Davis Cup 2013 - E-A Zone Group I R2 - GB v Russia - 5-7 April

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Davis Cup 2013 - E-A Zone Group I R2 - GB v Russia - 5-7 April

DF · Tennis legend

Hurray!

They win

Spectator · All-time great

That was beautiful tennis. Thank you, Mr Fleming and Mr Marray. Lovely to watch a really dominant GB team: great strategy, control, movement and closing down the net!

Jan · Hall of fame

just home so missed the entire match - but pleased to see the boys won! Excellent

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Ditto ^^

RJA · Hall of fame

An expected result but well done to Colin and especially to Jonny on his Davis Cup debut.

Elsewhere Poland lead South Africa 2-1 and will presumably take the tie, especially with Janowicz in the team. That means that South Africa will play Slovenia in September with the losers of that tie playing the losers out of us and Russia in a relegation play-off in October (18-20).

steven · Tennis legend

The boys were seriously impressive today - must be scary to play against! Very impressive yesterday too and unlucky not to sneak one of the two points. Bob from Spain is here (pretty much exactly how I expected and great to talk to) and we had an interesting and wide-ranging discussion with Guy McCrea, the Eurosport commentator who is doing the commentary on the LTA stream this weekend, and some of the AMFF mob.

The team got back to the hotel a few minutes ago and seemed in good spirits, much better than last night when they understandably looked absolutely gutted. Lots of us in the bar last night gave them a long round of applause when they walked in. I doubt it helped, but still!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

steven wrote:
Bob from Spain is here (pretty much exactly how I expected and great to talk to)

Can you expand on this please Steven. I mean are we talking typical British expat - socks and sandals, and repeating things loudly if not at first understood.

only kidding

Spectator · All-time great

Just for fun had a look at the Group II Europe/Africa ties. Some looking interesting, some where the loss of a key player has been disastrous. But one rather fascinating: Monaco, playing a Gulbis-led Latvia, is ahead 2-1. Particularly remarkable because the Monagesque team is half unranked, and appears to have an average age of almost 34. Well done, M Balleret and co! Keep up the good work.

RJA · Hall of fame

Spectator wrote:
Just for fun had a look at the Group II Europe/Africa ties. Some looking interesting, some where the loss of a key player has been disastrous. But one rather fascinating: Monaco, playing a Gulbis-led Latvia, is ahead 2-1. Particularly remarkable because the Monagesque team is half unranked, and appears to have an average age of almost 34. Well done, M Balleret and co! Keep up the good work.

Monaco taking one of the opening singles wasn't a massive shock but the doubles result was. Obviously you would expect Gulbis to win tomorrow and make it 2-2 in which case it comes down to Juska (WR 391) v Lisnard (UNR but with a career high of 84).

Jan · Hall of fame

come on James!!!!!

YES!!! first set to James 6-4

-- Edited by Jan on Sunday 7th of April 2013 12:48:05 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Stream is useless with me now, think too many are trying to watch.

Russian stream it is, although that continues to pause

-- Edited by spud on Sunday 7th of April 2013 01:13:53 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

shot from James and he breaks!

.... only to be broken back

-- Edited by Jan on Sunday 7th of April 2013 01:53:00 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

please keep this up James

-- Edited by Jan on Sunday 7th of April 2013 03:29:21 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

He somehow hangs on: victory to Dino by 6-4 5-7 5-7 6-4 6-4! 31 aces to 20! biggrin

The tie's still live!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 7th of April 2013 05:02:34 PM