Week 10 - Challenger 80 (€44,620) - Biella, Italy (indoor hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 10 - Challenger 80 (€44,620) - Biella, Italy (indoor hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L32: Liam Broady WR 170 defeated (LL) Julian Lenz (GER) WR 255 by 7-6(1) 6-4
*****
L16: (WC) Luca Nardi (ITA) WR 800 (CH = 785 last December - he's only 17) vs Liam Broady WR 170
Luca is the lad who Jack Draper beat and Paul Jubb beat in Egypt in the last few weeks.
Good opportunity even though the Italian beat (3) Sugita by 6-2 6-2 in R1.

Yes, I was going on about him being a potential banana skin in the Egypt thread. And I saw that score against Sugita. But given both Jack and Paul beat Nardi (although not A1 easily), I wonder if that score is more a reflection on Sugita than Nardi?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Szymon Walkow & Jan Zielinski (POL/POL) CR 355 (143+212) "defeated" Benjamin Hassan (GER) & Ryan Peniston CR 1475 (832+643) by a walkover hmm

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Very nice first set by Liam. Played well. Took the break right early on and then held onto his own serve without any real difficulty.

6-3

Another one like that, please, Liam

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Liam Broady WR 170 defeated (WC) Luca Nardi (ITA) WR 800 by 3 & 4

*****

QF: Liam Broady WR 170 vs (6) Jurij Rodionov (AUT) WR 142 (CH = 139 last week)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Easy does it , well done Liam

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Great to see Liam's good form continuing. Must be close to taking out his CH ranking now.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

probably needs the final to take out his career high, up 5 places this week I think

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Interesting match - Liam raced to a *5-1 lead, but it was a lot closer than the score reflected - Liam saved several BPs, and a couple of key games were very tight.

But Rod has struck back and got it back on serve, now *4-5, with Rod serving.

Liam slightly unlucky, he's been playing very well, missed a couple of aggressive shots by a fraction, Rod made a few amazing gets..... allez, Liam !

ADD: and then Rod sort of collapsed and Liam held tough, and yet another break, and first set to Liam

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 12th of March 2021 10:26:33 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Liam Broady WR 170 defeated (6) Jurij Rodionov (AUT) WR 142 by 4 & 3 biggrin

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Enjoyed that.

Liam was an immediate break down, and then behind for the first half of the set.

And then suddenly ran off whole load of games on the trot (partly helped by Rod, but also coz he was playing well).

And hey presto

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well done Liam!!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I turned on at the start of the 2nd set, saw Liam get broken immediately and swiftly turned off again. It worked.

Well done Liam. Another very promising week in progress.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Into the semis unseeded!

Madadman · Top national player

Didnt see any of it. But he really is in great form. I wonder what sort of Clay court season he will play. Might play a bit more after having a good run out at the french last year.