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indiana


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bet365 has it : Dan 11/8, Kyle 8/15, which is favouring Kyle on a roughly 60%/40% split.

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Court a bit quick for Dan getting much chance of variations and he's simply very unlikely to win a hitting battle with Kyle.

Kyle in a fair amount of control at 5-2*

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Kyle did face his first break point after Dan attacked and came in on a second serve, but he blasted through the next few points to complete as the commentator said a "fairly dominant" first set 6-3

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Linesperson reported audible obscenity to umpire . Not gone down well, understandably.

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FINAL: (2) Kyle Edmund WR 102 beat Dan Evans WR 174 by 3 & 2

A stunningly good performance from Kyle in all areas, especially serve and forehand, and seemed a completely different player relative to last week's final. Evo didn't play badly, he was simply outclassed today. The tournament director said at the end that he's been doing it for 18 years and always gets asked who is the best player they've had - for years, he's said Tursunov, now says he might have to revise that

Kyle now goes level with Wardy for 2nd= in Challenger titles by Brits this century with 4 and should jump back into the top 100 to a new career high in the mid 80s on Monday.

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Only caught the second set, but from what I saw Kyle was unplayable and Evo was at the levels he was at all week.

Huge serve, huge forehand from Kyle. There is a top 50 player in the making there and a top 100 for Evo

The audible obscenity seemed very harsh

Kyle spoke very well at the end.

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Pretty ruthlessly efficient by Kyle, a couple of fairly awful overheads aside. Very well done

Dan did manage just a bit more variation in the second set, but to little consequence and was clearly increasingly frustrated by having little answer to the excellence on the other side of the net. Though yes the audible obscenity call seemed harsh, being not very audible whatever it was.

Overall a great couple of weeks for Kyle, some lessons learned hopefully in last week's final about trying to deal better with difficult situations and conditions ( he will face them often again ) and then the satisfaction of such a final display this week.

Tough for Dan tonight, but he's on a good path again. Keep with it, mate.

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Evo (responding to a tweet about what the TD said): "@GBtennis I tell u that he won't have seen a bigger fh in 18 years"

Generally, despite being frustrated for obvious reasons (including the INaudible obscenity point penalty farce), Dan didn't seem too downcast - he knew Kyle was just too good on the day.

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Excellent that Kyle will be back in the top 100 again so soon :D
A great week for Evo too :D

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Impressive from Kyle and well done to Evo too!

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Kyle had too much. Well played both, first time I have watched Kyle and Evo not caring about the outcome, and finally as a non biased observer I can confirm he (Kyle) has one well of a forehand!

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Well done Kyle and commiserations to Evo.

Anyone got a link to where I can watch the rerun please? Am too inept at present to be able to find it through the ATP Tour site.

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Priesty wrote:

Well done Kyle and commiserations to Evo.

Anyone got a link to where I can watch the rerun please? Am too inept at present to be able to find it through the ATP Tour site.

 bit.ly/16dallcc 



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All I want for Christmas is ............. Kyle Edmund's forehand. WOW.

Thought Evo played pretty well too but that performance was reminiscent of the the 1st two sets of the DC final v Goffin.

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Oakland2002 wrote:

[...]  as a non biased observer I can confirm he (Kyle) has one well of a forehand!

Does it give you that sinking feeling, Oakland?!! wink

Congratulations to Kyle (the scoreline makes it look very easy) & well done both players. 



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