Week 18 - Challenger ($100.000+H) - Busan, South Korea (Hard)

Spectator · All-time great

Week 18 - Challenger ($100.000+H) - Busan, South Korea (Hard)

Priesty · Challenger level

I also think that Evo, Kedders and the Broady Bunch could be great for inspiring kids to take up the game once they become better known to the wider British public who only tend to watch tennis during Wimbledon. All of them come across in the media as pretty ordinary and down to earth like they could be living next door to you.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Fabulous win by Dan:

SF: Dan Evans WR 97 defeated (2) John Millman (AUS) WR 67 by 3 & 3

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And here's hoping he can make it two wins in two weeks agin the pesky Russkie in the final!

Final: Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS) WR 126 (CH = 125 in February) vs Dan Evans WR 97

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great to see Evo doing so well. Back to back titles would be quite an achievement especially at such a high level.

Is he playing next week as well?

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

I think that should give Dan enough points to be in the top 100 at US Open entry deadline so that's probably just qualified himself for that.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Phenomenal stuff Evo, I really thought the Milkman was unbeatable.

RJA · Hall of fame

Good solid win for Dan although given how he is playing not a particularly surprising one (I had a tenner on him). Millman is a solid enough player but I think his ranking flatters him and a lot of his wins this year at ATP level have come against players who were badly out of form. I don't think there is much doubt that Dan has the higher level of the two and that if he played well he would be in charge of the match.

indiana · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
wolf wrote:
indiana wrote:
Yay A131 and polite of you to answer a question even if some people find the Slam MD WC 'system' disagreements boring. And anyway always new folk each year to lead to a better path
I didn't say I found the topic boring. I said I found people saying the same thing over and over boring. I must have read the same thing at least 20 times on different threads where it get stated that wild cards shouldn't be given at Grand Slams etc.
And it is off topic to the thread. If you want to discuss go and talk about it in a dedicated wild card thread to your hearts content. This topic is about the Busan challenger.
Wish I had just quoted this In hindsight!

Fair dos, noted and apologies. Expect a dedicated thread in the fairly near future

indiana · Tennis legend

As for Dan, FAN-TAS-TIC

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

What can I say that hasn't been said. That is an outstanding result from Dan, despite my pessimism making the Milkan favourite. Go Dan.

Will be watching the match on playback on the livestream site later as it sounds like it is definitely worth a watch.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

stevemcqueen wrote:
Dan will play Kravchuk in the final, who he beat so narrowly to win the title last week. I will be interested to see what game plan he puts together with Hilts.
Unfortunately for us, their match has a morning start - first up is the doubles at 10.00 and the singles staigt after (not before 11.00) I'm usually wrong when I translate to UK time, but I think that is a 3.00am...

smile That makes it 11pm here. Sorry folks.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

YAY; fantastic win for Evo :D
Here's hoping he bests KK in the final again :)

TMH · Futures qualifying

Kyle and Dan are neck and neck in the live rankings. If they both win their finals the will be 3 points apart!

Dan is looking very impressive these days. Looking forward to seeing what he can do on the main tour in the grass season and beyond.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

If I had Sky Sports and some amphetamines, I'd pop a couple of those pills so I could watch Dan v. KK swiftly followed by Khan v. Alvarez in Las Vegas.

I've watched quite a lot of Dan over the last couple of weeks. He is beating good players, earning points and has an increasingly happy bank manager. What I really want to know is how often he can reach the level he achieved against Berankis. The standard of his play in that match was huge! I think that match is still watchable.

Anyway enjoy the w/e

indiana · Tennis legend

TMH wrote:
Kyle and Dan are neck and neck in the live rankings. If they both win their finals the will be 3 points apart!

Dan is looking very impressive these days. Looking forward to seeing what he can do on the main tour in the grass season and beyond.

Great to see. Would be interesting to see who would most keep this up ( hope they both do ) and claim a Davis Cup berth if the Serbia tie were on hard. Since clay that will clearly be Kyle. Though I am not convinced that Andy will be there.

Best of all though just to see this set of results from, well including Andy, our 3 top players of the year so far and all in finals this week ( which may have Steven digging or already primed to possibly answer a question or two )