Granby Challenger

GC77 · County player

Granby Challenger

GC77 · County player

Round 1:

(3)Richard Bloomfield vs Philip Gubenco (Can) WR 616.

Full Draw

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

i hope bloomfield's not feeling the pressure of being one of the top seeds, he should be relaxed out there!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Bloomers teams up with Simon Stadler in the doubles. Very winnable first round match, playing Gubenco in doubles round one as well!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

R.BLOOMFIELD-S,STADLER def P.GUBENCO-R.STECKLEY 4-6, 6-3, 10-8

Now beat Gubenco in singles too!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Bloomers vs Gubenco is second on central court today.

Tournament website not very good but - http://www.challengergranby.ca

Sheddie · administrator

Gubenco is a leftie, ranked 616 with a career high of 519. He's lost his last 3 matches, in clay-court futures in the USA. His best results of the year have been in Canada and Mexico where he has made futures quarter-finals. In his matches against Brits, he beat Amadeus Fulford-Jones 6-2, 6-1 earlier this year but he lost 6-3, 6-3 to Jamie Murray in Canada last October.

Richard should win in straights, hopefully he won't slip up like last week !

Is he defending his points from making the Tarzana challenger semis this week or was it last week ?

Incidentally, last year in Granby, Richard lost in rd1 to Andy Murray 6-2, 7-6.

-- Edited by UltimateFlemingFan at 16:43, 2006-07-25

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

Richard should win in straights, hopefully he won't slip up like last week ! Is he defending his points from making the Tarzana challenger semis this week or was it last week ?

His ranking slipped 23 places this week so presumably it was last week?

-- Edited by Sally at 17:02, 2006-07-25

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

What the hell happened in the first set?

Niall · Pro player

Good news from MTF

Round 1
(3) Bloomfield(GBR) def Gubenco(CAN) 0-6

7-6(3)

6-2

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Not quite the scoreline we wanted but a win nonetheless which can't be bad! Seriously though was Bloomfield even on the court in the first set?

Drew · Jul 26, 2006

What a bizzare result ????

Lucky boy to scrapre it back

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Drew wrote:

What a bizzare result ????Lucky boy to scrapre it back

That was a weird one. Still a win is a win and he finished well! Next up is Rohan Bopanna. A tough match again.

On the up side if Richard can somehow intimidate everyone with his seeding he is the highest seed left in his half of the draw! Here's hoping.

-- Edited by johnnylad at 20:08, 2006-07-26

Sheddie · administrator

In the doubles quarters, Richard and Simon Stadler have the 3rd seeds Lu and Moser who won 6-7, 6-3, 10-8 in rd1.

Quite a bizarre and worrying scoreline in Richard's match, shows he's not really comfortable yet with the transition from grass-hard. However, he did well to grind out a win.

Bopanna won 7-6[5], 7-6[6] in rd1 against Czech Jakub Hasek [wr:492]. Bopanna is ranked 298 with a career high of 230 reached earlier this year. Bopanna lost in rd1 of Aptos aswell last week and the week before he lost in rd1 qualies for ATP Newport. His best results of the year have been reaching the Winnetka Challenger quarters at the start of July on hard and qualifying for ATP Halle in June on grass where he lost 7-6, 6-2 to Federer in rd1.

Niall · Pro player

Richard is not having a good American tour. Last night he got beat by Bopanna 6-3 6-3