Well I didn't see that coming...Boggo playing a $10K futures on clay!
yep, alex is going to try something a little different this year, 10k futures (theres 4 in row in the states), little money, little points, but hopefully a lot of matches.
i would guess his plan will be the 4 futures, short break, Delray Q, Dallas CH. Although the DC may throw a spanner in there.
I think he feels that he's done the indoor early season route many times, but indoor tennis won't get him to the big time so he's got to improve outdoors.
fingers crossed it will work.
Arka - Boggo was finalist on clay (dont know if it was green or red) in the UK, lost to Monfils, who he then beat the very next week in a different clay futures b4 going out in the QF's if i remember correctly.
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Well I didn't see that coming...Boggo playing a $10K futures on clay!
yep, alex is going to try something a little different this year, 10k futures (theres 4 in row in the states), little money, little points, but hopefully a lot of matches.
It is a brave move by Alex but, dont forget the new bonus system from the LTA that may actually make these tournaments not quite so unviable from a financial point of view. Ranking points are steeped in favour of event winners as well, if Alex could pick up a tiltle or two out of the four, it could make for a nice solid start to the year (yet not an exceptional one I accept).
If you keep doing what you've always done, chances are you'll get what you've always got. He's lining up something totally different, I fully respect that, I hope it pays off for him.
(Not sure on why Dan & Josh are off to China though????)
1 SANTOS-GONZALEZ, Pablo ESP 269 2 2 LEVINE, Jesse USA 288 1 3 BOGDANOVIC, Alex GBR 291 1 4 LIM, Yong-Kyu KOR 329 1 5 MARTI, Javier ESP 333 3 6 POSPISIL, Vasek CAN 337 2 7 MONROE, Nicholas USA 346 1 8 BLOOMFIELD, Richard GBR 356 2 9 GARD, Catalin-Ionut ROU 374 1 10 TRUSENDI, Walter ITA 392 1 11 GRASSI, Claudio ITA 402 2 12 BORVANOV, Roman MDA 427 2 13 BALLERET, Benjamin MON 442 1 14 IANNI, Stefano ITA 444 1 15 SOUTO, David VEN 453 1 16 GREGORC, Luka SLO 464 1 17 GARZA, Daniel MEX 470 1 18 COX, Jordan USA 472 1 19 WARD, Alexander GBR 473 1 20 POOLE, Robbye USA 477 1
The number after the ranking is their priority, those who have 1 is their first priority to play etc
So Coxy is actually going to China, wow. I hope he is planning on playing the Challenger in Singapore the week after the two Futures. Actually, that's the most logical choice.
There are two Challengers in Australia in the weeks following the Singapore Challenger. I think he should play them, too - it's not very far off (in international tennis terms) and someone needs to continue with the British sporting conquest of Australia after the Ashes and Australian Open are won.
(Actually, I think I was slightly harsh on his plans earlier in this thread. If he does play the three Challengers, it'll be a shrewd move in my opinion.)