Don't know quite how (playing marginally the better tennis? ), but they've done it - in a shade over three hours & not a hint of a service break until the thirty-fifth game of the decider!
R1: Dominic Inglot & Johanna Konta defeated Nicolás Almagro & Maria Teresa Torro (ESP/ESP) by 4-6 6-3 19-17
Good experience for Jo!
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R2: (8) Daniel Nestor & Kristina Mladenovic (CAN/FRA) vs Dominic Inglot & Johanna Konta
Lovely that Ms Watson and Ms Konta get wins (their partners, too, of course - but they already had wins!) Well done to them all; entertaining and exciting matches all around, win or lose.
That was intended to be ironic, hence the big grin, & you took the bate!
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Sh1t! Typo, now corrected. Not often I give you a chance to get your own back, RJA, & I'll be a little more assiduous in correcting your "he was beat", "he was broke" etc, on which I've so far kept shtoom, from here on in!