johnnylad wrote:

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ultimateshedman wrote:

Don't know anything about Niland's game but he beat Federer when they were 14 year olds

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Pretty cool claim to fame!

Keep going Jamie!

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Yeah, I think Niland was one of the best juniors in Europe at that age. I read that in an Irish newspaper interview last summer during the Dublin challenger. Niland said that Federer wasn't thought of as anything special at that age and apparently he had one heck of a temper.

Federer says that he used to smash loads of rackets in his youth so his coach set up a system in which he got fined everytime he smashed one and Fed said he had to stop overwise he would have gone broke !

Niall wrote:

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For people who haven't seem Jamie before he is the player in the dark blue top. Niland is wearing the light blue.

5-3 Jamie holds

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I see he's gone back to the shaven-headed "bruiser" look  

 

Another highlights package is now up of Baker-Niland at 4-3

5-5 Niland breaks

5-5

johnnylad wrote:

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Looks really stocky though, must have trained hard!

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I think Jamie does a lot more fitness work than most other British players, he has these training blocks at Nottingham for 2-3 weeks where he just works mostly on his fitness and tightens up a few areas of his game. They've got a high quality gym there.