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Hopman Cup Schedule (http://hopmancup.com/schedules-draws)
A: Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, France
B: Australia, Spain, Czech Republic, USA
Josephine
05-10-2016, 08:27
Dan Evans and Heather Watson to play Hopman Cup for GB next year
So no Andy.
Teams:
🇨🇭: Federer & Bencic 🇺🇸: Sock & Vandeweghe 🇨🇿: Kvitova & Pavlasek 🇩🇪: Zverev & Petkovic 🇦🇺: Kyrgios & Gavrilova 🇫🇷: Gasquet & Mladenovic 🇬🇧: Watson & Evans 🇪🇸: Lopez & Arruabarrena
roytennisfan
05-10-2016, 09:44
Means Roger will play his first match on returning against Dan
I wonder if this means Andy is going to play Doha which is straight after the Mubadala Exho in Abu Dhabi and they will have appearance money available given Nadal is playing Brisbane. The other option is Chennai which seems very unlikely.
Perhaps it means he's looking to reduce play before the AO for energy for the first round DC :)
themass15
05-10-2016, 13:07
Good experience for Dan in the Hopman Cup. Let's hope Heather is better.
http://hopmancup.com/teams
Dan Evans and Heather Watson representing GB :)
Switzerland vs Great Britain are on 2nd Jan.
The tournament is being covered by Eurosport.
roytennisfan
02-01-2017, 08:58
Dan is on against Roger about 9.30, Heather plays Bencic, last night Richard beat Alexander a
lovetennis
02-01-2017, 09:39
Dan v Fed on Eurosport now.1-1 in the first
Dan playing Federer right now 1-1 Eurosport
lovetennis
02-01-2017, 09:45
Official warning for non-Fed fans....the Aussie commies are taking Fed worship to a new level. "Going well for Roger"... by which they meant it was 2-1 on serve
lovetennis
02-01-2017, 09:49
Good hold from Dan, saves a BP for 2-2.Commies just noticed he's on court and mentioned his name
Fed was introduced as "The best in the history of the sport". :worship: If there's a player who wouldn't be phased by such hyperbole it's Dan. ;)
RosieBear
02-01-2017, 09:55
Commentators doing my head in. Apparently it's ' nice for Dan to be in Australia for a summer break, a boy from a working class background' How bloody patronising!
lovetennis
02-01-2017, 09:58
Commentators doing my head in. Apparently it's ' nice for Dan to be in Australia for a summer break, a boy from a working class background' How bloody patronising!
Dreadful aren't they. Will never moan about UK commies again. That comment about Dan was beyond the pale. Fed now 5-2 up, so the commies will no doubt be in full on worship mode
Dan loses the first set 3-6 Come on Dan
lovetennis
02-01-2017, 10:09
Going a bit pear shaped for Dan now, loses serve at start of 2nd set. C'mon Dan
lovetennis
02-01-2017, 10:14
What is this commie's thing about Dan's "working class background"? Really odd
roytennisfan
02-01-2017, 10:36
Was always going to be tough for Dan getting Roger first, hopefully he can manage a win against Richard and/or Alexander
Jason Goodall on Eurosport about Federer, "Overall the performance was good enough". He'd never get a job commentating for Channel 7 in Australia. ;)
lovetennis
02-01-2017, 10:40
Fed wins 6-3 6-4. Looked to be moving well, some rusty errors from him but suppose that's to be expected. Dan played well but Fed had too much variety for him
Heather and Bencic warming up
Heather loses the first set 5-7 :crying:
JAMES4578
02-01-2017, 11:57
Pity for Dan but thought it would be tough first match against Fed even if he was still a bit below par. Close tight set but unfortunately Heather loses it 7-5 to Bencic, come on!
heather serving for the second set at 5-3
JAMES4578
02-01-2017, 12:26
Heather done well to turn 2nd around, keep it going!
Great fight back from Hev, though Bencic rather fell apart.
Come on Hev!
RosieBear
02-01-2017, 13:06
Bad luck Heather. Put up a good scrap, but wasn't to be today :sad:
What I find difficult with HW is that she fights back to take the second set, and then invariably loses the 3rd.
JAMES4578
02-01-2017, 13:39
Whilst good contest pity Heather just couldn't keep the momentum going as GB go down to Switzerland.
The Fast4 tennis format sucks. A 13000 plus crowd and they get 26 minutes of tennis. At least it means the excessive fawning of Federer is short lived, Petchey as bad an any of them.
More evidence of how ludicrous the Fast4 format is. In the first set of GB v France today there was a first to 5 points TB. The first 3 players get 2 serves each but the fourth player for some reason has 3 serves so with GB leading 4-2, Gasquet had 3 serves and at 4-4 he served on the deciding set point. Even he thought it was unfair.
Josephine
05-01-2017, 11:09
Utterly stupid I think. The mixed doubles is so much fun and then is over in a few minutes. No chance to come back. Cannot believe the 3 serves!!
JAMES4578
06-01-2017, 11:40
Certainly have reservations about the Fast 4 Format,doesn't seem to make a great deal of sense -though at times in doubles the focus is on speed. Anyway unfortunately GB again when down in the crucial mixed today 4-2,4-2 to Zverev/Petkovic. Good Heather got first win in comp over Andrea 6-2,7-6 but Alex convincing over Dan 6-4,6-3. A pity Evo really get that close in any of the singles.
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