Week 46 : Dnepropetrovsk Challenger: Previews, entry list Boggo-Sluiter and Rusedski-Carlsen

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: Week 46 : Dnepropetrovsk Challenger

Sheddie · administrator

Alex probably lost his focus on those first two service points

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

Anyone got the results page?

Is it on there?

Nope

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i wonder if it will update the stats at the end, i doubt it. the longer the freeze lasts the more i think it will be 7-5.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I think we'll have to accept that Boggo lost.

Gutted to draw sLuiter twice more after losing at Kolding when he should have won...

Still Greg and Jonny to cheer on here

Salmon · Tennis legend

Why on earth are you people giving up hope?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

cause on both sets b4 it froze when the set was won b4 it updated.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Greenleaf wrote:

Why on earth are you people giving up hope?

Because its Boggo vs Sluiter, who doesn't choke, and had a match point in a tiebreak, where he had served excellently on a surface he likes against someone who has become his monkey of the month

Sheddie · administrator

Confirmation: Sluiter won 7-5 in the breaker

gazzpash · Club Coach

My scoreboard gone all crazy now and has no players and 99 as the score. Hopefully Alex came through - but only slim chance really.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

al really messed up in the tb, going 5-0 was too much, he did well to come back but S was going to have too many chances to take it, a real shame as i think Al had more chances in the 3rd set to take it, even a bp to leave him serving for the match. Oh well. once again Sluiter has halted him, but this one qwas uch coser thna last week. Al just needs that little bit of luck in the draws really. lets hope he gets some in shrewsbury.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Think it was a pretty decent performance from Boggo, he has had a tendency to be beaten before he goes out there against players who have 'got his number' think that Israeli for one.

At least today he has gone out there and competed throughout and was within a couple of points of winning it, dont know why USM thinks he's lost focus, you dont lose focus in a 3rd set tb USM. Just gotta face it sometimes your opponent just hits good shots too.

In a tb against a big server a couple of good shots and your suddenly 5-0 down, it doesnt mean youve fallen apart, particularly when you're like Boggo and you dont win all that many cheap points.

Disappointing last few weeks for Boggo, tho' I sense that it's maybe allowed a touch of realism to descend on some of the more outlandish posts that we'd been reading. The fact is he's taken a step up since the summer, playing higher ranked Challengers and lower ATP events and that has tougher challenges along the way, and it has exposed the level Boggo is at at the moment, around #100-130, he will learn from that and come back (he's only young) and I still back him to break #100 next summer.

Dont get too despondent, he's still had a decent year.

steven · Tennis legend

Greg beat Carlsen 2-6 7-5 6-1 - his 6th win against Carlsen without reply.

Drew · Nov 13, 2006

steven wrote:

Greg beat Carlsen 2-6 7-5 6-1 - his 6th win against Carlsen without reply.

Well done young Greg !!!!! Yippeee !!!

RobC · All-time great

steven wrote:

Greg beat Carlsen 2-6 7-5 6-1 - his 6th win against Carlsen without reply.

Excellent stuff! Are the results posted anywhere? The tournament site seems to have stopped posting them after Saturday's qualies round...