Week 25 - ATP 250 - Nottingham (grass)

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

Week 25 - ATP 250 - Nottingham (grass)

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

2-1 Evo

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

2-2

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

another over rule in Evo's favour ;) at 30-30 Evo served called out and over ruled by the umpire as an ace. Evo then holds

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

3-3 hold to love by cuevas

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

4-3 Evo

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

4-4 another hold to love from Cuevas

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

broken 4 -5

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

GSM Cuevas 6-7 7-6 6-4 shame... another case of what could have been

RJA · Hall of fame

Well that can only go down as a match thrown away. Evo was in complete control and easily the better player right up to the point where he served for the match only to produce a very poor game. After that Cuevas clearly sensed his opportunity and raised his level. The third set always felt like there was only going to be one winner.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

After the excitement of Wimbledon Q. I forgot all about Nottingham, looks like a great effort by Dan. Hoping to see him in more ATP events in the coming months.

Jan · Hall of fame

sooooo close

philwrig · Hall of fame

Well that was gutting, felt after Evo had overcome the frustration from a tough audible obscenity call, which although he was certainly muttering something, it certainly wasn't clear that he'd said anything that bad. Felt the game at 5-3 in the 2nd was a key one. Cuevas was a beaten man at that point, if Evo had just forced Cuevas to play a couple more balls in that game I think it would have been all over then.

Still though great prep for Wimby, I did feel this was the tournament which Evo could have a good run in, and he so nearly turned it into something special.

Ratty · County player

Surely the only real difference between the player ranked 25 and the player ranked 97 is that the former usually wins. I don't think that anyone doubts that Dan can mix it with the best.

Behaving like an adult instead of a teenager helps too. I replayed the code violation incident a couple of times, and Dan's beef seemed to be that (i) he was only swearing to himself (irrelevant) and (ii) he reckoned that Cuevas had also been swearing (unproven, and in any event unlikely to change the umpire's decision). He was lucky that the umpire defused the situation by good-humouredly telling him to shut up and get on with it.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Dan needs to learn Scottish swear words.