Week 5 - ATP ($442.5K) - Johannesburg, South Africa - hard

spud · Challenger qualifying

Week 5 - ATP ($442.5K) - Johannesburg, South Africa - hard

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Lloydy loves Baker so i'd day he's in. Lloyd would pick Baker ahead of Boggo when both were available.

then its down to Wardy/Evo. both will probably get a call up, but so far on thisi years performances you'd probably saw Wardy edges it.

indiana · Tennis legend

spud wrote:

wolf wrote:

Przysiezny was very clearly underanked, a fact spotted by anyone who watched his matches and he has now gone on to be a top 200 player in a matter of months a run which includes winning the Helsinki challenger.

The trouble with picking Eaton is that you can only pick him on certain surfaces, and down in Group Two we should be looking to mould a team that can help Andy on surface in the future.

With Boggo rightly or wrongly not going to be picked our team will be surely Flemski and two out of Baker, Ward and Evans. If he wants to look totally to the future he will pick Evans, but Baker and Ward will be the favourites at the moment due to Dan's inconsistency.

I agree with that.

But if it were to be a very quick indoor hard- Eaton is the better player over Evans, Baker and maybe Ward.

-- Edited by spud on Monday 1st of February 2010 05:01:33 PM

Ah, so you just hoped noone would spot that when you just simply said Przysiezny was ranked 678 smile

I would very much doubt this tie will take place on a very quick indoor court, the only instance when I think Eaton is at least worth real consideration. Does anyone yet know for sure what type of court it will be ?

In general I'd be picking Boggo and Ward. Boggo won't be picked so Ward and AN OTHER. Both Baker and Evans have had bad days today which doesn't help, and I wish Baker had started the year in better fashion. But ultimately to me I think you can more rely on him to get the job done in the Davis Cup tie, so currently to me it is looking Ward, Baker, Flemski.

James · Satellite level

indiana wrote:

Does anyone yet know for sure what type of court it will be ?

Indoor Acrylic. That's what the Lithuanians have communicated to the DC organisers - don't know to what extent it can be relied upon.

steven · Tennis legend

http://www.sebarena.lt/ is the website of the place where it's being held. Looking at the pics, it appears to have both indoor hard and outdoor clay courts, but it must be too cold to play outdoors in Vilnius at this time of year, so maybe they really will play on indoor hard.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 2nd of February 2010 07:53:12 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Stephane Robert, formerly of British futures, is playing Ferrer in the semis tomorrow. Not bad.

Spectator · All-time great

And Robert has just won said semi, to go into his first ATP final (following his first ATP QF and SF). Rather encouraging for those who have played against him in futures in the past and been competitive or (in the case of Dan Evans) beaten him. And rather encouraging, too, for some of the "older" GB players: clearly for some players 29 is not "over the hill" but rather a time to scale new heights.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

nice robert, imagine if he played Andy sometime - if he won that he would be ultimate Brit-basher!