Week 31 - Challenger ($100,000) - Vancouver, Canada (Hard)

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31 - Challenger ($100,000) - Vancouver, Canada (Hard)

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

looks like the bbc have been keeping up to date surprisingly!

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/23566404

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

huntley93 wrote:
looks like the bbc have been keeping up to date surprisingly!

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/23566404

Already reported - see previous page! wink

RJA · Hall of fame

Salmon wrote:
That's nice of Murray to both watch and encourage the Challenger guys.

And he struck the right tone as well. No OTT praise, just a bit banter and some gentle encouragement for the final.

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
Into the top 200 he goes! (remember a few weeks ago we only had 1 Brit in the ATP top 250? - now 3 in the top 200!)

Like JoKo, Dan managed to find a way through in straight sets even without having a great serving day [...]

And both even get a mention in despatches on the Beeb's site! Imagine! The Beeb reporting on results in a lowly Challenger event!

guessing what happened is someone saw murrays tweet then investigated a bit more into what was happening, they also mentioned ward win in lexington too also it's quite a big challenge is it not?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
huntley93 wrote:
looks like the bbc have been keeping up to date surprisingly!

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/23566404
Already reported - see previous page!

But it was definitely worth reading again wink

RJA · Hall of fame

Worth noting that Dan's second round victim here, Amir Weintraub, has just qualified for Montreal by beating Albert Ramos and Ivo Karlovic.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Sadly Pospisil found his serving rythym at just the wrong time. I think he had only served 2 aces until that last couple of service games but he found another 4 or 5 at the end, including 2 on MP down.

Great week for Dan though. Plenty to be proud of.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Monday 5th of August 2013 12:50:51 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

Final will be starting shortly. Pospisil is in good form and is a youngish player on the up. He starts the match as favourite but Dan has a chance if he can continue this week's form. He will however have to serve better than he did last night against Reynolds.

steven · Tennis legend

Just 5 British players have ever won an ATP-ranked singles match against Olivier Rochus:

2003 - Greg Rusedski - Nottingham ATP - went on to win the title
2008 - Andy Murray - Doha ATP - went on to win the title
2009 - Alex Bogdanovic - Kolding Challenger - went on to win the title
2013 - James Ward - Lexington Challenger - went on to win the title
2013 - Dan Evans - Vancouver Challenger - can he keep the run going?

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

steven wrote:
Just 5 British players have ever won an ATP-ranked singles match against Olivier Rochus:

2003 - Greg Rusedski - Nottingham ATP - went on to win the title
2008 - Andy Murray - Doha ATP - went on to win the title
2009 - Alex Bogdanovic - Kolding Challenger - went on to win the title
2013 - James Ward - Lexington Challenger - went on to win the title
2013 - Dan Evans - Vancouver Challenger - can he keep the run going?

great now you've definatly jinxed it cry furious aww hmm bleh biggrin #exessivesmilies biggrin biggrin

philwrig · Hall of fame

This will be tough, but fingers crossed we get the win.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Something tells me that this final won't be straight-forward for the winner. Expecting 3 sets.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Sounds like the commentator has actually been doing his homework. Both Evo's DC exploits and Muzza's tweet already getting a mention.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

BeefyDeedz wrote:
Something tells me that this final won't be straight-forward for the winner. Expecting 3 sets.

Something tells me that unless evo sorts his serve out this wont last long