Week 12 - Challenger ($35,000+H) - Rimouski, Canada - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 12 - Challenger ($35,000+H) - Rimouski, Canada - Hard

Count Zero · Tennis legend

conditions here should be very different ti IW so hope that helps Boggo. he's asked for a tuesday start, hope he gets it so he gets some time to recover from the journey.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

anyway to find out if bet365 will be streaming matches from here?

SMC1809 · All-time great

It doesn't appear that they will be streaming. All the matches are listed for live-scoring but no streaming.

steven · Tennis legend

Alex lost the first 5 games against Bohli (not a great day for Wards in N America so far!

) but has just got on the board. 1-5*

indiana · Tennis legend

Hmm. C'mon chaps. ForWARDS and upWARDS !

steven · Tennis legend

A more competitive 2nd set but:

L32: Alex Ward WR 348 lost to (8) Stéphane Bohli (SUI) WR 221 (CH 113 in 2010) by 1 & 4

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Boggo on the SB, lets hope he can double todays win rate!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Or not, Boggo gets a brace of bps, misses them which signals the start.of a collapse as he loses 5 games in a row to go down 16 in the opener

Miriambee · Futures level

I'm afraid it's not looking like it at the moment lost the first set with only 1 game to his name! - 1-6 down. lets hope for better luck in the second set.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Looks like Alex will be matching wards effort :( 16 25*

steven · Tennis legend

I know he was playing a seed, but one outside the top 200 and a 1 & 2 defeat is a bit of a shocker.

I think that means 4 Brits have suffered 6-1 6-x defeats in Challenger R1 matches today.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Where to now for Bagdanovic? Where is his funding coming form at the moment? Its not from tournament winnings, that's for sure. I'd love to see him turn things around, but somehow I'd be suprised.

Is he still going to be playing in a year's time?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

stevemcqueen wrote:
Where to now for Bagdanovic?

Tallahasse wink

i wouldnt overreact to this result, it was less than ideal condtions as Alex's connecting flight was delayed and he didn't have much time to preapre and adjust etc. Perhaps he would have been better staying in bath and going through the Q draw, but he's made a challener MD here so it hard to say for sure what the right decision would have been. Hindsight is wonderful on these things smile

He's been working hard off the court actually, he's much stronger and fitter than he has ever been, it's just a shame we haven't seen the results on the court yet and perhaps he is lacking some match confidence. hopefully he can get a run going at a challenger which may help in that regard.

steven · Tennis legend

I think it probably did make sense to go to Rimouski, even if it didn't work out well, especially if he's about to be playing the US circuit again for a while. If he hadn't had problems getting there and/or hadn't drawn a seed in R1, he might have played himself in and then who knows what might have happened.

Good to hear he's been working hard off the court - it's always hard to tell exactly when it will translate into results and ranking points, but hearing that makes me more confident it will.

Even though Boggo hasn't been racking up that many points recently, Akhenaten's last ranking list suggested he is still playing at a higher level than most of the Brits who are picking up points in Futures. In the end, the Challenger tour is very tough, but if you just play Futures, you're never going to get into the top 200 let alone the top 100.