Week 31 - USA F22 ($10,000) - Decatur, IL (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31 - USA F22 ($10,000) - Decatur, IL (Hard)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Bit tougher than I was expecting for Liam. Hope he can continue to rack up the points though

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Seb Boltz has just broken Liam - Blotz has had a good last few months, making semis and two finals - is not going to be easy.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Boltz served for the set, had at least two SPs, but Liam managed to break and it's now into a tb

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Boltz took that first set breaker 8-6.

Currently 1-1 in the 2nd

Bright Spark · Lower Club Player

Liam won the 2nd set 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Assuming it was a rain break, they're now playing again, Liam with the break 2*-1 in the third, but 0-30 down.
Luke 3-3 with Quigley.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RSP again at 6-7(6) 6-2 4-2* 15-0 in Liam's match, *4-5 in Bambo's...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luke has lost the first set 4-6

Liam managed to win 6-3 in the third against Boltz

paulisi · Tennis legend

Luke 5-1 up second set.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Goes on to take it 6-2. Into a decider.

steven · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Luke has lost the first set 4-6

Liam managed to win 6-3 in the third against Boltz

That's the *11th* time in 6 months (since late Feb) that Liam has won in 3 from a set down! In most of those matches, he probably shouldn't have lost the 1st set in the first place, but nevertheless, that's pretty impressive. For comparison, over the same period he has lost from a set up 3 times and lost in 3 having lost the 1st then lost the 2nd 3 times as well.

steven · Tennis legend

Luke is a break up in the 3rd, 4-6 6-2 *3-2

steven · Tennis legend

Luke serves out to love to win from a set down too - even more impressive than Liam's win, given the opposition

QF: (1) Liam Broady WR 366 beat Sébastien Boltz (FRA) WR 576 (CH 558 last month) by 6-7(6) 6-2 6-3
QF: (5) Luke Bambridge WR 564 beat (4) Eric Quigley (USA) WR 527 (CH 479 in 2013) by 4-6 6-2 6-2

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 2nd of August 2014 12:06:27 AM

steven · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Liam Broady WR 366 v (7) Andrew Harris (AUS) WR 561 (CH 553 in Feb)
SF: (5) Luke Bambridge WR 564 v (2) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) WR 446 (CH 292 last Oct)

Liam H2H v Harris: H2H - Liam won 4 & 3 in last week's SFs.

Fratangelo is on an 8-match intercontinental winning streak and knocked out last week's winner Nguyen in the QFs. He must be odds on favourite to win the title, unfortunately.