Week 18 Futures - Italy F7 ($10k) - Viterbo - Clay

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 18 Futures - Italy F7 ($10k) - Viterbo - Clay

MPTL · Newbie

Daniel Evans vs Laurynas Grigelis 6:4 6:0 disbelief

Next meeting in Italy F8?

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

do you mean Evo won or lost?

wolf · Tennis legend

Won.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

checking the link in your signature, it does appear Evo did win!

nice revenge (i hope!), this is only 10K so Evo needs to win it to get a good points return

SMC1809 · All-time great

Clearly Lloydy wasn't there to offer his support, advice and encouragement then. wink

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Good win Dan!

steven · Tennis legend

The Knight wrote:

do you mean Evo won or lost?

I think his/her sad smiley was because he's Lithuanian. Nice of him/her to let us know the result though. It's on the ATP site too:

QF: (1) Dan Evans WR 367 beat (5) Laurynas Grigelis (LTU) WR 452 by 4 & 0

SF: (1) Dan Evans WR 367 v Luca Vanni (ITA) WR 626

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Just goes to show what a "leveller" the Davis Cup is

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

evo

, didn't think evo could play on clay thou?, maybe the clay is neuterlizing the serve

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Tennis36 wrote:

evo, didn't think evo could play on clay thou?, maybe the clay is neuterlizing the serve

YES that's what i was thinking!

You could say it neutralizes his slice backhand too, but then that encourages him to hit the topspin backhand which is his best shot i think

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

evo wins 6-3 6-4, pleased for him after recent happenings, plays unseeded player in final

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Well played Evo

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Well done, Dan

!

Final:

(1) Dan Evans WR 369 vs Guillermo Hormazábal (CHI) WR 516

A definite chance of a second men's title this weekend, I'd have thought...

steven · Tennis legend

Hormazábal was ranked around 300 at this time last year and has a 6-6 record in Futures Finals, a 0-1 record in Challenger Finals. With Trusendi, he knocked Evo & Grigelis out of the doubles this week but has not played a Brit in singles since 2006, when he beat David Brewer in Carpi.