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Coup Droit


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But a continuing lack of first serves, with Muller putting some good pressure on, costs him another break.

3-4*

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Best game of the whole match was the last one - which - finally - Dan lost. GSM to Muller 6-3 6-4

Quite deserved - Muller was, as expected, fit, technically good and a decent player.
But Dan wasn't really firing on all cylinders - poor serving and pretty spotty play all round.

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Disappointing outcome. Like in the USA he has had a couple of average weeks, then of course he came good. We know it is in him, perhaps a little up and down. Will be interesting to see where Leon goes with Jay or Dan for DC day one.

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Just watched last few games. He nearly turned it round - the last game, as was said, was good viewing. Not a performance to inspire a Davis Cup captain though.



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Over to you now Wardy - 6 - 4 1 - 0, so far.

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James a break down in the third.....

Add: but breaks right back....3-3



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 5th of September 2018 12:20:58 PM

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Mallorca then Provence always looked like a little bit of a holiday for Dan lol, at least he picked up a few points/prize money for his troubles. I expect him to be much more switched on when he goes to Istanbul post-DC

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James did very well to win that, when you consider he faced TWENTY break points.

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Milojevic will NOT be pleased with that last game - some really tight shots - 'nice' to see the pesky bottling it and not our one

But James hung tough - and didn't lose it when the umpire overruled the first MP which he (and the linejudge) thought he'd won.

Good job.



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 5th of September 2018 12:41:17 PM

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James was actually a set and 5-2* up at one stage, only for Milojevic to win the next 5 games. He did well to come through that match in the end - facing 20 bps, as Jaffa said, and saving 16 of them, while converting more than half of the bps he had himself (5 out of 9) - in the end, they had both won 113 points.

He might get Tomic the Tank Engine in R2, but the 6th-seeded Aussie is serving to stay in the match against Tallon Griekspoor at the moment.

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The Knight wrote:

Mallorca then Provence always looked like a little bit of a holiday for Dan lol, at least he picked up a few points/prize money for his troubles. I expect him to be much more switched on when he goes to Istanbul post-DC

The Istanbul Challenger in which he was entered is next week so clashes with the Davis Cup. Not sure what his post-DC plans are.



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Griekspoor ended up beating Bernie from a set & 3-5 down, so ...

L32: (Q) Dan Evans WR 224 lost to (WC) Alexandre Muller (FRA) WR 400 (CH 302 in 2017) 3 & 4
L32: James Ward WR 247 beat Nikola Milojevic (SRB) WR 199 (CH 143 in 2017) 6-4 5-7 6-4

L16: James Ward WR 247 v Tallon Griekspoor (NED) WR 187 (CH 181 in Jul)

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Thats a not bad scalp for James, and Griekspoor in the next round is beatable as well.

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Evo and Jonny win their first set 6-2

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L16:  (3) Matt Reid & Sergiy Stakhovsky (AUS/UKR) CR 395 (135+260) defeated Daniel Evans & Jonny O'Mara UNR (0+86) by 2-6 7-5 [10-5]  hmm



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