That's a great win for Josh against Amritraj who is very at home on a grass court and to win with the ease of which he did is very impressive.

It seems that Josh has become a different player ever since getting a lucky loser spot in Izmir and now must have a pretty good shot of winning the title here as Bozoljac isn't exactly the most consistant of players and I'm not sure that he's a force on a grass court (don't remember him doing anything anyway), while I suppose Evans or Mannarino in the bottom half would be the favourite for the title.

Definately proving that he deserved his Queens WC this week and probably has booked a WC for Eastbourne as well, as well as the one he's getting to Wimbledon. Now he's just got to break his curse at ATP level where I think in his 9 matches, he's won the total of just one set, and he has had some relatively nice matches in that list as well.

he's had some tough draws, but you have to look at those wimby results in 05 and 06.

but it also stands out how few atps he actually played. only the one outside of the UK. perhaps he should ahve tried more ATP Q over the years?

-- Edited by Count Zero on Friday 5th of June 2009 05:05:32 PM

Only 1 set won in all the defeats.
Time to step it up Josh.

steven wrote:

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Bozo took out Dimitrov today, according to the Dimi fan on AM.com.

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Bozo won 1-6 6-3 6-4, so not without a bit of a struggle - another sign of the bloody Bulgarian's potential?

In the other semi-final, Brendan Evans, the victor over Mannarino by 6-3 3-6 7-5, will take on Sergei Bubka, who saw off Kendrick (2) by 7-6(3) 6-3 this morning.  Bozo's the only seed left standing!

 

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 5th of June 2009 06:54:25 PM

Well done Josh - Now go and win the thing.

Very pleased Flemski won as well

LTA summary of all of today's action.  There is, however, a question mark over the winners of the women's doubles title, as the Beeb has Danilidou & Fujiwara beating Glatch & Grandin & given the screw-up over the outcome of Delgo's & Jonny M's match against Bubka & Kudryavtsev yesterday, I suppose anything's possible...

Hi all! Finally recovered from my day at N. Didn't arrive home until 9.45 and then had to scoot off to the Polling Station to place my x before they closed. I'm glad you found the SC/Helki combo a welcome tool in finding out the scores. There wasn't a scoreboard so every so often I had to leave a match and go to check with a woman on the Aegon desk. Some of the matches were taking place at the same time so it wasn't always easy to decide who to watch. Not a massive crowd there, but the ones who were there were thoroughly devoted to the task of supporting the players ( as you'd expect)
I was impressed with Josh's attitude, in the past when I've watched him, he's tended to droop around if things weren't going his way - but not today.

Chris played his usual game, seems to be an instinctive player, if it works he's a world beater. If not, things are over PDQ. He's a big lad and for me lacks the mobility to be topnotch.

Boggo, who I love to watch 'cos he has such fluency to his shots was outhit by the Bulgarian wunderkind.

I was trying to keep my eye on both the D/M & the all-Brit doubles matches, ending up with a crick in m' neck. I thought Col & Ken were down and out at one point, but they came storming back to win an exciting MTB. Probably a good thing with Goody doing so well in the singles. There was no sign of any "tanking" going on, though. Both pairs wanted to win. Easy-peasy for D&M.

I didn't see any of the M/M v Coetzee/Kerr match, I was enthralled by the battle between Bally & Naomi. Bally was so slow outta the trap that the 1st set was over before she'd blinked. She grew stronger as Naomi became more tired. ( I know, wrond thread, but what the h**l.)

It was a pleasure to be of assistance, and thank you to those who posted messages of appreciation.