seagull wrote:

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Good job Boggo is not taking part in the DC play-off charade this week...too many points to defend here!

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And a decent chance to defend some of them at least as he's the 5th rank player in the draw - shame that the DC play-off is this week, as there would have been a decent chance for those involved to get some points this week.

pre-empted

-- Edited by Smidster at 20:16, 2009-02-05

Count Zero wrote:

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i am sure SG will make his normal thread soon, but the wk 9 challenger lists are out and boggo has opted for the tougher bergamo over cherboug. he scraps in as penultimate DA.

which means that he is only going to play one low level challenger at the start of the year. i guess it still shows that he has the belief by going up against tougher events and he was a break up on beck in the 3rd set recently even if he couldn't hold on. but it leaves a lot to luck in the draws at belgarde and bergamo as its easy chance to get a top 125 player 1st rd.

having said that i used to see indoor hard as alex's main time of the year to pick up points, but i recent years he seems to have been more consistent on out door hard. he has also won bergamo (i am assuming its played at same venue) so maybe he will get good vibes.

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Beck went on to reach the semi finals in Wroclaw without dropping a set in his other two wins, so theoretically Boggo could have done the same, and that would have been considered a great result.

Bergamo does look a much tougher list, but he wouldn't have been seeded in Cherbourg, so he may as well go for the event with the higher points tariff and hope for a good first round draw.

Boggo is also still the 2nd highest GB points scorer so far this year. The top 15 are:

475 * Andy Murray (from 3 events, 1 ongoing )
25 Alex Bogdanovic (from 3 events )
18 * Colin Fleming (from 4 events)
14 Jonny Marray (from 3 events)
13 * Alex Slabinsky (from 3 events)
12 * Ross Hutchins (from 1 event)
9 * Dan Evans (from 3 events)
7 * James Ward (from 4 events)
6 Joshua Milton (from 4 events, 1 ongoing)
4 * Josh Goodall (from 4 events)
4 Ken Skupski (from 4 events)
4 Morgan Phillips (from 4 events, 1 ongoing)
3 Chris Eaton (from 4 events)
3 Matthew Illingworth (from 4 events)
3 Max Jones (from 3 events)

N.B. "from 3 events" means that the player has played in 3 events, not that he has scored points in 3 events.

* = in contention for some kind of DC place (the 6th player in the playoffs, Jamie Baker, has only scored one point so far this year)

-- Edited by steven at 23:03, 2009-02-10

Delray Beach
1 BRYAN, Bob 1 - BRYAN, Mike 1 - D+D 2
2 MELO, Marcelo 20 - SA, Andre 19 - D+D 39
3 MURRAY, Jamie 27 - VEMIC, Dusan 38 240 D+D 65
4 PETZSCHNER, Philipp 35 67 PEYA, Alexander 51 147 D+D 86
5 BUTORAC, Eric 66 - SOARES, Bruno 22 1051 D+D 88
6 HUSS, Stephen 50 - HUTCHINS, Ross 45 1097 D+D 95
7 KUNITSYN, Igor 60 43 ZVEREV, Mischa 53 78 S+D 96
8 ISNER, John 82 139 QUERREY, Sam 195 34 D+S 116
9 LIPSKY, Scott 52 885 MARTIN, David 65 - D+D 117
10 RAM, Rajeev 59 212 REYNOLDS, Bobby 62 63 D+D 121

promises to be yet another boring week, god and i thought norwaytennis.net was bad...