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Not as strong a draw as expected, but a terrible draw for Sean and Dave:

R1: (3) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski v David Rice & Sean Thornley



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Awful. That makes it the 3rd week in a row they have drawn a pair including at least one Brit in R1 ... and of course, the previous 2 weeks, they played each other in singles qualies too!

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dave not playing singles?

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6-4 3-6

Match tie break

Double faults aplenty 6 for Thornley/Rice, 10 for the Skupskis =/

 Edit: Sean and Dave were up a mini break but are now down a mini break after 2 dfs in a row.


-- Edited by DWH on Tuesday 24th of September 2013 04:02:54 PM

 

And the Skupski Bros keep on rolling taking the match 6-4 3-6 10-7



-- Edited by DWH on Tuesday 24th of September 2013 04:06:41 PM

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R1: Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski v Matthias Bachinger & Michael Berrer (GER/GER)

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The Skupskis' match is currently on a live stream :

www.drakulastream.eu/static/popups/1732211022352910.html

2-2

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Up a set and a break 6-4 4-3 



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Looking good that they might finally get past R1.

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indiana wrote:

Looking good that they might finally get past R1.

 This was "already" the QF, having won R1 what seems ages ago, and they have gone through comfortably 6-4 6-3.



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Indeed they do. Great play to break again and take the match 6-4 6-3. So les frères Skupski keep on rolling. smile



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The boys keep going. They are on a fantastic run at present.

Hopefully they can do it again in the semi.

PS Korriban, that was a dig at Wolf's draw details

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paulisi wrote:

The boys keep going. They are on a fantastic run at present.

Hopefully they can do it again in the semi.

PS Korriban, that was a dig at Wolf's draw details

 OK. Missed that completely



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Sorry, LOL, for posting deadpan rather than with a wink.

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Could "brothers skupski" become GBs answer to the Bryan brothers . Neal has been ranking up the Doubs points & with more points from SF challenger today are they already GB no2 in the all GB doubles pairs rankings .

As a team captain very concious that with great opportunity of Andy winning 2 singles strong all GB doubles pairs could be critical to us winning Big Davies cup ties  or even lifting the title !!! 

Edit: Just the title, because Dwight Davis is probably turning in his grave and I don't want other people to keep seeing it and ending up starting to use it too wink



-- Edited by steven on Saturday 28th of September 2013 06:00:02 PM

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My problem with looking at "All GB pairings" and creating a ranking list is that a number of top playeres would miss out all together.

I am full of admiration for what Marcus/Lewis and Ken/Neal have achieved and hope to see ther successes continue, but if push came to shove, I would have a Dubs pairing of Dom Inglot and Jamie Murray over either of them for DC (at the moment).

But because these two players choose to play with Non-GB partners, neither would appear on the list at all.

It is for this reason that a Ranking Table for All GB Doubles pairings would not really be relevant IMHO.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 28th of September 2013 11:55:51 AM

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