Davis Cup - Euro Africa Zone I 2009

gjr · Club Coach

RE: Davis Cup - Euro Africa Zone I 2009

Drew · Sep 23, 2008

So who would we play against...

UKRAINE

83 Stakhovsky, Sergiy
213 Marchenko, Ilia
285 Bubka, Sergei
336 Sergeyev, Ivan
415 Dolgopolov Jr., Oleksandr

At home, we'd win with Andy and have an even chance without him.

Ukraine were promoted from EA II this year, beating Egypt 5-0, Ireland 3-2 and Portugal 5-0.

If Baker boy was fit and had some form going into this then I would pick :

Andy Murray
Jamie Baker
Jamie Murray
Josh Goodall / Bogdanovic or maybe even one of the young guys depending on form / results.

I would love to see Boggo win a live DC rubber but he may make it easier if he opts to miss this anyway. In late April he reached a CH QF and also in early May.
Thats 13 or 14 points that he may have to lose if he were to play.

-- Edited by Drew at 13:24, 2008-09-23

Count Zero · Tennis legend

personally i cant see them agreeing to a swtich. andy will want the tie on clay if he even agrees to play mid may. and the Ukrainains will want clay as thats what they choose last time anyway.

if andy plays would he be prepared to play all 3 days? i am not sure which still means we need a win else where. would any of our No 2's bt Sthak on day 1? probably not. i belive boggo has a good record against him but on clay i dotn see it.

aslo drew i think that April for Alex was in 07 not this year.

Drew · Sep 23, 2008

Count Zero wrote:

personally i cant see them agreeing to a swtich. andy will want the tie on clay if he even agrees to play mid may. and the Ukrainains will want clay as thats what they choose last time anyway.

if andy plays would he be prepared to play all 3 days? i am not sure which still means we need a win else where. would any of our No 2's bt Sthak on day 1? probably not. i belive boggo has a good record against him but on clay i dotn see it.

aslo drew i think that April for Alex was in 07 not this year.

Why would Andy want to play on clay ???

aslo drew i think that April for Alex was in 07 not this year.

Corrected - oops !

steven · Tennis legend

Because it's in between Rome AMS and Madrid AMS and he isn't going to want to switch from clay to indoor hard then straight back again.

Drew · Sep 23, 2008

Ta Steven

Drew · Sep 23, 2008

So if it is to be in May and on clay then were ?

Do we have a clay clourt stadium in the midlands or does that mean it will be in Bournemouth ?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

cant they put a clay court down whereever they want?
the ozzies did it to us didnt they. i am sure they cna find somewhere suitbale, you really only need 1 ct

gjr · Club Coach

Count Zero wrote:

cant they put a clay court down whereever they want?
the ozzies did it to us didnt they. i am sure they cna find somewhere suitbale, you really only need 1 ct

What are you saying? The LTA will actually spend some money to give us a better chance of winning wink

Expect the ticket prices to go up even further if they do.

DJ · County player

Let's play it in Glasgow, and let the Tartan Army in free; real vocal support, guaranteed win, the Ukrainians might not even stay till the end!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Good idea

RedCabbage · Club Coach

I agree. When I was on Henman Hill for the Murray/Haas game the only people being vocal were a group of (admitted, well watered) scots. Don't know how great the support would be for Boggo though!

OldEchoMan · Social player

FYI chaps and ladies - the tie will be played in March 6-8. The dates have been shifted by the ITF

Count Zero · Tennis legend

what does that nearly clash with? is it the 2 big american masters?

will be even tougher get andy to agree if thats the case

Sheddie · administrator

I think they're about a week and a half later (?)