Lanzarote $25k+H

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Lanzarote $25k+H

Sheddie · administrator

And then there were two, just the two Alexs [Boggo and Slabba] to follow this week now:

Disappointing results from Lanzarote especially from Richard after his rd1 victory:

Rd2: F Prpic [Swe] bt R Bloomfield [GB] 6-3, 6-1

J Tsonga [Fr] bt A Parmar [GB] 6-3, 6-1

dougie · Club Coach

Boggo won 6-7, 6-4, 6-2

Parmar and Bloomers both lost 6-3, 6-1

Look likes boggos ready to make that step to reach the top 100 , very consistent results this year!! not only that hes also doin very well in challengers outside the UK which is encouraging!

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

He`s got Dorsch next. Do you know much about him?

Sheddie · administrator

Dorsch is a 24 year old from Germany. He's ranked 250, and reached a career high of 242 earlier this month. He won a 10K futures title on hard courts in March but before this tournament he hadn't won a challenger main draw match. He lost in rd1 in Florianapolis, Talahasee and Salinas. He was lucky to get a Spanish wc in rd1 here but beating Peya in straights today was impressive. Still I think that Boggo should win this one and reach his first challenger semi on outdoor hard since August 2004.

dougie · Club Coach

Dorsch (aged 25) is currently ranked 250 in the entry sytem, had his highest career ranking of 242 a few weeks ago, hes won a futures event in U.S.A and reached some double semi-finals. Doesnt seem like he should be too mcuh of a struggle for boggo - saying that its these type of unknown quantities you have to look out for! heres hoping for boggo to make semis - would get him some good ranking points and close to top 130

Sheddie · administrator

Alex's points gained so far will take him up to about 135.

If he reaches the semis he'll reach approx 130.

If he reaches the final he'll reach approx 125

If he wins the tournament he'll reach approx 122.

RobC · All-time great

With apologies to GC77, here's my stab at Alex's competitors this week. I have him standing at 136, with Thiago Alves breathing down his neck from Bogota.

Running Start of week Running SoFar 18th Def 19th

Rank Points Result Result

126    126    Gabashvili, Teimuraz 335    349    15-out 1
127    127    Lapentti, Nicolas       332    332    out    5
128    128    Llodra, Michael        331    331    out      6
129    129    Roitman, Sergio       328    328    1-out 1
130    130    Beck, Karol             321    321    out     0               0
131    132    Dancevic, Frank      320    320    1-out 4               4
132    131    Saulnier, Cyril        320    320    out     5               5
133    133    Gremelmayr, Denis   319    319    out    1              1
134    136    Del Potro, Juan Martin 311 314    7A      4               4
135    135    Mazarakis, Vasilis     314    314    1-out 1             1
136    140    Bogdanovic, Alex      302    313    12L    1             1
137    138    Alves, Thiago          305    307    7A     5              4
138    137    Ascione, Thierry       306    306    out    3               1
139    139    Kubot, Lukasz         304    304    5D     4      5       4
140    134    Luczak, Peter         318    299    out    1      20    1
141    141    Bogomolov, Alex     292    292    out    1             1
142    142    Dupuis, Anthony      292    292    out    5               5
143    143    Pless, Kristian         292    292    out    5               4
144    148    Faurel, Jean-Christophe279 290    12B   1               1
145    144    Lisnard, Jean-Rene 287    287    out   5               5
146    146    Burgsmuller, Lars     284    284    out    5               5
147    145    Mello, Ricardo          287    279    7A     5      15     5
148    149    Haehnel, Jerome      275    277    5B     3              2
149    150    Cipolla, Flavio         275    275    out     5              5
150    152    Junqueira, Diego     274    274    1-out 1              1
151    154    Fleishman, Zack      267    273    7A      1              1
152    147    Bastl, George          279    268    1-out 1      12     1
153    155    De Voest, Rik          264    266    5M      3              1
154    160    Devilder, Nicolas     252    263    12B    1              1
155    156    Elseneer, Gilles       261    261    1-out   1              1
156    163    Sela, Dudi             246     257     12M     1             1
157    158    Bozoljac, Ilija       255      255    1-out    1             1
158    151    Cakl, Tomas         274      255    1-out    1   20      1
159    157    Tuksar, Sasa        255      255    1-out    1             1
160    159    Korolev, Evgueni   254      254     out       1             1
161    161    Canas, Guillermo   250      250    out       0             0
162    153    Kollerer, Daniel     270      249    out       1 22        1
163    162    Philippoussis, Mark 248      248   out       0             0
164    164    Navarro-Pastor, Ivan 244   244     out       1             1
165    165    Sanchez, David    242      242    out       0              0
166    166    Aldi, Francesco       241      232    1-out    4 12        3

Barcelona : 5, 15, 25, 75, 135, 210, 300 (q:5)
Casablanca: 5, 15, 40, 75, 120, 175 (q:5)          c
Lanzarote: 1, 5, 12, 22, 35, 50 (q: 2)               L
Bergamo 1, 5, 12, 22, 35, 50 (q: 2)                  B
Bogota: 1, 7, 16, 31, 49, 70 (q 3)                      A
Dharwad 1, 5, 12, 22, 35, 50 (q: 2)                D
Mexico 1, 5, 12, 22, 35, 50 (q: 2)                   M

-- Edited by RobC at 23:15, 2006-04-26

Sheddie · administrator

Great stuff Rob, maybe we ought to start a Boggo's competitors thread ?

RobC · All-time great

possibly, although I skived off way to much work to put this one together, and I doubt if I'd be lucky enough to get Indiana, Madelaine, Imoen and the rest to check my numbers.

shame to see Canas and Philliposis down there below Alex though.....

Count Zero · Tennis legend

doent stop mark gets tonnes of wc's still tho it seems.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

al lost, 4 and 2 i think

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

An unfortunate result for Al, I think he went into the match as a very strong favourite. Is there some kind of match report availalble? It would be interesting to know what kind of match it was, whether Al underperformed or was just outplayed by someone on fantastic form. We also expected Al to beat Niemeyer in the Valencia Challenger, lets hope he doesn't develop that Henmanesque trait of not being able to beat an average player after beating someone really good!

I'm still optimisitc about Al, despite having been on of his detractors last year. Al has played only 7 tournaments in the first 4 months of the year, but has won 2 of them and reached QFs in 3 others. Starting at Surbiton, he can play 7 grass court events in succession, I am sure he'll get get WCs for Queens, Nottingham and Wimbledon. He'll never get a better opportunity to break into the top 100, lets hope he can stay fit!

Sheddie · administrator

Dorsch lost in the semis, 6-4, 6-4 to the eventual winner Prpic.

Unfortunately there wasn't a match report available for Boggo-Dorsch. Maybe Alex was struggling from the leg injury he's been carrying since Cardiff, after 2 weeks of solid competing it must have become quite painful and affected his movement and on outdoor hard he wouldn't have been able to get as many cheap points on serve as he does indoors.

I agree, this is Alex's best chance yet to break the top 100, it's just a real shame that when on the best form of his life - injury seems to be striking. I hope he's able to shake it off ahead of RG qualies where he'll be seeded. Having a week off this week should help.