Boggo wins 3 & 2. Fairly ran to the net, never mind trudged

Nice one Alex!

In his 2nd Challenger QF of 2012, Boggo will play Chase Buchanan (taking a break from playing Kyle!) or tennis-playing Tennys from Tennessee.

I always think of Boggo as GB no 3 or 4 - his activity level (and I'm thinking tournaments played as opposed to speed around the court!) hold his ranking behind more active players.

%win in challenger main draw over the past year or two backs that up.

Agreed. Delighted that Mr Bogdanovic won that match. He has the gifts to be a consistent Challenger player, at the very least.

As already posted here, Chase Buchanan won his L16 match last night, so plays Alex next.

A word of caution. Saw the following report on Tennis Alternative about Buchanan's first round victory which Alex should note if he gets a lead and begins to relax.

"Greg Jones was 4-0 up in the third set against American WC Chase Buchanan, but he lost the next six games to give the match away."

This also puts into context Kyle's loss from 5-2 up against Chase in the final set at Niceville (still can't believe that name) last week, when he had multiple match points. Chase is therefore the current Patron Saint of Lost Causes.

An aside. I watched Dan last night until the middle of the second set. He'd been very unlucky I thought not to win the first set (one VERY poor line call lost him a break early on - even the umpire implied his opponent's shot probably was out, but it was too far away to over-rule). He was 4-1* up in the second set when I left it, playing well, and promptly lost the next 5 games. For those that watched it - did Dan throw away the match somehow (too defensive, over-pressing, unforced errors, etc) or did Rynne Williams raise his game to win it? Hopefully more the latter than the former

-- Edited by korriban on Thursday 15th of November 2012 08:17:47 AM

was in the cinema last night so didn't get to see alex's match but really pleased when i saw the score afterwards - i'm sure he was pleased too - running to the net is a sure sign :)

would be great if he can beat buchanan, a positive end to the year would be nice, hopefully give me a him lift going into the off season.

i too am hoping he'll play more events next year. i know his back problems have hampered him to an extent.