Week 1 - ATP Cup - Sydney, Australia - outdoor hard

Smudge226 · Strong Club Player

Week 1 - ATP Cup - Sydney, Australia - outdoor hard

Smudge226 · Strong Club Player

Anyway well played Dan Evans, he didn't lose a single rubber, we didn't will one without him. He was Immense. Jamie and Dan found something there in their desperation. A superb climax to the group stage for GB. Poor old Germany then in a pointless match, ridiculous.

wolf · Tennis legend

It's a shame as I agree with others we could have genuinely won this I feel. We would have exposed Medvedev in the doubles and Spain or Poland are not that fearsome.

Miriambee · Futures level

Winners are Canada, who beat Russia in deciding doubles.

flamingowings · All-time great

Miriambee wrote:
Winners are Canada, who beat Russia in deciding doubles.

Well who saw that coming when they were losing against USA several days ago?

brittak · Satellite level

Actually the final is tomorrow- Canada will play Spain who won the other SF yesterday.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Canada got the opener. What could have been, eh.

Smudge226 · Strong Club Player

Canada grew through this tournament, fair play they deserved to win. Allowing Shapovalov to have a slow start and build him back looks like a master stroke now. I'm not sure even if we'd won our group, we'd have been strong enough anyway with Dan being the only player performing at a high enough level in this tournament. For me GB haven't found the right dubs pairing in recent times.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Smudge226 wrote:
Canada grew through this tournament, fair play they deserved to win. Allowing Shapovalov to have a slow start and build him back looks like a master stroke now. I'm not sure even if we'd won our group, we'd have been strong enough anyway with Dan being the only player performing at a high enough level in this tournament. For me GB haven't found the right dubs pairing in recent times.

I think thats fair comment. The pairing here was taken from ranking ie not selection so Neal couldnt play ahead of Jamie. But not sure Joe and Jamie did it for me or Joe and Neal at DC. I wonder if our best option, if he played, would be Andy with one of Joe or even Jamie? Or Andy and Dan?

emmsie69 · Top national player

I'd probably opt for Dan and Neal

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
I'd probably opt for Dan and Neal

Did well for a few events last season but it sort of fizzled out in later events although, to be fair, Dans form in general was pants for a long part of the period after he had Covid.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

This event was a bit meh for me this year. Glad Canada won it though. FAA goes top ten with his performances this week.

Time to step up those merger talks with DC me thinks - 16 teams is better than 18 in DC, but it needs a QF round as well, as opposed to straight to semis.