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R1:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 156 (78+78) vs Ruben Bemelmans & Ilija Bozoljac (Bel/SRB) CR  417 (190+227)



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A possible stroke of luck for Skups & Skups:  Bemelmans has apparently sustained an injury to his left hand, so he & Bozo have been replaced by alternates.

R1:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) vs Mirza Basic & Tomislav Brkic (BIH/BIH) CR 784 (492+292)



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For a while in the first set I feared the worst & that they were going to blow it!

R1:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) defeated Mirza Basic & Tomislav Brkic (BIH/BIH) CR 784 (492+292) by 7-6(6) 6-2

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QF:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) vs Borna Coric & Ante Pavic (CRO/CRO) CR 905 (663+242)

I don't think they're going to have it all their own way in that match, despite the rankings difference!



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As tricky as I expected:

QF:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) defeated Borna Coric & Ante Pavic (CRO/CRO) CR 905 (663+242) by 6-3 3-6 [10-3]

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SF:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) vs (ALT) Valery Rudnev & Yaraslav Shyla (RUS/BLR) CR 952 (683+269)

The Russo-Belarusian pair did for the third seeds, Betov & Bury, in their quarter-final... 



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the skupskis lost the first set 7-5.

But are 5-2 in the second, having just saved 4 break points.

and streamed on ATP



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 19th of September 2014 11:21:48 AM

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Phew!  Banana skin avoided again! biggrin

SF:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) defeated (ALT) Valery Rudnev & Yaraslav Shyla (RUS/BLR) CR 952 (683+269) by 5-7 6-2 [10-3]



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nice one-sided tie-break :)

ditto



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 19th of September 2014 11:34:34 AM

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A much better week for Skups & Skups! smile

Final:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) vs Malek Jaziri & Alexander Kudryavtsev (TUN/RUS) CR 621 (299+322)

Jaz's & Kudry's impressive run to the final belies their lowly combined ranking:  they saw off Cerretani & Zverev in straight sets in the first round before accounting for the fourth seeds, Baluda & Kravchuk, in the QF & the second seeds, Kretschmer & Monroe, in the SF, both in three.  Not to be underestimated...



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Good for them. It's clearly not been the smoothest of passages to the final even here, but hopefully such a run has upped their confidence.

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Warming up- match is streamed.

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well, that was nice and one-sided 6-1 to Ken & Neal

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Jaz & Kudry finally meet their match - & Ken & Neal lift their first title since God alone knows when! s  Piece o' cake - or so it would appear from the scoreline! biggrin

Final:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 162 (81+81) defeated Malek Jaziri & Alexander Kudryavtsev (TUN/RUS) CR 621 (299+322) by 1 & 4



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Well done, lads - nice final, nice tennis, nice stream :)

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Nice work :)

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Great news. Let's hope they can maintain this form as they have a lot of points to defend over the next couple of months.

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