Heilbronn Challenger 2007.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

RE: Heilbronn Challenger 2007.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

stats: (might need some sorting)

Ilia Bozoljac SRB

aces double faults first services first services won second services won sum points
Set 1 4 1 46.34% (19/41) 78.95% (15/19) 40.91% (9/22) 44
Set 2 4 1 80.00% (12/15) 83.33% (10/12) 66.67% (2/3) 24
Set 3 5 2 55.56% (25/45) 84.00% (21/25) 30.00% (6/20) 44

Alex Bogdanovic GBR

aces double faults first services first services won second services won sum points
Set 1 3 5 55.10% (27/49) 74.07% (20/27) 40.91% (9/22) 46
Set 2 0 0 76.47% (13/17) 23.08% (3/13) 50.00% (2/4) 8
Set 3 1 2 65.79% (25/38) 56.00% (14/25) 53.85% (7/13) 39

Alex only won 8 points inthe 2nd set!!

-- Edited by Count Zero at 13:18, 2007-01-24

RobC · All-time great

Not good

He's defended just 8 of the 50 points from Wrexham last year.

That leaves him at WR139, and likely to end the week in the low 140s....

Still, it was a bad draw: Bozo's on the rise, with his Aussie Open performance, and then beating Phau here in R1. He's up at WR 102 now.

Alex has now got until the end of Indian Wells (Week 11) to get the big points from the tournaments associated with his end of year ranking. After that, he'll be out of the lists for ATP events. He's already lost his chance of seedings in Challengers.

Roll on Delray Beach!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

alex actaully made opver 70% of 1st serevs in the 2nd set but ont won 23% that really stands out, was he trying to serve and volley madybe?

look at bozo's % on 1st serve though, 78,83,84. thats huge! alex can normally handle the big serves, i guess not this time.

-- Edited by Count Zero at 13:28, 2007-01-24

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Have to say that's the weirdest thread I've ever read what with the random scoreboard/activeboard editor and scores themselves!

Gutting that Alex couldn't take it, Count/USM you'll have to let us know what he says about that match. Oh well, on the plus side he'll have more time to get to and get used to Delray Beach (that is his next tournament isn't it?)

Count Zero · Tennis legend

yes it was strange, posts appearing in the wrong order etc.

USM may be able to get somehting out of alex, but dont count on much, i aksed him about his AOQ and got 'yeah i played badly'.

Delray beach is next up, thats a RR event, so i guess it means he will get at least 2 matches?

RobC · All-time great

He'll have to come through a playoff first, against another player from the bottom half of the Direct Entries or a qualifier.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

so some of them go straight into RR's and some have a KO round 1st?

RobC · All-time great

yep, top 16 (8 seeds, 8 non- seeds) go straight in to the 8 RR groups. the rest (9 DEs, 4 qualies, 3 WC) have a playoff to get to be the third players in each of the RR groups.
Edit: sorry, there's only 3 WCs. Looking at how it worked in Adelaide, Alex, as a DE should get to play a qualifier or a wildcard in his elimination match.

-- Edited by RobC at 14:36, 2007-01-24

Count Zero · Tennis legend

but do the split it in the ko's bebtween q's & wc's and DE's? or to they just jumble them all togther so a wc could play a wc for a RR spot.

RobC · All-time great

I'd need to check the rules, but in Adelaide there were seven ties where a DA played a WC or a Q, and one where two DAs played each other.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

hmm, it cut of half my post??

i also added that i bet if it is 2 de's vs each other 1 will be alex and the other the highest ranked non KO de guy, you know it will be, this is alex we are talking about :)

or possibly a huge, late entry player on a WC, like federer or something

-- Edited by Count Zero at 15:16, 2007-01-24