Week 10 - Canada F2 ($25,000) - Sherbrooke (indoor hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 10 - Canada F2 ($25,000) - Sherbrooke (indoor hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

First set down the pan 6-1

paulisi · Tennis legend

Lloyd 4-2 up in the second though

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Lives scores decides to seize up with Lloyd on Set point.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

He's staging one of those comebacks of his, taking the second set by 6-2. smile

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

That's better. Lloyd breaks again to seal the 2nd set 6-2

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Lloyd is now 4-1* up in the decider.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Went back to 4-4

But Lloyd wins 6-4

Oh, happy days !

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

That is a really good win. Lloyd's rise up the rankings continues.

RJA · Hall of fame

Nice to see Lloyd continue his steady rise up the rankings. I don't think it is out of the question that he could make the top 200 and have something of a career on the challenger tour. The serve and forehand combo is a potent one that will win him matches regardless of other weaknesses in his game.

Hoppy · Junior player

What do you perceive his main weaknesses to be?

Vandenburg · Futures level

RJA wrote:
Nice to see Lloyd continue his steady rise up the rankings. I don't think it is out of the question that he could make the top 200 and have something of a career on the challenger tour. The serve and forehand combo is a potent one that will win him matches regardless of other weaknesses in his game.

I have never seen him so I am intrigued.

Do you not think he has any top 100 potential? tbh, after Kyle he is all we have got, there is no promising 18-20 year olds. To have a decent career on the man tour, stats would suggest by the age of 22-23, you need to be knocking on the door of the top 100.

RJA · Hall of fame

Hoppy wrote:
What do you perceive his main weaknesses to be?

His return of serve and backhand are both pretty ordinary, even at futures level. That isn't to say they are hopeless but they definitely aren't the part of his game that wins him matches. Big serve and big forehand is his bread butter, backed up by a good level of fitness and decent(ish) movement.

-- Edited by RJA on Friday 11th of March 2016 06:45:11 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

Vandenburg wrote:
RJA wrote:
Nice to see Lloyd continue his steady rise up the rankings. I don't think it is out of the question that he could make the top 200 and have something of a career on the challenger tour. The serve and forehand combo is a potent one that will win him matches regardless of other weaknesses in his game.

I have never seen him so I am intrigued.
Do you not think he has any top 100 potential? tbh, after Kyle he is all we have got, there is no promising 18-20 year olds. To have a decent career on the man tour, stats would suggest by the age of 22-23, you need to be knocking on the door of the top 100.

Top 100 would surprise me, but I guess you never know. You can't look at the age thing too much because he went the US college route and only started playing the tour full time last summer.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, I agree. It's more a question of the progress once started, rather than the absolute age. And he certainly seems to be confirming an excellent profile.

Having played practically no pro tennis, he started off last summer, took a few tournaments to get going, then quickly found good success, consolidated that success pretty nicely over the next few tournaments, and now, a few months later, seems to be moving up to the next level very nicely. Hopefully will be in challengers by summer which, in 12 months, will be just fine.