Week 45 - Futures F15 ($10K) - Antalya, Turkey - Clay

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 45 - Futures F15 ($10K) - Antalya, Turkey - Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

Great tournament by Liam, ending with a very respectable scoreline against a top 500 player who plays almost universally on clay.

steven · Tennis legend

There's a good article on the BBC site about Liam - http://bbc.in/WclDbt

He certainly gives the impression that he knows what he wants and is prepared to take full responsibility for maximising his chances of getting there.

Ratty · County player

Oh dear, here I go again.

With the GREATEST of respect to the Legend of the board ... smile smile smile

... Liam's is the bog-standard up-&-coming sportsplayer's interview:

1. I've got a good training set-up

2. It's all down to me

3. I need to improve

4. It's a long road

What does it tell us? - nothing at all, apart from that he's obviously been on the LTA Media Training ("above all, never say anything interesting") course.

steven · Tennis legend

Obviously not an earth-shattering interview, else I might have started a new thread instead of tacking it onto the end of a week 45 Futures thread

... and in case you hadn't guessed, it's not me who sets the silly "what you get called if you've done this number of posts" designations on the board ...

At least players like Liam only do these interviews a few times a year - I wish (for his sake!) that the same was true of Andy, who must get asked much the same questions every other day! I wonder if there was ever a time (maybe in the days before we could see matches on TV?) when sports journalists concentrated on reporting on the action instead of seemingly finding it more important to try to get players to say something stupid/controversial in interviews.