Week 43 - Israel F15 ($10,000) - Herzlia (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 43 - Israel F15 ($10,000) - Herzlia (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And after 6 holds, Luke breaks to love in game seven of the decider. Now serving at *4-3.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Luke holds. 5-3*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Marcora holds.

Luke to serve for the match. *5-4

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Big, big win for Luke as he sayes BP and serves out the match to win 6-4 and dump out the top seed.

Now if Liam can beat Djere in the QF, we will be guaranteed a GB finalist as in the top quarter. Luke will play Toby.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
L16: (4) Liam Broady WR 571 beat (LL) Daniel Skripnik (ISR) WR 1670 (CH 1065 in 2012) by 4 & 0

Why the long face, Steven? Did you get the parenthesis the wrong way round? wink

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
L16: (4) Liam Broady WR 571 beat (LL) Daniel Skripnik (ISR) WR 1670 (CH 1065 in 2012) by 4 & 0
Why the long face, Steven? Did you get the parenthesis the wrong way round?

Either that or I'm a secret Skripnik supporter LOL (corrected)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Daniel Aleksandrov & Orel Ovil (ISR/ISR) UNR vs (2) Scott Clayton & Toby Martin CR 1505 (759+746)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Big, big win for Luke as he sayes BP and serves out the match to win 6-4 and dump out the top seed.

Now if Liam can beat Djere in the QF, we will be guaranteed a GB finalist as in the top quarter. Luke will play Toby.

Ooooh, this is a really nice way to finish a tour which has been mildly disappointing (in terms of singles) so far.

Huge congrats to Luke - knew his moment would come - :)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Excellent news from Luke, about time this talented youngster put some results together. Another with potential to easily break into top 500.

Spectator · All-time great

Well done to Mr Bambridge. And to Messrs Broady and Martin as well, though their victories were not quite so spectacular in terms of opponents' rankings.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 24th of October 2013 07:38:57 AM

korriban · Challenger level

Coup Droit wrote:
It's very tight 2-2 in the third set - do you think Liam is sitting there, going, that's right, lads, tire yourselves out, why don't you . . ..

Certainly hope not! He hasn't played his QF yet, so he'd be getting ahead of himself.

Now Luke at *5-6 final set, having had 15-40 in the last game. This is where, if you have a tendancy to play safe, it could kick in. Go for it, Mr B.

Edit: and a hold to love....very nicely done.

-- Edited by korriban on Thursday 24th of October 2013 10:04:14 AM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And we will have GB representation in the final as Liam secures his semi final match up with Toby.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Thursday 24th of October 2013 12:04:43 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

First set was nip and tuck but Toby finally snuck it 7-5

korriban · Challenger level

paulisi wrote:
Excellent news from Luke, about time this talented youngster put some results together. Another with potential to easily break into top 500.

Hopefully more than that, surely!

My slight question mark is the possible lack of self-belief he seems to show in interviews, with a slight air of disappointment in his own achievements, combined with a wonderful friendliness and team orientation (obviously a great thing from a human being point of view, but perhaps not so much when striving to be top dog in a gladitorial winner-takes-all sport). Just wonder whether he might play it safe at crucial moments in matches, rather than going all out. We'll see in a few years time.

Luke lost the first set by dropping serve, serving to take the set into a TB.