i think we'll see max 1 more event from alex this year, probably Helsinki Qualies.
Shame today, but a good effort none the less. I knoe Alex was still feeling tight in his back and was also suffering pain in his hip. the TB was disapoting, but i think his perfoamces over the last 2 weeks have been pretty encouraging.
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R1: (WC) Nicolas Kiefer & Stefan Seifert (GER/GER) lost to Jamie Delgado & Jonny Marray by 4 & 4
QF: (3) Johan Brunstrom (SWE) & Dominic Inglot vs Denis Gremelmayr & Philipp Marx (GER/GER) QF: Jamie Delgado & Jonny Marray vs (4) James Cerretani & David Skoch (USA/CZE)
The full result: 6-7(9) 6-4 [10-5]. I must admit, I thought they'd lost. When I checked the LS at one point (it doesn't work properly on my office PC ), they were serving for the second set at 5-4, but when I checked again a short while later, their names had disappeared, so I assumed that the German pair had broken back & then broken again to take the set & then served out the match. It never crossed my mind that it might have gone to an MTB!
Johan & Dom will play either the top seeds, Lipsky & Ram, or Boggo's nemesis, Ruben Bemelmans, & the Dutchman, Igor Sijsling, in the SF.
Ha ha , love SC's thinking of what on the face of it was a more unlikely finale from * 5 - 4 i.e. 3 games including 2 breaks of the Brunstrom / Inglot serve to lose the match rather than one game of them holding serve plus a MTB which overall was likely to be not that much of a different timescale.
A tournament victory will see them both back in the top 100 in all probability, a fair chance Delgy might get there anyway.
This has certainly been a successful partnership for them since they came back together permanently. Their record since then is SF, QF, SF, R1, F, SF, SF, SF, F so only twice failing to reach the semi-final, although this is only their second final.
Stircrazy wrote:Johan & Dom will play either the top seeds, Lipsky & Ram, or Boggo's nemesis, Ruben Bemelmans, & the Dutchman, Igor Sijsling, in the SF.
Ding-dong battle to decide that, with Bemelmans & Sijsling eventually coming out on top by 6-7(?) 7-6(?) [16-14]! Not sure whether that's good or bad!