ATP Newport QF : Boggo v Melzer

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

RE: ATP Newport QF : Boggo v Melzer

Count Zero · Tennis legend

to be honest, wins over levine and bastl are challenger wins and like ones ales has done often b4. this was his 1st proper match here and he seems to have blown big time. i wonder if we will find out what happened.

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

SB has stopped for Boggo's match, wonder if its an injury timeout?

Just unstuck..Boggo lost 3-6 6-2 6-1

Good week for him, just hope he remains positive for the rest of the year, and just treat this match as a bad day.

-- Edited by VSandhi20 at 19:03, 2006-07-14

Count Zero · Tennis legend

ouch that hurt, from 2-2 int he 2nd al only won 1 more game

i wonder if we will find out thwta went wrong, was it a case of head down after the break or melzer just really improving after the break, but thats where it all changed.

eblunt · Club Coach

I still take a lot of positives now from this. He's had a couple of wins on the ATP circuit, played a QF. It's all part of making the transition from challengers to ATP. IT was only a year ago that Andy was in the same sort of twilight zone between the 2. (Interesting to think that now, the thought of Andy playing a challenger is ludicrous)

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Obviously something went badly wrong for Alex, and he couldn'r do anything about it. One game out of 10 on fast grass is a not good. Its a shame, because it was a wonderful opportunity for Alex to win some easy points. I know he still got to his first ever ATP level QF, but as has been said befor earlier in the thread, these wins were really only Challenger level wins, this Newhaven tournament having the weakest field of the year and also on Al's favourite surface. Maybe the explanation is that Al picked up an injury, but this wouldn't be terribly encouraging either, he has also lost some of the early of the year to injury. So far this grass court season, he has won 2, lost 5.

On the positive side, he has won $35,000 this grass court season!

I checked his year end rankings, it least it shows steady if slow progress:

2001 722

2002 459

2003 278

2004 195

2005 168

2006 ???

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i'm still struggeling to put together what happened to alex, and i cant think of any reason that could be encourgaing. for the DC's sake i really hope his confidence hasn't taken a big blow. i would also be suprised if it was a case of head going down, as he hasnt let this happen in any of his other grass court matches. one possibility is that if the match was played on a dual centre court he got distracted by the other court?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i have just relaised melzer was a finalist here in 03 (lost to ginepri) so maybe i underestimated his grass court ability.