Davis Cup: Gilles Simon dominates Vasek Pospisil and France leads 2-0 to Canada – Équipe.fr

If Frank Dancevic (245th) and Vasek Pospisil (44th) had decided to adopt the same game plan Friday against the Blues, namely an attitude resolutely offensive on a surface clear not suited to their style of play, the second was much better executed than the first, too quickly overtaken by “native son” earthen gwada, Gael Monfils.

the problem for Pospisil (25 years ) is to have managed to keep that famous plane, five games, and twenty minutes while still seriously cool the public velodrome in Baie-Mahault, putting pressure on a Gilles Simon too the back foot. A 5-1, 30-0 on his serve, Canada’s number one weekend, in the absence of Milos Raonic, began to miss a pair of depreciated and out a few forehands that, until then failed all within short.

by forcing gradually Pospisil to always play one more move, thus pushing it to miss more (58 unforced errors in total), Simon successfully débreaker once (5-2), a second (5-4), then to seize a third consecutive opponent of Service (6-5) before concluding the round by having dismissed three balls tie -break (7-5 ​​in 54 minutes).

Favorite Tsonga and Gasquet (preserved for the double on Saturday) by captain Yannick Noah, who wanted to involve its four holders on the first weekend of Cup Davis of the season, Simon then extended his series to nine games in row breakant second act of input (2-0). A 3-2 for the French, Pospisil showed the first signs of physical fatigue, drained by the stifling heat of the island, as Dancevic before him.

The marked face, rosy cheeks with the effort, Canada has more sporadically managed to outflank Simon base (15 winning shots on the last two sets, against 13 in the first). In round three, delayed a few minutes by a brief downpour, Simon has long gone after a liberating break, missing three times at 2-1 and 3-2 before the ninth, at 4-3, is good. Opposite Pospisil never showed signs of physical regeneration of, capitulating for the twelfth time in his career on clay in thirteen games. Saturday (19 am, French time), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet will send a mission to France in the quarterfinals by winning twice.