UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

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Dancevic reached rd2 with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Marcos Daniel. He's ranked 92, last week in Bangkok he came very close to beating Jarkko Nieminen in rd2. The highlights of his year have been winning challengers in Waikoloa and Granby, reaching challenger finals in Mexico City and Besancon and making semis in Cherbourg and San Luis. He qualified for Queens and Wimbledon, taking a set off Roddick at Queens. I've read that his main weapon is a big first serve, don't know anything else about his game. Henman should win but it'll be tricky, I reckon he'll do it in 3. It's on tomorrow, 2nd on centre court so an early start for those of us committed enough to follow it on live score - a 3.30am start approx.

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If it starts at 3:30am your time it will come on around 8:30pm our time here in Montana.  I am due to get home from work around 9pm so I'll try to get home ASAP and do some scoreboard watching for you all.

I think Tim will win.  He has been playing well.  Seems like last week he was taken down by a great effort from PS.  Tim in two for me.

UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

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Is there Tokyo coverage on Sky or the Tennis Channel ?

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I don`t think there`s any on Sky.  I didn`t see anything on the TV schedule anyway.

Lol, the Vonce is a rarity among the human species given that it is predominantly nocturnal. You will most likely find it between the hours of 7pm-5am lurking in then cyber realms, it prefers to hibernate for much of the day. It's main characteristics are it's hatred for spelling the name Srichaphan and it's addiction to Smash court Tennis

Have you seen Dancevic play much before ? What's his game like ? What would you say his strengths and weaknesses are ?

UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

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Lol, the Vonce is a rarity among the human species given that it is predominantly nocturnal. You will most likely find it between the hours of 7pm-5am lurking in then cyber realms, it prefers to hibernate for much of the day. It's main characteristics are it's hatred for spelling the name Srichaphan and it's addiction to Smash court Tennis

Have you seen Dancevic play much before ? What's his game like ? What would you say his strengths and weaknesses are ?

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Certainly is me being described there


Not really sorry. As he's not really played at much Master Series events or got into the decent rounds of Grand slams for me able to as they are only ones that are on TV over here. As you probably know not many ordinary ATP tour events are live on TV over here.

I do follow his results when I can. I did see a bit of him against Roddick at Queen's but I can't really remember anything from the match. As far as remember his 1st round matches of Wimby and the US Open weren't on TV either, plus I missed his 2nd round match at the Rogers Masters.

I do know he's a big server and should get a face aces against Henman and seems from his stats to be very consistent on his 1st serve from the stats below you'll see. So he might be a bit of a challenge for Henman to break Dancevic.

Here's his stats ofc these are for ATP tour level events. He's 4-7 in ATP events.

Service Record Year-to-Date
Aces: 54
Double Faults: 13
1st Serve %: 64
1st Serve Points Won %: 72
2nd Serve Points Won %: 53
Break Points Faced: 53
Break Points Saved %: 64
Service Games Played: 99
Service Games Won %: 81
Service Points Won %: 65

Return Record Year-to-Date
1st Serve Return Points Won %: 25
2nd Serve Return Points Won %: 48
Break Points Opportunities: 50
Break Points Converted %: 32
Return Games Played: 98
Return Games Won %: 16
Return Points Won %: 34
Total Points Won %: 49

Ahhhh I was hoping to break this news but got home from work far too late.....

And no UBF, I still have to be in at 8am in the morning and being on salary I don't get over time for this.....word of advice.....enjoy Uni....study hard....get good grades and find a job you love with no boss okay....the beauty of Uni is that when you are my age you won't have to have a job where you have to stay out late for nowt when you really want to be checking out a Tennis scoreboard....lol

-- Edited by Montana Doug at 05:13, 2006-10-03

Superb win for Tim, it only took 48 minutes ! I suspect that the fact that the courts were so heavy helped Tim in this one as it would have nullified the Dancevic serve.

I meant to be up to follow this one but was playing tennis until midnight and was soooo tired.

Here's how the match went: Tim got off to the best possible start, breaking in game 2. It then went with serve until 5-2 when Tim broke to 15 to take the set !

Tim then broke againt to lead 3-1 and then for 5-1

Speaking afterwards:

"The court is a little bit quicker than what I usually play on, but it suits my game really well," said Henman.

"I'll try to play the same way as I did today and see what happens. You've just got to keep plugging away."

Well quite the win for Tim against the rising star of tennis

Uhm as far as Del Potro goes I think Tim shouldn't have too many problems as from his results his most prominent results come on clay. But seem to have some good hardcourt wins to his name in the past few weeks or so. Moya last week in Mumbai but couldn't keep it up in rnd 2 against Delgado who lesser ranked than Moya by a bit by losing the 1st set then retiring after a few in the 2nd. Now Ginepri here in Tokyo and Verdasco a few months back when he won a hardcourt challenger in Spain. So except for that hardcourt challenger win he's done not much. To be fair on clay he hasn't done much aswell except for a challenger win too. But he's starting to get through to decent rounds at ATP tour level events and seems to do well on the challenger circuit, plus he's also qualified for Roland Garros and the US Open going out in 4 in both in rd 1. So I'd probably expect to Tim maybe to do this in straights or Del Potro could sneak a close set to make it go to 3.