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Miriambee


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korriban wrote:
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That's a very good result. So each of the team has had a chance to shine in at least one tournament. A nice division of labour.

 Let's hope. But as Steven pointed out, Garza handed out a 0 and 1 thrashing to Luke only 3 months ago, so I'd be very surprised (and delighted) if he won this next one. Expecting a big improvement for sure, but with the previous scoreline, suggests this could be one of those awkward match-ups for Luke.

Talking of which, here's a strange circular run of results over the last 4 weeks of the US futures trip for our 3 teens.....showing how you can never be certain about results!

Luke destroys Thacher in 2: 0 and 2

2 weeks before, this same Thacher beats Liam convincingly in 2: 4 and 4

Liam had just beaten Kyle easily in 2 the day before: 3 and 1

But Kyle beat Luke easily the week before in 2: 5 and 1

Go figure........



-- Edited by korriban on Friday 16th of November 2012 10:16:11 AM

 they are all as good as each other, but they have fairly frequent off days!



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Score confirmed by Martin:

QF: Luke Bambridge WR 893 beat (2) Daniel Garza (MEX) WR 360 (CH 294 in Apr) by 1-6 6-2 6-4 biggrin

That's a career best ranking scalp (amazingly, Helen had already recorded it by the time I checked) and Luke's 2nd Futures semi, 1st outside the UK.



-- Edited by steven on Friday 16th of November 2012 08:07:46 PM

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Another message from martin to Luke on twitter , suggesting like may have one ! Luke could quite easily have finished by now so is logical ! It's just not clear if he's encouraging him for today or congratulating him, fingers crossed !!

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Martin Weston said

"#chippingandripping #slicinganddicing #winning Good work @LukeBambridge40 & @markhilts. Keep on keepin on fellas! Business end of the week! "

Sounds like another great result, well done! Beating the No. 2 and 7 seeds to get to semi's, certainly done it the hard way!

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Another Weston tweet from 17m ago confirms Luke's into the Bradenton semis

Great work Luke here's hoping for a final!!

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Stunning from Luke , so we've had one of the boys reach the Demi's in each of the four US tourneys, very impressive ! And worth noteing Luke has had quite a few big wins over all these tourneys , not just this one, very promising for him

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Battle of the young-giant-killers ...

SF: Luke Bambridge WR 893 v Sascha Zverev (GER) WR 1165

Zverev is the 15-year-old (yes, 15!) younger brother of ex-top 50 player Mischa - he won his QF despite winning 4 games less than his opponent (Bangoura, whom Luke beat 3 weeks ago) 7-6(6) 0-6 7-6(5)!

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Hell yes Luke. Thats a great win. Surprised Garza#s CH is only 294. Thought he'd been higher.

Here's hoping for the final

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Good week for Luke. This tour has been great for these guys.

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Zverev gets the 1st break, unfortunately - 1-2*

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2*-4 come on Luke...

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Luke breaks back

*4-4

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Luke now a set and a break down. Zverev is 15 and a half!!!! Impressive kid.

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korriban wrote:

Luke now a set and a break down. Zverev is 15 and a half!!!! Impressive kid.

 Yes kind of a wake-up call for us when we've been getting excited about our 17-year-olds.........



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Priesty wrote:
korriban wrote:

Luke now a set and a break down. Zverev is 15 and a half!!!! Impressive kid.

 Yes kind of a wake-up call for us when we've been getting excited about our 17-year-olds.........

Zverev is however the son of a former top 200 ATP player and a former top 400 WTA player AND the brother of a former top 50 player, so tennis does kind of run in the family!

4-6 *2-5



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