Week 47- Challenger- Helsinki, Finland (€ 106,500)

seagull · Hall of fame

RE: Week 47- Challenger- Helsinki, Finland (€ 106,500)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Well done, Dan! biggrin

He will face Antonio Veic (CRO), the player Boggo beat in the first round of the Bratislava Challenger last week before going on to take out Phau, in the second round. Evo's doing it the other way round. Let's just hope it will be with the same outcome!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

A couple more seeds have now crashed out: Kevin Kim (4), beaten 2 & 2 by the Jamaican, Dustin Brown, whose good form continues, & Harel Levy (5), beaten 3 & 3 by that pesky Pole, Michal Przysiezny! disbelief

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Evans to become British No. 3 now?

helki · Futures qualifying

Excellent win from Dan E, knocking out the 3rd seed, that's the way to do it. wink

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Comon dan take this, this guy veic lost his last five before yesterday, win and that's 20 points in the bag for the week, it's already a good week getting 9 for the win

indiana · Tennis legend

The Magician Santoro wrote:

Evans to become British No. 3 now?

No doubt, if not this coming Monday ( he'd need to reach the semis here ) then the following Monday when Ward will be dropping 24 points, well unless Jamie B does some really spectacular stuff smile

However, I wish it was more as a result of Dan surging up the rankings than Ward and Goodall basically having significantly fallen back.

Anyway that's a really good win for Dan in Round 1. Hopefully he's on good form this week and can make a good move up the rankings, and doesn't stick in one of these occasional awful looking defeats that to me make him still a bit of an enigma.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 24th of November 2009 05:04:45 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

I had to go to work with Dan 2-1* down in the third set, and I expected him to just fall away so I'm glad to come back to a win.

He did seem to be playing well in the first set, very patient in the rallies and was dominating a lot of them.

Not sure what Veic plays like, but I think Dan will come unstuck if/when he plays a more aggresive player on this surface.

helki · Futures qualifying

Dan is last on CC tomorrow. I hope he can maintain his good form from today's match and make it through to the QFs.

Silver · County player

A great first round win from Dan. Let's follow it up now

That's what I wanna see. More than just first round wins please

Drew · Nov 24, 2009

Pity Murray cannot make it another mens win today....well done Evo...great win !!!

goldfish · Futures qualifying

That's a nice bonus this week. C'mon Dan!

RedCabbage · Club Coach

Looks like our Dan is turning into a bit of a player to watch - kinda like Boggo - in that he can spring a surprise against anybody. We don't really have that with the other top guys who tend to beat the players they're meant to but lose to anyone ranked higher. I'm sure someone will come up with a dozen examples of Goodall and Bloomers beating top 10 players but I'll stick with my comfortable opinions whether they're accurate or not!

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

hey there :) I happen to have a reporter in Helsinki for my website

I hope it's ok with you if I post the fragment about Daniel in here... hope you all folks are doing great... and no harsh feelings about the DC boo-hoo. I also have shirtless pictures of Aucks and Marray from Szczecin on my Facebook but I'm not sure how I can post them here.

Daniel Evans vs Bjorn Phau

When arrived to the court for a moment I thought Fernando Gonzalez was playing in the place of the Brit. Evans was sporting exactly the same look as Gonzalez usually does and he also kept shouting Vamos! out loud each time he won a big point. Even some of his shots reminded of Gonzo, but with less power of course. The match turned out to be the best quality tennis of the day. In the first set Evans was able to control most of the rallies with a good mixture of attacking tennis and Phau seemed happy to just try to get everything back. That didnt work out for the German and in the second set he became much more aggressive winning it in convincing style. The third set turned out to be a copy of the first set, where Evans used a lot of variety to take charge of the match. He showed cool nerves under pressure and earned the win by playing more positive tennis. Meanwhile on the other courts Koubek and Kamke had already won their matches very quickly, so next I wanted to see how Dustin Brown was doing on Court 4.

indiana · Tennis legend

RedCabbage wrote:

Looks like our Dan is turning into a bit of a player to watch - kinda like Boggo - in that he can spring a surprise against anybody. We don't really have that with the other top guys who tend to beat the players they're meant to but lose to anyone ranked higher. I'm sure someone will come up with a dozen examples of Goodall and Bloomers beating top 10 players but I'll stick with my comfortable opinions whether they're accurate or not!

Not having particularly researched it either I kind of think you are right, Dan certainly has had some really good unexpected wins.

But he does also have unexpected defeats, sometimes really bad, and this is one reason why he is not really rising up the rankings to the extent many had hoped. In that regard, he is much more inconsistent than Boggo. Some folk seem to think there are some players he just doesn't match up well against, but whatever he does need to sort this out somehow.

It would be great to see Dan find some real consistency in his game, and the ability to deal with different players, and rise up these rankings.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 01:29:55 PM