Mons Challenger

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Mons Challenger

Count Zero · Tennis legend

does anyone think alex will have a tim henman type matches.

Sheddie · administrator

Stop tempting fate Count !

Count Zero · Tennis legend

3-2 boggo serving, come on alex, hold tight and wrao in up in 2. funny how he has bropken at the start twice, maybe falla is a slow starter?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

4-2 to al, duce on falla serve, come on

Count Zero · Tennis legend

comeon al, gte the doubles break so we dont have to worry too much bout serving it out....

Count Zero · Tennis legend

al wins 63 62, nice play in the 2nd set after that little wobble serving out in the 1st.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Great performance by Boggo

Sluiter next in a possible Davis Cup match up!!

RobC · All-time great

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present The new British Number Three!!!

Happycynic · Pro player

Good stuff there. Alex evidently is in good nick for the autumn indoor season. Fingers crossed for R2.....

-- Edited by Happycynic at 16:34, 2006-10-03

goldenboy · Club Coach

nice win al!

if he continues this form, i think he can do some real damage!

Sheddie · administrator

That's a fantastic win for Alex, I thought that he'd come through but I didn't expect it to be so easy ! He's really in great form at the moment, PatatRiek said that Alex was outplaying Falla in the rallies which he saw.

Some guys from various message boards have gone to Mons today, so hopefully we can get some more info.

Also, it's great that Alex has now overtaken Greg, I wonder if he realises yet. That'll be a confidence booster.

Will 9 pts be enough to get him back into the top 140 ?

RobC · All-time great

UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

Will 9 pts be enough to get him back into the top 140 ?

Unfortunately not. Check out the Boggo competitors thread. He's up to 142 now, but Moodie can obvertake him tomorrow morning if he wins in Tokyo. 21 points for a QF though.......

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i think he will just be int he 140's still, but beatinh suliter would take him to a career high probably :)

Sheddie · administrator

The Bogdanovic v Sluiter match could be tomorrow as Sluiter played on Monday, beating Simone Bolleli [who Alex beat in the Bergamo challenger final], 6-2, 7-6[3]. The Wednesday OOP hasn't been made yet.

They've played once before, in ATP Lyon qualies in 2004, on indoor carpet, Sluiter won 6-2, 6-3 that day. Sluiter is one of the few players who are double-handed off both sides. I watched a match he played against Hewitt a few years back, I remember that he hit some pretty big winners but was inconsistent and struggled once Hewitt got him on the run. Has a big serve too.

Sluiter has had a mixed year, the highlights have been reaching the semis of the Andrezieux challenger in January and reaching the 3rd round of the French Open. beating Jarkko Nieminen and Nicolas Lapentti before losing in 5 sets. He's won matches in several ATPs but apart from the French Open he hasn't been past rd2 and from January till May he lost 10 successive matches.