Tom Farquharson is showing some good form at the moment - looks like he will progress to QF's and is quietly progressing up the rankings

Dan Smethurst is now a break up in the second after losing the first and Ashley Hewitt has just got broken in the final set

Dan Smethurst is having a real disappointing run since the Wirral final and seems to have been beaten fairly comfortably today.

Jaggy1876 wrote:

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Or perhaps Korriban Tom F has a better return than Liam's serve. I don't think this is a surprising result at all in fact I was going to bet on it had it been available.

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I do agree with you on who I thought would win today's match, more based on current form, rather than who I believe is or will be the better player. Not sure if Tom's ever reached a $10k SF before, so this is already a good tournament for him.

Thanks for your point about return of serve, Jaggy. I think we both know that even the best return of servers wouldn't expect to break a good pro's serve 7 times out of 8 in the men's game unless either the 2 players were hopelessly mismatched or the server was having a real off-day.   

he lost 7-5, 4-6 6-2

It's still not good to be broken so many times and it really shouldn't be happening.

I don't know the stats but have never though got the impression that Liam has that great a serve from the occssions I have seen him.

I think this was discussed before, but how tall is Liam ? It's a bit indescribable, but to me in some ways he lacks court presence in a way similar to how I think of Evo.

Will say more later but Liam's problems went far beyond his serve. All round play was awful