Week 38 - ATP 250 - St. Petersburg, Russia (indoor hard )

thejester · Satellite level

Week 38 - ATP 250 - St. Petersburg, Russia (indoor hard )

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Liam got the Q Q spot. He plays Ernests Gulbis in round 1.

thejester · Satellite level

Could be tough, depends what version of Gulbis shows up. He's certainly got a hell of a lot more experience at this level than Liam. Fingers crossed though!

paulisi · Tennis legend

$10,125 for making main draw - must be one of the highest paying ATP 250 on the circuit. Good choice from Liam

Which Gulbis will turn up????

Jan · Hall of fame

Great news - I had to go out as the third set was starting.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I'm really pleased for Liam!!! I'm sure he'll appreciate the $10k, he has played plenty of events this year where he has earned $0. At Queens this year which is an ATP500, he got only 3k Euros for his first round loss. Lets hope the wrong Gulbis turns out....

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

What a terrific result for Liam and more evidence that his form is really on the up right now. As others have suggested, against Gulbis, anything could happen.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

FQR: (q6) Liam Broady WR 248 beat (q1) Radu Albot (MDA) WR 110 (CH = 81 in April 2017) 6-1 2-6 7-6(4)

L32: (Q) Liam Broady WR 248 v (Q) Ernest Gulbis (LAT) WR 212 (CH 10 June 2014)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Liam's match is scheduled second on the streamed Centre Court tomorrow, following Berankis v Masur, which starts at 11am BST

hoots · Intermediate Club Player

Come on Liam. You can do it.

Constant · Lower Club Player

Liam has to defend 25 atp pts to the end of the year.
Already qualifying gets him 12 and if he manages to beat Gulbis a cool 20 more which more than covers the 25 so could easily push on for the rest of the year and break into the top 200

indiana · Tennis legend

Liam did state earlier in the year to londontennistube that his target for the year was to reach a CH 150. At the time it looked very far off. All credit to him over the last few months as he has steadly brought it much closer.

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Have to respectfully disagree - can't see any scenario whereby Liam makes the AO main draw cut myself. Likely to be way higher than 150. Nonetheless very encouraging to see this uptick in form, keep it up!

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Monday 18th of September 2017 11:42:39 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Jeff Stelling wrote:
Have to respectfully disagree - can't see any scenario whereby Liam makes the AO main draw cut myself. Likely to be way higher than 150. Nonetheless very encouraging to see this uptick in form, keep it up!

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Monday 18th of September 2017 11:42:39 PM

Who anywhere mentioned the Aussie Open MD cut in connection with Liam confuse - he'd probably need more than 300 further points by cut-off for that. And indeed from now WR 150 by year end is extremely unlikely, I was just really saying that from where he was when he mentioned that target back in February it doesn't look anything like so distant now.

Aussie Open qualifying though is very well within his grasp, especially as said with so little to defend before the cut. As a guide current WR 230 is on 225 points, WR 240 on 214 points, Liam has now 'banked' 198 points. Indeed a further 20 points and he would probably be just about there. Anyway he has 3 months yet until that cut-off so surely. And if additionally he could get back into the top 200 at least by year end that would be very good to see. WR 200 is currently on 271 points so a bit up the road but certainly makeable with a continuation of his recent form.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 19th of September 2017 10:15:31 AM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

indiana wrote:
Jeff Stelling wrote:
Have to respectfully disagree - can't see any scenario whereby Liam makes the AO main draw cut myself. Likely to be way higher than 150. Nonetheless very encouraging to see this uptick in form, keep it up!

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Monday 18th of September 2017 11:42:39 PM
Who anywhere mentioned the Aussie Open MD cut in connection with Liam - he'd probably need more than 300 further points by cut-off for that. And indeed from now WR 150 by year end is extremely unlikely, I was just really saying that from where he was when he mentioned that target back in February it doesn't look anything like so distant now.
Aussie Open qualifying though is very well within his grasp, especially as said with so little to defend before the cut. As a guide current WR is on 225 points, WR 240 on 214 points, Liam has now 'banked' 198 points. Indeed a further 20 points and he would probably be just about there. Anyway he has 3 months yet until that cut-off so surely. And if additionally he could get back into the top 200 at least by year end that would be very good to see. WR 200 is currently on 271 points so a bit up the road but certainly makeable with a continuation of his recent form.

WR ??