chicken wrote:

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I wonder if anyone thinks that Liam has had better results since joining the LTA then when he was under his fathers direction?

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Interesting question. Only two points to throw into the mix: (a) I think, in general, an 18 year-old lad has to break free from his father - tennis coaching is very intense, I'm not sure father-son partnerships are the best idea. and (b) I really do think that Naomi would have benefited hugely from having had a wider range of coaching - she has such natural talent and physical advantages but a technique that needs so much work, that obviously wasn't put in place when she was young.

Overall, I think Liam did the right thing but I may well be wrong . . . .

 

 

Ratty wrote:

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Here's another point to throw in the mix.

Nobody has the faintest idea, and nobody CAN EVER have the faintest idea, because it would be impossible to design and perform any kind of meaningful measurement process.  

"Nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical humans" (Mr Spock)

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Pointless! Unhelpful! Again!

He's another point to throw in the mix.

Can anyone think of the most illogical place for a "logic" (I use the word loosely) preacher to hang out? How about a discussion forum, which inherently is full of ifs, buts, maybes and don't knows about a subject which has so many variables (which is partly why we love it) that logical debate only gets you some of the way anyway? 

Could I suggest that the response that the original poster was looking for was never likely to be definitively YES or NO!!!!!! That's not great for a discussion forum.

And stop quoting Star Trek........it's vastly inferior to another SciFi franchise I could mention!  

SF: (1) Andrew Fitzpatrick / Arkadiusz Kocyla (POL) WR 1205 lost to (4) Marco Crugnola / Riccardo Sinicropi (ITA/ITA) WR 1595 : 6-4, 6-3
SF: (3) Liam Broady / Joshua Ward-Hibbert WR 2184 beat (2) Thomas Statzberger / Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT/AUT) WR 1375 : 6-3, 6-4

Final: (3) Liam Broady / Joshua Ward-Hibbert WR 2184 v (4) Marco Crugnola / Riccardo Sinicropi (ITA/ITA) WR 1595

SMC1809 wrote:

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chicken wrote:

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I wonder if anyone thinks that Liam has had better results since joining the LTA then when he was under his fathers direction?

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 When did Liam join the LTA? I thought he was invited and declined.

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 SMC. That's true originally, the LTA had invited Liam without talking to the family first (arrogance once again) and had to do an embarrassing about turn a few years back. But I believe there was a rapprochement about a year ago, very much driven by Liam himself.