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Luke Saville of South Australia dashed Englad’s hopes when he dismantled Liam Broady in the Boys’ singles final at the All England Club 2-6 6-4 6-2, who was gunning to become the first British to win Wimbledon boys’ championship since 1962.
Broady was well on course to accomplish the feat as he moved a set and a break up but the momentum began shifting and Saville staged a brilliant comeback to win the title in three.
The first set commenced with Saville holding his serve but it was all Broady from there on. He won five games in succession to put himself in a commanding position. Though Saville managed to hold his serve at 5-1, the 17 year old Brit made no mistake and clinched the set in just 36 minutes.
He continued to torment the Australian and quickly broke him in the first game of the second set before holding his serve for a 2-0 lead.
But the typical Aussie fightback quality came to fore when Saville held his own serve and broke Broady for the first time with an array of booming ground-strokes.
The break of serve again came for Broady at 3-all but Saville broke him right back to love, thanks to a double fault by the Brit. Saville held the next game conveniently and left Broady to serve to stay in the set.
He managed to save two set points with huge serves but netted the back-hand on the third.
The game had shifted clearly in favor of the Aussie when he raced to a 4-2 lead. Broady could not convert a number of chances he had, and allowed Saville to break him for a second time and become the first Australian winner since Todd Reid in 2002.
Other past winners include Roger Federer, Gael Monfils, Stefan Edberg, Ivan Lendl and Bjorn Bjorg.
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