Week 47/48 - Davis Cup Finals - Madrid (Spain), Innsbruck (Austria), and Turin (Italy) (indoor hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Week 47/48 - Davis Cup Finals - Madrid (Spain), Innsbruck (Austria), and Turin (Italy) (indoor hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And good that joe and Neal found form.

Smudge226 · Strong Club Player

Great that the dubs stepped up there. Evo can hopefully just press reset after that one today.

Smudge226 · Strong Club Player

Germany would give us a good shot at the semi's if they win group F. The 2x best group runners up play against group A & B winners. DC should definitely adopt the group's of x4 teams and straight forward 16 team tournament, x6 groups of x3 is a nonsense. If x16 teams Isn't enough then go x24 and have just group winners into QF.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

That said, koepfer is getting beaten by rodionov so its not all certain !

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Smudge226 wrote:
Germany would give us a good shot at the semi's if they win group F. The 2x best group runners up play against group A & B winners. DC should definitely adopt the group's of x4 teams and straight forward 16 team tournament, x6 groups of x3 is a nonsense. If x16 teams Isn't enough then go x24 and have just group winners into QF.

Agree totally. I fear calculators will need to be at the ready later to see who has won the most sets/games/points etc. That is not the way to decided tennis results.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Smudge226 wrote:
Germany would give us a good shot at the semi's if they win group F. The 2x best group runners up play against group A & B winners. DC should definitely adopt the group's of x4 teams and straight forward 16 team tournament, x6 groups of x3 is a nonsense. If x16 teams Isn't enough then go x24 and have just group winners into QF.
Agree totally. I fear calculators will need to be at the ready later to see who has won the most sets/games/points etc. That is not the way to decided tennis results.

Agreed, at least the ATP Cup has 16

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Germany v Austria sown to doubles. Germany win, we play them next. Austria win and we get Djoko and Serbia

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And it could be a tight match - krawietz and Putz v marach and Oswald.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Feliciano beat Rublev

Smudge226 · Strong Club Player

JonH comes home wrote:
Germany v Austria sown to doubles. Germany win, we play them next. Austria win and we get Djoko and Serbia

Yeah and we don't want Djoko in singles and then featuring in a dubs pair as well, which against our regular dubs could go anyway I'm thinking.. Like when Rafa played two years ago and we have seen with the likes of AMurray turning his had to dubs. It does seem to me that the 'worldies' are very capable of upsetting regular dubs pairs even good pairs.

Against Germany we should have enough with our regular dubs I would hope.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Smudge226 wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Germany v Austria sown to doubles. Germany win, we play them next. Austria win and we get Djoko and Serbia
Yeah and we don't want Djoko in singles and then featuring in a dubs pair as well, which against our regular dubs could go anyway I'm thinking.. Like when Rafa played two years ago and we have seen with the likes of AMurray turning his had to dubs. It does seem to me that the 'worldies' are very capable of upsetting regular dubs pairs even good pairs.
Against Germany we should have enough with our regular dubs I would hope.

Germany have taken the 1st set in the doubles.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

It's Germany then in the QFs.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

The permutations as Spain and Russia go to a deciding doubles.

twitter.com/josemorgado/status/1465063647978348552

Calculators at the ready then. Just in case.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Final set - Russia through. If they win final set Serbia go through as a best runner up. If Spain take it, Spain top group and Russia drop into the second spot.

Impossible to call.