Week 15 - Qatar F2 ($10,000) - Doha (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 15 - Qatar F2 ($10,000) - Doha (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

2 MP's

steven · Tennis legend

Chen serving 0-15 15-15 15-30 15-40, 2 MPs ... 30-40, 1 left ... yes!

QF: (4) Oli Golding WR 352 beat (7) Ashley Hewitt WR 412 by 3-6 6-3 6- 0
QF: Liam Broady WR 468 v (2) Chen Ti (TPE) WR 287 (CH 200 last May) by 4-6 6-3 7-5

This is the *6th* time this year that Liam has won from a set down! It takes him into his first singles semi-final of the year.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 10th of April 2014 04:06:23 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Great win Liam

steven · Tennis legend

You might have noticed Liam's slightly odd celebration at the end He explains:

"Wowza. Another 3hr battle won. Not sure how. Just kept on going and eventually got on top. Apologies for my celebratory sprint to the net ... afterwards, I was pretty pumped and rather than shout something I just ran... #ForrestGump"

steven · Tennis legend

Oli will play Rosenholm in the semis. Another Swede to mash or a turnip for the books? (I'll definitely gmc ...)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Nice to see Liam starting to find his 'A' game again, beating a player of Chen's quality will do him no end of good.

Spectator · All-time great

I think (though not certain) that the largely British doubles SF disappeared off the scoreboard long before it ended (I looked at the stream, and it appeared to be ongoing - you could see a glimpse or two in the margins of the screen ... but hard to tell). The other men's singles QF is also still going on - maybe by midnight they'll know who plays tomorrow! And having lost the first set 6-2, Mr Golding and his Qatari partner had the chance to serve for the second, but were broken, so it's on serve at 4-5.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 10th of April 2014 06:38:37 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

A day of mixed fortunes for both Oli & Ti Chen:

SF: (1) Chen Ti & Ruan Roelofse (TPE/RSA) CR 398 (126+272) defeated (WC) Oli Golding & Mousa Zanan Zayed (QAT) UNR by 2 & 5

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (3) Luke Bambridge & Antoine Benneteau (FRA) CR 841 (402+439) defeated (2) Liam Broady & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 712 (398+314) by 6-4 3-6 [10-8]

Arguably not entirely surprising, given Liam's epic quarter-final battle with Chen!

ergo

Final: (1) Chen Ti & Ruan Roelofse (TPE/RSA) CR 398 (126+272) vs (3) Luke Bambridge & Antoine Benneteau (FRA) CR 841 (402+439)

Fingers crossed for Bambo & AB...

steven · Tennis legend

SF: (4) Oli Golding WR 352 v Patrik Rosenholm (SWE) WR 652 (CH 362 in 2012)
SF: Liam Broady WR 468 v (8) Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 477 (CH 317 in 2012) *

* H2H 0-1 - Bossel defeated Liam 3-6 6-2 6-3 in QR2 at one of the Nottingham Challengers last year

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Would be nice to have an all british final

steven · Tennis legend

No wonder Liam was a bit confused (on Twitter) - Bossel was a bit lucky to be seeded ahead of him.

At the entry date, Liam was 7 places ahead (460 to 467) and now Liam is 9 places ahead (468 to 477) but at the seeding date (i.e. last week), Bossel was 2 places ahead, 469 to 471!

Another quick stat - Oli's bagel today was the 7th he has handed out in singles so far this year, making him equal top for bagels handed out in 2014 along with two Slovakians, Beck and Kovalik

indiana · Tennis legend

Thankfully Chen Ti stopped his reprise of Dan Cox's victorious route last week in the final set today ( win R1 in straight sets, lose first set to Luke in R2, lose second set to Liam in QF, win SF and final in straight sets ).

TMH · Futures qualifying

Fantastic win that for Liam. I make that two 'best wins of 2014' this week.