Best of luck to Boggo, hope he gets a good draw. You never know if he gets on a run there might be a repeat of the Martin Lee - 2001 showing. Boggo will love the courts, they'll suit him perfectly - very traditional grass - fast and low bouncing. Opponents will find his serve tricky.

Jamie M told me today that he's playing doubs with Andy in Newport next week. Colin is playing in Poland - the Poznan challenger, definately singles qualies and almost certainly doubs but I don't know who with - maybe Alex Satschko, a German guy who Col knows well. They're not playing together for a while now after Dublin for reasons which I'm not allowed to tell ! Colin has a new coach, Canadian Louis Cayer who coached the 2000 Olympic doubles gold medallists [there's quite a bit of info on this on Colin's website if you have a rummage through the articles: www.freewebs.com/colinflemingonline]. Louis reckons that Colin will be a top 20 doubles player possibly top 10 with the right partner and he should know having coached Slam winners and Olympic gold medallists !!!

I reckon Jamie Baker may enter Newport qualies, he's playing a string of hard-court challengers in the USA throughout July and August - Aptos, Lexington, Vancouver, Binghampton, Bronx. He's hoping it will result in a high enough ranking to enter US Open qualies. As he's going to be in the States, it would make sense to enter Newport.

Auckland is also going to be playing qualies and doubles main draw - don't know who doubles will be with.

Shoud be a great tournament to follow. We'll know the singles qualies draw in the morning

the points from last years nottingham ch drop of this week, which will drop alex out of the top 150. hope he gets a nice draw here to salvage something.

little bit dissapointed that not more brits travlled over, but its not that often that many do try for atp quailes anyway.  

James Aukland is on court now

http://lsw.atptennis.com/2006/0315/frameset.asp

 

4-3 with a break

 

Auckland 1 set up and 2-2 on serve 2nd set...........