Week 27 - USA F18 ($10,000) - Pittsburgh, PA (Clay)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 27 - USA F18 ($10,000) - Pittsburgh, PA (Clay)

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Great to see Boggo winning again. Hope he can stay under the radar, climb the rankings and suddenly appear out of the mist to shock all those at the LTA. Think Jonny's heroics will spur a lot of people on.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

some nice tweets from the tournament:

Wily Brit winner at PNC - avenges Murray loss? Not quite, but Alex B. has it all - can he get back to top? Beautiful 1 handed backhand.

Bogdanovic glides. No extra expended energy. Very Federer like. He is chasing his dream - older, wiser. Better?

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Well done Boggo. From an outsider's point of view, I think the two things he needs the most is confidence and a bit of love. He has the tools to still be an effective player, but mentally he does not seem as strong as some others. I remember watching a stream of a game of his (possibly last season) against Devvarman. Alex could have got the job done, but somehow he managed to lose. He seemed to get disheartened quite quickly against a real duracel bunny of a player. A good sports psychologist would do wonders I think.

Apologies if I am barking up the wrong tree count, but he needs to block out the negativity. I know it is hard given all the publicity he has had. But all a dog needs to do is give himself a good name. All the extraneous crap can be ignored.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

couple of post match articles here:

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/more-sports/brit-tries-to-regain-his-form-643894/

http://triblive.com/sports/2164283-85/bogdanovic-klein-tournament-week-futures-serve-tennis-players-points-straight

some quotes from alewx from the 1st one:

"I'm struggling with my back and wanted to get in a lot of matches," said Bogdanovic, who won the singles championship with a workmanlike 6-2, 6-4 victory against unseeded Matheson Klein of Australia Sunday in the finals.

"I'm out here trying to work my way back to where I was -- maybe do even better. I still feel like I'm quite away from the standard I was," he said.

"I've been around a long time. It doesn't get any easier. I think I'm more mature than I was, but I'm still trying to figure things out."

It wasn't too difficult to figure out why top-seeded Bogdanovic coasted past Klein, 22.

"My serve, that was the key," Bogdanovic said. The left-hander has a high-kicking serve that kept Klein off balance.

"I try to stay positive with it and go for it. When I'm serving aggressively, I play more aggressively," he said.

"I haven't been playing a lot, so I want to get strong and stay injury free."

Spectator · All-time great

Well done, Mr Bogdanovic. Inspiring to see him working to improve and surpass his prior accomplishments. All the best to him.

Shhh · Challenger level

Good interviews Count thanks. Shame we don't get to read similar from more British tournaments.

Spectator · All-time great

PS Thanks, Count and Steven, for post-match interviews. Got through them and realised it was lovely to read accounts that were "for" Mr Bogdanovic ... not being qualified, or snide, or patronising ... but genuinely admiring his guts in trying to get back into the swing. The "build 'em up and tear 'em down" thing he's had to put up with here is so poisonous. Hope he stays where people admire his fight and soaks up a little of the positive!