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

LouieG · County player

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

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Dan playing so well right now, Canadian looking like he can't cope

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Vital service game right now to keep the pressure on.

Allez, Allez, Vamos !!

RJA · Hall of fame

LouieG wrote:
DUPPLE BREAK

Calm down mate. I takes some doing to press "p" when you mean "b"

Bet yes, great turnaround from Dan.

thejester · Satellite level

Wow. What a turnaround. 5-1 Evo in the second set and Dan is driving Pospisil into his shell.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Go dan ! 1 set all , more of the same please

thejester · Satellite level

And a stunning backhand winner from Dan to take the set with a third break and make sure he gets to serve first in set 3.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

A very interesting match so far. Was great to see Dan hit some fantastic winners in the 2nd set.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Great stuff. Please don't change your shirt Evo.

steven · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
LouieG wrote:
DUPPLE BREAK
Calm down mate. I takes some doing to press "p" when you mean "b"
Bet yes, great turnaround from Dan.

Louie's not the only one whose fingers are getting over-excited wink

Can't even begin to guess how this 3rd set is going to go ...

SMC1809 · All-time great

It's easy to be smart after the event, but do we now think it was okay for Dan to give up the first set once he knew it was a lost cause. My own view would be that it was, as long as he used the final few games to learn from his opponent, e.g. looking for where he most often placed his returns, serves etc. I don't know if Dan did, but you'd like to think that was exactly what he was doing.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

I had a feeling that Dan would win that set either to love or 1. Don't know why I also expect a tie break to decide it. If this happens I'm buying a lottery ticket tomorrow!

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Big hold from Evo! Now keep the pressure on

thejester · Satellite level

Evo fights back from 15-40 to advantage, and a super Pospisil return can't hold him up for long. 1-0 in set three.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

SMC1809 wrote:
It's easy to be smart after the event, but do we now think it was okay for Dan to give up the first set once he knew it was a lost cause. My own view would be that it was, as long as he used the final few games to learn from his opponent, e.g. looking for where he most often placed his returns, serves etc. I don't know if Dan did, but you'd like to think that was exactly what he was doing

Andy Murray quite often tanked a few sets to win that way earlier in his career I seem to recall. Didn't do him any harm either