Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Sacramento, USA (Hard)

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Sacramento, USA (Hard)

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

5-2, RW to serve

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

wpnderful defensive volleys from Dan. 6-2!

thejester · Satellite level

Williams blinks in a close exchange at the net (great reactions from Dan though) and 4 match points.
Fault on the 1st from RW - Dan forces the error. Dan gets the win :)
Good stuff Evo!

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

focused, motivated, calm, and playing great! loved it

wolf · Tennis legend

After cruising for most of the match, Dan really turned on the heat from 5-6 0-30 to win 11 of the last 13 points with some super tennis. Good win.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Dan wins the breaker 7-2!

A very good TB from DAn, and a few errors from RW. Excellent! to bed.....

RJA · Hall of fame

Good solid win for Evo. Nothing spectacular but enough to get the job done and the kind of result that is important if he is to continue moving up the rankings. Second round really shouldn't be a problem as long as he is focussed.

Priesty · Challenger level

Great stuff Evo!! Continuing the good work from the Open biggrin

paulisi · Tennis legend

Super match from Dan. Best i've seen him serve with no break points against. Williams really stepped up his game in the second set and Dan matched him all the way.

Williams would have beaten most players this week playing at that level in the second set.

The draw really has opened up now for Dan with the top seed gone, no reason why he cannot go long this week.

PS A couple of fantastic points - the drop, lob, drop and the smashes that Williams kept getting back

philwrig · Hall of fame

It wasn't long ago that Evo was a liability in TBs, but alas no more , great win.

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

paulisi wrote:
Super match from Dan. Best i've seen him serve with no break points against. Williams really stepped up his game in the second set and Dan matched him all the way.

Williams would have beaten most players this week playing at that level in the second set.

The draw really has opened up now for Dan with the top seed gone, no reason why he cannot go long this week.

PS A couple of fantastic points - the drop, lob, drop and the smashes that Williams kept getting back

Depends on who you make favourite out of Evo and Ebbo I guess (should they meet)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
It wasn't long ago that Evo was a liability in TBs, but alas no more , great win.

I think you probably mean "fortunately no more". smile

steven · Tennis legend

Couldn't really ask for much more than that - very professional from Evo ... and the battle to be 'top Dan' this week goes to R2 ...

L32: Dan Cox WR 263 beat (1) Denis Kudla (USA) WR 95 (CH 90 in Jul) by 5 & 0 biggrin
L32: Dan Evans WR 156 beat (5) Rhyne Williams (USA) WR 124 (CH 114 in Aug) by 6-3 7-6(2) biggrin

L16: Dan Cox WR 263 v Matt Reid (AUS) WR 235 (CH 187 in Jul)
L16: Dan Evans WR 156 v (WC) Jarmere Jenkins (USA) WR 542 (CH 537 in Sep)

Jenkins' ranking is only really based on a few tournaments since June - he has been winning a lot of matches recently, albeit mainly in Futures.

RJA · Hall of fame

paulisi wrote:
Super match from Dan. Best i've seen him serve with no break points against.

The one thing that I think we all picked up on during the summer was that he needed to tighten up with his serve. He was getting some cheap points with it but there were also far too many double faults and the first serve percentage was worrying low. It seemed to be a lot more solid here.