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redfiona99So I caught the end of the Austria v GB Davis Cup tie and as I predicted, Austria won. Normally this would make me happy (and I did indeed giggle and gloat down the phone at my Mum, who as per usual declaimed that Julian Knowle should be playing for GB and not Aut) but it's so not happy making to know that the main reason your team won is that the other team is managed by a moron.
So not only does John Lloyd stick Alex 'I crack under pressure' Bogdanovic (I love him dearly, but the boy does not cope well with pressure) on for the last, deciding game of the rubber, he has also shown himself to be woefully lacking in knowledge about his players. Because, post the wonderful and amazing Austrian coach doing his bit about, yes it was a close match, yes the last match could have gone either way, he gets interviewed and he says that he realised it was going to be a close match but that at the start of play he would have said that Bogdanovic was the favourite because of the surface.
Would this be based on Wimbledon (both out in the first round this year and last year) or their career head to head (2-0 to Peya). The only thing I can maybe find in Bogdanovic's favour is that he's played in one more grass tournament this year.
Dear John Lloyd, just because none of the Austrians are grass-court specialists, doesn't mean they can't play. None of them are any kind of court specialists. They just play.
So not only does John Lloyd stick Alex 'I crack under pressure' Bogdanovic (I love him dearly, but the boy does not cope well with pressure) on for the last, deciding game of the rubber, he has also shown himself to be woefully lacking in knowledge about his players. Because, post the wonderful and amazing Austrian coach doing his bit about, yes it was a close match, yes the last match could have gone either way, he gets interviewed and he says that he realised it was going to be a close match but that at the start of play he would have said that Bogdanovic was the favourite because of the surface.
Would this be based on Wimbledon (both out in the first round this year and last year) or their career head to head (2-0 to Peya). The only thing I can maybe find in Bogdanovic's favour is that he's played in one more grass tournament this year.
Dear John Lloyd, just because none of the Austrians are grass-court specialists, doesn't mean they can't play. None of them are any kind of court specialists. They just play.
