Week 43 - Futures F16 ($15K) - Cardiff, Great Britain

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 43 - Futures F16 ($15K) - Cardiff, Great Britain

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

shame it couldn't have been a bit closer. half decent week for marcus though.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Kontinen had an even easier time of it:

SF: Henri Kontinen (FIN) WR 496 beat (4) Dan Evans WR 293 by 1 & 0

A bad loss for Dan! bleh Let's hope Tim & Slabba can restore a bit of national pride in the doubles final.

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 30th of October 2009 01:42:16 PM

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

that's a truly awful scoreline from daniel, come on the dubs boys.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

ouch :(

indiana · Tennis legend

Wow !!

That's one hell of a feat for Evo to have a more awful defeat than the Glasgow final one week later.

What gives with these performances ??! And no excuse was rendered for last week against Mertens when by accounts he was generally simply rallied until he made a mistake.

Yet most of the rest of the time he has sailed through matches, though had a 3 setter yesterday.

Again, I'd like to think there is some accountable reason / excuse but none seemed to come to light last week.

Josh Milton took 8 games off Kontinen, Bloomfield took 5 before retiring, again similar story to last week when other GB players had done hugely better against Mertens before he annihilated Evo.

INCOMPREHENSIBLE !!

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 30th of October 2009 02:19:19 PM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i am guessing that Dans game matches up very badly to certain types of players, perhaps some of the guys just hit too hard for him to cope with currently. i am sure it something given time he can work on, but if that is the case its unlikely to change over 2 weeks.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Very strange scoreline.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well his game must match up as badly to Mertens and Kontinen as it it ever possibly badly to do.

I really do myself think there has to be a bit more to it than that, and surely Evo was capable of getting a closer than that on at least one and probably both occasions.

Drew · Oct 30, 2009

Perhaps HTB can shed some light...until then I will reserve my judgement.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Drew wrote:

Perhaps HTB can shed some light...until then I will reserve my judgement.

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Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
A bad loss for Dan! Let's hope Tim & Slabba can restore a bit of national pride in the doubles final.

Not even a ray of light to dispel the gathering gloom from that source, either: they lost by 4-6 6-7(3)! disbelief

What a disappointing week. hmm

Count Zero · Tennis legend

well its kinda disappointing, but i think its better to get to the final and lose than not at all, and i think its been a good week for Marcus too.

seagull · Hall of fame

Reckon Evans had plane to catch to Eckental

Count Zero · Tennis legend

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