plankton wrote:

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Is Broady getting near the top 10 for coolest players on the tour? and willis the most eccentric top10? Great fun following them both this week and brilliant to see them both making such giant strides.

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Spot on !

TMH wrote:

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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Liam v Marcus is out on Court 3 today so we won't have the benefit of a commentary. I'll bet Mike C isn't happy about that scheduling.

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Does this mean it won't be streamed? 

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It will be streamed - the USTA stream page shows Court 2 (which it calls Center Court) with commentary and Court 3 (which it calls Court 1) without.

Just watched that interview.

It's hard to not like Marcus, isn't it? Almost an infectious personality.

I like what he's saying about his plans. He's clearly more focused on singles (which is reassuring, as the way Mr Lewis has been talking I was concerned at times that they were more focused on doubles), and he does intend to lose a bit of weight. The thing is, he's clearly so talented, it just makes you wonder how good he would be if he got himself into a top physical shape.

It's been a real insight into Mr Willis this week, as one who's never seem him play before or known much about him asides from Gary's snippets on here. It would be great to see him in these tournaments (and above) much more often, as he is a fun player to watch and has a very nice game.

I am very pleased to hear about Marcus's intended singles focus.

He is clearly a talented doubles player, how potentially good I hear different assessments. But to my mind he can at least make the top 200 singles within the next year or two with his upper limit to be explored. In that situation, it should surely be the priority to be all he can be in singles. If he can play doubles in consort, fair enough, but if and when doubles gets in the way it should be the doubles that gets ditched that week, that month or longer.

He is still a young man and doubles is something he could most certainly come to focus much more on if and when he has given himself every chance to make a good singles career.

As for today, I lean to wanting Marcus to win. But certainly very pleased to see either through to the SF and the other a QFist.

TMH wrote:

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Just watched that interview.

It's hard to not like Marcus, isn't it? Almost an infectious personality.

I like what he's saying about his plans. He's clearly more focused on singles (which is reassuring, as the way Mr Lewis has been talking I was concerned at times that they were more focused on doubles), and he does intend to lose a bit of weight. The thing is, he's clearly so talented, it just makes you wonder how good he would be if he got himself into a top physical shape.

It's been a real insight into Mr Willis this week, as one who's never seem him play before or known much about him asides from Gary's snippets on here. It would be great to see him in these tournaments (and above) much more often, as he is a fun player to watch and has a very nice game.

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Good points.

I liked the Santoro comparison from someone too, for Marcus - the game most certainly needs some different characters, and Marcus is great. You can see the interviewer loves interviewing him. As to it being a shame they're in the same quarter, a few months ago it would have been SO amazing to have thought of them both being anywhere near the QF of a Challenger that I'd take it happily !

Good luck to both.

It's all good i am keen to continue to help Marcus but with a  focus on challengers and higher ranked tournaments and to help realise every british players dream of playing in Wimbledon Maindraw with the home crowd and progressing in the tournament be great .