Week 2 - ATP 250 - Apia International, Sydney, Australia (hard)

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Week 2 - ATP 250 - Apia International, Sydney, Australia (hard)

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

Great stuff from Evans so far.

I wonder how long we have to go back since we had a ladies champion, a men's finalist and a men's doubles finalist at the same event.

Robin · Lower Club Player

Tie break first set

Jan · Hall of fame

Dan up *4-2 at the changeover

edit back on serve *4-5

-- Edited by Jan on Saturday 14th of January 2017 09:33:30 AM

Jan · Hall of fame

Muller takes the TB (5)
Come on Dan!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

The net really worked in Muller's favour at the crunch time in the TB. A net cord winner and then a 2nd serve that hit the net and could easily have gone for a DF.

Very little to choose between them.

Jan · Hall of fame

ack broken

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Not to be, but we can still look back on this week with a lot of pride and excitement for the future.

Fantastic week Evo. You'll just have to win the AO instead.

Jan · Hall of fame

Yes - great week for Dan. Sets him up nicely for the AO!

Priesty · Challenger level

cry bleh

To be fair I guess you can't really begrudge Muller and hopefully Dan's time will come. I always love watching him play, he might never be top 20 but I reckon if he could become more widely known to the general public his personality would make him a great inspiration for kids to take up the sport.

Edit - loved that bit of banter between the 2 of them during the prize giving smile

-- Edited by Priesty on Saturday 14th of January 2017 10:22:29 AM

wolf · Tennis legend

Tough one for Dan but you can't help but feel happy for Gilles Muller.

Spectator · All-time great

Wasn't it Muller whom Jamie Delgado coached into contention before he went on to other things? Or am I remembering incorrectly?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the record:

Final: (6) Gilles Müller (LUX) WR 34 defeated Dan Evans WR 67 by 7-6(5) 6-2 cry

A disappointment, but by no means a disgrace.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Wasn't it Muller whom Jamie Delgado coached into contention before he went on to other things? Or am I remembering incorrectly?

No, you're not, Spectator, it was.

James · Satellite level

Priesty wrote:

Edit - loved that bit of banter between the 2 of them during the prize giving

Any chance you could elaborate please!

Hugely impressive week for Dan and if Muller hadn't had a few fluky net cords in the first set tie break the match could easily have swung in his favour. Lovely to see him competing within the type of environments/situations that bring out the best in him.