Week 6 - ATP 500 - ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands (indoor hard)

Armchair · County player

Week 6 - ATP 500 - ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands (indoor hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Daniel Evans WR 34 defeated Karen Khachanov (RUS) WR 17 by 4-6 6-3 6-4

He first served for it at 5-2 & had a match point or two in the ninth game.

indiana · Tennis legend

Another good win. Belongs at the level he is now operating at

Babfive · Satellite level

That's a great win for Dan.

Jan · Hall of fame

Excellent! I'd seen Dan lost the first set, then had to go off and do other things. Nice to see the win

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Missed it completely. Too busy watching England snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the T20 cricket.

That is some result for Dan.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

What a pleasure ! Thoroughly enjoyed that.

He got SO under poor Karen's skin.....

seagull · Hall of fame

Up to 14 in the race

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well done, great result. Monfils or Simon next, either will be tough but beatable.

EddietheEagle · County player

Virtually 2 metres high yet has that horrible forehand grip, Khachanov deserved the loss. Strictly after 9pm, watershed viewing his matches; no child allowed to watch.

emmsie69 · Top national player

lol any pictures of then shaking hands.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

EddietheEagle wrote:
Virtually 2 metres high yet has that horrible forehand grip, Khachanov deserved the loss. Strictly after 9pm, watershed viewing his matches; no child allowed to watch.

I see Freddie Rosengren is sharing coaching duties with Vedran Martic in his camp.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Random observation but the prize money for Rotterdam has increased significantly in qualifying but barely at all for the winner something like up 30%+ in qulaifying and 0.4% for the winner.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jamie and Neal arent scheduled to play again until tomorrow. So there schedule would end up as Tuesday, gap, gap, Friday, and then maybe Saturday and Sunday if they win.

I wondered if anyone else wondered how frustrating that must be. Clearly they work out and practice etc, but there is only so much of that to be done. Having a schedule where they presumably arrived in Rotterdam on Sunday, to play once during the week until Friday, must leave them with a lot of time on their hands and, frankly very bored. I know some will have business interests or maybe educational learning to do, but it must be a very, very boring life outside of the tennis, specifically for the doubles guys. And even when they do play, it is maybe an hour to an hour and a half in ATP events, so hardly physically exerting for them as well!

Vandenburg · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Daniel Evans WR 34 defeated Karen Khachanov (RUS) WR 17 by 4-6 6-3 6-4
He first served for it at 5-2 & had a match point or two in the ninth game.

Great win, but not at all surprised. This is an amazing match up for Evo. Evans has so much variation and slicing etc, (that you do not see that much of in modern game) that the younger players, have not grown up with it, and at times are clueless. Khachanov is mainly a ball basher, and I only watched the 2nd set, but he was losing his mind. In general smart players with variations, are the worst nightmare for ball bashers e.g verdasco, Khanchanov type of players.