Davis Cup 2012 - E-A Zone I R2 - Great Britain v Belgium, 6-8 Apr

wolf · Tennis legend

Davis Cup 2012 - E-A Zone I R2 - Great Britain v Belgium, 6-8 Apr

Scouseandy · Social player

No Murray unfortunately.... Do we still have a shot?

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

gb team announced

wardy
evo
fleming
hutchins

RJA · Hall of fame

Scouseandy wrote:
No Murray unfortunately.... Do we still have a shot?

Yes we have a shot but it is certainly a long one.

Colin and Ross winning the doubles looks like an asolute must if we are to have any chance and Ward really needs to be back to his best if we are to have a chance. We can't seriously expect Evo to win both matches again.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Definitely capable of out hitting the two 'short' blokes from Belgium i would think and will always have a look in on their serves, although when it comes to technique and experience its a very tough tie.

I think Darcis hits a bigger ball than Rochus?

Mikeduke · County player

Is this on tv?

steven · Tennis legend

Today's new ATP singles rankings for those named to the teams so far:

GB

James Ward WR 154 (up 8) - 215th (GB 3) in the ATP 2012 race

0-2 v Bemelmans (2 & 2 in the UK in 2007, 2 t/bs in Zagreb in 2010), 0-0 v the others

Dan Evans WR 344 (down 53) - 197th (GB 2) in the ATP 2012 race

0-1 v Darcis (3 & 3 in Doha in 2010), 0-0 v the others

BELGIUM

Olivier Rochus WR 59 (down 7) - 38th (BEL 1) in the ATP 2012 race

Steve Darcis WR 68 (no change) - 73rd (BEL 3) in the ATP 2012 race

David Goffin WR 112 (up 36 after his Le Gosier Challenger win) - 52nd (BEL 2) in the ATP 2012 race

Ruben Bemelmans WR 145 (down 2) - 77th (BEL 4) in the ATP 2012 race

-- Edited by steven on Monday 2nd of April 2012 06:46:59 AM

daisy · County player

We're a spare place in the Murray forum block booking on Friday 6th April.

If anyone is interested please could you PM me in this forum? The ticket can be picked up at Braehead; originally £25 but we can do a 'deal' if someone is interested.

Play starts at 1pm (on all 3 days this time).

Ratty · County player

I'll sit with you, but you'll need to pay me more than £25.

steven · Tennis legend

Wardy has had to pull out with a back injury and Josh Goodall has taken his place.

GB nos 4 and 7 now playing a team with 4 in the top 150 ...

At least Josh is on a winning streak, even if it is in Futures.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 4th of April 2012 02:06:24 PM

steven · Tennis legend

H2H info for Josh - he has only played Darcis too, 10 years ago in the last 16 at junior Wimbledon, losing 3 & 2. Still, he did better than Muzz that year, who went out to Skrypko in R1 but would only have been 15 at the time.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

it's a shame Baker isn't about to step up, his form recently would probably be deserving of a place.

This was going to be a tough tie as soon as Andy opted out anyhow.

steven · Tennis legend

I get the horrible feeling Andy may come back to DC just as we run out of teams we are due home ties against and that will then become the reason not to play.

Still, with Andy and James (though he seems to have started to become less of a 'clay courter' recently), it wouldn't be impossible to win away ties on clay, at least in Group 1.

daisy · County player

Ratty wrote:
I'll sit with you, but you'll need to pay me more than £25.

Lol, but you'd be seated next to Steven and that's worth far more than £25 ...

smile

steven · Tennis legend

daisy wrote:
Ratty wrote:
I'll sit with you, but you'll need to pay me more than £25.
Lol, but you'd be seated next to Steven and that's worth far more than £25 ...

Even more incentive is that he'd have a free seat next to him to stretch out onto - unfortunately, I won't be able to make it on Friday but I'm very hopeful of getting there for the weekend.