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Aleksa's Laydee · 08-03-2005, 01:50 PM

Profile of Richard Bloomfield

Birth Date: 27 Apr 1983

Birth Place: Norwich, England

Home: Alpington, Norfolk, England

School: Hobart High, Loddon, England

Nationality: British

Height: 1.9 m (6' 2.1/2")

Weight: 75 kg (165 lb)

Plays: Right-handed

Favourite Surface: Hard

Age Began Tennis: 9

Current Ranking: 315

Coach: Pete Russell

Personal Interests: Basketball, music, football, golf and the internet.

Favourite player is Roger Federer

Today he plays in WASHINGTON in a ATP event against A. Clement

LETS GO RICHARD!!!

Aleksa's Laydee · 08-03-2005, 10:26 PM

Unfortunatley he lost to Clement 2-6 6-4 6-7 (7)

so close!!!

kundalini · 08-04-2005, 12:29 AM

Such a shame.

He seems to be on the verge of a break through. Hope he takes a lot of confidence from these close matches.

Until recently all his success had been at Futures level but got a SF at a challenger in the last month.

Hope this is the start of good things for Richard.

Duncan · 08-04-2005, 06:04 AM

Unlucky Richard, so close to beating Clement!

villaturk · 08-04-2005, 07:13 PM

hard luck bloomers,so close.you did well after gettin out powered in the ist set.That semi in the states last month has done his confidence the world of good and he gave muzza a tough 2 setter at granby last week.

ae wowww · 08-05-2005, 02:22 PM

Nice one Bloomers

Aleksa's Laydee · 08-08-2005, 03:47 PM

Hes moved up 7 places after this loss to 308

decrepitude · 11-06-2005, 08:36 AM

Richard won a Futures event in Belgium yesterday. Last Monday his ranking had moved up to 288, and this should show a further rise tomorrow.

decrepitude · 11-06-2005, 10:20 PM

Ah. Actually, his ranking has gone down to 302. He must have had a lot of points coming off from this time last year, unless the ATP don't add this tournament until next week. Anybody know?

steven · 11-07-2005, 12:00 AM

It's because points from Futures always go on a week late and (indirectly) because of a change in the Belgian Futures schedule this year.

Last year, the first Belgian Future was at Waterloo in week 43, Richard reached the Final it's those 12 points that have come off his ranking this week.

In both years, the St Katelijne-Waver Future was in week 44 - last year Richard reached the semis (6 points) whereas this year of course he won it (18 points), so he has a net 12 points to go on the rankings at the end of this week, which will take him back into the top 300.

This year, the equivalent of the Waterloo Future is in week 45 (i.e. this coming week) and I'm not sure whether Richard's in there or not - he was hoping to go to the Nashville Challenger but missed the main draw cut and was not able to get away from Belgium in time for qualifying, for obvious reasons! If he doesn't play this week, he'll have the same points from Belgian Futures as he got last year - 18 for the SKW win c.f. 12 for the Waterloo Final and 6 for the SKW SFs last year.

Hope that makes sense!

decrepitude · 11-07-2005, 11:06 PM

Cor! I'm glad somebody understands these things!

Kristen · 01-26-2006, 02:19 PM

In qualifying, Australian Open this month...

Aleksa's Laydee · 01-26-2006, 09:35 PM

thanks

Kristen · 06-08-2006, 12:02 PM

Apparently he's not doing too badly at the moment...

Current INDESIT ATP Ranking - Singles: 267
Career High INDESIT ATP Ranking - Singles: 264 (4/17/2006)

Current Stanford ATP Doubles Ranking: 394
Career High Stanford ATP Doubles Ranking: 392 (5/15/2006)

Scotso · 06-19-2006, 04:39 PM

WHAT!!!!!! I didn't know this was here!

I saw Bloomers in person last year when he played that match against Clement in D.C. He was awesome, the crowd was 100% behind him.

I

him.

Unfortunately he lost to Janko today, but he won a set at least.