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stevemcqueen


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Dan saves his easiest service games till last. He wins 6-4, 6-4.  The standard in the 2nd set was not that special.  I'm off to bed.



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Great news!!

Well done Dan

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Dan up to #296 on Live Rankings, lot of Tennis to be played this week, but only 3 players who could overhaul him with a single win, so got to be good chance hell be back inside Top 300 this week. Another win would secure it.

AMMB posters judgement that Harris was the Q draw to avoid was borne out by him being the only one to beat a Qualifier. Gojo, Aragone & Evo all being Qualifier/ 1st Rd winners.

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Well done Dan

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L32:  (Q) Daniel Evans WR 310 defeated Ernesto Escobedo (USA) WR 227 by 4 & 4 

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L16:  (3) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) WR 107 (CH = 70 in September last year) vs (Q) Daniel Evans WR 310



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I think tomorrow's match against Fabbiano will be a good test. I saw Dan beat Fabniano comfortably at Surbiton, but grass will always favour Dan.  
TF will have nowhere near the weight of shot of EE, but TF will give only a fraction of the freebies that Ernesto gave.  Dan will have to construct his his points with more alacrity -  just trading ground shots with Fabbiano  would leave TF is the most likely winner by far.   Dan has the game to beat Fabbiano, I am convinced of that, but can he execute?   

Fabbiano is just tiny, shorter than even Mark Hilton!    Dan is so  much taller!  Other posters have also remarked upon the unreliability of the height stat on the ATP site, which I had taken as gospel.  It seems that small man syndrome exists in tennis as much as anywhere. Maybe they like to stand on tippy toes  like Nic  Sarkozy when the measure themselves...

I mentioned in a previous post that Dan's serve wasn't great against Escobedo.  I've just checked the stats:  6DFs in 10 service games and 1st serve percentage of just 43%. Not great, but it shows how much room for improvement there is. A positive I've not mentioned is the two bh drop shots up the line that he hit when Ernesto was running round his backhand.  It is a tactic he should have used more, on both occasions Ernesto was a mile away from getting to them.  Dan didn't hit any other drop shots in the whole match. 



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Stircrazy wrote:

L32:  (Q) Daniel Evans WR 310 defeated Ernesto Escobedo (USA) WR 227 by 4 & 4 

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L16:  (3) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) WR 107 (CH = 70 in September last year) vs (Q) Daniel Evans WR 310

 Look forward to this, Fabbiano is just a ball basher, plan A and plan A only,  I think Evo's slice will drive him crazy. 



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Well, Dan did win in two sets a couple of months ago, and I can't remember if it was the slice as such that was the main issue but he certainly deserved to win (although it was close, 6-4 7-5)

I think Dan just enjoys being the 'tall' guy


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L16:  Hans Hach & Andreas Siljeström (MEX/SWE) CR 344 (179+165) defeated Liam Broady & Jonny O'Mara CR 303 (218+85) by 4 & 4  cry
L16:  (2) Luke Bambridge & Neal Skupski CR 131 (80+51) defeated Yannick Maden & Stefano Travaglia (GER/ITA) UNR (0+307) by 1 & 3

I guess the only consolation in the Broady/O'Mara result is no divided loyalties:

QF:  Hans Hach & Andreas Siljeström (MEX/SWE) CR 344 (179+165) vs (2) Luke Bambridge & Neal Skupski CR 131 (80+51



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I'd like to know the story about what happened between Luke and Jonny and why they are no longer playing together... At the beginning of the year Luke was all about how much he wanted to play with Jonny and they did seem a compatible combination and made good progress together...

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Evo about to start.....

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Battling hold by Evo from 0-40

Evo 2-1*

livestream.com/ATP/events/8332421

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Finally managed to get the stream to work - the wifi on my laptop is playing up. Connected via blutooth and phone !

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Bob in Spain wrote:

Battling hold by Evo from 0-40

Evo 2-1*

livestream.com/ATP/events/8332421

 Thanks Bob



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Three consecutive breaks of serve leave Evo serving for the set at *5-3

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