Liam Broady vs JJ Wolf result as Stockport tennis star on brink of Australian Open main draw

Liam Broady clinched a gripping final set to edge past big hitting American JJ Wolf and move to within one match of the Australian Open.

The Stockport-born tennis star had needed to come from a set down in the first round and he did it again here to clinch a 3-6 6-4 6-4 victory.

This win was more dramatic than Tuesday's opening round as Broady faced two break points of his own in the penultimate game before sealing the match on his third match point.

Broady had started the better, drawing first blood in the third game by breaking the Ohio-born Wolf and then holding to consolidate his lead. Broady had two break points for a double-break lead but after Wolf had saved the first of those with an ace, he went on to hold.

That proved to be the turning point in the set, with Wolf taking a long sixth game and then using the momentum to break Broady again and wrap up the set 6-3.

Serve dominated in the second set as Broady looked to re-establish himself in the contest and it was in the tenth game before either player forced a breakpoint, but a forehand winner by Broady brought up two break points and after seeing the first chance slip by, Broady took the second one to even the match up at a set all.

Broady looked set to take an advantage when he brought up two break points in the fourth game of the final set but the big serving American, who was serving well in the Melbourne sun, extricated himself from a tight spot to hold.

A titanic third set threatened to get away from the Heaton Chapel left hander in the ninth game when some big forehands from Wolf took him to a 15-40 lead, but Broady hit two service winners to peg the American back and though he couldn't take the first game point, the huge roar that Broady let out when