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Thanks for your nice words :) Here are my day 2 words and pictures: https://flyctory.com/2021/09/19/davis-cup-finland-vs-india-2021-day2/ There will be some practice pictures on my website as well tomorrow, but it is more or less a picture page with gallery. Generally, I have to say that Finland rea...

Hi, sorry that I could not join you earlier. Super-buzy with working for ITD here in Espoo. Still a lot to do, but if you want to have some pictures (the match report is the same as ITD, here is the Day 1 coverage on my homepage: https://flyctory.com/2021/09/18/davis-cup-finland-vs-india-2021-day1/ ...

Finally, a deserved win for GB - but with too many weird decisions in an Olympic medal match... Would have loved the girls at least to win the same medal as the boys... Especially for political and social reasons. None the less, to me, the "Chak De India" movie has somehow turned into trut...

By the way, the German commentator is highly critizising the umpring, demanded multiple cards against GB for stick fouls.

I just see terrible positioning of especially one of the ladies. Now GB are allowed to take another video judge even though they failed in first half already? Strange things...

And if there is not enough evidence, then we have to go with the human judgement. One option may be to reduce the burden of evidence. Instead of having incontrovertible evidence, we should allow the video umpire to rule "on the balance" taking into account the ground call but most importa...

I thought it went out too, but on replays, it is not clear. The high camera angle from the center line is the only one that showed that it might've been but the back line cameras didn't show it clearly (not sure if they did any careful frame advance though; maybe not). Maybe it stayed in. Britain i...

prasen9 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:18 am
And, it is so good to have Florian back. Only for that reason, India should win more.

Thanks for these warm words

First, they slam the Germans, now they kill the Brexitanians.... I hate field hockey, but in Tokyo, it is really cool sports

Feels like I haven't been to the forum for ages... But I just have to say: it has been a brilliant night, German time :) I was thinking of you today, Florian, and was just wondering how you were doing... Germany took hockey away from the Indian subcontinent in 1972 with the first Gold out of our ar...

Feels like I haven't been to the forum for ages... But I just have to say: it has been a brilliant night, German time

Me too... Absolutely shocking to read that. I guess India has voted for the DC reform... If you want to cash in the money for qualification and have choice of ground, you have to invest to host it under conditions which give you the best chances. No idea why Chennai does not want to host... and why ...

It's Italy at home. Not impossible...

The ITF gave the WildCards to Great Britain and Argentina - which especially means that China and Bosnia-Herzegovina joins the unseeded nations.. And Davis Cup underperformers Switzerland are seeded now (along with Australia) adding a quite nice choice for India to the lot (assuming that neither Fed...

Yes, that is a bit surprising. The wild card may go to Switzerland too if they commit that Roger and Stan will be playing. Somehow, this wild card thing looks unnecessary. I would have fully understood that they somehow compensate missing some teams after the qualification round... But doing it bef...

The ITF has released the list of nations seeded / unseeded: https://www.daviscup.com/en/news/292334.aspx Two European spots are still yet to be decided. The most interesting part of the article, however, is: The two nations that will receive wild cards into the 2019 Finals will be announced prior to...