Week 6 Futures - France F3 ($10k+H) - Bressuire (Hard)

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

RE: Week 6 Futures - France F3 ($10k+H) - Bressuire (Hard)

SMC1809 · All-time great

Liam, well done on the win and good luck in R2. Any reason why you haven't teamed up with Tom in the doubles since Wimbledon?

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:

R1: Sean Thornley WR 558 lost to François-Arthur Vibert FRA WR 791 by 0-5 rtd

Hope it's nothing serious. I guess we'll know if he & Ricey pull out of the doubles.

Food Poisoning. bleh

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Good news sean and dave won 2-2 in the dubs.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

As HtB has just reported, Rice & Thornley defeated Farquharson & Halachev (BUL) by 2 & 2 in the QF.

SF: (3) Kevin Botti & Simon Cauvard (FRA/FRA) WR 1615 vs (2) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 1030

indiana · Tennis legend

The Magician Santoro wrote:

You know things are bad when you rely on a 17 year old to save your day

Albeit at least the player here most likely to make the top 200 ( and well beyond one hopes and believes ! )

And I was saying that before I noticed Liam looking in here, honest smile

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 9th of February 2011 02:52:01 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Excellent win for Liam resisting a big server (20 aces).

I agree with Phil concerning the importance of our top juniors playing more ATP/ITF Pro events. If you look at the current ATP top 100 you will find around 50 of these reached the ATP top 500 during their junior years (including all the current top 15). The number of juniors making this level has averaged at 7 in recent years. Hence it is easy to deduce that the majority of those who achieve the top 500 during their junior years will go on to reach the top 100 at some point. The percentage success clearly drops off fast below that figure, so it is a good target for juniors.

George is currently 13th and Oli further behind the top 7 1993 boys, so they have a lot to do to make this target. By contrast Liam is the only 1994 currently in the top 1000

indiana · Tennis legend

I find these very interesting and significant stats, David, thanks.

It is really good to see Liam making such progress and certainly the top 1993 boys should hopefully begin to make inroads in some futures. I would certainly hope that this year futures will very much get Oli and George's main attention and early indications are that this may be the case.

I would mention there is always a temptation to consider the juniors purely on a year of birth basis, and it is woth being aware that Oli was born on 29/09/93 and is much closer to Liam's dob ( 04/01/94 ) than he is to George's ( 07/02/93 ).

philwrig · Hall of fame

Liam won 7-6 6-1.

indiana · Tennis legend

Go Liam !! smile

That's putting Bourgue firmly in his place and in his home country too. So encouraging.

Anyway, those 900s are pretty boring rankings, quite right to move on to the 800s smile

SMC1809 · All-time great

Another win and he'll go up a further 100 places!

indiana · Tennis legend

....OK or on to the 700s wherever you choose biggrin

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Sean and Dave also won the dubs semi 2-2.

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Well done young Broady

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Awesome stuff from Liam!