Week 17 - Great Britain F9 ($10,000) - Bournemouth (Clay)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 17 - Great Britain F9 ($10,000) - Bournemouth (Clay)

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

paulisi wrote:
OOP suggests playing indoors today - is that indoor clay or hardcourt?

If it's indoors at West Hants as opposed to moving to another club it will be hard courts.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Looks like score updates are going to be intermittent today. A bit like the old days where someone had to run outside with a 2p piece and find the nearest phone box.

Luke wins the 1st set 6-1

KK · Club Coach

Liam a break up, serving at 4-3.

KK · Club Coach

That's odd. Liam is now showing as having won the first set, but the score in Luke's match has not moved on at all.

-- Edited by KK on Friday 25th of April 2014 12:25:30 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Liam took the set 6-3 with another break. Luke's score hasn't moved for about half an hour.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Now both scores have disappeared from Live Scores. Liam was 4-1* up in the 2nd though.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

One down, one to go. Luke's score has reappeared and he won 6-1 7-6(4)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

Liam won 6-3 6-2

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

This is turning into a very good day.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

SF: (4) Liam Broady WR 447 beat (6) Gavin van Peperzeel (AUS) WR 568 6-3 6-2
SF: (8) Luke Bambridge WR 609 beat Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 823 6-1 7-6(4)

Final: (4) Liam Broady WR 447 v (8) Luke Bambridge WR 609

Now doesn't that make for good reading.

Jaffa · Challenger level

Very pleased for both of them. Think that the criticism for Liam has been incredibly unfair on this forum and I'd love to see him prove the doubters wrong! Very solid off both wings. Luke is undoubtedly one of our brightest talents and long may it continue.

May the best man win tomorrow!

TMH · Futures qualifying

Fantastic, great weeks from both.

Given their H2H Luke is probably the favourite. Has he won a title before?

paulisi · Tennis legend

Liam will admit that he was not playing at all well at the start of the year. I'd like to see Liam again when he is playing well to make a proper judgement.

Luke will be favourite tomorrow(in my eyes) having beaten Liam last week in the British Tour final and will be Luke's second tour final after Greece last year.

A win for Bambo would put him on the verge of breaking into the top 500, a win for Liam would push him into the top 400.

steven · Tennis legend

Excellent news The LBs have met in Futures 3 times before, in different rounds each time:

- Luke won in 2 tiebreak sets on clay in Edinburgh (R2) in 2012
- Luke won in a 3rd set tiebreak in Heraklion (SF) last November - the last time Luke made a Futures singles final before thsi week
- Liam won 5 & 4 in Doha (QF) last December - the last time Liam made a Futures singles final before this week

They have played 78 games in those 3 matches, winning 39 each!

-- Edited by steven on Friday 25th of April 2014 01:24:57 PM