Stircrazy wrote:

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The story so far:

C/RR2:  (2) Steve Darcis (BEL) WR 157 defeated (2) Cameron Norrie WR 53 by 2 & 4 

C/RR2:  (1) Daniel Evans WR 42 defeated (1) David Goffin (BEL) WR 11 by 4 & 4 

Jamie & Joe:  .

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C/RR2:  Jamie Murray & Joe Salisbury CR 45 (23+22) defeated Sander Gille & Joran Vliegen (BEL/BEL) CR 86 (47+39) by 6-3 7-6(7) 

indiana wrote:

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However compatible or otherwise Jamie & Joe are as a doubles parynership, I did fully expect that their individual strengths would gel well enough to get the job done. But not to be 

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Extract from a Stu Fraser article in The Sunday Times headed "Tim Henman happy to be back in spotlight after decade in shadows":

It did not help that Henman could not select his best doubles pair for the deciding match against Bulgaria. The unusual selection rules for this new team event mean that Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski have been split up because Joe Salisbury, who regularly plays with American Rajeev Ram, is the top-ranked British doubles player. So Murray and Salisbury are playing together for the first time here - and it did show at times in an agonising defeat.

"It's such small margins," Henman said. "We had match points in the doubles and it didn't go our way. I've been around long enough to know you've got to keep putting yourself in that position and hopefully next time it will go our way."

- which it did, of course.  

Jan wrote:

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Great news!!
I tried to post on here from my phone earlier, but as soon as I typed anything in the box, I lost the "post" box, so I couldn't post. Weird, it's never been a problem for me before.

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You can use the reply button at the top of the page instead, just below the log out button.

Actually looking closer there is a reply button on every post next to the quote button, so can just do that instead of having to scroll back up.

JonH comes home wrote:

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So we need to beat moldova 3 nil, and have Belgium beat Bulgaria 2-1 to get in a 3 way tie which will come down to sets xountback. A Bulgaria win or belgium 3 nil will mean we come 2nd at best. 

 

A 3 nil win is also a must to get one of the top 2nd place spots. 

 

At least we know nothing less than perfect will do

 

Cam should win and also doubles , down to dan to beat albot

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Yes, if Bulgaria win or Belgium win 3-0 they win the group.

But in the we win 3-0 and Belgium win 2-1 scenario Bulgaria would be beaten in the 3 way tiebreak since they only beat Moldova 2-1. Sets % would determine 1st and 2nd between GB and Belgium and that looks quite decent for us just now assuming these wins 3-0 for us and 2-1 for Belgium. Whatever, a 3-0 win for us vs Moldova and we can't be worse than 2nd.

If we do finish 2nd yes we still certainly want that 3-0 win to have an overall 6-3 record. In the other 2 groups to have played twice now (D and F) the best a 2nd place team can now do is 2-1 6-3.

After 2 ties :

Bulgaria  2-0 4-2 9-6 73-63

Belgium  1-1 4-2 8-6 74-65

G Britain  1-1 3-3 8-7 70-67

Moldova  0-2 1-5 4-10 58-80