Week 4 - Great Britain F2 ($10,000) - Sunderland (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 4 - Great Britain F2 ($10,000) - Sunderland (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
Evans was 4/11, Grant 2/1.

Thanks. There does look to be a certain 'Evo factor' there.

Tempting maybe both ways depending on folk's knowledge and general thoughts about Evo. Personally I think they look reasonable ( not knowing anything more than the ranking info about Grant ) and wouldn't have touched that either way.

Bit surprised if there was a big weight of money on Grant, but maybe a core of real Evo doubters went for it. Maybe it's a rather surprising to some amount of backing for Grant and the scale of the loss that has brought questions ( maybe helped prompted by some Evo backers ), but it really isn't a massive shock. When losing, Evo has just gone absolutely missing in futures before.

I really majorly doubt that there is anything sinister here.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 12:20:30 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Milts won 4&4
Dan S is serving for the match at 5-1

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (8) Josh Milton WR 385 beat Matthias Wunner (GER) WR 649 (CH 628 last Nov) by 4 & 4

L16: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 284 beat Micke Kontinen (FIN) WR 409 (CH 355 last Sep) by 7-6(4) 6-1

Spectator · All-time great

Nice wins for both Mr Smethurst and Mr Milton - especially Mr Smethurst.

In re: Mr Evans, I'm not a betting person. But were I suddenly to change my views and predilections, the last thing I would do would be to bet on anything involving Mr Evans ... not because of a fear of cheating or match-fixing, but because at least historically, he is a player capable of everything from top-50 to sub-500 play on any given day.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Ed has won the first set 6-0
Marzi is 4-0 up on Joe

freerider · Futures level

Corrie has dished out a first set bagel

RJA · Hall of fame

Somewhat surprisingly James also dishes out a first set bagel.

RJA · Hall of fame

Corrie lost the second set 6-1

Meanwhile Michael Grant just won 2 and 1 against the guy who beat Evo last week. Adds some context to yesterday's result.

RJA · Hall of fame

Marzi won 0 and 4

Ed trails *2-4 in the third.

RJA · Hall of fame

Ed got the break back but Halys broke again and after a lengthy final game served it out to win 6-4 in the third.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Ed has only taken 4 out of 19 break points and lost to the French lad, who CourtCrazy said was talented when he saw him last week.

RJA · Hall of fame

Halys is certainly a really good prospect. He reached No3 in the junior rankings and made it to a slam final and two semi-finals.

-- Edited by RJA on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 02:46:53 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Ed has only taken 4 out of 19 break points and lost to the French lad, who CourtCrazy said was talented when he saw him last week.

He's more than talented. He's been predicted to be top 10/top 20 by some serious coaches. One of the British coaches I talked to recently said he saw him play a couple of months ago and thought he was the best prospect he'd seen in years. Personally, whenever I saw Halys, he's been completely up and down, but that's been mostly a year or two ago and he's growing up fast so probably changing a lot.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, clearly Halys is very talented, if it would appear still rather inconsistent and unpredictable. I suspect that the hugely fluctuating scoreline was much more about him than Ed, and it certainly wasn't a great draw for the top seed. Clearly had his chances though.