I think you are doing Luke and Jack a disservice there. They beat last weeks champions 6-1, 6-2.
So they did - now corrected. I could have sworn that that was how it was showing on SofaScore when I came out of my meeting (the office security settings won't let me run the ITF's live scoreboard for some strange reason ), but if it was, it's now showing the correct score. My sincere apologies to the boys.
L16: Maxime Authom & Niels Desein (BEL/BEL) CR 1122 (680+442) defeated Elliott Farmer & Joshua Rose UNR (0+1614) by 1 & 1
L16: Jack Findel-Hawkins & Luke Johnson UNR (0+371) defeated (4) Matthias Haim & Jakob Sude (AUT/GER) CR 952 (559+393) by 1 & 2
L16: Riccardo Balzerani & Laurynas Grigelis (ITA/LTU) CR 1147 (903+234) defeated Jonathan Binding & Scott Duncan UNR (0+1364) by 1 & 1
L16: Neil Pauffley & Marcus Willis CR 1029 (807+222) defeated (1) Maximilian Neuchrist & David Pichler (AUT/AUT) CR 650 (288+362) by 4 & 4
L16: Bogdan Ionut Apostol & Marcos Torralbo (ROU/ESP) UNR (740+0) defeated Dan Cox & Sean Hodkin UNR by 7-6(5) 6-4
L16: Jody Maginley & Ronnie Schneider (ANT/USA) CR 1810 (1256+560) defeated Samm Butler & Adam Jones UNR (1342+0) by 6-4 7-6(5) - another close one! L16: (3) Harri Heliövaara & Frederik Nielsen (FIN/DEN) CR 907 (665+242) defeated Billy Harris & George Houghton UNR (862+0) by 3 & 5
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QF: Neil Pauffley & Marcus Willis CR 1029 (807+222) vs Maxime Authom & Niels Desein (BEL/BEL) CR 1122 (680+442)
QF: Jack Findel-Hawkins & Luke Johnson UNR (0+371) vs Bogdan Ionut Apostol & Marcos Torralbo (ROU/ESP) UNR (740+0)
I know that Mr Willis has an idiosyncratic style, but I do wish that he would hit a return once in a while. "Chip and stand still" is hardly a winning strategy.
In other news, Mr Johnson has just taken a set off of the top seed, Mr Grigelis.
-- Edited by christ on Wednesday 7th of February 2018 03:21:30 PM
But SO good by Luke J. He really does come across as a sensible, motivated young man, with clear objectives and a clear idea of how he's going to get there. Bravo to him !