Valencia 50K Challenger [USA]

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Valencia 50K Challenger [USA]

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

even more great news!! jeff morrison out of his quarter!!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

frederic niemeyer up next then who had a suprsingly comfortable 62 62 win over jeff.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

no seeds left in the bottom half now all knocked out, of the 3 remaining alex is one, and gimblestob and bozolijac play each other in the other qf, a boggo bozo sf would be nice.

Drew · Apr 14, 2006

Alec plays Niemeyer at 8.00pm local time tonight.

Bozo really served well at the DC in the doubles but Parmar saw him off in the singels so if Alex can get through then I cannot see Bozo beating him if he gets passed Gimlestob.

Im not sure if the pts here is 55/38/24/13/5/1 for a $50+H ? It could be 50/35/22 etc...?

Based on this assumption.....

So far he has gained 24 pts this week...I dont think he is defending anything this week...which could take him up between 5-10 places.

Getting to the semis would bring 38 pts a possible rise to the low 130's.

If Alex can win his third challenger of the year then his pts would rise from 284 to (+55) to 339 which might be good enough to get him into the mid 120's.

Alex list of 18 events from Tennisfacts.......

Date       Tourney name       Level Points Seed Surface Round Entry
2005-06-20 Wimbledon          GS        5   0    Grass    1     WC
2006-02-06 Bergamo            Ch       60   6    Hard     W
2006-01-23 Wrexham            Ch       50   8    Hard     W
2005-11-21 Sunderland Great B Ch       50   8    Hard     W
2005-07-04 Nottingham         Ch       50   4    Grass    W
2005-10-17 Southampton        Ch       12   0    Hard     QF
2005-07-11 Manchester         Ch       12   5    Grass    QF
2005-06-27 Cordoba            Ch        8   0    Hard     2
2005-11-28 Orlando FL USA     Ch        5   0    Hard     2
2005-11-14 Helsinki           Ch        5   0    Hard     2
2005-11-07 Eckental           Ch        5   0    Carpet   2
2005-09-26 Tulsa              Ch        5   0    Hard     2
2005-09-19 Lubbock            Ch        5   0    Hard     2
2005-04-11 Mexico City        Ch        5   0    Hard     2
2005-05-23 French Open        GS-Q      4   0    Clay     2
2006-02-27 Wolfsburg          Ch        1   5    Carpet   1
2005-08-08 Pamplona           Ch        1   8    Hard     1
2005-08-01 Segovia            Ch        1   0    Hard     1

Really hope he wins this and cracks the top 100 before too long !

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, it would be great to see Boggo get into the top 100 sometime soon. I think it would be a huge boost for his confidence.

He is defending 5 points from Mexico City Challenger last yesr, and note that presuming this is a 55 point event, he's just on 13 points just now. 24 and 38 are for reaching the semis and final respectively.

If he were to win the tournament, he's go to 334 points, which should certainly be enough to get into the top 130.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

as far i am aware it only a 25k + h points event, the 37.5k ones are quiet rare, the next most common step up is 50k+h which is worth 60pts to winner (like Bergamo)

Drew · Apr 14, 2006

Count Zero wrote:

as far i am aware it only a 25k + h points event, the 37.5k ones are quiet rare, the next most common step up is 50k+h which is worth 60pts to winner (like Bergamo)

ATP have it as a (H) 50$ on their pdf calendar but 25$+H on the ATP site ?

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

have you checked stevetennis site, maybe that's got more accurate information?

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

http://stevegtennis.com/results/2006/ch-valencia.txt

Steve G site says:

2006 Challenger of Santa Clarita
Valencia(ch), CA, USA
April 10-16, 2006
Hard - $50,000

Count Zero · Tennis legend

25k+h and 50k (no h) are the same points, most of the us events dont offer hospitality, most of the european ones do for some reason. surbiton for instance doesnt offer hospilatily where as the cardiff one next week does, both challenegrs are woth 50 pts to the winner.

i think often the atp make mistakes like this, but the lvl remains the same for points which is whats important, the prize money recieved by players is higher, but then they have to pay their hotel bill.

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

according to MTF, its raining in Valencia, so its likely that maybe no play for today. for boggo, if he doesnt play, will he cope playing two matches in one day, imo it will show how fit he really is to play at the level he's capable at. also, im starting to worry about boggo for cardiff!!

indiana · Tennis legend

VSandhi20 wrote:

also, im starting to worry about boggo for cardiff!!

I'd be happy to see him go all the way here, and leave Cardiff to take care of itself ! At least he would have really good points from one week.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

but if it rains off today and some of tomrrow they will move it indoors wont they, which would be good for boggo.

as a point of interest he won 2 matches on the same day 2 years ago on his way to the manchester challenger title.

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

Boggo went down in three.....6-7, 6-3 & 6-2....Fred then went onto the Final after winning in the Semis in straights.

Shame....Boggo sat around all day on Friday to lose like this....hopefully he is over the Atlantic now and soon to be landing and will be ready for Cardiff.