Week 21 - Challenger (€85,000) - Loughborough Trophy, Loughborough, Great Britain (indoor hard)

Jiwan · Club Coach

Week 21 - Challenger (€85,000) - Loughborough Trophy, Loughborough, Great Britain (indoor hard)

christ · Futures qualifying

wolf wrote:
christ wrote:
JonH wrote:
Literally one mens seed left, and the 8th at that, left in the singles draw.

Such a good chance for Dan and Jimbo!
Well "or" rather than "and", unfortunately!
Well hitting back with the pedanticism, surely it's "and" rather than "or", as while they can't both win it, they both can.

Good point.

Mr Evans gets broken for the first time in a while.

-- Edited by christ on Thursday 24th of May 2018 04:30:27 PM

greeny12 · Lower Club Player

How the hell is this guy WR533?

Unless his level drops considerably Evo is toast...

indiana · Tennis legend

greeny12 wrote:
How the hell is this guy WR533?

Unless his level drops considerably Evo is toast...

Hadn't been aware of him. But he has just turned 19, has a JCH 7, and his pretty limited senior outings in the last year have produced ranking points almost entirely from a couple of challengers - qualifying and reaching the SF in Prague and qualifying and reaching the QF in Ningbo.

Basically his WR 533 is of very little real relevance.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Didn't stop him choking when in sight of the finish line. Having broken Evo to go *4-3 up, he threw in a couple of DFs to allow Evo to break back. Suddenly Evo is on fire and holds to love. He now leads 5-4* in the 2nd.

indiana · Tennis legend

Evo broken again so must break back to stay in the match and force a second set TB.

4-6 5-6*

Jan · Hall of fame

Not to be cry cry

indiana · Tennis legend

And such thoughts were swiftly crushed.

Beaten by 6-4 7-5

Jiwan · Club Coach

Not a bad showing from Evo so early on his come back. His opponent was simply better and certainly served better.

Encouraging signs though

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Oh dear, that was a shame but the young guy played extremely well and Dan maybe a little tired from ....... 5 matches played is it ?

Toby · Lower Club Player

Well as Dan so succinctly stated during the second set for all to hear Ive had three f*****g qualy matches, thats why I cant f******g move, thats exactly why I cant f*****g move!

-- Edited by Toby on Thursday 24th of May 2018 05:42:52 PM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Toby wrote:
Well as Dan so succinctly stated during the second set for all to hear Ive had three f*****g qualy matches, thats why I cant f******g move, thats exactly why I cant f*****g move!

-- Edited by Toby on Thursday 24th of May 2018 05:42:52 PM

Haha, I never heard that - but yes, it figures

indiana · Tennis legend

Well f******g up the fitness regime.

His opponent also had 3 qualifying matches, just at this stage is no doubt generally much fitter.

Looks as if matches are part of what Dan needs !

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 24th of May 2018 05:52:45 PM

Jiwan · Club Coach

Julia Carrot wrote:
Toby wrote:
Well as Dan so succinctly stated during the second set for all to hear Ive had three f*****g qualy matches, thats why I cant f******g move, thats exactly why I cant f*****g move!

-- Edited by Toby on Thursday 24th of May 2018 05:42:52 PM
Haha, I never heard that - but yes, it figures

I didn't hear that.

That takes a bit of the sheen of his performance / attitude for me. Without sounding like a Debbie Downer, he's had a year to maintain a relative level of fitness to come back at Challenger level. I know True match fitness can really only be met by playing matches but he has had a year to build to this moment. He wasn't injured, I read somewhere that he only 'recently started practicing again'. if you are tired, suck it up, don't complain like you've been done hard by. I guarantee Andy will be working on any fitness regime that permits his return.

Whilst I think his punishment was a tad hard, he still f***ed up (again) and STILL hasn't lost major financial support to come back. I think many will be watching his early comeback /behavior and he should be very careful about what he says /how he performs. That financial support will certainly have conditions on both of those. There will be a fine line to losing everything if he isn't careful at this stage of his career. Perhaps he shouldn't have received any wild cards making him have to qualifying for 15k like everyone else starting form 0 points. That would be another way to improve your fitness like everyone else on 0 points?

There would be an argument to say that LTA should stop his funding (as he could easily survive on the tour with his earnings) and give that funding to youngsters. That isn't my argument, just shut up Dan! sigh

-- Edited by Jiwan on Thursday 24th of May 2018 06:31:45 PM

-- Edited by Jiwan on Thursday 24th of May 2018 06:36:06 PM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

To give him the benefit of the doubt, he may have just been bemoaning the fact of the situation, rather than complaining or resenting that he had to do that.