sorry for the awful format above

dont know much about DeHeart, had never heard of him. i am sure Steven can put his great intellect to use to come up with some puns tho, he has won some futures and challenger matches on clay tho and boggo is not in form so it not looking good there, but who knows, certainly a chance for boggo to extend hsi always win the 1st rd lose at 2nd rd record here.

tough for Josh too, Delic to start than either a top seed or volandri. ouch. dont know if delic can play in clay, butm i doubt he's going to be worse than one of our lads.

not looking good i think.

I agree, horrific draws  - though I suppose if they haven't got seeds in R1, we shouldn't complain too much!

QR1: Alex Bogdanovic WR 198 v Ryler de Heart (USA) WR 274 (CH: 208 - Sep 08)

Seeds in section: (26) Somdev Devvarman (IND) WR 138 or (3) Marcos Daniel (BRA) WR 96

Wardy took a set off the American on hard courts twice last year and Jamie Baker beat him 4 & 4 in  Nov 2007, revenge for a loss in the Calabasas Challenger a month earlier. He plays about 3 times per year on clay and this year on the surface, he has reached the SF of a Future, the QF in Savannah (lost to Michael Russell 2 & 0) and went on in R1 in Sarasota to Burzi who got thrashed by Russell who got beaten by Yani who got beaten by James.

If Boggo was on form, I'd fancy him to get through this one, even on clay, but will the current Boggo have de heart for the fight? No chance of him getting through more than one round, I'd say (ditto for Josh) but winning a round is worth a few points here so it's worth doing.


QR1: Josh Goodall WR 219 v Amer Delic (USA) WR 156 (CH: 60 - Jul 07)

Seeds in section: (12) Michael Berrer (GER) WR 116 (playing Volandri in QR1) and (29) Jesse Huta Galung (NED) WR 144

Delic beat Hrbaty on clay last week and beat Bloomers 4 & 2 in Baton Rouge last year but lost to Boggo in IW Q in 2007.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 18th of May 2009 05:50:07 PM

Matches start at 9am Local (8am here)

Boggo is 5th on Court 10

Josh is 2nd on Court 11

Ok Josh's draw is pretty bad with Delic and then probably Volandri but there's nothing wrong with Boggo's draw. If he thinks that is a bad draw then he shouldn't bother turning up to be honest as DeHeart should be beatable and Somdev is not much of a clay courter and has been in pretty poor form of late. Ok so there's no way he will beat Daniel in the FQR if he gets there but other than that there is no cause for complaint.

Salmon wrote:

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Clay is Somdev's favourite surface and he has had decent decent results on it in the past (like losing 5-7 to Almagro in the third set). But he is in horrible form this year.

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Ok...what i meant was, Devvarman aint a claycourter "at the moment"

 

Does anybody know the prize money for qualies? i tried to find them for the AO but they were no where...

I agree with Wolf - Boggo should be delighted to draw an American with no track record on red clay. Josh was never likely to progress here anyway.