Davis Cup - Euro Africa Group I - GBR v Poland 18-20 Sep 2009

steven · Tennis legend

Davis Cup - Euro Africa Group I - GBR v Poland 18-20 Sep 2009

steven · Tennis legend

TOP 6 POLISH SINGLES PLAYERS

182 Lukasz Kubot (born 1982, 1.90 m, right-handed, CH=118 in Jan 07)

H2Hs v GB top 10: 0-0, but he is 0-2 v Big Arv, 1-0 v Jamie Murray (Queen's QR1 last year)

233 Dawid Olejniczak (born 1982, 1.91 m, right-handed, CH=185 in Aug 08)

H2Hs v GB top 10: 0-1 v Bloomers, 2-1 v Josh, 2-0 v Slabba, 1-0 v Eaton

295 Grzegorz Panfil (born 1988, 1.83 m, left-handed, CH=292 in Feb 09)

H2Hs v GB top 10: 0-0, but he is 0-1 v Edward Seator, 1-1 v Myles Blake

331 Jerzy Janowicz (born 1990, 2.02 m, right-handed, CH=331 now)

H2Hs v GB top 10: 0-1 v Josh (retired in the 3rd set)

361 Marcin Gawron (born 1988, 1.79 m, ?-handed, CH=361 in Nov 08)

H2Hs v GB top 10: 0-0, but he is 0-1 v Edward Seator

543 Michal Przysiezny (born 1984, 1.85 m, right-handed, CH=190 in Mar 07)

H2Hs v GB top 10: 2-0 v Bloomers

N.B. Their singles players against Belgium were Janowicz and Przysiezny.

TOP 3 POLISH DOUBLES PLAYERS

11 Marcin Matkowski
13 Mariusz Fyrstenberg
28 Lukasz Kubot

Drew · Mar 7, 2009

Well done Steven. I will post you stuff on bt.net.

wolf · Tennis legend

This is 10-12 July if I am not very mistaken. Bring it to Birmingham and the roof will be taken off as usual.

steven · Tennis legend

10-12 July are the dates for R1 of the relegation playoffs (i.e. for teams that lost in EA Gp 1 R1) but because all of the teams in the bottom half of the EA Gp 1 draw had byes, the tie v Poland is in R2 of the relegation playoffs, which are due to be played in September.

The tie could of course be moved to July in the same way as the Ukraine tie was moved from April to March, but I can't see JL wanting to do that - far more chance that Andy will play if it is in September I think.

wolf · Tennis legend

But if we lose the Poland don't we have a play-off match against one of the teams from EA G2, in which case wouldn't that take place in September?

steven · Tennis legend

No, it doesn't work like that, there are only playoffs between promotion and relegation contenders for the World Group in DC, if we lose to Poland we go straight down. (for the women, playoffs exist for both WG I and WG II)

S&V · Club Coach

So after winning the US Open Andy should be in form.

baxi2 · Lower Club Player

Here's the juicy one - Poland are captained by Britains Nick Brown ! He is GBs ex Fed Cup captain and holds some interesting views on British tennis as a whole. His great quality was and is that he hates to lose anything in sport and in life. What an interesting atmosphere this could provide at the next DC tie !

steven · Tennis legend

baxi2 wrote:
Here's the juicy one - Poland are captained by Britains Nick Brown ! He is GBs ex Fed Cup captain and holds some interesting views on British tennis as a whole. His great quality was and is that he hates to lose anything in sport and in life. What an interesting atmosphere this could provide at the next DC tie !

Sounds good, but where did you get that info from? I thought Radoslaw Szymanik had been the Polish DC captain since they suffered the ignominy of losing to Georgia at home in 2006 - he's listed as the captain for the Belgium tie.

Is Nick perhaps involved in some other way?

Edit: Ah, looks like he's the coach, i.e. their Paul Annacone equivalent rather than JL equivalent.

-- Edited by steven at 11:35, 2009-03-08

-- Edited by steven at 11:37, 2009-03-08

baxi2 · Lower Club Player

Well spotted Steven, I stand corrected though it still adds to the flavour of the next tie!

Drew · Mar 8, 2009

baxi2 wrote:

Well spotted Steven, I stand corrected though it still adds to the flavour of the next tie!

Well done both...nice bit of information.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

boggo & bloomers?

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

steven wrote:
No, it doesn't work like that, there are only playoffs between promotion and relegation contenders for the World Group in DC, if we lose to Poland we go straight down. (for the women, playoffs exist for both WG I and WG II)

Why in 06 did we play three matches in EA Group 1? (l. Serbia, l. Israel, b. Ukraine)

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

The Knight wrote:

steven wrote:
No, it doesn't work like that, there are only playoffs between promotion and relegation contenders for the World Group in DC, if we lose to Poland we go straight down. (for the women, playoffs exist for both WG I and WG II)
Why in 06 did we play three matches in EA Group 1? (l. Serbia, l. Israel, b. Ukraine)

Without checking the draw for that year, I'd suspect it was because instead of drawing the bye like we did this year in round 1, we drew Serbia instead.

This year South Africa and Macedonia were the teams who didn't get a bye in round 1, and the winner of that tie, South Africa, will play Belarus in May to determine who gets promoted, while I presume the loser will face Macedonia in July, with the loser facing Slovak Republic in the relegation play-off in September.

But as there isn't always an even number of teams in the group because it depends on who wins the world group play-off matches, there's always the likelyhood that some teams will have to play twice, while others only once.