Week 11 - Great Britain F7 ($10,000) Bath -Hard

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 11 - Great Britain F7 ($10,000) Bath -Hard

polly · Junior player

Are there any live scores?

korriban · Challenger level

http://scores.itftennis.com/?alias=itf

type the above in your web address bar, refresh and bookmark!

polly · Junior player

None of the men's matches showing,rrrrubbish!!!Bet365 has let me down too..I'll have to rely on the very efficient updates on here!

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

All remaining games are showing on link above. Rice racing away with second set now 3-0 ..come on...

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

They all are Polly unless you use a smartphone. None on Bet 365 at all today. Saves me money from not losing anything today though. Dave rice 3-0 up two breaks in 2nd set. Dan 3-1 up a break. Will and Burt on serve.

polly · Junior player

ah yes thank you-I was looking under Bath 15k,dopey mare...

paulisi · Tennis legend

David Rice wins by retirement for the second time in a row......

Should be 6 out of 8 for GB in quarter finals and has a Corrie v Evans/Willis final written all over it again

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

dan wins 7-6 6-1, keeping the run going, draw starting to open up for him aswell

polly · Junior player

And a win for Marcus too 7-6 6-4

RJA · Hall of fame

Okay then, Liam Broady's match. Anyone who only likes to read gushing praise about British players then please stop reading, this post isn't for you.

I am honestly trying to be fair and I always try and be balanced when reporting on how a match went but I really can't think of a single good thing to say about Liam's performance today. He was terrible in almost every aspect of the game, his serving was dreadful, his ground strokes produced error after error and his occasional venture to the net resulted in some simply atrocious volley misses. Don't read anything into him breaking serve on 3 occasions, that was primarily down to Farquharson also serving badly (3 double faults in one game for the first break). Worst of all though was his attitude and demeanor which was unrelentingly negative for most of the match and frankly embarrassing and child like for much of the second set. I don't mind players berating themselves for playing badly but with Liam there seems no attempt to cajole himself into a better performance but just consistent moaning about how bad he is playing. Not having seen him play for a while I had hoped that he had out grown this, sadly he hasn't. I would imagine that he will also be fined quite heavily for his very loud foul mouthed tirade at the end of the match.

Based on this performance (how he beat Michon yesterday I really don't know) he is simply miles away from being a decent player and his ranking of 883 flatters him. Before worrying about technical matters he first needs to grow up and start acting like a would be professional tennis player.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (4) Lewis Burton & Dan Evans WR 971 defeated Liam Broady & Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 1820 by 4 & 5

RJA · Hall of fame

As for the other matches.

Good solid performance from Gabb which resulted in a hard fought and deserved win. He will however need another gear to trouble Corrie who always looked like he had slightly too much for Daniell. Evo made hard work of what should have been an easy first set going from 4-1* to 4-5* before turning things round and taking the set on a tie break and then easily winning the second. Rice played very, very well and deserved his win. He was second best for much of the first set but hung on in and took his chance late in the set. He then raced into a 4-0 lead in the second set and was pushing for a third break when Westerhof suddenly retired without any indication of serious injury. I can't say much more about Smethurst's match than what his own tweet said "thoroughly outplayed".

Didn't see enough of the other two to comment.

scottie1 · Futures level

Thanks RJA at least you told the truth! Tell me is liam still coached by his Dad as I saw him in Edinburgh several years ago.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Okay then, Liam Broady's match. Anyone who only likes to read gushing praise about British players then please stop reading, this post isn't for you.

I am honestly trying to be fair and I always try and be balanced when reporting on how a match went but I really can't think of a single good thing to say about Liam's performance today. He was terrible in almost every aspect of the game, his serving was dreadful, his ground strokes produced error after error and his occasional venture to the net resulted in some simply atrocious volley misses. Don't read anything into him breaking serve on 3 occasions, that was primarily down to Farquharson also serving badly (3 double faults in one game for the first break). Worst of all though was his attitude and demeanor which was unrelentingly negative for most of the match and frankly embarrassing and child like for much of the second set. I don't mind players berating themselves for playing badly but with Liam there seems no attempt to cajole himself into a better performance but just consistent moaning about how bad he is playing. Not having seen him play for a while I had hoped that he had out grown this, sadly he hasn't. I would imagine that he will also be fined quite heavily for his very loud foul mouthed tirade at the end of the match.

Based on this performance (how he beat Michon yesterday I really don't know) he is simply miles away from being a decent player and his ranking of 883 flatters him. Before worrying about technical matters he first needs to grow up and start acting like a would be professional tennis player.

Very sad to hear that. I was not concerned at all last season about Liam's lack of ranking improvement. I always feel that while a young player is still a junior and trying to mix both junior and senior events, it is very difficult to find consistency. I really thought that this season is where Liam would be able to focus on the next phase of his career and make significant strides in the right direction. His early season form (in the USA in particular) has not been what I had expected and whilst I know injury has played a part, I really hoped that yesterday's win over Michon would kick start his season. It is still early days, and he is still very young so perhaps we shouldn't judge his results too soon.

What is far more worrying is the attitude that you have spoken about. Form can come and go as everyone knows, but maintaining the right attitude through thick and thin is a must. Let's hope he improves on ALL counts as the season progresses.