Week 10 Challenger - (€30,000) - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 10 Challenger - (€30,000) - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Vandenburg wrote:

year of the easten europeans imports

i predict boggo and slabba to finish top 100

also skupski has 'ski'at the end of it hinting of eastern decent, so he will also have a great doubles year,

my logic is far above any one on here.

don't forget Baltacha

Akhenaten · Pro player

and DC captain, Rusedski

Scratchy · Club Coach

Vandenburg wrote:

year of the easten europeans imports

i predict boggo and slabba to finish top 100

also skupski has 'ski'at the end of it hinting of eastern decent, so he will also have a great doubles year,

my logic is far above any one on here.

I like it Vandenburg.
With that rationale, consider yourself shortlisted for the DC Captain job!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great to see Boggo coming through another tough match and he seems to be making a habit of this which would be something given what he has put us through in the past.

Great shot of a quarter final now which would push that ranking back towards the top 100 and another shot at Beck who he must be due to beat again at some point.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Terrific win for Dom & David Martin in the doubles, too (can't be @rsed to work my way through all boy-type attempts at humour on the earlier pages, so no idea whether it's already been reported wink

): they dumped out the fourth seeds, Emmrich & Siljeström (GER/SWE), by 6-4 3-6 [10-8]! biggrin

They face the unseeded Pierre-Ludovic Duclos & Stefano Galvani (CAN/ITA), in the QF. In with a chance, I'd've thought...

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Niland by Ilhan 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-4)

Poor Ilhan, Niland's Bunny.

steven · Tennis legend

I was very tempted to put a bet on when I saw that Ilhan was the favourite for that match, but I didn't want to put a hex on Conor! (the BOTB rankings suggest my predicting isn't too bad, but the handful of times I've put a few £ on a tennis match, usually in conjunction with getting video streaming and sually as a 'free' bet, my pick has always lost!)

Ilhan did get a lot closer this time though.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Tomislav BRKIC (BIH)- Dusan LOJDA (CZE)2:6;7:6;6:4

so boggo playing another home fav next.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Brkic is ranked outside the top 1000 but is only twenty years old, so how well has he done in juniors?

steven · Tennis legend

The Magician Santoro wrote:

Brkic is ranked outside the top 1000 but is only twenty years old, so how well has he done in juniors?

Junior career high 155, he beat Dan Smethurst in 3 sets in Orange Bowl qualifying in 2007, a year in which he won a grade 4 tournament and a grade 5.

He turned 20 yesterday and has a CH of 1256.

His record against Brits is:

Jan 2009 - beat Thomas Knights 2 & 3
Nov 2008 - lost to Josh Milton 1 & 2
Oct 2008 - beat Matthew Pearce 1 & 6 then lost to Jonny Kinsella in 3 sets in Glasgow
Jul 2008 - beat Pierre Clad 3 & 1

Ok, the most recent match on that list is from over a year ago, but in his two Futures matches this year, he lost 1 & 4 to Pavic WR 753 and in 3 sets to Kellner WR 324, which suggests an improvement but not a huge one.

So I've got no idea how he managed to beat Lojda - he had taken a set off him last September, but lost the next two sets 0 & 1.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

so this is a bit of a banana skin for boggo?

steven · Tennis legend

Only if he decides to step on it!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

sometimes he doesnt look where he is walking :(

Count Zero · Tennis legend

brkic also beat dorsch in halle qualies, 3rd set tb. dorsch was 128 at the time so a stand out win, maybe a big server?