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RE: Week 37 - Davis Cup Qualifier (World Group I): Poland vs Great Britain

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

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Smudge226 · Club Coach

Coup Droit wrote:
Smudge226 wrote:
The polish pair were inspired but I didn't think Cash played well over all. His returns were poor in the later stages. Lost count of how many times he tried to lob but just offered up the smash opportunity. They'll be very disappointed with that.
Do you know if Louis Cayer was there courtside as part of the team?

Yes he was CD and from what I could see passing many messages to Smith around the bench, pretty active as part of the backroom team. On that note GB have an impressive back team, so many, no doubt physio amongst them and all sorts. Mark Petchy I recognised and other regular faces but I can't put names to them.

Smudge226 · Club Coach

Tennis Saltire wrote:
Job done with a rubber to spare so not all bad :)

Hopefully Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool learn from this loss because we know their a lot better than that.

Cam was his usual dependable self but tbh he was the outright favourite in both matches so anything other than wins would have been disastrous.

I was very impressed with Arthur on debut, even when it got twitchy in the middle of both sets he stuck to his gameplan and excuted :).

Leon has an embarrassment of riches now with Billy Harris, Arthur Fery, Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley all options for the singles and Julian Cash/Lloyd Glasspool and Neal Skupski/Joe Salisbury doubles options, it would be good to have another couple of options too just in case of injuries and loss of fo etc.

Bring on February and hopefully a home tie

Agreed, plenty to be upbeat about. The singles played well enough and generally the Poles out played their rankings by a margin to at least put up a scrap, fair play to them. I think Evans said as much in commentry today as well. I think Indy might have said it somewhere recently, GB have a few top 250 players emerging with JoMo, JPJ and Fery in their early 20's coming hard on the heals of 23yo odds Fearnley and Draper. Things looking healthier with more depth hopefully to come, which as we know is essential to back up top 25 who often then don't commit to qualifying rounds.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

As an aside, Harri H and his partner, Virtanen, went down today in DC versus Bulgaria. It was close but it continues Harri's poor form.

I have wondered if the struggles he and Henry have had recently to find top form are largely linked to Harri; he seemed to dip when faced with becoming World Number One a few months back and doesn't seem to have really got his mojo back since that let down. He seems to navel gaze a lot and I wondered if he dwelt on it too much?

I like Harri a lot, I like his blog and it's great to hear his views and insights. I like that he has partnered and done well with British players like Lloyd and Henry. But I don't think all is top notch with his game right now and it could be largely in the head