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ITALY 3-0 SCOTLAND
Good defence from the Scots today against a strong Italian Team
– Davide, Marcus Berrett, Amr Swelim – with both
Alan Clyne and
Stuart Crawford taking a game from Davide and Marcus…
FIRST FOR DAVIDE…
He may have lost the first game against Scotland number one Alan
Clyne but Davide Bianchetti, in his first appearance in a
Team Event for 10 years didn’t fail to take the next three.
A different Davide I must stress – “this is different, this is a
team event” – patient, not arguing, not a word to the ref, the
change is impressive.
 Alan
Clyne played an excellent match and I was impressed both by his
fitness and volleying skills. For a not that tall player, Alan
knows how to cut off shots I can tell you that…
Davide was very
motivated today, very focused, and didn’t want to love his first
appearance in the tournament. He didn’t.
"Struggling a bit, I do that a lot these days….
"This is my first participation to a world team event, I did do
a European Team event about 10 years ago, but this was my first
world.
"A bit nervous, considering what’s at stake, this is different,
this is for the Team… It was a bit of a bouncy court, and also
my first match of the tournament, I didn’t play yesterday…
"Alan is a fast player, strong, and he volleys well. I managed
to slow down the pace and play my game, which is the only one I
know how to play, where I don’t have to run that much…"
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WHAT I COULD SEE BIT OF…
Framboise reports En Bref:
from Here to Here
People, there are 8 teams playing on 4 courts, so I honestly
can’t see much full game, only a vague sniff of what’s going on…
INDIA 3-0 VENEZUELA…
Nice to see that, despite the bad luck that strikes them, India
is still fighting, today against Venezuela they stayed a total
of 57m on court…
AUSTRALIA
3-0 WALES
No trouble for the Aussies, only Pilley who lost one game to
take the next two only for points… Today, David was resting, so
Team was Bozza, Pilley and Aaron vs Wales, Sutherland, Peter Creed and Nick Birt…
Read what Dan Zilic
thought of that mach...
 SOUTH AFRICA 3-0 KENYA
So
nice to see Rodney Durbach playing again, he is ranked two.
 I could see bits of the match between
Clinton Leeuw (SA) and
Kenyan Joseph N Karigithe, nice pace, the Kenyan being very
fast.
Bad luck that the two African countries had to meet in the
pools, I’m sure they’d prefer to play against other continent
for a change…
 
PAKISTAN 3-0 SWEDEN
Aamir Atlas Khan is back, his ankle back to shape, although he
lacks a bit of matches, obviously. A strong team for Pakistan
with Aamir, Farhan, Yasir and Mansoor…
 "I’m fine physically, the ankle is OK, but I’m lacking a bit of
matches, so I’m really happy to be here to play as many games I
can, it’s perfect for me.
"Today,
I made a few unforced errors, because I saw him play yesterday,
and I saw he was moving very well, so I had to push him around
the court. I attacked a bit too much, but it was necessary
today…"
FRANCE 3-0 DENMARK
 A slow start for
Thierry – Greg was resting – still the former
World number one takes the first game, only just, in front of a
pack glass court audience.
Rasmus, a bit tired in the second, will put pressure on the
French in the third, before twisting his ankle… Julien didn’t
have any trouble at all again Kim Povslen.
 “I’m
hungry again… I had a good think after the British and Sky, and
put my head together…
"Now, I’ve got to find the right balance between speed and
intensity that can prevent my opponent to play his own game.
2But I have my sensations back, physically I feel fine, and I’m
willing to do good…”
Renan, third and last leg
of the match, has a lot to handle with Kristian Frost,
playing home in front of a quite rightly full and enthusiastic
crowd, who went estatic when their man took a game of "DogWithaBone"
Renan....
 Sadly
we did not make into top 16 this time.
We had our chance against Ireland yesterday, but we just did not
perform well enough.
Today we played France. France has such a strong team and it was a
really good experience for all of us.
Rasmus had a good first game with Thierry, but after the first game
Thierry was just too good. Kim got a good lesson from Julian. Julian
played so well - nothing to do really!
I had a really good game with Renan today. I managed to follow my
game plan throughout the match and I am very happy with the way I
played. It is never nice to lose, but looking back I managed to put
Renan under pressure and I stuck to my game plan. Overall very
happy.
The audience was amazing. It is very nice playing at home and
everybody just made is so much more exciting playing here! I hope we
will be able to do well in the 17/28 play-off!
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