ATP Bangkok - Boggo and Jamie Murray

Sheddie · administrator

RE: ATP Bangkok - Boggo and Jamie Murray

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

GREAT STUFF!

What a shame he has to meet Andy or Tim in the next round. Still - a guarantee of a Brit in the quarters.

Must go now, I shouldn't have been here this long. . .

Sheddie · administrator

What a win !! 2hrs and 11 minutes, he really showed great mental strength there in coming back from losing that 1st set breaker and then again from breaking and then being broken straight back at the start of the 3rd.

Here are the full stats:

Alex hit 6 aces, Wang hit 14. Alex served at 60% 1st serves, Wang - 58%. Alex won 82% of his 1st serves points, Wang won 79%. Alex won 53% of his 1st serve pts, Wang won 51%. In the 3rd set, crucially, Wang won just 31% pts on 2nd serve, in the 2nd set it was 43% and in the 1st set it was 67% which shows that Alex gradually began outplaying him from the baseline through the match

Salmon · Tennis legend

Excellent performance by Boggo!

I am sure that if he keeps on plugging it in like this, he'll be playing Tour events week in and week out very soon.

I feel pathetic at this moment - Andy needs to win to defend his ranking, Tim needs a win because he has taken a recent tumble, and Boggo needs a win because he has to prove all his critics wrong...

WelshPhil · Social player

Well done Boggo. When will the BBC report this result?

a) within the next 2 hours

b) sometime today

c) tomorrow before Murray/Henman

d) during Murray/Henman

e) after Murray/Henman

f) after Murray/Henman but only to say Boggo is the next opponent

I think it will be f)

-- Edited by WelshPhil at 08:34, 2006-09-26

Salmon · Tennis legend

Brilliant question there.

I'll go for f).

Drew · Sep 26, 2006

It was reported at 830am 5 live bbc news !

WelshPhil · Social player

And its now on the BBC website. Well done the Beeb, now report James Aucklands triumphs in Mumbai.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

great win by alex there, after missing two mp's holding his nerve was brilliant, as we all know what he can be like!

i am guessign wang plays a retrivers game which al can somtimes struggle with as he doesnt always have the patience to wait for the opening, although this is somethign i think he has worked on.

the bbc sport ticker has the result, which is good.

it is a difficult situation now with the 3 brits left and only 1 can progress. I think andy should make it through but we will have to see how his 'injury' holds up. it is just my imagination or is andy a bit of a drama queen when it comes to injuries? remeber the nheck brace at the DC tie, Alex should have come out on cruthces :)

if andy beats tim i think he will beat boggo, i think boggo would fancy his chances better againt tim too. but this is a great opportunity for al, even if he loses, to play well and say to JL see i can play!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

from the bbc:

Bogdanovic recovered from losing the first set to level the match and was a break down in the final set.

But he hit back from 4-3 down to serve for the match and finally clinched victory with his fourth match point.

well they almost got it right.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

There is always the cjance that Tim or Andy will be injured / retire hurt....

Anyway, it was a good win for Alex, lets hope he can build in this with some good showing in the upcoming European Challengers. Will Andy have a go at qualifying for some of the ATP indoor tournaments? Perhaps he should give it a shot.....

Sheddie · administrator

Drew wrote:

It was reported at 830am 5 live bbc news !

Wow, I'm amazed at the BBC reporting it so quick. What did they say on 5live ? Good to see them getting a report in, as Phil says, hope they give James Auckland a mention - maybe they haven't noticed with the lack of scores from Mumbai, we could email them the result.

I think a good question is, will the LTA report the result given Boggo's relationship with them ?

Options:

a)Yes, a full story with quotes from Alex
b) Yes but only as an aside with the main news that Goodall won in Tulsa
c) Yes but not a mention on the main page, just on the results page
d) No, not at all

Remember in Bergamo earlier this year when Alex won the title and there hadn't been a mention of him getting to the final on the website and then when he won, they didn't report it until almost a week after

I think things have improved now Draper has come in - the website is now superb and much more tennis fan orientated, I think Felgate had a bit of a grudge against Alex aswell

Count Zero · Tennis legend

6 months ago i dont think the lta would, but things have definatly improved on the lta website. and you are right i think draper has a better relationship with alex than felgate, if only down to the lack of sniping comments from him

alex is down to play the atp qualifers in vienna soon, he may also try and quaify for another atp event, but there are a lot of 'big' challengers around where there are plenty of points to be gained.

edit: atp wise i think the only likey event he could qualify for would be the indoor lyon tournamnet (there are 3 atp that week, but they are all quiet big) but this clashes with the nottingham challenger and alex has such a good record at uk indoor challengers he may decide to stay home that week.

-- Edited by Count Zero at 09:34, 2006-09-26

Sheddie · administrator

stevemcqueen wrote:

Anyway, it was a good win for Alex, lets hope he can build in this with some good showing in the upcoming European Challengers. Will Andy have a go at qualifying for some of the ATP indoor tournaments? Perhaps he should give it a shot.....

Yeah this should give him a lot of confidence for Mons next week, where all the players are in the top 150 bar the wildcards and qualifiers. Hopefully he can avoid Lopez and the Rochus brothers in his quarter as he's beaten several of the other seeds in there: Vacek, Norman etc.

Alex is going for ATP Vienna qualies, he's 9th so could do with 1 withdrawal and then as one of the seeds he'll have a great chance of qualifying. I wonder if he might miss Nottingham and have a go at one of the ATPs that week. He'd be best to avoid Basel as that field is so strong, he'd have a chance in Lyon or St Petersburg.

gazzpash · Club Coach

Awesome result for Boggo. This must be looking to be one of best weeks for British tennis with 4 players in an ATP event away from Britain and 3 gauranteed in the second round!

Who'd have thought a year ago there would be 3 Brits in the second round of a ATP event outside England and they would be Murray, Auckland and Boggo