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spud wrote:

Can't find a stream link?

Try this:   http://live.drakulastream.eu/static/popups/1951211023354800.html .



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Stircrazy wrote:
spud wrote:

Can't find a stream link?

Try this:   http://live.drakulastream.eu/static/popups/1951211023354800.html .

 Thank you!



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Ross not so lucky in his opening service game in the second set:  broken to 30.  0-2* cry



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Some entertaining stuff, but the second set goes down the pan by 3-6. cry  Ross is going to have to up his service game, so to speak, if he & Colin are to prevail in the decider.  Fingers crossed... 



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Early break in the decider:  *2-0.  All they have to do now is hold service...



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Easier said than done, as I feared:  Colin broken for the first time in the match, to love. cry  2-1*



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Could be curtains:  Ross broken again.  *2-4 cry

Jamie & John not faring much better in the first set of their match:  3-4*. cry

 

 



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Not to be.  Bops & Qureshi seemed to raise their after being broken early in the decider & never really looked back:

R2:  (7) Rohan Bopanna & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (IND/PAK) CR 29 (14+15) defeated Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins UNR by 4-6 6-3 6-2 cry

Jamie & John lost the first set by 4-6 & I'm off to bed, hoping to wake up to better news later this morning.



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Jamie & John lost 4 & 4 - not one of their better days, by all accounts

More excrucatingly, Dom & Treat were 6-3 5-3* up on the Italians, got broken serving for the match and eventually lost the 2nd set in a tiebreak, 7-5

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... but they come out on top in two very long games at the start of the the 3rd 6-3 6-7(5) *2-0

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... and lose just one point in the following two games to lead *4-0

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L32: (15) Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 56 (29+27) lost to Eric Butorac & Raven Klaasen (USA/RSA) CR 93 (48+45) by 4 & 4
L32: (12) Dom Inglot & Treat Huey (PHI) CR 50 (22+28) beat Andreas Seppi & Potito Starace (ITA/ITA) CR 150 (67+93) by 6-3 6-7(5) 6-1
L32: Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins UNR lost to (7) Rohan Bopanna & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (IND/PAK) CR 29 (14+15) by 4-6 6-3 6-2

L16: (12) Dom Inglot & Treat Huey (PHI) CR 50 (22+28) v (7) Rohan Bopanna & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (IND/PAK) CR 29 (14+15)

Dom & Treat have now made the last 16 at least once at each of the 4 slams, and in fact have now done it at the last 4 slams - L16, L16, QF, L16+

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And, in theory, they could over the next two rounds, avenge two of their countrymen's losses - were they to win against Bopanna and Qureshi, they would play either the conquerors of Marray/Hanley or those of Murray/Peers.

Hope they can keep going: nice work so far. Given previous events, didn't expect too much, alas, of the Murray/Peers match - pity, as it felt eminently winnable if both were in full form. And the result of the Fleming/Hutchins match was closer than it could have been, given how few matches they've played together since Mr Hutchins' return and the strength of their opponents. Another good sign.

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steven wrote:

Jamie & John lost 4 & 4 - not one of their better days, by all accounts

Disappointing, but very much as I'd  feared.



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Got a bit hot under the collar not ideal for Scotsman that preferr the ardours of a cold winter 



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