Week 36 - Challenger - Cassis Open Provence, France (€64,000) (hard)

greeny12 · Lower Club Player

Week 36 - Challenger - Cassis Open Provence, France (€64,000) (hard)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

'All's well that ends well' - for Evo anyway, on this occasion.

Some nice play and lets hope he gets tomorrow off to go to one of those beaches Michael D mentioned . (I wistfully checked flights to Marseille just now but no cheap ones it seems.)

JonH · All-time great

Neither he or James ward are down to play tomorrow, which is good. Evo has drawn alexandre muller, a wc, in round one.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the record:

FQR: (q1) Daniel Evans WR 224 defeated Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS) WR 450 by 4-6 6-4 6-2

Cracking result to which to return home. smile

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L32: (WC) Alexandre Müller (FRA) WR 400 (CH = 302 in July last year) vs (Q) Daniel Evans WR 224

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Muller is a 21-year-old French player who was a pretty big star in the making as a junior and then got dropped at 18 because the Federation didn't think he'd got what it took.

He lost motivation and had some injuries and then refound his way a little by moving back to his region and basing himself in Provence. The Ligue there have a system where he gets 30 euros for each ATP point. And the FFT are now slightly more in favour too. He got a wildcard into RG qualis and won two matches before losing to Ruud.

He's certainly not chopped liver; he's technically good and a decent player. Dan will have to be on form. But you don't feel that Muller is really racing up the rankings and Dan should certainly win.....

greeny12 · Lower Club Player

What a day to be in those beautiful surroundings tomorrow... Evo, Wardy and then Evo/O'Mara all on the same court, with Evo first up at 9am UK time!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Poor start from Evo with a long first service game, with at least three double-faults, few first serves, about 4 BPs saved, but the final one conceded.

Down 0-2.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Another bad game, has to save three BPs, but this time just about holds. Hopefully he'll now get going..... Muller serving well though.....

Add: and Muller misses some first serves and Dan takes advantage.....pretty poor match so far though.....

Back on serve *2-3

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 5th of September 2018 08:34:30 AM

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Dan's serve is getting Mullered. He is broken again, having just got the break back. 4-2

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

5-3 with Muller serving for it. Dan has already served 4 DFs, he is not holding easily. Has received a warning for an obscenity

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, Dan didn't deserve that set and duly loses it 3-6

Never sure that morning games are Dan's thing.....

He's also got himself well uptight about the ballkids - which doesn't endear you to the crowd or the umpire.

It's true there was one little girl who was all fingers and thumbs (bless) and didn't really know what she was doing. She's either been replaced or moved to the near end as I can't see her now. But Dan's trying to get the umpire to control the kids 100%, when to roll the balls etc. etc. And the kids are looking jumpy, the umpire is trying, and it's all a red herring really - apart from the one girl, they've all been fine - again, it's just Dan not playing well and venting a bit.....

the addict · Tennis legend

Dan obviously doesn't like early starts !
Waking up now 3-0* in the second

JonH · All-time great

Dan seems to be making a comeback in the 2nd set, 3-0 now. He seems to do this quite often (from memory, eg last match versus Gabashvili) where he starts slowly and loses first set and gets stronger. Dont have results to hand but interesting to see if that is really his recent pattern or just my memory playing tricks?

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

the addict wrote:
Dan obviously doesn't like early starts !
Waking up now 3-0* in the second

I recall a tournament, where Greg was on site supporting, and he had to get his charges up after he had done his morning workout. They included Kyle, Dan and Oli (or at least they were there at that tourny and he spent most of his time with Kyle who was 17 at the time)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dan gets broken back, thanks to three or four rather overly-ambitious runs to the net.

But at least he was playing positively, and looks gee-ed up now.