Rennes 50K challenger

Michael · Pro player

RE: Rennes 50K challenger

Sheddie · administrator

Full score: Norman bt Lee 6-3, 2-6, 7-5

A shame that Martin wasn't able to build on that 2nd set but still a great effort against a player ranked 98 in the world who's especially tough to face indoors with his massive leftie serve and accurate volley game.

Richard's 2nd on court 1 tomorrow.

Sheddie · administrator

Bloomers is on court at the moment, no scoring though for the match

Stats for the Norman - Lee match:

Norman hit 16 aces, Lee hit 5. Both served 6 dfs.

Norman's 1st serve was 62%, Lee's was 57%

1st serve: Norman won 40/53 pts, Lee won 39/58 pts.

2nd serve: Norman won 13/32 pts, Lee won 20/44.

Norman took 4/10 bps, Lee took 3/5

Lee was broken twice in the 1st set he missed his 1 bp opportunity, he broke 3 times in set 2 though. Norman took 1/5 bps in the 3rd.

RobC · All-time great

http://www.ti.fft.fr/EvMenu.asp?CodeEvent=063160&NumDraw=2

- shows results for this Challenger (nothing for Bloomers yet)

goldenboy · Club Coach

according to MTF, BLOOMFIELD beat LACKO 57 76 64!

much needed - well done richard!

john · Top national player

Wow, great news! Looks like Richard is pretty much carrying the flag alone this week after Marray's exit today and Martin Lee's defeat yesterday.

Any idea how Lee got on in the doubles or if they are still on court?

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

goldenboy wrote:

according to MTF, BLOOMFIELD beat LACKO 57 76 64!

much needed - well done richard!

Confirmed now

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Doubles

1)Chris Drake/Martin Lee (USA/GBR) d. Ivo Klec/Uros Vico (SVK/ITA) 6-1 6-2
Thomas Oger/Nicolas Tourte (FRA) d. Dieter Kindlmann/Tobias Summerer (GER) 6-3 6-4
(3)Jasper Smit/Martijn van Haasteren (NED) d. Olivier Charroin/Artem Sitak (FRA/RUS) 6-4 6-3
Gregory Carraz/Mathieu Montcourt (FRA) d. Sander Groen/Torsten Popp (NED/GER) 6-1 6-1
Thierry Ascione/Alexandre Sidorenko (FRA) d. Rohan Bopanna/Konstantinos Economidis (IND/GRE) 6-2 6-2
(4)Tomasz Bednarek/Frank Moser (POL/GER) d. (WC)Jeremy Blandin/Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA) 6-2 6-4
Jean-Christophe Faurel/Nicolas Renavand (FRA) d. (WC)Alexis Benyahia/Romain Jouan (FRA) 6-2 4-6 (10-5)
(2)Jerome Haehnel/Julien Jeanpierre (FRA) d. (WC)David Guez/Charles Villeneuve (FRA) 7-5 1-6 (10-4)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

R2

Dominik Meffert (GER) vs Richard Bloomfield (GBR)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

This is the second match tomorrow (Thursday)

Sheddie · administrator

Fantastic rd1 win for Richard

It was the Bloomfield big serve which arguably saw him through in the end, he powered down 25 aces to just 4 from Lacko !!!! He served at 59%, winning 55/67 pts on 1st serve but just 19/46 on 2nd serve which suggests that Richard's difficulties came when he got into the baseline rallies with Lacko. In the 1st set, he won just 3 pts on his 2nd serve, this improved quite a bit for Richard as the match went on though. Lacko won 52/77 pts on 1st serve and 19/34 on 2nd serve.

In the 1st set Richard took his only break point chance but Lacko broke twice more to take the set. Both players had 1 bp in the 2nd set but both missed it. Lacko took his only bp opportunity in the 3rd set but Richard took 2 of his 5 bps.

Sheddie · administrator

Hopefully Richard can keep this great form going, he's played Germany's Dominic Meffert once before, in Orleans last month. Richard beat Arazi in 3 sets in rd1 but Meffert then beat him 6-3, 6-3.

Meffert then went on to lose in 3 to Dick Norman in the quarters. Since then he's lost in rd1 of Grenoble and in Mons challenger qualifying. Meffert beat 6th seed Mathieu Montcourt in rd1, 6-4, 7-6[4]. He isn't a particularly big server, Parmar says that he has quite a weak 2nd serve which he was able to attack when they played in Rotterdam earlier this year.

Match will start at around midday

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Thursday - 2nd round

Richard's match started 11.50 BST
Richard Bloomfield (GBR) vs Dominik Meffert (GER) 2-0 (15-30) and guess what! - The scoreboard has stopped once again - it is next to useless!

Sheddie · administrator

Grrrrrr, well at least we know that Richard got off to a great start. Quite often indoors it's a case of 1 break to Bloomers, set over so hopefully that'll happen today.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Any news?