Boys & Girls: Perin Memorial, Croatia - Grade 1 (Week 38)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys & Girls: Perin Memorial, Croatia - Grade 1 (Week 38)

Smidster · Challenger level

Boys R2

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) v Teodor Nicolae Marin (ROU)

Girls R1 (L64)

(8) Lucy Brown (GBR) v Olga Doroshina (RUS)

DavidC · Tennis legend

A good win for Liam over an opponent with some decent results over the summer, but Lucy has a lot of points to defend and is in danger of falling well outside the top 100 soon. Both lost in doubles.

Boys R2

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) d. Teodor Nicolae Marin (ROU) 6-1 7-6(4)

R3

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) v (10) Timur Neymatov (RUS)

Girls R2

Olga Doroshina (RUS) d. (8) Lucy Brown (GBR) 7-5 6-1

-- Edited by DavidC on Wednesday 22nd of September 2010 05:50:35 PM

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Liam advances with ease and therefore defends last years points, with a real chance for bigger points

R3

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) d (10) Timur Neymatov (RUS) 6-0 6-1

QF

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) v Michael Eible (AUT)

Liam's actualy seeded to reach the final now, but im not going to get ahead, and am looking at one match at a time

-- Edited by Tennis36 on Thursday 23rd of September 2010 02:39:19 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

A stunning scoreline for Liam. Even though he beat Neymatov earlier in the year the Russian has had a number of wins since over good players, including world no. 16 Mate Zsiga. The Austrian beat the world no. 20 Mate Pavic in the second round, so will be no pushover

indiana · Tennis legend

Great result for Liam. Is this on clay ? I know that Liam was planning on playing a series of tournaments on clay and didn't seem to start off too well.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Yeah it's on clay, very encouraging getting these results on this surface, btw I think Liam has hardly played on hard this year? I may be wrong

DavidC · Tennis legend

Tennis36 wrote:

Yeah it's on clay, very encouraging getting these results on this surface, btw I think Liam has hardly played on hard this year? I may be wrong

At ITF level just a couple of junior events in Tunisia and a pair of GB Futures (indoors) with little success in singles (though he reached both Tunisian finals in doubles)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

more smooth progress for liam

QF

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) d Michael Eible (AUT) 6-1 7-5

SF

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) v Dennis Novak (AUT) (16)

Maza1987 · Challenger level

keep going, liam

DavidC · Tennis legend

Excellent - Liam now will overtake George as British no. 2. Novak has won a lot of titles this year, including 3 this summer, but at a lower level. Nevertheless a 6-0 6-2 demolition of world no. 18 Alessandro Colella (who beat Liam earlier in the year) here looks ominously good.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

SF

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) d Dennis Novak (AUT) (16) 6-3 6-3

F

(6) Liam Broady (GBR) v tbc

so liam with a big breakthrough this week, correct me if im wrong, but i think he has reached a grade 1 final before george or ollie. Our davis cup junior squad looks one of the best this year, and liam is not even playing in it

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Top seed out, liam plays junior WR121 for the title, big chance

DavidC · Tennis legend

Tennis36 wrote:

so liam with a big breakthrough this week, correct me if im wrong, but i think he has reached a grade 1 final before george or ollie. Our davis cup junior squad looks one of the best this year, and liam is not even playing in it

Yes, the best Ollie or George have managed in finals is Grade 2s. James Marsalek was our last Grade 1 finalist, winning Roehampton.

Final

Patrick Ofner (AUT) v (6) Liam Broady (GBR)

Kyle beat Ofner a couple of weeks ago, so hopefully Liam can repeat the feat

Maza1987 · Challenger level

I'm salivating.