korriban wrote:

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I think you are right. Liam may well pip this one......in general the draw sheet seems to have been decimated, so there will be a very good chance for the winner of the all-Brit SF to go all the way to the final or even win the tournament. I'd like to think that every time Oli enters a $10k tournament (I'm assuming Kyle will now avoid $10ks in 2014 unless he suffers a setback/injury), he will be thinking in terms of winning it, and Liam and Luke shouldn't be too far behind this in terms of their thinking............I could easily see one of our boys winning 2 of the 3 weeks in Qatar.

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 Er - yeah, 100% is a very good chance!

Coup Droit wrote:

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Luke and Evan win their QF 7-6 6-0

They now play Liam and Scott in the semis so that's a GB finalist guaranteed . . .

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QF:  (1) Liam Broady & Scott Clayton CR 1075 (454+621) defeated Peter Goldsteiner & Skander Mansouri (AUT/TUN) CR 1896 (1305+591) by 3 & 4
QF:  (4) Luke Bambridge & Evan Hoyt CR 1480 (547+933) defeated Evgeny Karlovskiy & Tom Kocevar-Desman (RUS/SLO) CR 1461 (886+775) by 7-6(4) 6-0

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SF:  (1) Liam Broady & Scott Clayton CR 1075 (454+621) vs (4) Luke Bambridge & Evan Hoyt CR 1480 (547+933)

I want Luke to win this match - even if it means Bob will have to wait another week for Liam to break into the top 500

Liam takes an early lead in the second set 3-0*.

Luke only winning 15% points behind his second serve so far

 

Update: Luke responded by holding and breaking back but then Liam broke again *4-2

But then.. Luke broke back again and held after two long games so *4-4

Back and forth, back and forth which way is it going to go...

-- Edited by DWH on Thursday 5th of December 2013 01:42:47 PM

-- Edited by DWH on Thursday 5th of December 2013 02:05:27 PM

Liam makes sure he will break into the ATP top 500 on Monday week:

QF: (5) Liam Broady WR 510 beat Luke Bambridge WR 785 by 5 & 4

SF: (5) Liam Broady WR 510 v (Q) Mats Moraing (GER) WR 1235 (CH 1165 in Sep)

Moraing has beaten the 3rd & 7th seeds and Scott so far this week, all in 3 sets.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 5th of December 2013 02:22:02 PM

Yes, well done to Liam. He actually hasn't spent much time in the 500s, having first cracked the top 600 in September.

Hopefully, that should mean 17 in the top 500 at year end, although might still be quite tight with I believe more tournaments late on this year. Tom Farquharson will now be GB no 17 on 72 points ( I think declared ).