Great atmosphere there, it's amazing how one world class player can take you so far in the Davis cup, and if we win tomorrow we have a home tie in the semis too
Two world class players. Andy Murray is the best of the rest by a bit of a margin in the singles at the moment (after Novak and Roger) but Jamie Murray is also one of the best doubles players in the world. If we can just generate another top 30 singles player who can be relied upon to make a proper game of the non-Murray rubbers we could even stand a chance of winning it.
Kazakhstan / Australia / Belgium / Canada are the other teams left in the competition, we stand a very good chance of winning the Davis Cup at the moment if we can get to the Semis
Kazakhstan / Australia / Belgium / Canada are the other teams left in the competition, we stand a very good chance of winning the Davis Cup at the moment if we can get to the Semis
Canada are out. Belgium v Argentina is one semi final.
If we win we play Kazakhstan or Australia. Kazakhs are 2-1 up
Top 100 players left in Davis Cup and their singles world ranking (grouped by country, ordered by singles ranking):
Andy Murray [GBR] 3 Aljaz Bedene [GBR] 70 James Ward [GBR] 89
Gilles Simon [FRA] 11 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [FRA] 12 Richard Gasquet [FRA] 13 Gael Monfils [FRA] 17 Adrian Mannarino [FRA] 35 Jeremy Chardy [FRA] 44 Julien Benneteau [FRA] 50 Benoit Paire [FRA] 59 Nicolas Mahut [FRA] 64 Lucas Pouille [FRA] 94
David Goffin [BEL] 14 Steve Darcis [BEL] 76 Ruben Bemelmans [BEL] 95
Leonardo Mayer [ARG] 22 Juan Monaco [ARG] 30 Diego Schwartzman [ARG] 65 Federico Delbonis [ARG] 77 Guido Pella [ARG] 99
Bernard Tomic [AUS] 25 Nick Kyrgios [AUS] 41 Sam Groth [AUS] 68 Thanasi Kokkinakis [AUS] 69 James Duckworth [AUS] 84 John Millman [AUS] 98
Mikhail Kukushkin [KAZ] 63
Think it shows what a great achievement beating France tomorrow would be. The depth of their top 100 talent is huge.
Great atmosphere there, it's amazing how one world class player can take you so far in the Davis cup, and if we win tomorrow we have a home tie in the semis too
Two world class players. Andy Murray is the best of the rest by a bit of a margin in the singles at the moment (after Novak and Roger) but Jamie Murray is also one of the best doubles players in the world. If we can just generate another top 30 singles player who can be relied upon to make a proper game of the non-Murray rubbers we could even stand a chance of winning it.
Fair point, though men's doubles positions are slightly misleading in that none of the best singles players play men's doubles due to the workload. If Andy played more doubles, he'd probably be a better doubles player than Jamie.
France have a ridiculous number of really good players to chose, but it seems that it's more beneficial to have 1 great player than 6 very good players...
Great atmosphere there, it's amazing how one world class player can take you so far in the Davis cup, and if we win tomorrow we have a home tie in the semis too
Two world class players. Andy Murray is the best of the rest by a bit of a margin in the singles at the moment (after Novak and Roger) but Jamie Murray is also one of the best doubles players in the world. If we can just generate another top 30 singles player who can be relied upon to make a proper game of the non-Murray rubbers we could even stand a chance of winning it.
Fair point, though men's doubles positions are slightly misleading in that none of the best singles players play men's doubles due to the workload. If Andy played more doubles, he'd probably be a better doubles player than Jamie.
France have a ridiculous number of really good players to chose, but it seems that it's more beneficial to have 1 great player than 6 very good players...
This theory doesn't explain why Serbia and Switzerland are out.
French crowd are noisy. Murray currently looking a bit flat. He lost a set other day , he can still pick things up. Murray lost first set just. At least he is making a little bit of a fight of it on Simon's service games. Last 2 Simon's games to deuce.
Top players are not easily beaten. Murray showing some real character with some terreffic rallies. Getting Gilles Simon to run about all over the court now.
Simon injured in the 4th but Murray had him beat. Great gritty performance from Murray.
Australia in the Semi Finals at home on hard indoor court in Birmingham in September.
Are you sure it's in Brum? Reason I ask is they said it might be Scotland in the commentary, but I'll be back in the UK and near Brum that weekend so will try and get tickets if it is.
Think they want to play on hard courts as its during the hard court season, don't think there are any decent sized outdoor hard court stadiums in the UK.
Think they want to play on hard courts as its during the hard court season, don't think there are any decent sized outdoor hard court stadiums in the UK.
Needs to hold at least 8,000 - Glasgow is 7,700 capacity frustratingly so will probably be Birmingham.
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Canada are out. Belgium v Argentina is one semi final.
If we win we play Kazakhstan or Australia. Kazakhs are 2-1 up
Andy Murray [GBR] 3
Aljaz Bedene [GBR] 70
James Ward [GBR] 89
Gilles Simon [FRA] 11
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [FRA] 12
Richard Gasquet [FRA] 13
Gael Monfils [FRA] 17
Adrian Mannarino [FRA] 35
Jeremy Chardy [FRA] 44
Julien Benneteau [FRA] 50
Benoit Paire [FRA] 59
Nicolas Mahut [FRA] 64
Lucas Pouille [FRA] 94
David Goffin [BEL] 14
Steve Darcis [BEL] 76
Ruben Bemelmans [BEL] 95
Leonardo Mayer [ARG] 22
Juan Monaco [ARG] 30
Diego Schwartzman [ARG] 65
Federico Delbonis [ARG] 77
Guido Pella [ARG] 99
Bernard Tomic [AUS] 25
Nick Kyrgios [AUS] 41
Sam Groth [AUS] 68
Thanasi Kokkinakis [AUS] 69
James Duckworth [AUS] 84
John Millman [AUS] 98
Mikhail Kukushkin [KAZ] 63
Think it shows what a great achievement beating France tomorrow would be. The depth of their top 100 talent is huge.
Top 100 players left in Davis Cup and their doubles world ranking (grouped by country, ordered by ranking):
John Peers [AUS] 19
Chris Guccione [AUS] 48
Sam Groth [AUS] 61
Rameez Junaid [AUS] 75
Jamie Murray [GBR] 20
Dominic Inglot [GBR] 40
Jonathan Marray [GBR] 60
Colin Fleming [GBR] 81
Pierre-Hugues Herbert [FRA] 21
Nicolas Mahut [FRA] 22
Edouard Roger-Vasselin [FRA] 26
Julien Benneteau [FRA] 28
Jeremy Chardy [FRA] 45
Fabrice Martin [FRA] 99
Leonardo Mayer [ARG] 67
Guillermo Daniell [ARG] 72
Carlos Berlocq [ARG] 82
Maximo Gonzalez [ARG] 84
Diego Schwartzman [ARG] 86
Andres Molteni [ARG] 91
Horacio Zeballos [ARG] 92
No Belgians and Kazahks in the top 100.
That means progressing tomorrow. As well as scoring us at least two points in the semi final and final if we do progress.
It's looking good but let's not get carried away, if we can avoid it. :-)
Simon / Gasquet / Monfils are all decent players and Andy had a nasty tumble during that victory today.
He SHOULD be OK but we are Charlton fans.
Let's not get too optimistic too soon.
I notice the final is quite late in the year so IF we reach that far its a good job there is a roof at Wimbledon then!
Other semi is Belgium v Argentina..
France have a ridiculous number of really good players to chose, but it seems that it's more beneficial to have 1 great player than 6 very good players...
Australia have beaten Kazakhstan, Hewitt winning the final rubber!
Early days still but Murray looks out of sorts to me.
I can see him losing this.
Hates Britain though.
Australia in the Semi Finals at home on hard indoor court in Birmingham in September.