Coup Droit wrote:

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Yes, I heard it as Dan, complaining that he couldn't convert a single BP. Pathetic and very British. And he had a point - he had 18 BPs in that match. And only converted 3.

But he got it when it mattered

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 Lol, Federer's BP conversion is notoriously awful!

Well done Dan. I hope he still has some gas in the tank to face Stan in a few days...might be worth taking Eastbourne off though?

flamingowings wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Yes, I heard it as Dan, complaining that he couldn't convert a single BP. Pathetic and very British. And he had a point - he had 18 BPs in that match. And only converted 3.

But he got it when it mattered

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 Lol, Federer's BP conversion is notoriously awful!

Well done Dan. I hope he still has some gas in the tank to face Stan in a few days...might be worth taking Eastbourne off though?

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 I guess it depends on what he does at Queens if hes out first match and then has the rest of the week off, he might think Im playing well I might have a good chance in a 250 on grass.

Julia Carrot wrote:

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Nix wrote:

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I know Julia, you always feel you need to put your tin hat on. It's just that particular comment that made me laugh. But luckily he's done it this year!

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 Yes, agreed on both counts.  Probably Hawkeye's presence helped a bit  this year since his number of targets to be annoyed with was reduced somewhat thus conserving energy !!

 

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Jaggy1876 wrote:

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At his best Dan is better than both Cam and Kyle. Fully expect him to be GB number 1 by US Open.

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 Och, and it was going so well for Dan 

indiana wrote:

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Just extrapolating from Steven's "Brits in ATP Challengers Finals" in the stats section, for British challenger titles this century Evo is now just 1 behind Boggo and has moved ahead of everyone for total finals.

Brits in ATP Challenger finals this century :

1. A Bogdanovic W 9, L 4
2. D Evans W 8, L 6

I guess though that he's not particularly looking to be playing further challenger events in the near future.

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 In fact, it may well be that for Dan that is the last we will see of him at Challenger level , stop. I hope so. Certainly he should be a slam dunk into the US Opens, Aussie Open and should certainly be playing full Tour level through then. Presumably with a rank of around 60 he will still need to improve to get into Cinci, Canada, Shanghai and Paris events, probably up above 50 to be safe I would imagine for the first two and perhaps into the top 40 for the latter two events if he can.