Week 5 - ATP 250 - PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Croatia

British_is_Best · County player

RE: Week 5 - ATP 250 - PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Croatia

British_is_Best · County player

Evo with a third MP...

British_is_Best · County player

DFs and its back to deuce

British_is_Best · County player

Now a fourth MP...

British_is_Best · County player

Fourth time lucky and Evo completes the third set whitewash. GSM 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

Yes!

What is most impressive about that win is that he won 10 of the last 11 games despite Bohli clearly not giving up - they all went to 30 or deuce.

I make that only the 2nd time Dan has qualified for a main tour event in his career (Auckland 2010) - have I missed any?

RJA · Hall of fame

Brilliant result.

Hard to believe that this is the same player who last September struggled to beat Oakley and McGrath at the Wrexham and Nottingham futures.

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Get in there,Great Result.

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Well done Evo, that was a good result against a very capable player. Hopefully he gets a nice draw and capitalises on all the extra court time he has had here in the first round.

RJA · Hall of fame

First round he has either Petzschner, Kubot, Garcia-Lopez or Berrer.

seagull · Hall of fame

Would not put it past him to go further. he seems to either be inspired or terrible at the moment

RJA · Hall of fame

A lot of the stats were pretty similar but Dan did better on second serve (58% to 41%) and crucially on break points converting 5 from 9 and saving 6 from 8.

steven · Tennis legend

More info on possible R1 opponents (barring w/ds opening up extra Q/LL spaces) - coincidentally, as with Dancevic and Bohli, he has lost to two of the them in ATP qualifying before!

Michael Berrer (GER) WR 105 (CH 42 in 2010)
Philipp Petzschner (GER) WR 56 (CH 35 in 2009)
Lukasz Kubot (POL) WR 61 (CH 41 in 2010) - H2H 0-1, Kubot won 62 76(0) at Washington Q 2009
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) WR 77 (CH 23 last Feb) - H2H 0-1, GGL won 36 63 64 at Nottingham Q 2008

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Berrer is a great indoor player, so it would be best to avoid him. Other than that, on this form he has a chance against the others.

British_is_Best · County player

The two Germans are probably the worst draws. Berrer has made the Final here for the last 2 years so probably best to not draw him as he seems to enjoy the conditions in Zagreb. Petzschner is also probably at his best Indoors (his one ATP title coming in Vienna in 2008). Kubot or Garcia-Lopez wouldn't be too bad, neither being in great form.