Surely they can't mess this one up:
R1: (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 161 (80+81) vs Egor Gerasimov & Hiroki Moriya (BLR/JPN) CR 915 (368+547)
Let's hope they've returned from their break with their batteries fully recharged.
And they don't have jetlag from their fruitless trip to the US Open
Banana skin avoided, in the first round at least!
R1: (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 161 (80+81) defeated Egor Gerasimov & Hiroki Moriya (BLR/JPN) CR 915 (368+547) by 7-6(7) 6-4
Another apparent doddle for the boys:
QF: (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 161 (80+81) vs Erik Crepaldi & Filip Veger (ITA/CRO) CR 1243 (514+729)
Spectator wrote:I never trust post-1st-round doddles ... and your italics suggest you don't either!
I never trust post-1st-round doddles ... and your italics suggest you don't either!
I most certainly don't, Spectator, & given the boys' recent track record, I tend to think that expectations need to be very well managed...
QF: (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 161 (80+81) defeated Erik Crepaldi & Filip Veger (ITA/CRO) CR 1243 (514+729) by 3-6 6-3 [15-13]
Really not sure how they dug themselves out of that hole! They trailed in the MTB until almost the very end!
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I've a nasty suspicion they're going to find their next opponents a bit of a handful:
SF: (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 161 (80+81) vs (3) Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Konstantin Kravchuk (FRA/RUS) CR 275 (153+122)
As I feared:
SF: (3) Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Konstantin Kravchuk (FRA/RUS) CR 275 (153+122) defeated (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 161 (80+81) by 3 & 3
