Nice! Hope he gets two more wins.

alex03maccy wrote:

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Cox def. Inoyatov 4-6 6-3 6-0

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Well done Dan C.  Martin Pedersen in the semi-final, first match on court 8 tomorrow.

 

dan cox is hitting some shi+ hot form of late.

yes chrisitain i am pretty sure he will have a SE for next week

Cox has been saying in interviews that his results in Bath and Jersey gave him a huge amount of confidence. Good to see him really making deep inroads into a futures, from the match I saw in Bath he's got some really big weapons now and is playing at top 300 level.

Pedersen has some huge shots but he blows very hot and cold and has a short fuse when things go wrong getting down on himself very quickly. He's a quick starter and will come out all guns blazing but I'd think the slower surface might suit Dan more and hopefully he can reel him in.

Just to add to Shedman and Steven's analysis of Pedersen:

WR 619 (CH 344 in May last year) Has started off 2009 in patchy form, posting only 2 wins at Futures level over #800 Krkoska and Smethurst and a dead rubber victory over #1797 Henri Kontinen in a Davis Cup match. Competed well against #283 Nielsen and #280 Groth after losing in straights to Niemenen in the Davis Cup, his only poor loss coming in his first match of the year: to #739 Gorcic 6-3, 7-6 in Croatia.

The big dip in his ranking came from his inability to step up from Futures to Challengers after May 2008 where he failed to qualify for 3 Challengers, lost in the 1st round of another and won just 1 match in 3 Futures events when he tried to drop down again to boost confidence. This compared to his 2007 form in the same part of the season where he went 12-2 on the Futures circuit and reached the final of Dublin Challenger meant he dropped 200 odd places.

Nevertheless in the last 3 months of 2008 he steadily moved back up the rankings, with another Futures title and final appearance alongside moderate Challenger level progress.

'Hot n cold' as Shedman describes him seems a perfectly apt description of the Dane, all things considered he hasn't started 2009 all that badly, he's just been unlucky with the draws. This week he has faced and beaten 3 qualifiers all in straight sets, hopefully it will be 4th time unlucky and Cox can maintain his progress.

How hard is it to look at the draw sheet on the ATP?!

"In the second round, Cox met number three seed Pierre Metenier of France and again passed the test with flying colours. The first two sets had been shared with Metenier taking the first 5-7 and Cox taking the second 6-1. Cox was leading the third set 3-1 when his opponent withdrew from the competition with a shoulder injury."

That was Dan's first round match where he beat Paval...He beat Metenier 6-3,7-5!

"Standing in the way of Cox reaching his first final at this level is world number 619 Pedersen who defeated Laurent Rochette of France in a close quarter-final yesterday."

How is beating someone for the loss of just 4 games close?

I appreciate the coverage of Dan's matches by a local newspaper is great, but it's baffling how poorly the facts are presented!

steven wrote:

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SF: (Q) Dan Cox WR 703 v Martin Pedersen (DEN) WR 619

Nobody has taken more than 4 games off Pedersen in a set so far this week and the Dane was ranked 344 less than a year ago. He beat Dan Smethurst 6 & 3 in Jersey last week and he beat Skupski and Goodall in successive rounds at Redbridge in Nov 2007 and the only blemish (or good point, from our point of view) in his 11-1 record v Brits was a tight loss to Chris Eaton in Oct 2006.

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Thing is Pederson has only faced qualifiers in every round so far.