Aachen 50K+H Challenger doubles

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Aachen 50K+H Challenger doubles

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Right I have to go out for a while now.

From the two games I just watched it looks like the teams are quite even, however it's hard to tell whether Aucks and Delgado are still just warming up, I'm pretty sure they have a few gears in reserve and I don't know if the others do. Hopefully they up the level in the next game or two.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Now 5-2 to Zverev and Gulbis

Delgado serving,

15-0,

15-15 Delgado dumps a smash into the net

30-15, aggressive volleys from Aucks

40-15, ACE,

40-30,

using the eye formation,

5-3, Zverev nets the return!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

6-3 to Gulbis / Zverev

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Aucks serving second set,

40-40

Game Aucks and delgado!

1-0 second set, but lost the first

johnnylad · Tennis legend

1-1.

Look uncomfortable against these 2

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Delgado serving at 1-1, second set,

0-15, rally, volley winner from Z/G,

15-15, unreturnable down the middle,

30-15, long rally, Aucks and Delgado force Gulbis wide and put away a volley

40-15, serve and volley winner,

Game A/D return is long and wide!

2-1 second set

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Gulbis serving at 1-2, second set,

15-0, Zverev smash off high Delgado return

30-0 Zverev volley off high Aucks return,

30-15,

40-15, good return but a good volley from Zverev

Game, same as first point

2-2

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Aucks at 2-2, second set,

0-15, Delgado is a muppet, easy smash is too soft, then nets a volley,

0-30 double fault into net,

15-30, Zverev nets a forehand volley,

30-30, unreturnable serve out wide,

40-30, serve and volley winner from Aucks!

40-40, no offence but Delgado sucks.

Game A/D 3-2

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Delgado serving

30-30, Aucks intercepts the return and smashes away the winner

40-30, Aucks winner.

game A/D.

6-5 apparently, so G/Z serving to force a tiebreak, now would be a great time to break guys!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Gulbis serving

15-0, ace

30-0, Z intercepts and hits a volley winner

40-0, Aucks just goes out with a half volley

game. 6-6 tiebreak time.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Aucks to serve first

0-1 good return forces the error from Aucks

0-2 excellent serve unfortunately and Aucks can't get it back

1-2 Delgado hits the ball right at G's feet and he fails to get a racket on it.

1-3 The ball goes straight at Auck's body this time and he can do no more than defend himself

2-3 Gulbis rushes the net but Jamie sends the ball straight into his path, not in the plan

2-4 unreturnable first serve.

2-5 winner down the line from either G or Z.

3-5 volley winner from Delgado

4-5 great first serve from Aucks, return out of court.

5-5 great winner from Aucks.

5-6 unreturnable

5-7 GSM, didn't catch that, I think Delgado went long.

Aucks/Delgado lost 36 67(5)

From the few games I saw, Auckland was by far the best doubles player out there and was let down a bit by Delgado who wasn't quite 'on' this evening(especially his first serve percentage). However, all credit to Gulbis and Zverve they worked very well together and most of their shots were going on the lines not out.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Sorry I left randomly last night.......

I would agree that Aucks looked the best doubles player out there, but I thought Zverev looked like the best tennis player out there by a mile.

Delgado was poor, really poor.

Well, James Auckland won this title last year so will probably be losing some points.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Semi Final: Murray/Kerr vs Gulbis/Zverev

This is not on Fridays OOP, despite the fact that the other doubles semi is!

Must be Saturday!

Drew · Nov 4, 2006

Jamie & Jordan on 4.30pm in their semi

Follow it live : http://www.atp-ac.com/news/livevideo/livevideo.htm

Since its a semi will start a new thread.

-- Edited by Drew at 10:23, 2006-11-04