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korriban


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Spectator wrote:

Just out of interest, Steven, which accent were you parodying? (I definitely missed a post from imoen along the way ....)

 Great win for Mr. Cox. Didn't expect that, and am very glad indeed. Must do wonderful things for the confidence. Now for Mr Evans ...

Vis a vis previous comment re: Mr Wolmarans: I'd been thinking of his past form. In addition, unusually, almost all of the other FQR opponents bar one were lower ranked than he ... and none came anywhere near his career high. (I hadn't, however, looked up his recent FQR form!) That said, a lot of the rankings were probably, as in the case of Mr Kokkinakis, pretty meaningless.



-- Edited by Spectator on Tuesday 1st of October 2013 06:26:13 AM

The difference in standard between Dan Cox and Josh Milton yesterday was scary. Dan played a blinder: even his serve (always a slight weakness) seems to have been improved, and his movement, consistency (in the main) and attacking play were excellent.

Mr Wolmarans was not playing well himself but didn't need to against Josh. Not seen Josh play for about a year but I fear that most of the better returners in the womens' game would now take his serve apart, let alone Challenger and better Futures level men. He was also playing so far behind the baseline that he was unable to reach a couple of Wolmarans shorter groundstrokes - not dropshots mind - just short groundstrokes. And it really looked like a boy vs a man in terms of physique and weight of shot (not that Wolmarans was hitting hard). Ed Corrie, Alex Ward and Dan Cox must have all worked very hard on their strength and conditioning, and without being tall men, have all visibly bulked up - which has helped their performance.........Mr Milton has to bite the bullet IMO.



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Spectator, I'm in New Zealand at the moment, I think it was mentioned in the middle of a thread about three weeks ago so no reason for you to have known.

Unfortunately this means I'm posting using an iPad and whilst I can touch type nice and quickly on a proper keyboard, typing on an iPad is driving me crazy, not least because I can't work out how to switch off the worst auto-correct I've ever had the misfortune to use - I swear it actually adds typos in between me checking the post and submitting it. I know my posts are riddled with them at the moment and I can only apologise.

P.S. very funny Steven, I'm not picking up the accent but I'm picking up the language quickly enough to just about get by

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An account of Dan's win from a journo who was there http://bit.ly/19f5Y6Y 



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Evo last on centre court, so may be a late one. I assume it will be streamed.

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paulisi wrote:

Evo last on centre court, so may be a late one. I assume it will be streamed.

 It is on the stadium court, so there is no reason that it won't be streamed.  However, "Any match on any court may be moved".  Also, a match duration of two hours if the time between the end of one match and start of the next is included is not unreasonable. This means that Dan may start at 2.00am our time. This is past my bedtime.   



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stevemcqueen wrote:
paulisi wrote:

Evo last on centre court, so may be a late one. I assume it will be streamed.

 It is on the stadium court, so there is no reason that it won't be streamed.  However, "Any match on any court may be moved".  Also, a match duration of two hours if the time between the end of one match and start of the next is included is not unreasonable. This means that Dan may start at 2.00am our time. This is past my bedtime.   

Play starts at 18:00 BST so if the proceeding matches average two hours Dan should start around midnight.



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My live stream has seized up at the start of the tie break !!

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Comes back on at 3-0 up

#allez



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Tuesday 1st of October 2013 11:35:32 PM

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After the volleys at the net for 6-2 in the breaker, was that a "vamos" as opposed to an "allez" that I heard ?

Either way, great win for Dan. Williams upped his game substantially in the 2nd set and particularly the serve. But Dan was impressively "composed" throughout and played a fantastic match.

Great to see. Let's hope there's a lot more where that came from.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Tuesday 1st of October 2013 11:43:55 PM

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lets hope dan can turn a miserable day around today, pretty optimistic of his chances

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Third game on court - young Kokkinakis looks a real talent.

Dan is probably going to be on around 11.15

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Great snakes! Robert Kendrick is playing here. I had totally forgotten about his existence but now it brings back memories of his epic duel with Nadal.

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L16: Dan Cox WR 263 v Matt Reid (AUS) WR 235 (CH 187 in Jul)

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Dan about to start, winner plays recent college graduate Jamere Jenkins who has been posting some impressive results recently.

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"Dan Evans sporting a very fashionable look here, with the sky blue polo" - this guy makes me literally cringe every time...

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Dan breaks and holds to go 4-1 ahead.  8 points in succcession.



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