Week 24 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Eastbourne - Main draw

RJA · Hall of fame

RE: Week 24 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Eastbourne - Main draw

Guid007 · Strong Club Player

Same old story for Evo really - shows he can match top 100 players but just lacks the mental strength to close matches out.

RJA · Hall of fame

Looking at the stats it is hard to believe that Dan lost.

66% of first serves in

79% won on first serve
62% won on second serve

won 97 points v 91 to his opponent

Even his second set stats were better than Dimitrov's. Just one bad game at *4-3 in the second cost him his first ATP tour win.

Dimitroc clearly grew in confidence after the second set and only lost 3 points in serve in the third.

-- Edited by RJA on Monday 13th of June 2011 04:38:29 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Not knowing anything about who was really showing mental strength or confidence at whatever times on the day, I'll just say that looks as if it's been a really pretty good performance overall from Evo.

Certainly looks as if he played much better than he had seemed to be recently.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 13th of June 2011 04:48:43 PM

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Kohli pulled out so Cox plays Donald Dung

DavidC · Tennis legend

Disappointed that Evo lost, particularly from a winning position - he hammered Dimitrov twice in juniors (lost just 6 games in 2 matches, including a Grand Slam) so should have had a psychological edge.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Really tough first service game for Dan Cox - 22 points, 5 DFs and eventually loses it but saved 8 break points.

Akhenaten · Pro player

Dan Cox vs Donald Young 1-5*

Slabba vs Kevin Anderson 4*-5

RainDelay · Pro player

Slabinsky double faults twice in a row to give Anderson first set 7-5 :(

Akhenaten · Pro player

Slabba lost 1st set 5-7.

Cox lost 1st set 1-6. but is 2-2 in 2nd set.

indiana · Tennis legend

goldfish wrote:
Really tough first service game for Dan Cox - 22 points, 5 DFs and eventually loses it but saved 8 break points.

The stats folk obviously couldn't keep up since they have him only saving 4 BPs in the whole set smile

Anyway, the general stats do suggest that Dan got well into most games if not as competitieve as that one, so the 6 - 1 score a bit tough.

Going better second set at * 3 - 3 and Dan had couple of BPs ( Dung had 1 )

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 14th of June 2011 11:09:11 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Cox 1 - 6 5 - 4 *

Slabba 5 - 7 * 2 - 3 ( points on Anderson serve 5 - 36 ! )

indiana · Tennis legend

Break, break cry

Cox 5 - 6 *

Slabba 2 - 4 * ( and in a flash * 2 - 5 )

indiana · Tennis legend

Young beats Cox 6 - 1 7 - 5 ( to be fair Young tried to help out by flinging in his only 3 DFs of the match in the final game and Dan had a break back point )

Anderson beats Slabinsky 7 - 5 6 - 3 ( his service points ended 44 - 6, Slabba had very good first serve points won stats, between the two when their first serves in they won 63 / 71 points, I suspect it won't be the greatest spectacle at Eastbourne today ! )

goldfish · Futures qualifying

James Ward about to start, Tipsy serving first. Tough match and will be hard to build on last week but with confidence high, who knows what might happen.