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Well done Luke/Sander, Joe and Neal. Lost track there!

Julian will wish Lloyd back soon and Jamie and Rajeev - hard to prepare when you dont know who youre playing

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L16:  Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17) defeated Rohan Bopanna & Adam Pavlasek (IND/CZE) CR 85 (33+52) by 3 & 3  smile



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Well done Joe and Neal - it takes them up to 12th in the Race, with little behind them; Luke and Sander are 11th and Julian/Lloyd still 3rd and H and H 2nd.

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Seems all the top Brits and doubles partners had a camp at the NTC last week with Louis Cayer - from Harri's blog (only Jamie missing)

The most important thing about the London camp was that, together with Henry, I was able to come under the watchful eye of Loius Cayer for the first time since the Australian Open to receive his uniquely accurate observations. The focus was especially on the return turns, both on the returns themselves and in the situations that followed, as the hope would be to break the opponents' serves a little more often, especially on slower clay courts. Calvin was of course also there, and in addition to us, all the other top British players, Glasspool, Cash, Skupski, Salisbury and Johnson, as well as his partner Arends, were also on the court. I was also able to stay in the hotel rooms of the tennis center again, which was very kind of the British side.

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Harri also wrote

That kick of the shots is an interesting thing. In modern tennis, it feels like we hit with full force almost all the time, which is a huge difference from when I started my career 15 years ago. And hitting with full force doesn't come naturally to me, but through training, especially from the back, I can sometimes do it now.

So, the doubles game at least has become flat out power on return, less subtlety as a result - I guess we all see that but interesting to see the comment

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L16:  (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) defeated (ALT) Sander Arends (NED) & Luke Johnson CR 82 (40+42) by 6-4 3-6 [10-4]  hmm



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L16:  (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) defeated (ALT) Sander Arends (NED) & Luke Johnson CR 82 (40+42) by 6-4 3-6 [10-4]  hmm

 Close though - Granollers and Zeballos did well in Madrid of course and must be among the favourites for Paris. 



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G and Z actually won Madrid masters without losing a set, also won their opener here in 2 sets. So Luke and Sander didnt do too badly to get a set today.

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Luke and Sander did well to get back into the match from a set and 2-0 down.

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L16:  Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17) defeated Rohan Bopanna & Adam Pavlasek (IND/CZE) CR 85 (33+52) by 3 & 3  smile

L16:  (2) Harri Heliövaara (FIN) & Henry Patten CR 7 (3+4) "defeated" Lorenzo Musetti & Lorenzo Sonego (ITA/ITA) CR 690 (344+346) by a walkover

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QF:  (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) vs Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17)



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QF:  (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) vs Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17)

QF:  (ALT) Guido Andreozzi & Théo Arribage (ARG/FRA) CR 106 (49+57) vs (2) Harri Heliövaara (FIN) & Henry Patten CR 7 (3+4)



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QF:  Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17) defeated (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) by 3 & 2  biggrin



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QF:  Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17) defeated (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) by 3 & 2  biggrin

 That's a great win for Joe and Neal, especially on clay. Does this take Joe back into the top 20?



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Stircrazy wrote:

QF:  Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17) defeated (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) by 3 & 2  biggrin

 That's a great win for Joe and Neal, especially on clay. Does this take Joe back into the top 20?

 That is a great win, wonderful. It appears to move them as a team to 10th in the Race (one win further and its top 8) and Neal to 15th and Joe 20th in live rankings. Neal is just ahead of Julian again and behind Lloyd. 

They don't appear to have any rivals this week to usurp them from those positions. 

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QF:  Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17) defeated (4) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 15 (7+8) by 3 & 2  biggrin

The semi won't be such a stroll:

SF:  (1) Marcelo Arévalo & Mate Pavic (ESA/CRO) CR 2 (1+1) vs Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski CR 31 (24+17)



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