Week 4 - Challenger (€64,000+H) - Open de Rennes, France (indoor hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 4 - Challenger (€64,000+H) - Open de Rennes, France (indoor hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (ALT/7) Ricardas Berankis (LTU) WR 136 (CH = 50 in May 2106) vs Liam Broady WR 172

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Great week for Liam so far. Good to see him continuing with end of 2017 form. Last time he did that the didn't have a great start the following year.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Liam will start his SF shortly. The winner will play VFasek Pospisil in the final. He has just come through his SF in straight sets.

Live stream will be here.

livestream.com/ATP/events/8031058

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

On serve.

Liam at *3-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Liam battled, but wasn't quite able to take the first set into a tie-break: 5-7. hmm

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Liam battled, but wasn't quite able to take the first set into a tie-break: 5-7.

Got a bit unlucky there. Was serving at *5-6 40-15 when Berankis got a lucky net cord. Saved 2 BPs in that last game but then DFed on the 3rd.

the addict · Tennis legend

Not much to choose between them, maybe Berankis has the slight edge. Pity about the one DF at set point though. Should have gone to a tie-break really.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Oops Liam's losing it over a call, and ended up broken on a double fault

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Had 0 - 40 to break back but Berankis prevailed.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (ALT/7) Ricardas Berankis (LTU) WR 136 defeated Liam Broady WR 172 by 5 & 1 cry

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Julia Carrot wrote:
Oops Liam's losing it over a call, and ended up broken on a double fault

He served 3 DFs in that game which is always going to make things tough. A total of 4 DFs in 2 consecutive games. I only started watching from 5-5 in the 1st set. Berankis looked comfortable though he did have to save some BPs at the start of the 2nd set. Still, not a bad week for Liam.