Boggo's competitors week 48

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

RE: Boggo's competitors week 48

Count Zero · Tennis legend

no he didnt travel, he was unable to make it over there in time. (after bergamo i think).

i dont belive he will be playing any balkan events next year.

steven · Tennis legend

Can anyone tell me how to post a table from Excel on this board?

On the Rusedski message board, I have to create the relevant html code and post that.

On BTZ, I can copy directly off a web page and post that.

Here, if I try to post html code, I just get the html code on preview and if I copy off a web page or off the Excel sheet itself, I get a couple of pages of blank space above what I want to post.

Thanks in advance if anyone can point me in the right direction.

RobC · All-time great

there seems to be just two ways:

Firstly to save the excel spreadsheet as a graphics file - gif or jpg, host that somewhere (e.g. imageshack) and then upload it.

Secondly to convert it to text and post that.

For the "Boggo's competitors" table, I use the

[pre].....

[/pre] set of tage, which ensure the text is in a proportional font (like courier) and so the characters will line up properly.

Unfortunately activeboard does not implement html, tables, or even fonts particularly well.

PM me if you need any more help

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks Rob. Odd that this board is such a pain if you want to post tables, given that overall the functionality of this board is probably better than the other two.

Anyway, I'm sure I can work out something based on what you've just written, just wish all the boards worked the same!

Sheddie · administrator

Greenleaf wrote:

Odd schedule there. I would have thought that Alex would enter Zagreb as a safety measure, just in case he lost early in Wrexham.

Also, I expected that he would return to Belgrade, the city of his birth, instead of playing Marseille, which had the highest cut off of all Tours last year.

I like the Marseille decision. He aims of becoming a top player, so he needs to have faith in himself.

But he should enter Zagreb. He can always withdraw from the qualies. He could even sneak into the main draw - the cut was 105 last time.
Come on Alex... enter yourself for Zagreb.

As Count said, Alex won't be playing any Balkan events this year so that accounts for the week off when ATP Zagreb is taking place. For the same reason, he definately won't be playing Belgrade and so unless he reaches the semis or further in Bergamo he'll be doing qualies in Marseille. Alex does plan to play more ATPs this year, he believes that he's good enough to do well at that level. Expect some unusual looking decisions where he misses a challenger to play qualies.

Sheddie · administrator

Count Zero wrote:

no he didnt travel, he was unable to make it over there in time. (after bergamo i think).

i dont belive he will be playing any balkan events next year.

Wasn't he resting an injury aswell ? I think he picked up a hip injury in the latter stages of Bergamo and so withdrew for Belgrade to rest it. Unfortunately it got worse and he had to retire from his rd1 match in Wolfsbury and take a further month off, missing 4 indoor challengers.

RobC · All-time great

RobC wrote:

Querrey's first round match against Przysiezny is tonight. Please employ those extra long sneaky "I'm over- confident and it's the end of the year, and I should be on the beach" pins into the Querrey doll!

Przysiezny beat Querrey . Looks like Sam's going to be at the beach this week! Alex is safe at 123 until the new year

Just the Scud to kep an eye on now: He plays Brendan Evans tonight.

-- Edited by RobC at 07:38, 2006-11-29

Count Zero · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

Count Zero wrote:

no he didnt travel, he was unable to make it over there in time. (after bergamo i think).

i dont belive he will be playing any balkan events next year.

Wasn't he resting an injury aswell ? I think he picked up a hip injury in the latter stages of Bergamo and so withdrew for Belgrade to rest it. Unfortunately it got worse and he had to retire from his rd1 match in Wolfsbury and take a further month off, missing 4 indoor challengers.

yes he did pick up the injury in th nergamo final (and may well havr retired from the match - luckily boleli retired 1st :)) on the donwside that beacuse he didnt retire he couldnt miss belgrade without a fine. i think he would have played had it been possible for him, as i dont think he realised the seriousness of the injury at that point.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RobC wrote:

Przysiezny beat Querrey . Looks like Sam's going to be at the beach this week! Alex is safe at 123 until the new year

Nice one! Querrey could bite him on the ass at AO qualies though

Salmon · Tennis legend

The present cut offs for Auckland and Sydney are 65 and 55, so the fields will be pretty strong.

RobC · All-time great

RobC wrote:

Przysiezny beat Querrey . Looks like Sam's going to be at the beach this week! Alex is safe at 123 until the new year

Just the Scud to kep an eye on now: He plays Brendan Evans tonight.

And Philippoussis lost to Evans! He joins Querrey on the beach - hope they like surfing!

That's it for this week.

Salmon · Tennis legend

He is allowed to play both Auckland and AO qualies.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I don't think Al should consider playing Auckland in case h e does too well and misses sign in for the AO. Sydney is much closer, but still around 1000km away. Do Sydney and Aukland have Saturday finals? What day does qualifying start for the AO?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Saturday finals for both in 2006.

So it will be quarters on Thursday.

AO has Thursday sign in for qualies.