Week 38 - Turkey F38 ($10,000) - Antalya (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 38 - Turkey F38 ($10,000) - Antalya (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luke and Liam lost their doubles too, to the wildcard pair, 5-7 3-6

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Total failure in the doubles:

SF: (WC) Robert Galloway & Robbie Mudge (USA/USA) UNR defeated (1) Luke Bambridge & Liam Broady CR 704 (343+361) by 5 & 3 bleh

SF: Kirill Dmitiriev & Andrei Plotniy (RUS/RUS) CR 1792 (460+1332) defeated (2) Jarryd Chaplin (AUS) & Richard Gabb CR 810 (522+288) by 7-5 3-6 [10-5] bleh

RJA · Hall of fame

Well the drop down to futures to get some wins and some confidence strategy can have merit but it can just as easily go horribly wrong. In fairness based on Liam's year to date ranking the futures tour is where he belongs but I am an unashamed proponent of playing in better tournaments while your ranking permits it.

theemptyvessel · Club Coach

RJA wrote:
Well the drop down to futures to get some wins and some confidence strategy can have merit but it can just as easily go horribly wrong. In fairness based on Liam's year to date ranking the futures tour is where he belongs but I am an unashamed proponent of playing in better tournaments while your ranking permits it.

Hard to disagree when just a first round win in this weeks Challenger event would have netted more points and probably been more beneficial in terms of the class of opponents faced. Still, early days for this particular stretch of events for Liam and I live in hope that he will rediscover his form from this time of last year and get the arrow pointing in the right direction again.