Week 41 - Challenger ($100,000) - Tiburon, CA, USA (Hard)

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

RE: Week 41 - Challenger ($100,000) - Tiburon, CA, USA (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

There are two options:

1. If Liam wins, the Milkman "bottled" it and Liam wil be the cat who got the cream
2. The Milkman always delivers and it will be "hard cheese" for Liam

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Liam on live stream now.

new.livestream.com/ATP/tiburon2014centrecourt

goldenboy · Club Coach

When the Milkman's serve gets going, it will be "Past eur ize(d)" before you know it...
However hopefully Liam will find a whey to win, and prove he's the creme-de-la-creme

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Liam needs far more penetration in his game to compete with the better challenger level players.

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-- Edited by kundalini on Thursday 9th of October 2014 06:33:06 PM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Liam got creamed

Priesty · Challenger level

Millman is clearly worth his salt having been at a CH of 126 just 18 months ago before presumably suffering an injury....

Would have been nice to see Liam make it a bit closer though, and you would hope that in future he will be able to.

Jaffa · Challenger level

In all fairness to Liam, Millman played very well, unforced error count was extremely low. Lets not forget Liam is only 20, he's going to get better!

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Liam didn't play well, I'm sure he'd be the first to admit that. The last few weeks have shown that he is a challenger level player. He has played a load of matches recently, so he is probably ready for a break. Then perhaps he'll have a crack at some of the Challengers in Europe before he ends his season.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
In all fairness to Liam, Millman played very well, unforced error count was extremely low. Lets not forget Liam is only 20, he's going to get better!

Absolutely !!!

And not only is he only 20, and Millman played well, but only three months ago Liam was lucky to be ekeing out a couple of victories in ITF 10ks . . .

Jaffa · Challenger level

He's playing a $15k next week isn't he?!

RJA · Hall of fame

Jaffa wrote:
He's playing a $15k next week isn't he?!

15K futures next week followed by a week off.

Then he is playing the Charlottesville challenger and will presumably also play Knoxville and Champaign.

RJA · Hall of fame

stevemcqueen wrote:
The last few weeks have shown that he is a challenger level player.

Really?

Wins over a badly declining Ginepri WR 213, an out of form Kuznetsov WR 188 and a hideously out of form and erratic Dancevic WR 148 are all welcome but they should not be taken out of context.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I think what stevemcqueen mean that he can win matches at challenger level. He's not ready to go and push on and make semi final and finals yet.

SMC1809 · All-time great

RJA wrote:
stevemcqueen wrote:
The last few weeks have shown that he is a challenger level player.
Really?
Wins over a badly declining Ginepri WR 213, an out of form Kuznetsov WR 188 and a hideously out of form and erratic Dancevic WR 148 are all welcome but they should not be taken out of context.

But isn't this the type of player who plays a Challenger event? They can't all be in-form under-ranked Americans, or former junior number 1s on their way to the top. The ranking range of Challenger players dictate that some will be declining top 50 players, out of form top 100 players, and Future level players moving up. If a players ranking allows them entry and they play enough, they're bound to come across the whole mix, and even if a player is out of form there's no guarantee of victory - see http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t58700024/week-41-atp-masters-1000-shanghai-china-hard-am/?page=3