7-6* 1 MP for RS........

1-0 mini break for boggo

2-0

3-0

3-1

3-2 boggo still mini break up

4-2

5-2

6-2 4 set points for boggo!!

6-3

6-4 dammit! 2 set points left

6-5 o dear!

6-6!

6-7 m.p. sluiter!

GSM!! 7-6 7-6 to sluiter!

 

 

 

That's just absolutely shocking. To blow 4 set points is just dreadful. Basically Alex choked away this match. Given the chances he's had he should have won in straights

  Desperately disappointing, exactly the sort of loss Alex had stopped doing by and large, had it within his gift to within both those sets, served for the 1st and 4 set points in the 2nd and blew them both, hope he can pick himself up for next week.

a disapointing loss, but i wouldnt get too down hearted, we heard how strange these courts were and have seen how the matches can go, alex will know he could have taken the match, ok he didnt, but he is obviuosly playing well. Missing the 4 sps to take it into a 3rd hurts but i dont think we can say this was the same old boggo syndrome, that would have been him losing 76 62 or something.

he played vs a top player and matched him, if he keeps that up it will come good for him. whats crucial is that he goes into nottingham at the same lvl, playing hard and fighting, unless we get some feed back we have no way of telling what happened in that tb, did alex go for his shots was he unlukcy etc. he has been putting on a good run reacnly, just look at the last 3 player he has lost to: henman, tiprsavic and sluiter, thats not bad at all, and all fairly close matches.    

I spoke to Mike yesterday about the matches against Vico and Sluiter in Kolding, his email had stopped working in Denmark.

On the Sluiter match, Mike said that the better player lost - Alex played his best match of the week. The turning point in the 1st set was when he missed three successive 2nd serve returns on the Sluiter service points from 3-2 in the tiebreak. In the 2nd set breaker, the points went so quickly from 6-2 up, Mike said he wasn't even quite sure what happened in them. He said that Alex was guilty of thinking he was already into a 3rd set and losing his focus which is easy to do with a lead like that.

To read more on this match and some info on the Vico match check out the article at: http://www.alexbogdanovic.com


It's good to hear that Alex was the better player in the match, given that Sluiter's top 100. I think that having played him a couple of weeks ago, Alex has started to work him out. It's easy to see how you can lose concentration when you've got that kind of lead in a tiebreak !

Mike was also keen to stress how much Mackin's improved lately. He said that if a couple of points had gone his way, it could have been him in the Kolding semis instead of Waske !

-- Edited by UltimateBoggoFan at 09:07, 2006-10-23