The name Yen-Hsun Lu may not mean much to you, but without knowing it, the man from Chinese Taipei helped turn the Scot into an Olympic and Grand Slam champion. Murray, for example, has never lost to a player ranked as low as Broady in a tour-level match.
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“It is a good opportunity for me, I can challenge him once again in a Wimbledon game”, said Lu. “That was daunting. It was like a coliseum with 25,000 people”.
“I’ve started well here quite a few times over the years”. I don’t feel like I was completely overawed.
The 2013 champion wraps up victory Andy Murray of Great Britain and Liam Broady of Great Britain shake hands during the Men’s Singles first round match on day two of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 28, 2016 in London, England. “It’s been a really inspiring journey for me and hopefully we can inspire even more families to play this great sport”. I would expect him to win the match fairly comfortably.
Also reaching the second round with straight-set wins were seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. I started to hit my forehand better, started to get more free points off that.
The first two sets were one-sided and went by in only 55 minutes, but Broady dug in admirably after dropping serve in the opening game of the third set.
“A couple years ago, if I get broken there, I’m probably going to end up losing the match”, Kyrgios said.
Fourth-seed Stan Wawrinka tamed United States teenager, Taylor Fritz, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1, 6-7 (2-7), 6-4 as the Swiss, who owns two grand slam titles, works to surpass his Wimbledon best of a quarter-final. I felt like I was playing against another man. This will be the third match on grass.
Lu, Murray’s next opponent, beat Russia’s Alexander Kudryavtsev 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. In the first week I made the final and started getting more confidence.
The skies opened at 4.30pm, just after Andy Murray had finished his first-round clash on Centre Court with Liam Broady, and the conditions did not improve. Ivan Lendl has told him that he must avoid any of the early round dramas that ultimately cost him dearly in Paris, and he had carried out those instructions to the word.
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His response to that has also gone down in the history books, his Olympic title in 2012 having been the major breakthrough which provided the confidence that led to his first Grand Slam victory at the US Open later that year and then that Wimbledon triumph the following summer.
