The penultimate nail is driven into the British doubles coffin:
R1: (1) Pascal Brunner & Lucas Miedler (AUT/AUT) CR 758 (503+255) defeated Alastair Gray & Ewan Moore UNR (0+998) by 4 & 0
Joel's the last man standing.
Still more R1 matches to come, but here is what we know of R2 so far L16: Toby Martin WR 1277 v (5) Pascal Brunner (AUT) WR 620 (CH 362 May 2016) L16: (SE) Alastair Gray WR 1490 v (3) Omar Salman (BEL) WR 536 (CH 488 June 2016) L16: Joel Cannell WR 897 v Raphael Baltensperger (SUI) WR 1006 (=CH)
L32: (2) Vit Kopriva (CZE) WR 535 defeated (Q) Ewan Moore WR 1377 by 5 & 1
L32: (4) Neil Pauffley WR 710 defeated (PR) Jamie Whiteford WR 898 by 1 & 2
L32: Toby Martin WR 1277 defeated Billy Harris WR 1104 by 6-3 5-7 7-6(5) L32: (3) Omar Salman (BEL) WR 536 defeated Keelan Oakley WR 953 by 6-7(10) 6-2 6-4 L32: (SE) Alastair Gray WR 1490 defeated (WC) Nicholas Campbell (CYP) UNR by 3 & 4L32: Joel Cannell WR 897 defeated (6) Vasile Antonescu (ROU) WR 694 by 2-6 7-5 6-4
L32: (7) Michal Schmid (CZE) WR 693 defeated (Q) Adam Thornton-Brown WR 1373 by 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3
ATB was a break up early in the decider.
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L16: Toby Martin WR 1277 vs (5) Pascal Brunner (AUT) WR 620 (CH = 362 in May)
L16: (3) Omar Salman (BEL) WR 536 vs (SE) Alastair Gray WR 1490
L16: Raphael Baltensperger (SUI) WR 1006 (= CH) vs Joel Cannell WR 897
L16: (WC) Menelaos Efstathyiou (CYP) UNR vs (4) Neil Pauffley WR 710
QF: Joel Cannell & Benjamin Hannestad (DEN) UNR defeated Raphael Baltensperger & Marko Osmakcic (SUI/SUI) UNR (0+1220) by 1 & 2
SF: (1) Pascal Brunner & Lucas Miedler (AUT/AUT) CR 758 (503+255) vs Joel Cannell & Benjamin Hannestad (DEN) UNR
Hopefully Joel will have been able to get a good look at his R2 opponent through beating him in the doubles today.
DF wrote:Ali G bows out 2-6 5-7
Ali G bows out 2-6 5-7
Ali saved at least 2 match points at 5-4 so at least it was a battling performance.
L16: (5) Pascal Brunner (AUT) WR 620 defeated Toby Martin WR 1277 by 3 & 0
L16: (WC) Menelaos Efstathyiou (CYP) UNR defeated (4) Neil Pauffley WR 710 by 4 & 3
Joel is again the last man standing & he's just taken the first set by 6-3 against Baltensperger.
At last we have a winner:
L16: Joel Cannell WR 897 defeated Raphael Baltensperger (SUI) WR 1006 by 3 & 4
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QF: (3) Omar Salman (BEL) WR 536 vs Joel Cannell WR 897