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Week 47/48 - Davis Cup Finals - Madrid (Spain), Innsbruck (Austria), and Turin (Italy) (indoor hard)


As this starts on Thursday, thought we should have a thread to this years event.

GB are in Group C with France and Czech Republic

27th November versus France

28th November versus Czech Republic

British team is:

Cam Norrie

Dan Evans

Joe Salisbury

Neal Skupski

Liam Broady

France - Rinderknech, Gasquet, Herbert and Mahut

Czech Republic - Vesely, Lehecka, Kolar, Machac

If we play anything like we can, we should expect two wins in the group stages. Anything less would be a disappointment to be honest 

 



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Davis Cup starts today and some disappointing news

twitter.com/TelegraphSport/status/1463558108064755713

This would kill it

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JonH comes home wrote:

Davis Cup starts today and some disappointing news

twitter.com/TelegraphSport/status/1463558108064755713

This would kill it


 Give it a new name. The essence abd spirit of the Davis Cup will no doubt die a little more.



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indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

Davis Cup starts today and some disappointing news

twitter.com/TelegraphSport/status/1463558108064755713

This would kill it


 Give it a new name. The essence abd spirit of the Davis Cup will no doubt die a little more.


 I know lets call it the ATP Davis Cup...that would work



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JonH comes home wrote:
indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

Davis Cup starts today and some disappointing news

twitter.com/TelegraphSport/status/1463558108064755713

This would kill it


 Give it a new name. The essence abd spirit of the Davis Cup will no doubt die a little more.


 I know lets call it the ATP Davis Cup...that would work


 Too long a name - drop the Davis and just call it the ATP Cup.

Oh, been done already, well nevermind, why not combine the two ?



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In Britains group, Czech Republic took a surprise opener over France as Machak beat Gasquet. Vesely took the opener over Mannarino as well: if the Czechs win, Britain would take that result.

Elsewhere, Sweden beat a weakened Canada with both Ymer brothers winning their singles .

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Mannarino won his singles and so it is 1-1. France have Herbert and Mahut in doubles and so should win.

Croatia beat Oz 2-0 as well.

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The Czech doubles pair won the opening set against the WTF winners , now into the third set. The French are being pushed all the way by Czechs

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France took the tie against the Czechs but it was very close.

Britain play France now on Saturday morning - we can expect , provisionally:

Evo v Gasquet
Cam v Mannarino
Joe and Neal v Herbert and Mahut

Britain probably 2-1 favourites but all 3 matches could go either way.

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Dan is now playing Mannarino

*1-2

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Dan is now playing Mannarino

*1-2


 Yeah France played a selection blinder then. Mannarino has best chance against Evo and Rinderknech is a sacrifice then as top ranked player v Cam . 

worried about this now, the odds look like France would be favourites on form. 



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Coup Droit wrote:

Dan is now playing Mannarino

*1-2


 Yeah France played a selection blinder then. Mannarino has best chance against Evo and Rinderknech is a sacrifice then as top ranked player v Cam . 

worried about this now, the odds look like France would be favourites on form. 


I don't think it was a selection game.

Gasquet lost to a practical nobody, quite easily, so it's not surprising that he was dropped. (sorry, Machac, but age 21 and about 150 counts as a practical nobody in tennis terms). (French news say Gasquet hated the abrasive surface) 

And Mannarino won. 

And Rinderknech has been up and coming - he's already beaten two top 20s this year. 

It's a very reasonable change of team - I don't think it had much to do with the GB team it was facing. 



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 27th of November 2021 09:55:42 AM

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Dan won biggrinbiggrin



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Coup Droit wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

Dan is now playing Mannarino

*1-2


 Yeah France played a selection blinder then. Mannarino has best chance against Evo and Rinderknech is a sacrifice then as top ranked player v Cam . 

worried about this now, the odds look like France would be favourites on form. 


I don't think it was a selection game.

Gasquet lost to a practical nobody, quite easily, so it's not surprising that he was dropped. (sorry, Machac, but age 21 and about 150 counts as a practical nobody in tennis terms). (French news say Gasquet hated the abrasive surface) 

And Mannarino won. 

And Rinderknech has been up and coming - he's already beaten two top 20s this year. 

It's a very reasonable change of team - I don't think it had much to do with the GB team it was facing. 



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 27th of November 2021 09:55:42 AM


 Well it worked out very reasonable for Evo! And hopefully Cam can seal it for us now!



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Anyone see it - whos showing it in uk? - and how did Evo play?

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