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Phew!  Josh finally nails the first second by 6-3!



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Josh seems to be struggling to capitalise on the breaks he engineers (or maybe the Finn's just proving too tenacious!):  he broke in the second set, only to concede it in the very next game!  2-2* hmm



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Yet again Josh breaks:  *3-2.  Let's hope he can hang on to his own service between now & the end of the set!



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Josh finally gets his @rse in gear:  serving for the match at *5-2 in the second!



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Yes!  Josh wraps it up by 3 & 2! smile

Delbonis (q1) or Huuriainen in the FQR.  That match now on court & the LS has stuck at Delbonis 4-4* 40-40 in the first set! 



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 19th of November 2011 05:19:37 PM

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*4-3 to Delbonis in the 3rd now - hopefully encouraging that he's making such a meal of beating an unranked 30yo Finn with a career high of 1195!

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*4-3 to Delbonis in the 3rd now - hopefully encouraging that he's making such a meal of beating an unranked 30yo Finn with a career high of 1195!

Bloody thing's obviously frozen again:  still *4-3 to Delbonis in the third! *rolls eyes*



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Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:

*4-3 to Delbonis in the 3rd now - hopefully encouraging that he's making such a meal of beating an unranked 30yo Finn with a career high of 1195!

Bloody thing's obviously frozen again:  still *4-3 to Delbonis in the third! *rolls eyes*

According to the ATP,  Delbonis won by 6-7(6) 6-3 6-4 & so will face Josh in the FQR.



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R1:  (4) Jamie Delgado & Jonny Marray vs Kenny de Schepper & Stéphane Robert (FRA/FRA)

R1:  Matthew Ebden & Jürgen Zopp (AUS/EST) vs Johan Brunström (SWE) & Ken Skupski



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Josh comes back from a break down to lead on service by 6-5* in the first set against Delbonis.

In the two matches played so far, the lesser seeds have overcome their more highly ranked opponents (T Nieminen (6) vs Zverev (2) & Martin (5) vs Struff (3)).  Here's hoping Josh can keep that sequence going.



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 20th of November 2011 11:17:52 PM

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first 10 points of t/b go with serve its 5 all

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but he loses the next 2 points and the set

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The first set goes to a tie-break, which Josh sadly loses by 5-7. cry



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But he gets an early break in the second:  *1-0.  Can he hang on to level the match?



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 20th of November 2011 03:13:21 PM

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But he gets an early break in the second:  *1-0.  Can he hang on to level the match?

To answer my own question, no, he couldn't:  he lost the second set by 3-6 & with it the match, which made Delbonis the only player to buck the trend of seeds losing the lower-ranked players in the qualies! cry



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