Worlds day 1-2 reaction post

Very simply? Boring. Let's go through game by game and look at how things went:

Huybrechts/Merk - Arno was better than expected, but man Kim was bad. Thankfully this is why we have sample size warnings on projections

Smith/Ashton - Seed wins 3-0 boring

Littler/Labanauskas - Seed wins 3-0 boring

Razma/van den Herik - This was at least moderately close but Jamai just couldn't bring it when it mattered

Zonneveld/Puha - Hopes wasn't bad, but Niels just rolled for the most part

White/King - Some people have called this the Mansell/Long of this tournament. I would not disagree. That was just terrible

Searle/Landman - Seed wins 3-0 boring

Cross/Dekker - Seed wins 3-0 boring

Smith/Harrysson - ZOMG AN ACTUAL INTERESTING GAME INVOLVING A SEEDED PLAYER!!! I mean Andreas is one of the players that we would think has a reasonable chance of bucking the trend, and fair play to getting it done, but jesus christ Ross, all the chances were there to kill the game

Evans/Leung - Moderately tight sets, but better player gets it done, I guess not the worst game

van Veen/Reyes - Seed goes up 2-0, other guy tries a bit of a comeback but can't get it to the interesting part so boring

Heta/Lennon - See above

I feel the only thing we've actually learned is that Arno Merk might be a tad better than expected, so against the player he might play maybe he has round three potential, and also that Ian White is playing worse than expected by some distance, so that makes Cross even more of a favourite than he should be. Tiring few sessions. Will be at football tomorrow obv, may get back in the evening with these sorts of thoughts but might be Sunday.