SF: Chris Cooprider (USA) & David Porter UNR defeated Jiayi Li & Jun Nan Tao (CHN/CHN) WR 2490 by 5 & 3
so,
Final: Chris Cooprider (USA) & David Porter UNR vs (4) Alexander Igoshin & Vitaliy Kachanovskiy (RUS/RUS) WR 1336
David and his his interestingly named partner have lost the first set 6-4. But close . . .
RedArrow's etymology of 'coop-rider' sounds convincing. But what about if we're mis-reading it and it should be coo-prider ? Proud of his coos ? (More pigeon fancying, of course).
Or, indeed, co-op-rider - as opposed to a tesco-rider ?