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

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I take back my 'nobody' comments about Machac :::(((

wolf · Tennis legend

Machac took the first set 6-2.

Dan goes 0-40 down in the first game of the 2nd set and breaks his racket. He gets it back to game point but is broken anyway.

wolf · Tennis legend

Dan comes up with a couple of magical shots and breaks straight back. I can hear Liam loudly geeing him up.

wolf · Tennis legend

Machac has started throwing in some slicey stuff, which I'm not sure is a good idea for him.

Dan 4-1* up in the 2nd.

Jaffa · Challenger level

Dan has just thrown in about as bad a game as you could ever dream to throw in while serving for the second set.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

This is so disappointing!

wolf · Tennis legend

Machac played excellent but Dan was never comfortable

R1: Tomas Machac (CZE) WR 143 beat Daniel Evans WR 25 6-2 7-5

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Youd like to think we can still win - should still win. But its going to be a battle

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I am a bit behind the game here in terms of format and how many qualify.

Do we have to win the group to be assured of qualification ? I am looking at the current state of play on the Davis Cup website and I don't think their numbers are correct. They are currently saying that we have won 3 matches (not ties) and lost 1. I thought we were 2-2 having beaten the French 2-1 and then Evo losing the opener today.

www.daviscupfinals.com/results/2021/C

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
I am a bit behind the game here in terms of format and how many qualify.

Do we have to win the group to be assured of qualification ? I am looking at the current state of play on the Davis Cup website and I don't think their numbers are correct. They are currently saying that we have won 3 matches (not ties) and lost 1. I thought we were 2-2 having beaten the French 2-1 and then Evo losing the opener today.

www.daviscupfinals.com/results/2021/C

I'm guessing that if we win the doubles now, my question becomes irrelevant.

Well played Cam and good luck to Joe/Neal.

wolf · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
R1: Tomas Machac (CZE) WR 143 beat Daniel Evans WR 25 6-2 7-5

R2: Cameron Norrie WR 12 beat Jiri Lehecka (CZE) WR 138 6-1 2-6 6-1

wolf · Tennis legend

Czech have bought in Machac for the doubles to play with Vesely. Joe fit enough to play with Neal.

wolf · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
wolf wrote:
R1: Tomas Machac (CZE) WR 143 beat Daniel Evans WR 25 6-2 7-5
R2: Cameron Norrie WR 12 beat Jiri Lehecka (CZE) WR 138 6-1 2-6 6-1

R3: Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 23 (3+20) beat Thomas Machac & Jiri Vesely (CZE/CZE) CR 592 (120+472) 6-4 6-2

GB 2 Czech Republic 1

wolf · Tennis legend

If Germany beat Austria later we will play them on Tuesday which would be a rematch of the 2019 QF.