Liam Broady

Liam Broady

Broady at the Aegon Surbiton Trophy in 2015
Full name	Liam Tarquin Broady
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	Stockport, United Kingdom
Born	4 January 1994 Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Height	6 ft 0 in
Turned pro	2014
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$202,626
Singles
Career record	1–2 (in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 0 Challenger, 5 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 158 (3 August 2015)
Current ranking	No. 276 (21 March 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2015)
French Open	Q1 (2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2015)
US Open	Q1 (2015)
Doubles
Career record	0–2 (in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 262 (23 February 2015)
Current ranking	No. 354 (21 March 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2012, 2015)
Last updated on: 21 March 2016.

Liam Tarquin Broady (born 4 January 1994)^[1] is a tennis player who in 2010 won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon partnered with fellow Briton Tom Farquharson,^[2] and in 2012 won the Boys' Doubles at the Australian Open partnered with fellow Briton Joshua Ward-Hibbert. He has a career high world ranking of No. 159, and is currently the British number 7 behind Kyle Edmund, James Ward, Daniel Evans, Brydan Klein, Aljaž Bedene, and Andy Murray.

Personal life

Born in Stockport, England, Liam Broady is a brother of fellow tennis player Naomi Broady and has another sister and a brother.^[3][4]

Broady attended Priestnall School where he completed his GCSEs in 2010.^[5]

Broady is an avid Manchester City F.C. fan.^[6]

Tennis career

Juniors

Broady playing at the 2011 Wimbledon Junior Championships

In 2005 Broady won the Natwest Dorset Open which marked the start of his career. At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, Broady partnered Tom Farquharson to the final where they defeated fellow Britons Lewis Burton and George Morgan. The pair became the first British partnership to win the title since 1995.

At Wimbledon in 2011, Broady beat Germany's Robin Kern 7–6 (7–4) 4–6 13–11 to reach the semi-finals of the boys' singles and followed that victory with another against Australian Jason Kubler with the match ending 6–4 6–3 in the Brit's favour to ensure a place in the final.^[7] He lost in the final 6–2 4–6 2–6 to Australian Luke Saville.^[8] Broady finished 2011 by partnering Joshua Ward–Hibbert to the Dunlop Orange Bowl doubles title.^[9] The 2012 season saw Broady reach the boys' semifinals at the US Open for the first time, and go on to make the final, where he lost against Filip Peliwo 2–6, 6–2, 5–7 in a tightly fought match.^[10]

As a junior Broady has reached as high as No. 2 in the junior combined world rankings in March 2012.

Junior Slam results – Singles

• French Open: 3R (2012)
• Wimbledon: F (2011)
• US Open: F (2012)

Junior Slam results – Doubles

• Australian Open: W (2012)
• French Open: QF (2012)
• Wimbledon: W (2010)
• US Open: QF (2011)

Senior career

Early career

Broady began playing on the Futures Circuit, both in singles and doubles with partner Joshua Ward-Hibbert. In 2013 he reached three singles and seven doubles finals at Futures level, winning one singles title and four doubles titles, including three on home soil. He began competing more regularly on the Challenger Tour, and as a result saw his ranking rise more steadily. Broady made it to his first Challenger final in November 2014, facing James Duckworth in the final of the Charlottesville Challenger, where he ultimately lost in three sets; however, his run to the final launched him into the top 200 for the first time, with a career-high ranking of 188th in the world. Throughout 2014, Broady's ranking rose up 271 places from 470th at the beginning of the year, becoming the 3rd ranked British player in the world.

He came from two sets down to win his first-ever singles match at Wimbledon in 2015 against Marinko Matosevic.^[11]

Career statistics

Career finals

Singles: 12 (7–5)

Legend (Singles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–1) ITF Futures Tour (7–4)

Titles by Surface Hard (6–5) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	7 September 2013	Great Britain F18, Sheffield, United Kingdom	Hard	Robert Carter	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	26 October 2013	Israel F15, Herzliya, Israel	Hard	Claudio Fortuna	6–1, 1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	7 December 2013	Qatar F3, Doha, Qatar	Hard	Sam Barry	6–7^(2–7), 4–6
Winner	2.	26 April 2014	Great Britain F9, Bournemouth, United Kingdom	Clay	Luke Bambridge	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	20 July 2014	USA F20, Tusla, United States	Hard	Mitchell Frank	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	3 August 2014	USA F22, Decatur, United States	Hard	Bjorn Fratangelo	4–6, 0–6
Winner	3.	24 August 2014	Canada F8, Winnipeg, Canada	Hard	Blake Mott	6–3, 6–4
Winner	4.	13 September 2014	Great Britain F16, Wrexham, United Kingdom	Hard	Edward Corrie	3–6, 7–5, 7–6^(8–6)
Winner	5.	19 October 2014	USA F28, Mansfield, United States	Hard	Dimitar Kutrovsky	1–6, 7–6^(7–2), 6–0
Runner-up	5.	2 November 2014	Charlottesville Challenger, USA	Hard (i)	James Duckworth	7–5, 3–6, 2–6
Winner	6.	4 October 2015	Turkey F39, Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Luke Bambridge	7–5, 6–3
Winner	7.	7 February 2016	Great Britain F1, Glasgow, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Adrien Bossel	6–3, 4–6, 6–2

Doubles: 21 (11–10)

Legend (Singles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–0) ITF Futures Tour (11–10)

Titles by Surface Hard (9–7) Clay (2–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	25 May 2013	Egypt F8, Sharm El Sheikh, United Kingdom	Clay	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Marco Crugnola Riccardo Sinicropi	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	31 May 2013	Egypt F9, Sharm El Sheikh, United Kingdom	Clay	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Joris De Loore Jeroen Vanneste	2–6, 2–6
Winner	2.	2 August 2013	Great Britain F15, Nottingham, United Kingdom	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Scott Clayton Toby Martin	4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Winner	3.	9 August 2013	Great Britain F16, Chiswick, United Kingdom	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	David Rice Sean Thornley	7–6^(7–5), 2–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	2.	30 August 2013	Great Britain F17, Wrexham, United Kingdom	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	George Coupland Marcus Willis	6–7^(6–8), 3–6
Winner	4.	11 October 2013	Israel F13, Akko, Israel	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Ivo Klec Michal Schmid	6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	3.	18 October 2013	Israel F14, Ramat Hasharon, Israel	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Luke Bambridge Evan Hoyt	6–7^(5–7), 6–7^(4–7)
Runner-up	4.	22 February 2014	Great Britain F5, Nottingham, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	James Cluskey	Rémi Boutillier Quentin Halys	2–6, 6–0, [8–10]
Winner	5.	8 March 2014	Great Britain F7, Preston, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Luke Bambridge	Frederik Nielsen Joshua Ward-Hibbert	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	29 March 2014	Bahrain F1, Manama, Bahrain	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Jaime Pulgar-Garcia Javier Pulgar-Garcia	2–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Winner	6.	5 April 2014	Qatar F1, Doha, Qatar	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Lorenzo Frigerio Luca Vanni	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	6.	22 June 2014	USA F16, Buffalo, United States	Clay	Luke Bambridge	Jean-Yves Aubone Connor Smith	3–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Runner-up	7.	28 June 2014	USA F18, Rochester, United States	Clay	Luke Bambridge	Daniel Nguyen Connor Smith	3–6, 3–6
Winner	7.	6 July 2014	USA F19, Pittsburgh, United States	Clay	Luke Bambridge	Gonzales Austin Quinton Vega	7–5, 6–4
Winner	8.	20 July 2014	USA F20, Tusla, United States	Hard	Luke Bambridge	Daniel Garza Raul Isaias Rosas-Zarur	6–4, 5–2 ret.
Winner	9.	27 July 2014	USA F21, Godfrey, United States	Hard	Luke Bambridge	Brett D. Clark Ronnie Schneider	6–3, 6–2
Winner	10.	3 August 2014	USA F22, Decatur, United States	Hard	Luke Bambridge	Scott Clayton Toby Martin	5–7, 6–2, [10–7]
Runner-up	8.	13 September 2014	Great Britain F16, Wrexham, United Kingdom	Hard	Luke Bambridge	Edward Corrie David Rice	7–6^(7–3), 4–6, [8–10]
Winner	11.	19 October 2014	USA F28, Mansfield, United States	Hard	Dennis Novikov	Henrique Cunha Dimitar Kutrovsky	4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Runner-up	9.	28 March 2015	Israel F3, Ramat HaSharon, Israel	Hard	Jean-Yves Aubone	Andriej Kapaś Adrian Sikora	6–7^(3–7), 5–7
Runner-up	10.	11 October 2015	USA F29, Mansfield, United States	Hard	Ashley Fisher	Hans Hach Verdugo Eric Quigley	5–7, 3–6

Junior Grand Slams

Singles: 2 (0–2)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner–up	2011	Wimbledon	Grass	Luke Saville	6–2, 4–6, 2–6
Runner–up	2012	US Open	Hard	Filip Peliwo	2–6, 6–2, 5–7

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	2010	Wimbledon	Grass	Tom Farquharson	Lewis Burton George Morgan	7–6^(7–4), 6–4
Winner	2012	Australian Open	Hard	Joshua Ward-Hibbert	Adam Pavlásek Filip Veger	6–3, 6–2

References

1. Liam Broady Profile – 2012 Wimbledon Championships Website – Official Site by IBM. Wimbledon.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-24.
2. Liam Brody and Tom Farquharson victorious in boys' doubles final | Metro News. Metro.co.uk (4 July 2010). Retrieved on 2013-01-24.
3. Harman, Neil (10 October 2008). "Liam Broady doing just fine without LTA". Times Online (London: Times Newspapers). Retrieved 29 June 2011.
4. Vignes, Spencer (22 June 2011). "Tennis: Naomi Broady’s Wimbledon bow ends in tears but youngster tells Spencer Vignes she will only be better for the experience". Manchester Evening News – Other Sports. MEN Media. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
5. "Sports Personality – Liam Broady – Winner". Proud of Stockport Awards Winners 2011. Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
6. Mendick, Robert (3 July 2011). "Liam Broady: the new star of British tennis". The Telegraph (London). Retrieved 2012-01-06.
7. "Broady reaches boys' semi-finals". BBC News. 30 June 2011.
8. "Broady loses out in boys' final". BBC News. 2 July 2011.
9. Massetani, Marco (21 December 2011) Kontaveit and Thiem reign at the Orange Bowl. itftennis.com
10. Newman, Paul (10 September 2012). "Briton Liam Broady defeated in US Open boys' final". The Independent. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
11. Jurejko, Jonathan (29 June 2015). "Wimbledon 2015: Liam Broady beats Marinko Matosevic". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 July 2015.

External links

• Liam Broady at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Liam Broady at the International Tennis Federation