BLOOMERS & SKUPSKI

Richard and Ken had been doing quite well against the seeded pair they were playing against (1 set all but 2-4 down in the 3rd) when play had been suspended the previous day and it seemed a bit unfair that they'd been put 5th on the OoP for Wednesday, when 'to finish' matches are usually put on 2nd.

They continued to hold their own, but couldn't quite get the break back in the 3rd and didn't take their chances to break back after they had gone a break down in the 4th, but it wasn't a bad performance. The other pair were just a bit more solid in all aspects of their game (though they had an odd tactic of hitting all the volleys at Richard, who was by far the better volleyer of the Brits) and the Brits were undone by Richard's somewhat weak groundstrokes and Ken's serving and volleying looking just a bit below the level of the other players on court (as you might expect at the moment from his ranking) - he also seemed to be at a bit of a height disadvantage compared to the other three too.

I'd actually hoped to get some pics of Ken, since I hadn't seem him play before, but he wasn't serving from the end I was at and seemed to always be at the net when the Brits were up at my end of the court, so this is the best I could do:



It was already getting pretty dark by this time, which produced either my worst pic of the day or a brilliant timelapse picture of Bloomers serving (I'm going for the latter, but you can take your pick!) ...