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DavidC


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After their fine run in Sydney Ross Hutchins and Jordan Kerr have drawn the short straw of familiar bogey Polish opponents in Melbourne. Ross (with Stephen Huss) lost to the same combination in last year's event.  Flemski make their debut with a better draw, though their opponents reached the final in Chennai.

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Hutchins/Kerr (GBR/AUS) v (7) Fyrstenberg/Matkowski (POL)
Fleming/Skupski (GBR) v Lu/Tipsarevic (TPE/SRB)

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Anyone but the Poles!! rage.gif Brits (namely Hutchins and both Murray's) have a 1-10 record against them since Andy and Jamie beat them in Doha in 2006.

The only consolation I can take from this is that the Poles always tend to underperform in Slams, only reaching the last eight twice in their career, but both of those occasions were in Melbourne.

It could have been better, but I don't think Flemski have too much to complain about with their first round draw. The 4th seeds Bhupathi and Mirnyi do await in round two though.



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There is an article on Flemski on the latest issue of the website doubles only court under "rising stock". smile 

http://doublesonlycourt.wordpress.com/current-issue/

Edit: Also OldEchoMan might like to see the Editor's note. biggrin.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif

-- Edited by wolf on Sunday 17th of January 2010 09:45:07 PM

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Nicely done smile.gif

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very nice, I think how Flemski manage here will be important for the first half of their year, a good few wins and they should be able to get into the first masters, otherwise they could be struggling and they need to be in the big tournaments all through the year if they want a crack at the ATP tour finals.

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Both playing tomorrow

Flemski 3rd on Ct 5
Ross 2nd of Ct 14

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First set to the Poles 6-4 against Hutchins/Kerr.

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Hutchins/Kerr 3-1 up in the second set

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4-1 now ... keep it going ...

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One set all

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They take the 2nd set 6-2! Good work!

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It's down to the match tie break ... 2-0 the Poles.

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Although they came back from 1-5 to 4-5, they couldn't pull out the win ... not sure what the final score was in the tie break. Too bad, so close ......

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It was 4-7.

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Flemski up 4-3, still on serve.

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