Week 6 - ATP 250 Series: Open Sud de France - Montpellier (indoor hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 6 - ATP 250 Series: Open Sud de France - Montpellier (indoor hard) - doubles

spud · Challenger qualifying

Skupski's are against 2 huge servers

wolf · Tennis legend

Skupskis just started with streams available.

wolf · Tennis legend

Ken double faulted to give a break away but they played a brilliant return game to break back against the big servers to 15.

wolf · Tennis legend

Wow - seeing it like a football on return at the moment and they break De Schepper from 40-0 down. *5-4.

wolf · Tennis legend

From 1-4 to 6-4. Great stuff.

wolf · Tennis legend

Neal was broken at the start of the second , but Ken completely shanks a return winner on sudden death deuce to get the break back. More excellent returning to get the break point chance though.

wolf · Tennis legend

But Neal broken again with some surprisingly good returning from the Frenchies this time. Expected this to be a bit more serve dominated.

DWH · Club Coach

Phew, that was tense at the end.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

photo phew.gif Once they got to 9-9 in the MTB, it seemed as though they just couldn't string together a run of three points! hmm

R1: (4) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 143 (67+76) defeated Kenny de Schepper & Fabrice Martin (FRA/FRA) UNR by 6-4 3-6 [15-13]

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: (4) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 143 (67+76) beat Kenny de Schepper & Fabrice Martin (FRA/FRA) UNR 6-4 3-6 [15-13]

They were ahead for most of the tie break and were 9-7 up but finally converted on their 5th match point. Neal crucially got a return in at 13-13 after many big serves which left them with little chance to start a point on return.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Nice to see the Skupskis get the W at the end there - and despite the opponents being UNR I'm unsurprised that it wasn't all plain sailing.

DWH · Club Coach

Paul and Jonny served for the set at 5-3 but were broken back, then had set points in the next game but their opponents held. *5-5

Edit: But it doesn't come back to haunt them, they take the opening set 7-5

-- Edited by DWH on Tuesday 4th of February 2014 02:18:03 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Yay! Jonny & Paul finally clock up a win, in a little under an hour, sailing through the second set after struggling a bit in the first! smile

R1: (3) Paul Hanley (AUS) & Jonny Marray CR 124 (81+43) defeated Teymuraz Gabashvili & João Sousa (RUS/POR) CR 550 (181+369) by 5 & 0

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

One QF match-up decided:

QF: Nikolay Davydenko & Denis Istomin (RUS/UZB) CR 444 (353+91) vs (4) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 143 (67+76)