Alex Bogdanovic ousts Amer Delic in the quarterfinal – Charlottesville Challenger 2011
British lucky loser Alex Bogdanovic sent Amer Delic packing in the quarterfinal of Charlottesville Challenger 2011.
The two challengers had fought it out on indoor hard courts of the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. After two hours and sixteen minutes the British lucky loser had survived a mid match crisis to score 7-6(5),
3-6, 6-3 against Delic on Thursday the 3rd of November 2011.
The first round of the match was initiated by Delic and both the players had exchanged breaks to place themselves at 1-1 on the scoreboard. They then held their service games and tied the score at 2-2 by the end of the fourth game.
In the following six games, the players matched a blow for a blow and the score kept tied at 3-3, 4-4 and finally at 5-5 by the end of the tenth game. As the Briton bagged the eleventh game, he was now only a game away from clogging
the opening set. Nevertheless, he was unable to do so and instead, Delic held his serve and pushed the set into a tiebreaker.
The head-to-head run carried well into the tie breaker and neither of the players wanted the other to take the lead. Thus, matching an eye for an eye, they again kept the scores tied at 1-1, 3-3 and eventually at five points each.
From there onwards, the Briton then squandered straight two games to bag the tiebreaker at 7-5 and go one up in the match.
During the second set, the players once more were neck-on-neck into each other and neither of the players wanted the other to take the edge. For the first six games the score tied at three games each but then Delic cut the goose
chase by utilizing the serve-break-serve method and by restricting his adversary to only three games to seal his victory of the second set.
Opening the determining set was Alex and once more the players had bagged their initial service games to rotate the scoreboard at 1-1. By the end of the fourth game the score had tied at two games each.
During the sixth game, as the players held their service games, they had balanced the score for the last time at three games each. However, in a reversal of fate, it was Delic, who had come under pressure and double faulted on
his second serve of the eighth game.
On the contrary, Alex had reeled off two games to bag the set and sealed his victory in the match. He will now be facing American wildcard entrant Denis Kudla in the semi final.
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