What should the Czechs do against Spain

[underground]

Use grass court and Lukas Rosol.

[August]

I'm wondering this. Stepanek would play on Friday against Spain's #1, i.e. Ferrer (or Nadal). Does he has so good a chance to win that it's worth for him to play, or would it be better to have Rosol on Friday, to rest Radek for doubles and the possible fifth rubber?

[Clarky21]

Hilarious to see how many Nadal haters there are on here rooting against Spain just because Nadal is Spanish. This place is infested with far too many *******s.


And no,Nadal is not playing DC,*********.

[namelessone]

1.Put up fast court.
2.Play Stephanek and Berdych for singles.
3.Profit.

[Max G.]

Originally Posted by namelessone

1.Put up fast court.
2.Play Stephanek and Berdych for singles.
3.Profit.

This. In the YTD race, Stepanek has twice as many points as Rosol, and he's ranked 32 to Rosol's 84 (again, in the race, because the ATP site is crashing and I can't check rankings.)

Stepanek's game might not look impressive, but it brings in a lot more Ws than Rosol's on a typical day.

The fatigue is the main reason why Stepanek might want to sit out a match, so him and berdych aren't both playing all 3 days. But he's a pro, he can handle a few tough matches in a row.

[0d1n]

Originally Posted by Max G.

This. In the YTD race, Stepanek has twice as many points as Rosol, and he's ranked 32 to Rosol's 84 (again, in the race, because the ATP site is crashing and I can't check rankings.)

Stepanek's game might not look impressive, but it brings in a lot more Ws than Rosol's on a typical day.

The fatigue is the main reason why Stepanek might want to sit out a match, so him and berdych aren't both playing all 3 days. But he's a pro, he can handle a few tough matches in a row.

Radek is fit as a fiddle. I've seen him play live...and ON CLAY which is far from his best surface, but his movement was very impressive.
On an unrelated note he's also close to 34 yo...and that gives this 32 yo hope to have quite a few more very good tennis years in which growth is possible. If that guy is some 1.5 years older than me and playing in the ATP top 40...I can certainly still improve before 35 .

[joeri888]

Originally Posted by Clarky21

Hilarious to see how many Nadal haters there are on here rooting against Spain just because Nadal is Spanish. This place is infested with far too many *******s.


And no,Nadal is not playing DC,*********.

Spain has won the davis cup many times the past few years. Plus, their players are apart from Lopez, a lot more defensive than the Czechs. If Spain plays Stepanek and Lopez, I'll be rooting for Spain, until then: Czech Republic please

[rk_sports]

Originally Posted by roysid

Czech need to decide on two things

- What court they use?
Is is grass, hard court, indoor or carpet.
- Who should be the singles players?
Who shall partner Berdych. Stepanek or Rosol or someone else

- they should use the exact same court as 'shanghai' .. as you've seen how well Steps played on that surface (almost took out the hot murray) and won doubles championship.
- who else but Birdy and Steps for singles and doubles

[albatros_forehand]

Exactly. Shanghai-like fast low bouncing court the way to go. Let's blow the pusher armada off the court. Let's go Czechs. Flat hitting!

[melele]

Spain has to win this Davis Cup. Ferrer and Almagro can beat any cezch player.

[Steve0904]

Originally Posted by melele

Spain has to win this Davis Cup. Ferrer and Almagro can beat any cezch player.

Not sure about that. This tie will be played on an indoor HC because it's in the Czech Republic. Therefore Berdych has at least a 50/50 shot at beating Ferrer, and Almagro is not reliable enough to bank on him for a sure win.

I'm not biased btw because I'm Canadian.

[jankustra]

with or without nadal... no difference for czech. just give up all hopes... ferrer will beat berdich and another czech and its over...

[NDFM]

Almagro definitely will not beat Berdych, they've met like at least 3 times this year (1 indoor meeting) and Berdych has won every encounter