pauliscot wrote:

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Makes you wonder if Boulter/Radacanu might have been a better option for the Team GB decider?

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Yes. It's a really interesting question. And we'll never know, of course.

But Heather is not 'a doubles player' - she's not playing and training for doubles full-time with the benefis that brings.

She's a singles player who's quite handy at doubles. Which is not the same.

And, unfortunately - but importantly - now only a middling singles player.

Generally, for a team like ours, a hybrid choice would be the most obvious - to give power on the serve and groundshots, for someone like Liv to then trust and leverage

Katie had had a long match and is not the most natural doubles player

Emma and Liv might have been a good choice (although maybe Emma didn't want to? Always possible)

But it's all 'ifs and ands', it's not a criticism of Anne, assuming Liv and Heather were playing a lot better than the other pairings in practice (it is a criticism if they weren't or she hadn't tried other pairings in practice but surely.....)   

indiana wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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We dont have a Davis Cup thread - as no British interest- but Australia beat USA today. Hewitt chose Kokkinakis who beat Shelton, Adam lost to Fritz, but then USA ditched ram and Krajicek for Shelton and Tommy Paul and they got taught a doubles lesson by Thompson and Ebden.

If any country wins outside Britain, I always have a big soft spot for the Aussies and like to see them do well.

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 I don't think such nice feelings towards Australia are shared by too many English folk in sport generally    Some take much joy at their failures not just vs England or GB

I still recall in the 2012 Olympics when quite well intot the 2 weeks the highlights program had a board up recording how Yorkshire led Australia in the medals table.

 

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 22nd of November 2024 09:15:13 PM

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 Halcyon days, my friend, for sure. Im a big Yorkshire fan, obviously, but I sort of see the Aussies as not too dissimilar in a lot of ways - a place where a spade is a spade. 

indiana wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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We dont have a Davis Cup thread - as no British interest- but Australia beat USA today. Hewitt chose Kokkinakis who beat Shelton, Adam lost to Fritz, but then USA ditched ram and Krajicek for Shelton and Tommy Paul and they got taught a doubles lesson by Thompson and Ebden.

If any country wins outside Britain, I always have a big soft spot for the Aussies and like to see them do well.

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 I don't think such nice feelings towards Australia are shared by too many English folk in sport generally    Some take much joy at their failures not just vs England or GB. Personally I rather like Aussies and Australia but certainly am well into them receiving an unexpected sporting defeat.

I still recall in the 2012 Olympics when quite well into the 2 weeks the highlights program had a board up recording how Yorkshire led Australia in the medals table.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 22nd of November 2024 09:19:14 PM

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 Absolutely ! 

I like nearly all the individual Aussie tennis players - they're a great crowd when they come to Surbiton 

But that doesn't apply to Australia the country at all 

I take great pleasure when we beat them at rugby, or cricket, or anything really