Week 42 - Futures F15 ($15K) - Glasgow, Great Britain

GavinUK · Lower Club Player

Week 42 - Futures F15 ($15K) - Glasgow, Great Britain

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

how did you find out the score?

GavinUK · Lower Club Player

The score is on the draw sheet on the ATP web site.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2009/3382/mds.pdf

indiana · Tennis legend

Wow

Thought Dan could win this, certainly wasn't at all imagining him losing to a score like this.

On the face of it, extremely disappointing, so yes, would actually like to think that he wasn't feeling well or something.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

It's also up on the LTA site. cry

helki · Futures qualifying

Oh dear! What a disappointment. hmm

Hope he's not set a trend for the day. ashamed

steven · Tennis legend

Very odd result - Bloomers, Inglot and Milton all pushed Mertens a lot closer than this.

The Belgian is now 9-2 against Brits, with only David Sherwood in 2005 and Colin Fleming earlier this year having managed to beat him. I keep wondering how many points Colin would have racked up by now if he was playing Futures ...

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 24th of October 2009 03:13:56 PM

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

WTF Evo, hoss please tell us there's an explanation

Silver · County player

Well... er... not sure quite what to make of that result...

clayfan · Lower Club Player

I was at the match today. Lots of long rallies which suited the Belgian. In the end Dan made more errors. He never managed to dent the Merten serve and was always in trouble on his own. Shame as he was playing really well this week.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Bit of a rubbish end to the week for Evo and hopefully there was something up with him to explain why he lost so easily, as he shouldn't be losing that easily to Mertens unless he had a real shocker of a performance.

Hopefully he can rebound next week though and pick up some more ranking points there.

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks for the report, clayfan ... still a bit of a mystery why he went down quite so badly though.

clayfan · Lower Club Player

Well he didn't look injured or ill. He was keeping very calm until nearer the end when he had a few racket thumps. Perhaps he should have tried to psyche himself up more. In the end Mertens read his serve very well and all too often took the initiative in the rallies on Dan's serve. He strikes the ball well and has great timing. Against Inglot he was facing a huge serve which he did not like at all. Josh Milton had a lot of trouble against him, but managed to claw games back to make the score respectable. In the end Mertens played very well today and Dan, sadly, could do little about it. It was all over all too quickly!