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indiana


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Pity. But, much as I love what Billy has achieved in the last year or two, I doubt he would have done any better. I saw Evo as an outsider for the rubber but not as much as Billy.

So I was fine with the singles choices. The doubles, as it stands just now, is to me much more questionable but I clearly don't know all the reasoning.



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RR2/1:  Tomás Martín Etcheverry (ARG) WR 34 defeated Daniel Evans WR 178 by 2 & 5  cry

The Argentine converts his sixth match point!  hmm

Colin Fleming:

Well, what a fantastic Davis Cup singles - 16 and a half minutes it took for Tomas Martin Etcheverry to serve out the match on his sixth match point.

Dan Evans left everything out there. Some of the winners he produced to fend off the match points, quite incredible. He gave this one everything, just not to be.

You can't help to think of the net cord [in the final game].  Had that fallen the other way, could Evans have broken and it taken it to a breaker?

And the Beeb's Jonathan Jurejko:

Evans passing on Davis Cup passion to Draper

Dan Evans' love for representing his nation as always been clear.  From his Davis Cup debut as a 19-year-old in 2009, to his Olympic debut last month, playing for Great Britain is something which has meant a lot to him.

Jack Draper has also shown his commitment to the cause by turning up in Manchester just a few days after his US Open exploits came to an end.

Evans said on Wednesday he has been ensuring Draper realises how important the competition is.

"I actually said to Jack last year 'please, it's going to be up to you'. I think it's important for him to here that, it is an important event still and he is going to be the one who is holding the baton.  You saw his celebrations in the car last year with Andy [Murray], so I'm pretty sure he's passionate about Davis Cup."

 

 



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[...] I was fine with the singles choices. The doubles, as it stands just now, is to me much more questionable but I clearly don't know all the reasoning.

Not too late for Leon to make a change, though, is it?  Why not blood Henry, especially if Jack loses to Cerúndolo?  Otherwise, what was the point of having the lad in the team other than to give him a "flavour" of what's involved?  Let Dan have a rest for once.



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Not going too well for Jack so far, either.

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And the Beeb's Jonathan Jurejko:

Evans passing on Davis Cup passion to Draper

Dan Evans' love for representing his nation as always been clear.  From his Davis Cup debut as a 19-year-old in 2009, to his Olympic debut last month, playing for Great Britain is something which has meant a lot to him.

Jack Draper has also shown his commitment to the cause by turning up in Manchester just a few days after his US Open exploits came to an end.

Evans said on Wednesday he has been ensuring Draper realises how important the competition is.

"I actually said to Jack last year 'please, it's going to be up to you'. I think it's important for him to here that, it is an important event still and he is going to be the one who is holding the baton.  You saw his celebrations in the car last year with Andy [Murray], so I'm pretty sure he's passionate about Davis Cup."

This JJ post explains that mystifying, to me at least, Andy reference:

An electrifying ovation for Jack Draper as he emerges onto a British court for the first time since his wonderful US Open performance.  Given we're officially into the post-Andy Murray era, his run couldn't have come at a more opportune moment where the home fans are concerned.

He warms up to the sound of The Proclaimers blaring out.

That raises a chuckle. As Murray's Instagram followers know, it's the song Draper was boozily singing along to in Murray's car on their way home from last year's victory over France.

Kids these days...

I presume the Proclaimers' song Jack was singing was the 500 miles one...



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While looking at live rankings to see where Jake is getting so far for next week I noticed Argentina have nine in top 100 and another 3 under 150 in next weeks live rankings. Must be one of best countries on those measures.

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Ouch.

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Spireman wrote:

While looking at live rankings to see where Jake is getting so far for next week I noticed Argentina have nine in top 100 and another 3 under 150 in next weeks live rankings. Must be one of best countries on those measures.

 According to the Strongest Nation thread, the average rankings 67.2 of Argentina's top 10 at 09/09 is 67.2 ( 5th best in the world ). GB's top 10 average is 163.0 ( 9th best ).



-- Edited by indiana on Friday 13th of September 2024 05:04:55 PM

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Argentina are 5th in the strongest nation list.



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Jeepers, I just realised that I'd got that wrong and I was already rumbled before I could do a hidden edit of 6th to 5th 



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-- Edited by Spireman on Friday 13th of September 2024 05:06:46 PM

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RR2/1:  Tomás Martín Etcheverry (ARG) WR 34 defeated Daniel Evans WR 178 by 2 & 5  cry

We've had it!

RR2/2:  Francisco Cerúndolo (ARG) WR 31 defeated Jack Draper WR 20 by 7-6(4) 7-5  bleh



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Stircrazy wrote:

RR2/1:  Tomás Martín Etcheverry (ARG) WR 34 defeated Daniel Evans WR 178 by 2 & 5  cry

We've had it!

RR2/2:  Francisco Cerúndolo (ARG) WR 31 defeated Jack Draper WR 20 by 7-6(4) 7-5  bleh

 Well not necessarily yet if we beat Canada, though that looks as if it will need a bit of an upturn!  As Jon said yesterday "if we beat Canada and Argentina beat us then it becomes complicated ha ha"

It could prove rather useful to win the doubles here.



-- Edited by indiana on Friday 13th of September 2024 05:19:18 PM



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Winning the doubles vital - Argentina will most likely beat Finland and so if we beat Canada, all three teams will be on 2-1 wins record; so runners and sets are vital now.

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Always feared Argentina;

Who are we going with in doubles, is he sticking with Evo still?

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