started passing better & Nikolov getting more comfortable

blew a huge 2nd set lead to make it dicey, then blew the out set 3.

good announcer, comments on a lot of the stare-downs Beach does. definitely too much from Sotoris and Bouchkov who have a history of that - must be a Euro thing.

Bouchkov didn't look good initially but has come on set 3, replacing Braun, just quicker off his feet than Braun. He & Daris are high flyers in the middle