QR2: BISHOP, Paul lost to (13) KONIECKO, Bryan (USA) 2-6 3-6

It's been a long time since I've had to say this, and I wish I didn't have to this week, but it's Bloomers or Bust for the GB men after Muzza's defeat ...

steven wrote:

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L16: Richard Bloomfield WR 490 v (Q) Bryan Koniecko (USA) WR 1236

Koniecko, who has been ranked as high as 651, shocked Timo Nieminen in R1, having beaten the Bishop 2 & 3 in qualifying, but Richard beat him 3 & 1 in USO qualifying in 2007.

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Presumably his chances of beating Koniecko are greater than they would have been, had it been Nieminen on the other side of the net... aren't they?

Koniecko is Bloomers' doubles partner & they combined quite well to see off the Yank WCs, Efferding & Newman (UNR), yesterday by 6-2 7-6(2).


QF:  Andrew Anderson & Phillip Simmonds (RSA/USA) (WR 1162) vs Richard Bloomfield & Bryan Koniecko (USA) (WR 2119)

Presumably the above is less of a tall order than it would have been, had not the top seeds, Arnau Brugues Davi & Victor Estrella (ESP/DOM - WR 789), capitulated to Anderson & Simmonds by 6-2 3-6 [7-10] yesterday.  On the other hand ...

 

L16: BLOOMFIELD, Rich def. (Q) KONIECKO, Bryan (USA) 6-3 6-2

QF: BLOOMFIELD, Rich WR 452 v (Q) EASTON, Jarod (AUS) WR 1108

steven wrote:

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Bloomers is doing a good job of taking advantage of his draw opening up here. Easton took out the no. 1 seed in R2, can Bloomers take out another seed-basher?

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Good on 'im!    I'd like to think so, especially as Easton is another qualifier & not much more highly ranked than Koniecko.  Then again...   In fact, there's only one seed left in his half of the draw, the fifth, Andrey Kumantsov (RUS)!

Only one seeded pair left in the doubles, too, but as (bad) luck would have it, it's in the Bloomers/Koniecko half of the draw:  the Romanian, Catalin-Ionut Gard, & his Russian mate, Artem Sitak!

 

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 26th of February 2010 01:36:03 PM

Stircrazy wrote:

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steven wrote:

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Bloomers is doing a good job of taking advantage of his draw opening up here. Easton took out the no. 1 seed in R2, can Bloomers take out another seed-basher?

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Good on 'im! I'd like to think so, especially as Easton is another qualifier & not much more highly ranked than Koniecko.  Then again...

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B*gger! I was right to feel nervous:  Easton won by 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 6-4!  Close, but as ever when it's a Brit on the other side of the net, not close enough.