posted Sep 21, 2008

According to the ATP website, since Wimbledon, Chris Eaton has played six matches at Challenger level (none at Tour level) and has beaten three players (ranked 217, 355 and 517) and lost to three (ranked 254, 361 and 643). Two of the players he's lost to are British and ranked above him (Bloomfield and Goodall).

Eaton has occasionally been mentioned as someone who might have been selected for this Davis Cup tie, but this all seems to be on the basis that he won one match at Wimbledon against a player (Pashanski) who has never won a match on grass in his career and has lost in the first round of seven out of the eight Grand Slams he's played in. It's not the most convincing case.

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posted Sep 21, 2008

boggo just looks so slow around court after andy.

I dunno if he works hard enough on his fittness, i mean, andy is a known good mover and taller but boggo looks about half the speed, he should be faster than that.

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posted Sep 21, 2008

Chris Eaton has played 8 competitive matches since Wimbledon winning 4 and losing 4 and not getting beyond the second round. 2 of his loses were to British players so I think he is down the pecking order for selection.

One of his victors was Josh Goodall who is in form and only a few ranking positions lower than Boggo. He should have been given the chance.

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posted Sep 21, 2008

BTW, who is the 'Judy Miller' being quoted on the main page? Has Andy's mum changed her name????

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posted Sep 21, 2008

"One of his victors was Josh Goodall who is in form and only a few ranking positions lower than Boggo. He should have been given the chance."

Well, perhaps, but the gap is more than a few places (37 at present) and although Goodall's ranking has been rising of late, so has Bogdanovic's. In fact, Goodall was ranked above Bogdanovic a few months ago but Bogdanovic has overtaken him and opened up something of a gap in rankings terms. Both have some claim to being "in form".

The better argument for not selecting Bogdanovic would be his lack of Davis Cup success in the past. But in fairness to him, he's almost always been playing players ranked in the top 100, and there's no reason to think that any other current British player (Murray aside), similarly ranked below that level, would have done significantly better. I don't think that Goodall, for example, has ever beaten a top 100 player.

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posted Sep 21, 2008

Boggo just doesn't seem to have any bottle

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posted Sep 21, 2008

What a load of rubbish... if this is the best are No.2 players can produce then sorry it's all over for british tennis.... Lloyd has go to go let's get some foreigners in that can try and show us what they can do... As for boggo if he get's picked for the Davis cup then the coaches need there head's tested...

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posted Sep 21, 2008

"Boggo's" chance of redemption just disappeared.
It's time for Murray to look after himself and pull out of this GB team farce. He can't be expected to constantly shore up no-hopers.
Let the rest find their real level in world tennis instead of prolonging this sham.

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posted Sep 21, 2008

Hmm... Boggo by name and bog standard by nature. Congratulations to Alec for again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. A credit to the nation.

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posted Sep 24, 2008

he beat nobody's only.
Only nobody's compete in mixed doubles

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