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steven


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Yes, lucky Bastl getting Dammit's seeded place in the draw!

Bolelli is not the best of the draws Richard could have got, that's for sure, but Boggo took a set off him at Wimby last year and though I think Bolelli has improved since then, the kind of form Bloomers showed in the 1st set against Gonzo at Queen's would be enough to give the Italian lots of trouble.

Also, Richard's serving must be on fire at the moment given how convincingly he came through qualifying, so while I don't expect him to win, there's got to be at least a little hope (the Vandenburg 'kiss of death' notwithstanding wink) and with the 12 points secured for qualifying, Richard has got something tangible out of this tournament already (in addition to the match practice and the confidence boost), so there's no pressure on him and anything else would be a huge bonus.

-- Edited by steven at 16:45, 2009-02-16

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Great win for Bloomers today, and he definately looks to be some of his best form for a long time at the moment, and winning without dropping serve is definately encouraging.

Bolelli isn't the best draw he could have got, but if Bloomers is serving as well as it seems, he'll have a chance, because Bolelli is frankly a pathetic returner, so hopefully Bloomers can force a couple of tiebreaks and go from there.



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Bloomers is 2nd on Court 1 after 10.00 GMT on Tuesday. He must be getting used to these early starts by now, hopefully!

-- Edited by steven at 17:51, 2009-02-16

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Bolelli did give Nadal a scare in Rotterdam so Rich will have to be on if he's still playing like that.

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Well done to Bloomers for qualifying - just the sort of result to provide inspiration to others that they can make ATP main draws outside the grass court season.

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*shock*The LTA noticed - http://www.lta.org.uk/News/All-news-items/2009-02-16/Bloomers-qualifies-in-Marseille/ (I'm not really shocked at that, I hasten to add) but the BBC haven't yet.

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Zverev's just come back from a set down and then a break down in the final set to beat Marchenko, so Bloomers should be on court soon.

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He's on court nooooooooooow, good luck Rich! happy.gif

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here is the live scoreboard link, nothing postedso assume they are on warm up?

http://www.protennislive.com/frameset.asp?year=2009&wkno=7=en&tabno=1&eventid=0496&ref=www.open13.fr



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2 aces from Bloomers and he holds to 15.

1-0*.

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0-30 start and loses next 4 points so misses on a break

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Bloomers 3-2*

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4-3*

5 aces, 79% 1st serves, 14/15 points won on 1st serve, 16/19 on serve overall - that's an awesome serving performance.

Unfortunately Bolelli is being almost as successful on serve, but you can't have everything!

Edit: bp!!

-- Edited by steven at 13:14, 2009-02-17

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Saved unfortunately - that was the first bp of the match.

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Come on Richard.

Shame he couldn't take that chance but he does seem to be making more inroads into Seppi's serve than Seppi is to his.

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