Another fab win for 'never in doubt'  - my theory is that he's feeling the freedom of having no points to defend for a while (but he needs to remember that so he can do it when he does have points to defend) ... or the Count's pep talks while Alex was in the UK have done the trick!

Based on the number of points needed for each place last Monday, Boggo will be WR 201-2 on Monday, and the fact that there is one more Challenger this week than in the same week last year (very usual for this year!) may well counteract the effect of the lower points for the earlier rounds by enough to stop Boggo making the top 200 immediately, but from the trend of the light blue line on http://www.britishtennis.net/stats/20092008.htm?n=1, you can see that the likelihood of him not being in the top 200 by the end of the month (even if he doesn't win another match) is minuscule.

It's also worth noting that in 2009 so far, Boggo has now scored more than 50% more points than GB no. 2 Wardy and more points than GB nos 4 & 5 (i.e. Josh and Evo) combined!

No. 6 seed Dodig WR 191 (CH 168 last month) reached his first Challenger Final this year, in Sarajevo in April, and won it. He also reached the Final in Ostrava in early May (having qualified) but lost that one. He is 1-1 against Brits, both matches being against Bloomers in 2008.

The Bogster is of course 8-4 in Challenger Finals (4-2 in Challenger Finals indoors) and has won half of the 16 Challenger titles (*) won by Brits so far this century.

(*) That 16 figure includes Muzza's two Challenger titles in 2005

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 17th of October 2009 03:52:11 PM

Great Stuff Bogmeister!

imoen wrote:

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fantastic result

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Nah, he did the hard work in the last two rounds.

This was just expected.

 

well done the bogmeister! woop woop!

OOP Sunday

Midday BST
(2) Jonathan Marray (GBR) / Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) v (4) Martin Fischer (AUT) & Philipp Oswald (AUT)

Followed by
Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) v (6) Ivan Dodig (CRO)

report from the website, badly translated:

Bogdanovic without a hitch in the finals Alexander Bogdanovic has Købstæderne ATP Challenger was an excellent example of that tennis is much more than to stand on baglinjen and strike hard and with lots of topspin. It proved he is fully back in her semi-final against Czech Robin Vik in which the Briton won with 7-5, 6-3 in a match, especially in the first set was accomplished and balanced.

29-year-old Vik, who has been up as number 57 in the world, can also be involved in variation, touch and tempo changes version of the "white sport".

Therefore welcomed the first set of many great duels, where the two sent each other around the track or come to the net.

But when Vikse first serve failed at the last party to more double fault to follow, the sentence fell decisively from Bogdanovic, who grabbed the set with a tremendous advance return on the line.

It was as if the outcome had sat in both players. Vik continued to struggle with his first serve, while Bogdanovic liberally sprinkled win battles across the pitch.

Since the breaker to 4-2 was a reality, it was therefore more than writing on the wall for Czechs, who had to admit that there was more to stand against Britain's third best player, according to world rankings, where he is 238th Played in Kolding has been more and it should be interesting to see whether the 25-year-old Bogdanovic can get the job done when he Sunday meetings Croatian Ivan Dodig in the final.

Well done Boggo

Now lets have a pair of titles tomorrow please.