R1:  (3) Marcus Daniell (NZL) & Richard Gabb WR 1822 defeated Konstantin Gerlakh & Yan Sabanin (RUS/RUS) UNR by 0 & 3

QF:  (3) Marcus Daniell (NZL) & Richard Gabb WR 1822 vs Ting Yu Chuang & Yang Lu (TPE/CHN) UNR

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R1:  Antoine Escoffier (FRA) & Alex Ward WR 2546 vs Dekel Bar & Minh-Quan Do (ISR/VIE) WR 2628

L32: (4) Alex Ward WR 436 LOST TO Elbert Sie (INA) WR 972 4-6 0-6
L32: Richard Gabb WR 736 LOST TO (Q) Chuang Ting Yu (TPE) WR 1830 7-5 2-6 2-6

Unimpressive. Most unimpressive.

Stircrazy wrote:

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R1: Antoine Escoffier (FRA) & Alex Ward WR 2546 defeated Dekel Bar & Minh-Quan Do (ISR/VIE) WR 2628 by 4 & 5

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QF:   Antoine Escoffier (FRA) & Alex Ward WR 2546 vs (4) Kenny Bun (  ) & Mick Lescure (CAM/FRA) WR 2196

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 Why does Kenny Bun get a ?

He's Cambodia's equal best ever singles player in Davis Cup, I'll have you know LOL (W 5 L 0 - they only played DC for the first time this year ... and gained promotion, winning all 5 of their ties)

Not claiming the wit to work out the "scoffing" line ... but from a culinary historian's point of view, surely an Escoffier would not be defeated by a humble bun! (Indeed, I would be surprised that an Escoffier even shared a court with a bun. A brioche, perhaps. But a mere bun?)

Spectator wrote:

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[...] ... but from a culinary historian's point of view, surely an Escoffier would not be defeated by a humble bun! (Indeed, I would be surprised that an Escoffier even shared a court with a bun. A brioche, perhaps. But a mere bun?)

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I'm with you there, Spectator.  I even had a crack at a play on words when I first noticed Antoine appear on the Futures scene, but it was so unmemorable, I no longer have any recollection of what I said at the time!  Since le Chef Auguste created Melba toast for Dame Nellie Melba, he might well have deigned to share a court with a pain grillé or conceivably a couronne ("crown"  ), but definitely not a bog-standard bun (nor a bâtard for that matter...)!

To put Steven out of his misery, I was merely expressing my disbelief that a Cambodian should rejoice in the name of Kenny Bun, not questioning his, er, credentials as a tennis player!

They're not really that  though, are they - in the semi-finals, you'd pretty much expect to be playing the no. 1 or no. 2 seeds if you aren't one of them yourself and you haven't beaten one of them already ...