R1:  (3) Richard Gabb & Miliaan Niesten (NED) CR 1485 (305+1180) vs (WC) Samneang Long & Sarith Our (CAM/CAM) UNR

R1:  (3) Richard Gabb & Miliaan Niesten (NED) CR 1485 (305+1180) defeated (WC) Samneang Long & Sarith Our (CAM/CAM) UNR by 0 & 2

*****

QF:  (3) Richard Gabb & Miliaan Niesten (NED) CR 1485 (305+1180) vs Soichiro Moritani & Yu Cheng-Yu (JPN/TPE) CR 2915 (1351+1564)

I think Rich is safely in the Top 500 for the end of the year despite still having had 6 points come off this week and another 6 to come off in 2 weeks time. His 2 points from the QF last week are still to be added and with some "non-counters" in the bag, this should just about see him survive the cut.

But a good run this week would see him really consolidate the position and this seems like a strong start. Go Rich.

L16:  Tom Schönenberg (GER) WR 722 defeated (6) Richard Gabb WR 486 by 7-5 retired 

Hope it's nothing serious.

SF:  Cho Min Hyeok & Jong Young-Hoon (KOR/KOR) UNR (*) vs (3) Richard Gabb & Miliaan Niesten (NED) CR 1487 (306+1181)

(*) The South Koreans are both unranked in doubles at the moment, but they have a combined CH CR of 2367 (820 [November last year) + 1547 [in August])

The result in full:

SF:  Cho Min Hyeok & Jong Young-Hoon (KOR/KOR) UNR defeated (3) Richard Gabb & Miliaan Niesten (NED) CR 1487 (306+1181) by 7-6(5) 6-1 

Looks as though they tailed off quite badly after a competitive first set.