Week 45 - Challenger Aegon GB Pro Series, Loughborough (€42,000) - indoor hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 45 - Challenger Aegon GB Pro Series, Loughborough (€42,000) - indoor hard

RainDelay · Pro player

Bloomfield has a break in the 2nd 2-0

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bloomers leads by 3-0* in the second.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dan S was in danger of blowing it completely in the sixth game of the decider, but survived the BPs: *3-4.

Bloomers 4-1*.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dan S breaks again for 5-4 &, after two hours & 20 minutes, will serve for the match - & qualification for the MD. smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dan S home & dry with three ranking points in the bag by 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4. smile

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Dan Cox breaks back to trail 3-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

All square again in Bloomers' match after Dan C breaks back in the second: *4-4.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Looks as though there'll be a decider: Dan C breaks for *5-4 in the second.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dan C serves out in the second set to take the match to a decider.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Hmm. Curtains for Bloomers? 1-2* in the decider. cry Hope not.

RainDelay · Pro player

Cox wins 6-2 in the 3rd

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Hmm. Curtains for Bloomers? 1-2* in the decider. Hope not.

Yep. GSM Coxy by 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2. cry That make him the third Brit to qualify for the MD. smile

Salmon · Tennis legend

Coxy draws Gojowczyk while Smethurst gets Haider-Maurer, and the winner of those two matches (i.e. Coxy and Smethurst) will face off in the next round. Milton draws Yannick Mertens.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Just for the record, there's an interesting interview (+ a nice colour picture wink ) with Oli in today's Times under the heading "Golding preparing to make slow progress through senior ranks". That's one young man who's under no illusions about what lies ahead of him in his tennis career: feet on the ground & head screwed on the right way! smile

The closing paragraph (I've amended some of OEM's punctuation! wink ):

"If I win a round, I could go up [in the rankings] 100 places. That would be incredibly hard, but I didn't think I was going to with the US Open," Golding said. "Dan Evans got a wild card into the Jersey Challenger last year. He won it and shot up, but I'd be happy with winning a couple of Futures in 2012 and being top 350 by this time next year."

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 7th of November 2011 02:31:17 PM