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Davis Cup Final 2018


Last one in its current form and the teams are out for the clay court event in Lille:

 

https://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2018-WG-M-FRA-CRO-01

 

France have selected Pouille, Chardy, Tsonga, and Herbert and Mahut. Presumably Herbert and Mahut will play doubles, Pouille and Chardy will play singles and Tsonga will be super sub for last day if needed? Or might Tsonga get the nod ahead of Chardy for day one?? Or could Herbert play a role in singles as well as doubles - lots of options for France but not necessarily a top draw side. In their previous clay court tie, they selected Pouille, Chardy and herbert/mahut

 

Croatia selected the obvious team of Cilic, Coric, Skugor, Dodig and Pavic. Presumably Cilic and Coric pick themselves for singles and Pavic and Dodig will play doubles with Skugor as the roaming super sub for them? Dodig has played all 3 rounds of doubles so far, with different partners (Cilic, Mektic, Pavic) and was with Pavic in the semis. 

I think it is likely to be a v tight affair, Croatia probably have the edge on ranking, have played all their ties to date on clay so are clearly comfortable on it as a team but France have home advantage - this could be v tight. My instinct is to go for Croatia though. Revenge for the World Cup Final!!  

 

 



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Just a shame this is not on UK TV, or at least on a free online service like the BBC, disgrace really. It'll be on the usual streaming sites but it's stuff like this that makes me not mind the new format - you'd think someone would snap up the rights for that, with it being week long and GB involved.

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Tsonga isn't well apparently.

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Be great to see Croatia win and yes it would be sweet revenge for the World Cup Final.

Great sporting efforts by a nation of just over 4 million - ie less than Scotland.

Though of course they lost out to England in the Nations League, that new treasured superb conpetion 

Whereas Scotland tonight are on the march to Nations League Group C1 triumph and a place in the Group C play-offs - I was saying that more in gallows humour as the score was Scotland 0 Israel 1 but somehow I see we are now leading 2-1 at HT. Here we go, here we go 



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Heh, Scotland are in euro 2020 playoffs now, guaranteed! Don't knock it!

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3-2 final score

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And England will win the nations league finishing 53 years of hurt!

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JonH wrote:

Heh, Scotland are in euro 2020 playoffs now, guaranteed! Don't knock it!


The line up here is that we now have two ways not to qualify for a tournament finals.

But then maybe we'll sail through normal qualifying and not even need the golden ticket / safety net ...



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Have to say I think the Nations league has been a great success. Competitive matches against teams of a similar standard, every game seemed to matter, and even Scotland won something! (despite the best efforts of agent Kayal)

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Agreed, normal friendlies had become meaningless and these have definitely worked.

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Yes, seriously for these that didn't understand every facet from the off ( ie no doubt the vast majority ) it has seemed better with each little additional detail that emerges eg. effects seeding pots for the Euro qualifying draw - Germany down to Pot 2, Scotland up to Pot 3 ( watch for England, Germany & Scotland in the sane group! )

Very much better than friendlies.

Maybe more interesting than the Davis Cup 



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Yes, seriously for these that didn't understand every facet from the off ( ie no doubt the vast majority ) it has seemed better with each little additional detail that emerges eg. effects seeding pots for the Euro qualifying draw - Germany down to Pot 2, Scotland up to Pot 3 ( watch for England, Germany & Scotland in the sane group! )

Very much better than friendlies.

Maybe more interesting than the Davis Cup 


Actually England/Germany/Scotland can't all be in same group (Only max of 2 hosts can be in one group) 



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indiana wrote:

Yes, seriously for these that didn't understand every facet from the off ( ie no doubt the vast majority ) it has seemed better with each little additional detail that emerges eg. effects seeding pots for the Euro qualifying draw - Germany down to Pot 2, Scotland up to Pot 3 ( watch for England, Germany & Scotland in the sane group! )

Very much better than friendlies.

Maybe more interesting than the Davis Cup 


Actually England/Germany/Scotland can't all be in same group (Only max of 2 hosts can be in one group) 


Ah yes, I now recall that being in a list of limitations on the draw, including such as the now normal no Russia and Ukraine together. 



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Interesting mix up for France in singles pairings

Londons own jeremy chardy opens versus borna Coric. But then marin cilic is up against jo Tsonga rather than Pouille. V interesting.

Chardy has a 2-1 win loss head to head over Coric but cilic has a 5-2 record against jo-wilfried.

Really intrigued - presumably they fancied chardy going against Coric and then Pouille replaces Tsonga on day 3 and also takes on Coric. I'm assuming that's the tactic, try and exploit his relative inexperience in the 28000 crowded cauldron

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little asides:

They've have a group of youngsters (and a couple of adults) playing on the court from 10 p.m. till 4 a.m. last night and the night before.

A new clay court needs to be played on to knock out little imperfections and to 'entasse' it (squash it down and firm it up).

Mahut, on the other hand, is making all the journalists disinfect their microphones before he takes them, and disinfect practically anything and everything else that comes near to him (he's a bit germ-phobic.....).

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