Stircrazy wrote:

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ForeverDelayed wrote:

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Salmon wrote:

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FD, Dimitrov has a lot to defend in September - 72 points in two weeks, in fact. But then if you believe what Lundgren says, he'll probably win a Masters and a Tour event this year, so it's all good in camp Dimitrov.


Tomic doesn't play much tennis (or manages to get himself banned), so he won't catch up unless he does well in big events or wins smaller Challengers.

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At this moment I'd probably back Rufin or Del Bonis to just do enough to end the year ranked the highest, just ahead of Evans, but Tomic to be ranked higher than all of them if he plays enough events to do so. Dimitrov could challenger as well, but that's all dependent on whether he puts his talent together for a consistant period (I think he needs just one event where he qualifies and then goes deep and things may click for him.)

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Just for the record, in case it's any help as a yardstick, del Bonis was a LL in the MD in the Recanati (Italy) euro 30,000 Challenger this week & lost 6-2 0-6 4-6 to Freddie Nielsen in the L16 of the singles yesterday...

 

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Not too surprised by Del Bonis's defeat given he's stronger on the clay courts.

Rufin was reached the semi finals of Estonia F2 this week and has lost just 11 games in the process so far.

 

Mervatron wrote:

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Good to see Dan and boggo winning matches.

Is it a safe bet now that Dan will be in the davies cup squad unless hes injured?

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Probably, it will be out of the likes of him, Goodall, Ward, Boggo (not sure what Johns thinking about him at mo), Fleming (Singles and doubles ability) or maybe Eaton I guess if its a very quick court and the event. (A long shot though with his form at the moment.
Do we know the speed of the indoor court yet, I know they definetly made the wrong decision of having a slow/medium pace one against Ukraine which did have an affect on our to very aggressive players there (Eaton and Josh).
I think that Dan would be suited on a slower court, as he does well on the likes of outdoor hard which is slower than indoor and might be over powered by an older more stronger player on a fast court. Ward would probably be suited to the same thing.
Goodall, Eaton - would want a very quick court.
Boggo - Can play on anything, just cant win.

I presume the team would be: A. Murray, R. Hutchins, J. Goodall, D. Evans. But it all depends on form from here on up till the time of selection.

 

wonder if that's on serve or with a break. this twitter guy makes life unnecessarily complicated.

I dont see why the cant just text in say normal things as in Matosevic leads 5-4 against Bogdanovic, on serve. or with Break butt they usually update at end of each set so i think it was on serve

alex retires 64 21.

right decision if he is still hurting.

Wheres he meant to be next week?
Or is it a week off?

He's meant to be playing Granby next week, but if he has to pull out that could benefit Evo as he is two places away from being a DA although he will hopefully get a SE anyway.