A couple of winnable first-round matches?
R1: Jonny Marray & Freddie Nielsen (DEN) vs Eric Butorac & Paul Hanley (USA/AUS)
R1: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs Thomaz Bellucci & Jarkko Nieminen (BRA/FIN)
First set goes to a tie-break, of which Jonny & Freddie win the first point.
First set in the bag by 7-6(6).
Second set looks as though it's heading in the opposite direction as things stand at the moment: *1-4.
Yep. Second set down the pan by 2-6, the boys broken twice. Squeaky-bum time - & I fear the worst...
But no:
R1: Jonny Marray & Freddie Nielsen (DEN) defeated Eric Butorac & Paul Hanley (USA/AUS) by 7-6(6) 2-6 [10-5]!
And it's "the Bloody Poles" in the quarter-final:
QF: Jonny Marray & Freddie Nielsen (DEN) vs (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski (POL/POL)
Stircrazy wrote:But no:R1: Jonny Marray & Freddie Nielsen (DEN) defeated Eric Butorac & Paul Hanley (USA/AUS) by 7-6(6) 2-6 [10-5]!
Hooray ! For some reason the result doesn't show in livescore. Good news !
But no. They break back to 40 to get back on terms: *3-4.
Stircrazy wrote:R1: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs Thomaz Bellucci & Jarkko Nieminen (BRA/FIN)
First set in the bag by 6-2.
R1: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot defeated Thomaz Bellucci & Jarkko Nieminen (BRA/FIN) by 2 & 5
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QF: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs (ALT) Robin Haase & Dick Norman (NED/BEL)
The Belgo-Dutch pair did for Bops & Bhupathi (2) by 14-12 in the MTB in the first round...
Stircrazy wrote:And it's "the Bloody Poles" in the quarter-final:QF: Jonny Marray & Freddie Nielsen (DEN) vs (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski (POL/POL)
First set down the pan by 5-7.
The boys are broken to 30 in the sixth game of the second set: 2-4*. Beginning to look like curtains.
The boys are not giving up without a battle: the second set goes to a tie-break.