Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville, TN, USA (Hard)

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville, TN, USA (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Another excellent result - lets hope for an all GB QF

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Well done Liam. Woeful from Russell in the end.

indiana · Tennis legend

Aye, Liam's playing no bad :)

Moz · Improver

WOW

Yet Another great win for Liam

Lets hope Marcus can join him in QF

philwrig · Hall of fame

Just caught match point, very impressive considering how fatigued Liam must feel, but he knows season is over in 10 days, and then he can put his feet up for a well earned rest.

Jaffa · Challenger level

For a man with no real weapons, he isn't bad is he?

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Oh drat, missed it. I'm off to find the stream and hopefully watch it - even if it will have to be in bits - now.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Jaffa wrote:
For a man with no real weapons, he isn't bad is he?

I'm waiting for RJA to start commenting on Liam's progress, but he seems to have gone AWOL just recently.

LouieG · County player

A shame Liam has hit amazing from just at the end of the season although I see no reason why he can't carry this into 2015. It must be an exciting time for Liam looking forward to AO quallies, in this sort of form he'd have a real chance of qualifying.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
Just caught match point, very impressive considering how fatigued Liam must feel, but he knows season is over in 10 days, and then he can put his feet up for a well earned rest.

Right now, I bet Liam wishes the season would just go on and on. Another awesome display from the few bits I saw.

I get the feeling, given the tweets and news articles about Andy's interest, that Liam will be packing his bags for a winter training camp in Miami this year. Fully deserved in my book, although I rather the guys were all back down in La Manga like last year.

indiana · Tennis legend

You're bad, Phil :) I was nearly going to say that Liam's looking like a "challenger level" player.

He likes L16 matches. Hasn't lost a futures one since September last year, and is now 3-1 in his recent challengers. In his recent five in total challengers he has gone QF, L32, L16, RU, QF so far. That's one L16 loss, total, since last September.

Just also counted that he is up to 198 ranking points total in tournaments played since Wimbledon and that includes initially when some of us ( yes, I was one ) made clear that we didn't think he was playing that well. I'd still in my defense say that results weren't great, but it has led on to this !

philwrig · Hall of fame

Bob in Spain wrote:
philwrig wrote:
Just caught match point, very impressive considering how fatigued Liam must feel, but he knows season is over in 10 days, and then he can put his feet up for a well earned rest.
Right now, I bet Liam wishes the season would just go on and on. Another awesome display from the few bits I saw.
I get the feeling, given the tweets and news articles about Andy's interest, that Liam will be packing his bags for a winter training camp in Miami this year. Fully deserved in my book, although I rather the guys were all back down in La Manga like last year.

I'm not 100% sure training with Andy is a huge plus, Oli came back injured in 2013, and Kyle I'm sure did gain from the experience, but by how much, not sure.

Priesty · Challenger level

Wow, didn't expect that scoreline biggrin

TMH · Futures qualifying

LouieG wrote:
A shame Liam has hit amazing from just at the end of the season although I see no reason why he can't carry this into 2015. It must be an exciting time for Liam looking forward to AO quallies, in this sort of form he'd have a real chance of qualifying.

Hey if he wins the next two tournaments then qualifies and makes the semis in one of the first week ATP events, he might not even need to qualify. wink

-- Edited by TMH on Thursday 6th of November 2014 05:24:38 PM