Week 1 - Challenger ($50,000) - Happy Valley, Aus (Hard)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

RE: Week 1 - Challenger ($50,000) - Happy Valley, Aus (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

I hope that your general optimism is fulfilled in 2015, Oakland, and my hopes :)

C'mon, Liam.

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: (q7) Brydan Klein WR 254 lost to Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 525 (CH 368 last Jan) by 5 & 3

L32: Liam Broady WR 192 v (Q) Jacob Grills (AUS) WR 693 (= CH; 19yo junior CH 82 in 2013)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

On serve so far in the 1st.

Liam leads 4-3*

No BPs for either player.

steven · Tennis legend

Liam had to save 2 bps but now has a couple of his own and they are set points - he takes the first

6-4

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Multiple BPs for Liam early in the 2nd. He finally takes one.

Liam leads *2-0

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

6-4 *2-0. Took a while for the first to pan out but hopefully this is Liam on his way to a win for the start of the year.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

BeefyDeedz wrote:
6-4 *2-0. Took a while for the first to pan out but hopefully this is Liam on his way to a win for the start of the year.

Not going to be that easy. Grills breaks back.

2-1*

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Bob in Spain wrote:
BeefyDeedz wrote:
6-4 *2-0. Took a while for the first to pan out but hopefully this is Liam on his way to a win for the start of the year.
Not going to be that easy. Grills breaks back.
2-1*

You can always dream, Bob!

steven · Tennis legend

Liam breaks for the match

L32: Liam Broady WR 192 beat (Q) Jacob Grills (AUS) WR 693 (= CH) by 4 & 4

L16: Liam Broady WR 192 v (Q) Maxime Authom (BEL) WR 209 (CH 143 in 2013)

Authom is on a 28-match winning streak, having won 5 Futures in a row at the end of last year then 2 matches in qualifying and his R1 match here. Those Futures titles included Loughborough and Bath and Authom is also on a 9-match Brit-bashing streak since retiring against Brydan in Wimbledon qualies, after which he was out of action for 3 months.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done, Liam. All the more so because it's about the first decent-ish win of 2015 for Team Britain (Andy's matches were fine but non-scoring things are not quite the same . .. )

Unfortunately, both lost in the doubles, despite being higher ranked:

R1: (WC) Omar Jasika & Marc Polmans (AUS/AUS) CR 1712 (949+763) def. Liam Broady & Chung Hyeon (KOR) CR 678 (286+392) 6-4 7-6(1)

R1: Gong Mao-Xin & Zhang Ze (CHN/CHN) CR 533 (135+398) def. Brydan Klein & Stefano Travaglia (ITA) CR 454 (210+244) 6-4 6-4

philwrig · Hall of fame

Happy with that, by the way I hope I'm not the only person who thought this event was being held in Hong Kong !!

emma · Strong Club Player

err yes Hong Kong crossed my mind at one point for some reason !

Well done to Liam, it cant be easy to get straight back to the form he was in late last year, pleased he won and good luck for the rest of the tournament. Does anyone know if there's live streaming for the matches? I had a look on Livestream for the match but couldn't find anything. Did anyone watch it live?

goldenboy · Club Coach

make that 3 - famous racecourse there with the same name so assumed was in HK before finding out otherwise!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Not Yorkshire where the TV series was set??? smile