QF: (1) Alex Bogdanovic WR 333 beat Mitchell Krueger USA) WR 979 : 7-5, 5-7, 6-4
SF: (1) Alex Bogdanovic WR 333 v (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND) WR 945
Don't be fooled by the ranking. Amritraj had a career high of 154 but has just returned after a near two year absence (I believe due to injury) and reached the final two weeks ago in Claremont.
What a minefield these US Futures seem to be - a part-time pro ranked 743 but with lots of top 300 scalps to his name in R2, the world junior no. 6 in the QFs and now a former world no. 154 who has won 12/15 matches since making his comeback last month in the semis!
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Nguyen is a bit of an under-ranked ringer. He played for the University of Southern California team that won four consecutive university championships, so one for each of his four years of university (He graduated in summer 2012). According to the university website, he was ranked 21st in the country in singles. He's playing roughly at home, too, if Google maps are correct!
-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 29th of September 2012 09:55:24 PM
-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 29th of September 2012 09:56:14 PM
3 duece games a couple of traded breaks leave alex serving *1-2
Alex has clearly found it tough here, as Steven syas the opponents have been tricker than they initially appear, but he's also been struggeling phsycially, with a bad shoulder and cramping during yesterdays match.
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