Week 15 - Qatar F2 ($10,000) - Doha (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 15 - Qatar F2 ($10,000) - Doha (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The full doubles round-up:

QF: (WC) Oli Golding & Mousa Zanan Zayed (QAT) UNR defeated (WC) Mubarak al Harrasi & Zhuo Zhang (QAT/CHN) UNR by 1 & 4
QF: (3) Luke Bambridge & Antoine Benneteau (FRA) CR 841 (402+439) defeated Carlos Boluda & Adam Sanjurjo (ESP/ESP) CR 938 (403+535) by 6-3 7-6(5)
QF: (2) Liam Broady & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 712 (398+314) defeated Jacob Adaktusson & Patrik Rosenholm (SWE/SWE) CR 1842 (1188+654) by 3 & 4

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SF: (1) Chen Ti & Ruan Roelofse (TPE/RSA) CR 398 (126+272) vs (WC) Oli Golding & Mousa Zanan Zayed (QAT) UNR
SF: (3) Luke Bambridge & Antoine Benneteau (FRA) CR 841 (402+439) vs (2) Liam Broady & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 712 (398+314)

Spectator · All-time great

I wonder how often unranked Qatari players actually get doubles points in these tournaments - doubt that it's very often. Mr Golding must be their federation's new best friend! Well done to all the teams.

indiana · Tennis legend

Last week's Qatar winner was Dan Cox, which was splendid. He only dropped 2 sets, the first set to Luke in R2 and the second set to Liam in the QF.

So far this week in Qatar, Chen Ti has only dropped one set, the first set to Luke in R2. Chen Ti plays Liam in the QF...

Priesty · Challenger level

steven wrote:
Priesty wrote:
Hopefully Oli will still have some appetite for the next round after his 3 bagels and mashed Swede.....
As you'll have gathered on Twitter, I liked that one! I didn't know you were on Twitter yourself until I saw you had RTd it though - if I'd known, I'd have asked if you'd prefer to tweet it yourself and get it RTd rather than me tweeting it and crediting you.

No worries, felt quite honoured to get a mention smile

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great to see really upbeat tweets from Liam. hard match next but he's already had (by his own count) his best victory this year so all good.

And nice QF for Ash and Oli and semi-final place and points for the winner.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Liam is *0-3 down early on. Oli & Ash are 2-2 with 1 break each.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Liam is on e-tennis/youtennis streamed. He's now 1-3 and the score is fair but it's quite close; he's playing pretty well.

steven · Tennis legend

Somewhat to my surprise, Ashley is about to serve for the 1st set at *5-3 (he had at least 2 set points on Oli's serve too)

steven · Tennis legend

Ashley holds to love to take the 1st set 6-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Liam breaks back.

Lots of long, excellent rallies - Liam playing very well.

4-3*, Liam to serve.

Tpw · Newbie

Liam lost the first set 4-6
Oil won the second set 6-3 and is a break up in the third

steven · Tennis legend

Oli is now 2 breaks up in the 3rd 3-6 6-3 4-0*

Liam is a break up in the 2nd 4-6 *2-1

steven · Tennis legend

Oli finishes off Ashley with his 4th bagel in 3 rounds, winning 3-6 6-3 6-0

Liam takes the 2nd set against Chen 6-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Liam still playing well ::))

A break up . . .

Oli has very little to defend until June - although no single pointers to bump off, so has to get to the semi (like here) to add anything. But it means it's a good chance to add some more points, get new CHs, make tracks towards that magical top 300 . . .