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indiana


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This certainly seems a year Liam needs to turn things back in a positive direction. In spite of at least having got into the top 200 before he seems to have a game that needs some new dimension to it or it is difficult to see significant progress.

Not sure that he should be hanging up his racket, moving more to doubles or whatever if things don't turn, but it does seem a particularly important year. Where are you going, Liam ?

Particularly sorry if he's a favourite, and I'd like the lad to do well too. Yes, the occasional comments I have seen re supporting GB players equally seemed to me to defy general human nature and such as how much one knows and/or have followed a player in the past. I too have my particular favourites and some I am less fussed about, though in general certainly want to see all GB players do well ( certainly none that I can currently think of that I wouldn't, though I do at times take against GB players in sport for such as attitude ).



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Would definitely agree with the sentiment that he could do well switching his focus to doubles as he is a very useful player and has had some real success there. I would like to see him keep focusing on singles for another year or two though, players are peaking later and later and I live in hope that he will find that missing dimension and start winning more regularly.

From a purely points collecting view he has made an odd start to the year, skipping some pretty thinly attended challengers in January and then trying to go through qualifiers this month when he could have been seeded at all of the British Futures events. April looms large as a lot of his points are from his Asian swing last year and failure to defend those or add points from somewhere else could see him really start to tumble in the rankings.

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So hard to think what will happen in the future - we've had plenty of times when people thought (a few years ago) Jo Konta wasn't going to make progress ... or that Heather Watson wouldn't come back ... etc. But regardless of what happens in singles, I would definitely be happy, if he thought it was right for him, to see him play more doubles. In the little I've seen of him doing so, he's been really good. And that's not about "not being good enough to play singles." It's about having excellent net reactions and skills that are well suited to the doubles game.

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A trip back to the futures circuit is probably best for him IMO. Hopefully he'd be able to get a good few weeks in a row under his belt and then head back to the Challengers. I do wonder with some of the British players how they decide on tournaments. The one thing that I admire James Ward for is when he was making it up the rankings he would always make a trip somewhere because it would have an easier field. Although I understand money can be an issue.

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Yeah, his money situation has changed as of last summer because he chose to depart from LTA funding.

www.standard.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon-2016-liam-broady-rejected-lta-funding-to-settle-rift-with-his-father-a3281866.html

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Not sure he chose to withdraw from LTA funding....

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Thanks for that, skibbarriz, so quite a while ago but I wasn't aware.

Another Broady perhaps cutting off his nose to spite his face, or rather not to spite his father. 

Great if the father really could have fully funded their careers, including providing good coaching help, in the longer term, but Naomi seemed to be fairly desperately advertising for funding for years. Anyway, she's done very well all things considered ( we will never know what if ... ) and I do hope that Liam can still do so.

By the way I see that the break with the LTA actually goes back to November 1985 ( "I stopped working with the LTA in November" ). Liam reached his CH 158 in August 2015 from still outside the top 500 in December 2013, though with big American 2014 points dropping off was back around WR 300 that November, had certainly been receiving LTA support and had seemingly very much enjoyed his backup involvement in Davis Cup. Whether / how his funding situation changed before the break I don't know. He is currently WR 325.



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L16:  Rameez Junaid & Joran Vliegen (AUS/BEL) CR 299 (133+166) defeated (1) Jonny Marray & Adil Shamasdin (CAN) CR 168 (96+72) by 6-7(6) 6-1 [10-5]  disbelief



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corrie just starting livestream here if anyones interested livestream.com/ATP/events/7014729

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And took the first set easily, 6-2

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Coup Droit wrote:

And took the first set easily, 6-2

But lost the second by 4-6.  cry 



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L32:  Ilya Ivashka (BLR) WR 175 defeated (SE) Ed Corrie WR 271 by 2-6 6-4 6-3  cry

And it all started so well...



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There was a long game at 3-3 in the decider when Ed had a few break points but couldn't convert and he was broken convincingly the game after.

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Both had 2 breaks, but Ed was 2 from 7 chances. His opponent 2 out of 2.

Shame.

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Meh. But Mr Corrie is playing well overall - really encouraging start to the year.



-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 15th of February 2017 01:07:16 PM

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