Week 27 - Macedonia F2 ($10,000) - Skopje (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 27 - Macedonia F2 ($10,000) - Skopje (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Richard Gabb & Neil Pauffley CR 1370 (379+991) defeated Besir Durguti & Milos Nikolic (MKD/SRB) UNR by 2 & 2 smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Richard Gabb WR 456 (CH = 410 in October 2013) vs Yasha Zemel (ISR) WR 1116 (CH = 1044 in April)

L32: (Q) Giorgio Ricca (ITA) WR 1252 (= CH) vs (5) Neil Pauffley WR 561 (CH = 406 in August 2013

The boys are both in the top half of the draw.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Neil won, 6-4 6-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Richard won 6-0 6-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Richard Gabb WR 456 defeated Yasha Zemel (ISR) WR 1116 by 0 & 4

L32: (5) Neil Pauffley WR 561 defeated (Q) Giorgio Ricca (ITA) WR 1252 by 4 & 4

*****

L16: (1) Richard Gabb WR 456 vs Tomislav Jotovski (MKD) WR 715 (CH = 510 last month)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Richard Gabb & Neil Pauffley CR 1370 (379+991) vs Igor Saveljic & Ivan Saveljic (MNE/MNE) CR 3252 (1626+1626 - they're 20-year-old twins)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Richard Gabb & Neil Pauffley CR 1370 (379+991) defeated Igor Saveljic & Ivan Saveljic (MNE/MNE) CR 3252 (1626+1626) by 5 & 4

*****

SF: (1) Richard Gabb & Neil Pauffley CR 1370 (379+991) vs Domagoj Biljesco & Borna Gojo (CRO/CRO) CR 2917 (1347+1570)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (5) Neil Pauffley WR 561 defeated (Q) Luka Pavlovic (FRA) UNR (& aged only 16) by 1 & 2

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Richard Gabb WR 456 defeated Tomislav Jotovski (MKD) WR 715 by 3 & 4

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QF: (1) Richard Gabb WR 456 vs (5) Neil Pauffley WR 561 bleh

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That's a good draw.

Neil lost in R1 last week and Richard in the quarters.

Now we've got a guaranteed semi-finalist - good stuff.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, a very welcome SF at least for one of them.

Great if they kept apart and both reached the semi finals, but may have been unlikely. That said it's not the strongest of fields and they have in each other got the highest seeds they could have met at this stage ( all 8 seeds made the QF ). So not that clearcut.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 7th of July 2016 03:55:19 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Richard Gabb & Neil Pauffley CR 1370 (379+991) defeated Domagoj Biljesco & Borna Gojo (CRO/CRO) CR 2917 (1347+1570) by 6-2 1-6 [10-7]

*****

Final: (1) Richard Gabb & Neil Pauffley CR 1370 (379+991) vs Tomislav Jotovski & Predrag Rusevski (MKD/MKD) UNR (790+0)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Rich rather put Neil to the sword today winning 2&0

the addict · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Rich rather put Neil to the sword today winning 2&0

Neil's take on things (from Twitter) "Went down in singles. Opponent was too good and had all the luck his way. In tennis you need some luck and I didn't have any today"

I think Neil's serve might have had something to do with it as well, 7DF and 0 Aces, lost 6 out of 13 break points.