indiana wrote:

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R2: (5) Liam Broady WR 276 beat Gonzalo Escobar (ECU) WR 367 (CH 281 15/06/15) 2-6 7-5 6-3

Hopefully Liam can have a good week here. I note over the weeks and months quite a number of expressions that Liam's form is returning / will return without to me a huge amount of ongoing evidence, so hopefully more will appear. For now it appears stable at a level he would I imagine wish to be above - ie. he's not generally looked like a top 200 player for over a year now.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 24th of March 2016 10:33:57 PM 

 Interestingly it was the 3 set loss to Krueger last year that seemed to be the start of Liam's struggles.  I remember watching the live stream and after Liam took the first set without breaking a sweat thinking it was all over only for Liam to collapse.  Would be nice if a match against the same opponent could be the catalyst for a sustained improvement in form.

That ends a pretty underwhelming 4 week stint in North America. While his results haven't exactly been awful, he has lost to decent players every week, he doesn't seem anywhere the near the kind of form that suggests he will be surging up the rankings over the coming months. He hasn't entered anything for the next 2 weeks and after that it looks like qualifying at the Sarasota challenger (presumably followed by the same in Tallahassee and Savannah).