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Kim has just beaten Junaid in straight sets so Jamie should be up next. Anyone up for this?

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Jamie serves first, holds and leads 1-0*

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Schukin faces a break point but saves it and holds. 1-1*

Jamie faces 0-40, but battles back to hold in a long tough service game. Leads 2-1*

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Jamie breaks to 30! Gets an early lead *3-1

And consolidates to 15 to lead 4-1*

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Schukin holds to 30. Pressue on Jamie now as he serves at 4-2*

Another comfortable hold from Jamie. One game away from the first set now and leads 5-2*

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Wowweeee, Jamie breaks to love and takes the set 6-2. Stunning stuff so far, more of the same in the second please Jamie!

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Ok, we'ere off in the second set. Jamie serves first and holds to 15. Nice start!

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Quick update before bed guys. Jamie leads *4-0 second set

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Jamie wins 6-2 6-0. Great result! Peya is currently up a set so it looks like him next

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I just woke up, checked the completed matches on the AO site and had to look half a dozen times before I believed the score. 2 & 0 against WR 122! smile.gif (I'm still not sure this isn't just a dream!)

Of course, Schukin is a clay court specialist, and that's partly why we thought Jamie had a chance in the first place, but that scoreline is amazing. smile.gif

What a turnaround from that FQR match in Auckland the other day! Maybe he wanted to be in Melbourne so much that his heart wasn't really in that match.

Thanks for recording how it went, John.

QR1: Jamie Baker WR 217 beat (q9) Yuri Schukin (RUS) WR 122 by 2 & 0 smile.gif
QR2: Jamie Baker WR 217 v Alexander Peya (AUT) WR 174 or Marko Tkalec (SLO) WR 280 (6-4 6-7(5) 2-1*)


-- Edited by steven at 06:02, 2008-01-09

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Yeah what a fantastic result hopefully a repeat of the us open quallies performance for jamie here, only one step further this time!!

-- Edited by sd51rby at 14:22, 2008-01-09

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great win for baker....boggo up soon
come on boggo!

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Well done Jamie. Perhaps he's got support from Brad this week too.

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From the AO site:

Ninth seed upset in first round of qualifiers

"British Jamie Baker has strolled to victory over ninth seeded Russian Yuri Schukin 6-2, 6-0 in one of today's biggest upsets on the opening day of the qualifiers.

The most surprising thing was the fashion in which Baker won the match, barely putting a foot wrong.

If the first set was convincing then the second was a walkover.

Schukin all but gave up and appeared to struggle with the conditions as the game gradually slipped away from him

Unforced errors proved costly for the dejected Russian and he threw his racket in disgust late in the second set.

The unseeded Baker, on the other hand, could be one to watch if his early form is anything to go by."

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See: http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/news/match_reports/2008-01-09/200801091199859867531.html for this story with a pic


-- Edited by steven at 07:15, 2008-01-09

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great work by jamie there well suprised when i saw that score :)


the match b4 alex is dragging on, armstrong served for it in the 2nd but seems to have fluffed it. now 2-1 in 3rd.

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