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A day in the life in Challengers, Ken's & Neal's chronicle of their day at Surbiton yesterday.



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SF:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 159 (78+81) defeated (3) Jonny Marray & Adil Shamasdin (CAN) CR 208 (92+116) by 4 & 4

Disappointed for Jonny, but delighted for the defending champions.

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And a repeat of last week's final against their good friends:

Final:  (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 159 (78+81) vs (4) Purav Raja & Divij Sharan (IND/IND) CR 217 (103+114)



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Come on lads, REVENGE please.

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Underway, the brothers start with a hold

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 Its really not as bad as they say :)
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Not happening at the moment:  first set down the pan by 4-6, though it could easily have been 2-6.  cry



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2nd set looking better as the Bros are 4-1* up

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Serving at *5-3 40-15 and got broken. DF on deciding point. 2nd set is back in the balance.

5-4*

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The boys served for the second set at 5-3, but the Indians broke back, helped by a double fault on set point!  cry



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Is it a scheduling thing re next week's tournaments?

Otherwise why on earth would you put the men's doubles final on so late on the Friday, two days before the end of the tournament?

It's obvious that everyone will have gone home by now - seems a big shame.

What's wrong with tomorrow ? Or Sunday?

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The guys are going to have to win 2 TBs to retain their title.

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Not to be - again!  The defending champions are dethroned:

Final:  (4) Purav Raja & Divij Sharan (IND/IND) CR 217 (103+114) defeated (1) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 159 (78+81) by 6-2 7-6(3) cry

 



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Coup Droit wrote:

Is it a scheduling thing re next week's tournaments?

Otherwise why on earth would you put the men's doubles final on so late on the Friday, two days before the end of the tournament?

It's obvious that everyone will have gone home by now - seems a big shame.

What's wrong with tomorrow ? Or Sunday?

Very good question with tomorrow's schedule being :

Court A : women's singles SFs followed by men's singles SFs

Court B : women's doubles final



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Well at least they keep getting RU points, which is not bad at all - though I'm sure they'd prefer the championship points. Raja and Sharan are really dangerous, though, so no shame in losing to them. On to the next tournament ...

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Coup Droit wrote:

Is it a scheduling thing re next week's tournaments?

Otherwise why on earth would you put the men's doubles final on so late on the Friday, two days before the end of the tournament?

It's obvious that everyone will have gone home by now - seems a big shame.

What's wrong with tomorrow ? Or Sunday?

With Queen's being a 500 it will have qualifying draw for doubles which will start tomorrow. The Skupski's might well have the wild card place in that draw.



-- Edited by RJA on Friday 10th of June 2016 08:31:04 PM

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Give the Skupskis a Doubles MD wildcard at Queens and then that problem would be sorted !

But, OK, if there's a good reason, that's fine....

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