Luke has had a good year playing juniors so far and he is the highest ranked 15 year old in the world I believe. He is currently ranked 146 in the juniors and will definetly be a player to watch at next years Aussie Open juniors. Along with Jason Kubler I can see these two being great tennis players.
He picked up his first ATP point yesterday beating Steven Goh 7-6 6-3. Plays John Millman later today which should be tough but I think he has a chance.
Here is his bio:
Luke Saville
Birth Date : 01/02/1994
Birth Place: Adelaide, Australia
Residence: Adelaide, Autralia
Nationality: Australia
Plays: Left Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Favourite Surface: Clay
Coach: Broderick ****
Age Started Tennis: 5
Personal Interests: football, cricket, beach, golf
Good to see a lefty whose favorite surface is clay.
Beat Polansky 6-4 6-2, got a bit nervous at the end, the service game at 6-4 *5-2 went on for quite a while. Will now play 4th seed Mahut. Good luck Luke!!
Really hoping Luke gets the Aussie WC at the US open. In the kind of form of someone who given the chance might be able to push on and make some good use of it with another 2nd or third round and keep pushing up those rankings. Could be a good 2nd half to the season coming up for him.
Luke gets a bit of a reality check, on just how tough Challengers are, with a close 76(3) 76(5) first round win in Granby Canada, over wild card recipient 18 year-old Canadian Tommy Mylnikov (ATP1265).
Unless Mylnikov is the next "Kyrgios", that is a close shave for Luke.
But still, he got the win and can build from there.
Luke gets a bit of a reality check, on just how tough Challengers are, with a close 76(3) 76(5) first round win in Granby Canada, over wild card recipient 18 year-old Canadian Tommy Mylnikov (ATP1265).
Unless Mylnikov is the next "Kyrgios", that is a close shave for Luke.
But still, he got the win and can build from there.
Serious? He won in straight and dominated the tiebreakers... I'd call 6-7 7-6 7-5 a close shave. He was hardly troubled. Might be good for him to win the close sets.
Ben wins the battle of the Aussie youngsters, getting up against Saville, albeit not exactly in the way he would have liked, with Saville retiring injured with Ben leading 63 43.
Hope it is nothing serious for Luke
The US open section of this forum ha him marked as out of qualifying. looks like this injury is pretty serious just when he looked like making a breakthrough. Hope it gets in recovery mode soon.
Saville's decision to play F8 could be considered a little dicey given his ranking and the fact he's won three of the last four Australian Futures events (although he's not entered into F6 nor F7).
Think the most important thing really is he gets to play some tennis again after his injury lay off. Gets him warmed up playing wise for the Traralgon challengers in a couple of weeks.
Saville comes to the Oz qualifying party at Indian Wells, along with Duckworth and Bolt, with a first round win over Pole Lukasz Kubot (currently ATP163, but better than that with a high rank of 41), winning in two set style 64 75.
Well done Luke - the old men are falling like flies (except perennial Mikey Russell)
Luke will have to beat either fellow Oz JP Smith or Krajinovic to advance to the Main Draw. (JP just won first set - go JP)
Go Luke
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