) in the Besancon Challenger a year ago.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

MAC wrote:

Bastl is solid - do Richard Bloomfield and he have any history?

Not according to the ATP they haven't. Interesting piece of trivia from the site: Bastl was apparently born in Chicago!

mjd · Challenger qualifying

S&V · Club Coach

Cmon Richard!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great win for Bloomers, and hopefully he can go one step further and qualify now, and I suppose facing Bastl in the final round is definately a better option that Istomin, but does take away the LL-tank situation that could have happened with Istomin.

Still, it looks like Bloomers is playing back to his best and hopefully can translate these wins to points in the next few weeks.

MAC · Junior player

wolf wrote:

Bloomers qualified for Queens last year! Only one meeting between them which Bastl won 6-4, 7-6(3) in the Besancon Challenger a year ago.

Ah yes, that was a good week - unfortunately I was remembering Basel, Metz, US Open, Washington and of course Wimbledon afterwards when he didn't make it. (I looked them up.) Hopefully it will be a Queens week this time as Richard needs to get some good quality wins behind him to get his tennis moving forward again before it's too late.

steven · Tennis legend

Recap/rankings:

QR1: Richard Bloomfield WR 323 beat Massimo dell'Acqua (ITA) WR 419 by 3 & 4

QR2: Richard Bloomfield WR 323 beat David Guez (FRA) WR 281 by 3 & 4 biggrin

FQR: Richard Bloomfield WR 323 v George Bastl (SUI) WR 228

That's a really great win for Bloomers against a player who has won his last 9 matches against Brits (most of them in the current GB top 10 as well), and with a convincing scoreline too.

Bastl first played a Brit in qualifying for the Coventry Satellite way back in 1993 and has since amassed a tennis score against our players, leading the H2H 40-15.

Since beating Bloomers 6 & 6 in Besancon last year, Bastl has both beaten and lost to Boggo (who has a 4-3 record against him), beaten Jamie Baker in 3 sets, and beaten Chris Eaton in 3 sets.

He must have played very well to beat Istomin today, but may well be feeling the effects of a 3 hour match, especially since he is now nearly 34. Btw I wonder how he came to play for Switzerland when both his parents are Czech and he was born in the USA.

steven · Tennis legend

Re. LL places

If Bastl wins, Bloomers will be only 4th in line unless Janowicz recovers from a set down to beat Huta Galung and then loses to de Chaunac or Middelkoop, in which case he'll be third in line.

The only way he will get any ranking points from this event is if he beats Bastl or gets an LL slot then wins a main draw match, so given how unlikely it is that he will get a LL place in the first place, let alone get a winnable R1 draw to go with it, the match against Bastl is by far his best chance to get something tangible out of his success here.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Janowicz did recover and win.

Bloomers qualifying round match is 11.00 (10.00 GMT)

In addition to the four quali matches there are 3 MD singles and 3 MD doubles matches still on 2 courts!

Silver · County player

Bloomin' Bastl. Still not forgiven him for beating Sampras at Wimby.

Or any of the Brits he's beaten. BOOOOOO. GO RICHARD!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy beat him. . . biggrin

The Hoose · Satellite level

Bloomers v Bastl...

Nice start from Bloomers, breaking in the fourth game to go 3-1 up.