QF: Radu Albot & Benni Becker (MDA/GER) WR 423vs (2) Jamie Delgado & Andreas Siljeström (SWE) WR 201
A good chance for JD & Siljeström - I think! Nicolas Mahut must be handier on the devil dirt than I gave him credit for, as he & Florent Serra removed the top seeds, Cerretani & Shamasdin, by 6-7(1) 7-6(4) [10-6] this afternoon....
SF: Flavio Cipolla & Alessio di Mauro (ITA/ITA) WR 512 vs (2) Jamie Delgado & Andreas Siljeström (SWE) WR 201
Jamie & Andreas are now the only seeds left in the draw. In the top half, the third seeds, the Granollers brothers, gave a walkover to the Tunisian/Algerian WCs, Skander Mansouri & Lamine Ouhab, who thus reached the semis without striking a ball in much the same style as Argüello & Ramírez in Savannah last week. I'm beginning to think actual doubles matches are an endangered species!
I can't see Mansouri & Ouhab getting past Meffert & Oswald to reach the final, but Mansouri, who's 17 & unranked in either singles or doubles, will pick up 45 points for his "efforts" & thus zoom straight into the 700s!
SF: (2) Jamie Delgado & Andreas Siljeström (SWE) WR 201 defeated Flavio Cipolla & Alessio di Mauro (ITA/ITA) WR 512 by 2 & 2
Jamie & Andreas must be getting the hang of playing together! I expect them to have to face Meffert & Oswald in the final & for the Austro-German pair to prove a sterner test!