Week 9 - Challenger (€42,500 + H) - Cherbourg, France - Hard

RJA · Hall of fame

RE: Week 9 - Challenger (€42,500 + H) - Cherbourg, France - Hard

Priesty · Challenger level

So much for the new improved Evo cry

RJA · Hall of fame

Priesty wrote:
So much for the new improved Evo

Hard to condemn on the basis of one match, especially without knowing what happened. Sometimes it is just one of those days and it is possible that he came up against someone having the match of his life. Herbert did push a top 200 player to three sets in Marseille qualifying last week. The stats also indicate that he served very well, 13 aces in 8 service games and only dropped 4 points on first serve. Obviously a very disappointing result after such a solid performance in qualifying but lets hope it was just a blip on an otherwise upwards journey.

Incidentally Evo has since tweeted "hmmmmm interesting" which doesn't really tell us much.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RJA wrote:

Incidentally Evo has since tweeted "hmmmmm interesting" which doesn't really tell us much.

If you look at an earlier tweet and it's preceding 'conversation' re 'big dogs' it appears that someone (his coach?) warned him not to be over confident.

S&V · Club Coach

Oh dear

Count Zero · Tennis legend

that's a tough one for evo, but it still been a good start to the year overall. Sometimes game styles just don't match up.

steven · Tennis legend

Ken Skupski re. yesterday, after OEM questioned how Dan could have lost so badly: "Impressive performance from Herbert yesterday. Play to a very high level throughout."

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i agree sometimes we can overreact to scorelines, and these guys are less than 100 places apart.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: David Rice & Sean Thornley lost to Martin Fischer & Philipp Oswald (AUT/AUT) by 1 & 4 cry

At least that means no divided loyalties for the QF encounter:

QF: Martin Fischer & Philipp Oswald (AUT/AUT) vs (3) Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

Count Zero wrote:
i agree sometimes we can overreact to scorelines, and these guys are less than 100 places apart.

agreed.....at the end of the day (based on his quali seeding) he performed better than his seeding expected. we ("i") hoped for more based on DC performance but small steps....5 points gained.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Renavand (FRA/FRA) lost to (2) Dustin Brown (GER) & Jonny Marray by 4 & 2 smile

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QF: (WC) Romain Jouan & Fabrice Martin (FRA/FRA) vs (2) Dustin Brown (GER) & Jonny Marray

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: (WC) Romain Jouan & Fabrice Martin (FRA/FRA) vs (2) Dustin Brown (GER) & Jonny Marray

First set in the bag for Jonny & Dustin by 6-4. smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (WC) Romain Jouan & Fabrice Martin (FRA/FRA) lost to (2) Dustin Brown (GER) & Jonny Marray by 4 & 3 smile

Delgo & Skups or Fischer & Oswald in the semi...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Martin Fischer & Philipp Oswald (AUT/AUT) lost to (3) Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski by 5 & 4 smile

*****

Divided loyalties in the semi bleh :

SF: (3) Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski vs (2) Dustin Brown (GER) & Jonny Marray

helki · Futures qualifying

Oh dear, what a dilemma. hmm Have a county loyalty to Jonny, but... a totally Brit win would be good, too. wink