Week 35 - Challenger - Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell, Mallorca, Spain (€43,000+H) (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 35 - Challenger - Rafa Nadal Open Banc Sabadell, Mallorca, Spain (€43,000+H) (hard)

JonH · All-time great

That appears evenly matched and from memory Brands is a bit like Dan , not a totally orthodox player. ANd both called Dan. Hope the British Dan can prevail, reckon he will. Another win and he will be on the cusp of the top 200...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Daniel Evans & Gerard Granollers (ESP) UNR (0+132) defeated (1) Mikhail Elgin & Andrei Vasilevski (RUS/BLR) CR 244 (139+105) by 4 & 4

Never expected that outcome! biggrin Good day for Dan! smile

QF: Daniel Evans & Gerard Granollers (ESP) UNR (0+132) v Tomasz Bednarek & Szymon Walkow (POL/POL) CR 373 (185+188)

brendan · Strong Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH wrote:
Nice win for Dan, excellent. Moraing or Brands next if I recall correctly?
L16: Daniel Brands (GER) WR 213 (CH = 51 in August 2013) vs (ALT) Daniel Evans WR 224
Brands did for Moraing (5) by 5 & 2...

made Moraing look like a lemon

JonH · All-time great

brendan wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
JonH wrote:
Nice win for Dan, excellent. Moraing or Brands next if I recall correctly?
L16: Daniel Brands (GER) WR 213 (CH = 51 in August 2013) vs (ALT) Daniel Evans WR 224
Brands did for Moraing (5) by 5 & 2...
made Moraing look like a lemon

demonstrates the power of good brands

JonH · All-time great

Wardy is on centre Court later. Dan got a day off from what I can see.

Topemp · Strong Club Player

JonH wrote:
That appears evenly matched and from memory Brands is a bit like Dan , not a totally orthodox player. ANd both called Dan. Hope the British Dan can prevail, reckon he will. Another win and he will be on the cusp of the top 200...

Saw Brands at Surbiton, don't recall him being particularly 'unorthodox' but he's a big banger. Got a huge serve, Dan E will fancy his chances once he gets into a rally. I'm hearing the courts in Mallorca are very fast, so may make him tough to break.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Wardy is on now, looks like it's going with serve. 3-2

JonH · All-time great

Topemp wrote:
JonH wrote:
That appears evenly matched and from memory Brands is a bit like Dan , not a totally orthodox player. ANd both called Dan. Hope the British Dan can prevail, reckon he will. Another win and he will be on the cusp of the top 200...
Saw Brands at Surbiton, don't recall him being particularly 'unorthodox' but he's a big banger. Got a huge serve, Dan E will fancy his chances once he gets into a rally. I'm hearing the courts in Mallorca are very fast, so may make him tough to break.

I think I am getting Brands mixed up with an older German called Karsten Braasch, at least I got 3 letters correct in his surname!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
Topemp wrote:
JonH wrote:
That appears evenly matched and from memory Brands is a bit like Dan , not a totally orthodox player. ANd both called Dan. Hope the British Dan can prevail, reckon he will. Another win and he will be on the cusp of the top 200...
Saw Brands at Surbiton, don't recall him being particularly 'unorthodox' but he's a big banger. Got a huge serve, Dan E will fancy his chances once he gets into a rally. I'm hearing the courts in Mallorca are very fast, so may make him tough to break.
I think I am getting Brands mixed up with an older German called Karsten Braasch, at least I got 3 letters correct in his surname!

Not sure. I think you could call Brands unorthodox because he is big, and heavy, and rather jerky in the way he plays, a slightly strange technique, using force/power (because of his weight) more than acceleration or torque. I rather like watching him - his match with Bambo at Surbiton this year (which he won 6-4 in the third after two tie-breaks) was brilliant, really close and well fought.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
Wardy is on now, looks like it's going with serve. 3-2

Into a 1st set TB now. From the little I have seen, it has been a bit erratic on both sides of the net.

JonH · All-time great

first set to Wardy 7-6, good stuff

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Wardy just held for 3-3 after a marathon game, saved at least 3 break points. and had several deuces.

NK held in response and now leads 4-3* in the second.

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Could it be costly?

James gets to 0-40 on Kuhn serve, a tidy s&v saves the first; a long rally that James rather lets Kuhn dictate saves the 2nd and a long return saves the 3rd, 2 points later Kuhn holds and James serving to stay in the set. A little passive.

Topemp · Strong Club Player

30-30 in 12th game...