Week 40 - USA F29 ($15,000) - Mansfield, TX (Hard)

BradMarx90 · County player

Week 40 - USA F29 ($15,000) - Mansfield, TX (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Cameron Norrie defeated Little 6-3 6-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Liam Broady WR 215 v Daniel Garza (MEX) WR 636 (CH 294 in spring 2012), age 30

Spectator · All-time great

As this article (posted in the Entries thread) indicates, all of Mr Norrie's university team are, I think, playing - as are all of the Oklahoma team: www.star-telegram.com/sports/other-sports/article37405572.html

Rough draw for Mr Broady in the first round. Mr Norrie also has a nastier challenge in the FQR than it would first appear: Mr Nguyen just graduated this year and has barely played professional tennis ... hence lack of ranking. But it could be worse: Korolev v Uchida in the 1st round of a futures seems a bit unfair!

indiana · Tennis legend

Shouldn't be a particularly rough draw for Liam if he is getting anything like back towards his best form and has acclimatised after dashing over from Turkey.

Certainly hope he can have another big run this week and all the best to Cameron as well.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Cameron defeated Denis Nguyen 6-2 6-3

Oakland2002 · All-time great

It's part of the TCU tennis teams Autumn schedule. This is a good bit of scheduling for Liam as long as he copes with the jet lag! I think he practiced with Cam at TCU last year and they have great facilities by UK standards. Wish them well, as chance should have it left Dallas on Saturday school boy error!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (WC) Timothy Chima Ihezie & Michael Antoine Gad (USA/USA) UNR vs Liam Broady & Ashley Fisher (AUS) UNR (*)

(*) Liam's current doubles ranking is 385, while Fisher hasn't one, though he's 40 & his doubles CH is 19 (June 2009)...

Spectator · All-time great

Goodness. Haven't seen Fisher's name in ages. Isn't he retired and coaching?

On the singles front, with qualifiers placed, Mr Broady could meet Axel Alvarez Llamas in the 2nd round. QF could actually be Mr Norrie; SF could be Korolev.

-- Edited by Spectator on Tuesday 6th of October 2015 04:57:02 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

in R1 Cam gets the Japanese player, Yuichi Ito, age 29, previously top 325 but now ranked 810

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Liam Broady WR 215 (CH = 158 in August) vs Daniel Garza (MEX) WR 636 (CH = 294 in April 2012)

L32: Yuichi Ito (JPN) WR 810 (CH = 325 in July 2010) vs (Q) Cam Norrie WR 1112 (CH = 637 in June last year)

emma · Strong Club Player

Liam + Ashley F just won their doubles 6 - 1, 6 - 0.

edit: match time 36 minutes - seems like a nice warm up

-- Edited by emma on Tuesday 6th of October 2015 10:12:42 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: Liam Broady & Ashley Fisher (AUS) UNR defeated (WC) Timothy Chima Ihezie & Michael Antoine Gad (USA/USA) UNR by 1 & 0

*****

QF: Liam Broady & Ashley Fisher (AUS) UNR vs Nick Chappell & Dane Webb (USA/USA) CR 2100 (885+1215)

The Yanks conveniently despatched the Mexican third seeds, Gómez & Hank, almost as easily as Liam & Ashley (2 & 1) in their first-round match.

Spectator · All-time great

Both Chappell and Webb have been at university, I think, and both are seriously underranked.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Strong start from Liam who is already up a double break in the 1st set at *3-0 winning 12 of the 14 points played so far.