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

philwrig · Hall of fame

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

philwrig · Hall of fame

Back up and running.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Very comfortable for Liam in the end winning 3&2

philwrig · Hall of fame

Liam wins 6-3 6-2, think thats 7 from 7 now, great stuff.

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to be getting more wins hence more matches and more wins.

Liam dropping down to futures recently provoked a little discussion here, but if it is helping his game and confidence for the longer term, while he wouldn't have wished to be playing futures at this time, then good.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 8th of October 2015 06:43:56 PM

GBJ · Club Coach

Excluding the semi last week where his opponent retired, I make that 12 sets in a row for Broady now. And hopefully next round he old has to play a qualifyer ;)

Spectator · All-time great

Mr Norrie is playing now. When I googled his opponent, I found this. Makes one want to wish him well generally (though in this match, clearly, the loyalties go in other directions): ontherisetennis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/wil-spencer-is-giving-this-shot.html

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Cam fights back from a break down to take the opening set 6-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Liam Broady WR 215 defeated (Q) Axel Alvarez (ESP) WR 1187 by 3 & 2
L16: (Q) Cam Norrie WR 1112 defeated (5) Wil Spencer (USA) WR 519 by 4 & 4 biggrin

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QF: (1) Liam Broady WR 215 vs (Q) Cam Norrie WR 1112

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting, and in all the cumstances with the potential to be much much closer than these bare rankings suggest.

Though be good for Liam at this stage to take Cam out fairly comfortably.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 8th of October 2015 08:17:13 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Great to see an all GB QF so congrats to both players today. But that leaves the difficult question again, who to support. Last week when Liam played Luke, I edged in favour of Luke as I thought a win would be more beneficial for him than for Liam.

This week I will have to edge towards Liam. Cam's focus is still on his college career and education and I absolutely wish him all the very best with that. His time will come to chase ranking points, but for now, I will have to shout for Liam on this one as he has a lot of points to defend this autumn (112). If he can go on and get 27 here (to add to 18 from last week), that will be a good start.

Sorry Cam. Any other (non-Brit) opponent and I would be 100% behind you.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Liam Broady & Ashley Fisher (AUS) UNR defeated Nick Chappell & Dane Webb (USA/USA) CR 2100 (885+1215) by 5-7 6-4 [10-8] smile

GBJ · Club Coach

Bob in Spain wrote:
Great to see an all GB QF so congrats to both players today. But that leaves the difficult question again, who to support. Last week when Liam played Luke, I edged in favour of Luke as I thought a win would be more beneficial for him than for Liam.

This week I will have to edge towards Liam. Cam's focus is still on his college career and education and I absolutely wish him all the very best with that. His time will come to chase ranking points, but for now, I will have to shout for Liam on this one as he has a lot of points to defend this autumn (112). If he can go on and get 27 here (to add to 18 from last week), that will be a good start.

Sorry Cam. Any other (non-Brit) opponent and I would be 100% behind you.

I think I'm with you there Bob. Though I hope it is close enough to encourage Cameron about his level and potential.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, also behind Liam here pretty much for the reasons Bob indicated and just building that confidence. And actually as I said I wouldn't at all mind Liam winning comfortably, even very comfortably.

Cam seems to have a good head on his shoulders and doing well with his different priorities. I doubt he would be put off very much by being well beaten by Liam, especially a Liam playing well. Cam hopefully already well knows that he has great potential.

Promise to pay back with additional support to you in the future, Cam

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 8th of October 2015 09:08:49 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: Liam Broady & Ashley Fisher (AUS) UNR defeated Nick Chappell & Dane Webb (USA/USA) CR 2100 (885+1215) by 5-7 6-4 [10-8]

Good win. I think both these pairs looked banana skins so it was difficult to be confident how it would work out when the skins met.

Like how it did work out