Cardiff Challenger - 2007 Week 16.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Cardiff Challenger - 2007 Week 16.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tough match there as Bopanna and Ghouse together reached the finals of the Tour event in Bombay.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

hmm, i have just realised elsenner is in blooms quarter, that could be a tough match.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Rushby thrashed him the other week and Bloomers just thrashed Rushby but tennis is a funny old game!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Glad to see Boggo winning comfortably. Who does he play in rd2?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good win for Boggo there, and obviously the jet lag wasn't too much of a problem, as winning 3 and 0 over Vacek indoors is a pretty good win

Cervanek next for him, and even though I don't know anything about him, I would expect Boggo to win that one quite easily in straight sets

Tsonga going on opens the draw up nicely for Bloomers, and a Bloomers/Boggo final is a nice possibility to have, even though I don't see them both getting there

Drew · Apr 17, 2007

Full R1 Results

Waske def Vico 6-3 7-6(2)
Baccanello def Corrie 6-3 7-6(4)
Oudsema def Smethurst 6-3 6-4
Carlsen def Smeets 3-6 7-5 6-1
Snobel def Tsonga 6-1 6-4
Elseneer def Groth 7-6(6) 6-3
Niemyer def Ryderstedt 7-6(3) 6-3
Bloomfield def Rushby 6-2 6-3
Goodall def Jones 7-6(3) 4-6 6-3
Stadler def Prpic 6-3 6-3
Cervenak def Tourte 6-4 1-6 6-4
Bogdanovic def Vacek 6-3 6-0
Wauters def Bohli 2-6 6-4 2-1 Ret
Childs def Sirianni 7-6(2) 3-6 6-3
Meffert def Simmonds 7-6(3) 4-6 6-3
Moodie def Bopanna 6-4 6-7(2) 7-5

4 Brits through to R2.

Sheddie · administrator

Boggo said "I played well today, I guess I got away with it but tomorrow it's going to be a lot tougher because I'm going to feel more tired and it always hits you on the 2nd day. I'll see how it goes."

"I was really happy with my performances in Valencia as the conditions were tough and I had to deal with each match differently."

"Lundgren is here this week and he's also coming out to Lanzarote which is good."

steven · Tennis legend

R1 - GB results with comparative rankings

Just to show what a good R1 it was! smile

R1: (WC) Edward Corrie WR 1297 lost to Paul Baccanello (AUS) WR 249 by 6-3 7-6(4) cry
R1: (WC) Dan Smethurst UNR lost to Scott Oudsema (USA) WR 286 by 3 & 4 cry
R1: (5) Richard Bloomfield WR 184 beat (WC) Tom Rushby WR 637 by 2 & 3 smile cry
R1: Joshua Goodall WR 222 beat (7) Alun Jones (AUS) WR 208 by 7-6(3) 4-6 6-3 biggrin
R1: (3) Alex Bogdanovic WR 132 beat Jan Vacek (CZE) WR 267 by 3 & 0 smile
R1: (WC) Lee Childs WR 467 beat Joseph Sirianni (AUS) WR 280 by 7-6(2) 3-6 6-3 biggrin

This was a first round as good, if not better, than we could have hoped for - Bloomers on form, Boggo with a storming "jetlag? what jetlag?" performance, Josh and Lee finding a bit of form with 'upset' wins and neither Edward nor Dan getting outclassed by their top 300 opponents. Well done boys! biggrin

Wednesday

R2: (5) Richard Bloomfield WR 184 v (Q) Frederic Niemeyer (CAN) WR 331
R2: Joshua Goodall WR 222 v Simon Stadler (GER) WR 219
R2: (3) Alex Bogdanovic WR 132 v Pavol Cervenak (SVK) WR 274
R2: (WC) Lee Childs WR 467 v Stefan Wauters (BEL WR 296

Bloomers is 1st on Court 7 at 11.00 BST, the same time as Lee plays on Court 11. Lee is followed by Boggo then Josh.

steven · Tennis legend

Sheddie wrote:
Boggo said "I played well today, I guess I got away with it but tomorrow it's going to be a lot tougher because I'm going to feel more tired and it always hits you on the 2nd day. I'll see how it goes."

I know what he means. If I have to work through the night to meet a deadline, I can usually keep going the next day but when it hits you about 24 hours later, it really hits you. I'm sure jetlag is much the same.

goldenboy · Club Coach

yeah he's prob running on adrenalin a bit, and will all catch up with him tomorrow! hope he can scrape through!

Salmon · Tennis legend

This must be the best round one performance I have seen in a British Challenger since I started following tennis.

steven wrote:
Sheddie wrote:
Boggo said "I played well today, I guess I got away with it but tomorrow it's going to be a lot tougher because I'm going to feel more tired and it always hits you on the 2nd day. I'll see how it goes."
I know what he means. If I have to work through the night to meet a deadline, I can usually keep going the next day but when it hits you about 24 hours later, it really hits you. I'm sure jetlag is much the same.

Yes. I end up doing uni without any sleep twice every week and I've never fallen asleep in a lecture.

It becomes tough the next day.

But I see Boggo winning even then.

Sheddie · administrator

I'll be getting live scores on the British matches today

Sheddie · administrator

Boggo now faces Slovak Pavel Cervenak who's ranked 273 and beat France's Nicholas Tourte in rd1. Cervenak ended 2006 very strongly, reaching the semis of the Bratislava 100K challenger and beating several top 100 players. However, his form in 2007 has been indifferent, apart from a week in Italy when he made a 10K semi-final. He has a good serve and plays an attacking baseline game, based around a massive forehand. He will look to attack the net as much as possible.

Bloomfield plays Canadian serve-volleyer Frederic Niemeyer who came through qualifying before outmanouvering the powerful Swede Michael Ryderstedt yesterday. Although Niemeyer is currently ranked outside the top 300, he has been top 150 in the past and he's started 2007 very strongly, reaching a challenger final in the USA and 3 futures finals in Canada. Bloomfield has played him once before, winning in straight sets in the quarters of the 2005 Tarzana challenger.

Lee Childs now faces Belgian clay-courter Stefan Wauters. Wauters is most at home on the clay and made a challenger semi a couple of weeks ago.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Go Bogman

-- Edited by Count Zero at 10:00, 2007-04-18