Two Poles came close to competing in doubles in Portugal – with the exception of Kubot, he was also on the list of participants Jan ZelenskyHowever, with Hugh Ness from Monaco, in their first match they could not defeat the duo Raven Claassen (South Africa) – Ben MacLachlan (Japan).

Kubot And Hussey faced an even more difficult task – their competitors turned out to be number one Jimmy Murray from Great Britain and Michael Venus from New Zealand.

The tennis duel began with a very fierce exchange – the Polish and the Dutch even had the opportunity to quickly break their opponents, but in the end they turned the fate of this mini-match and added the first match to their account. Luckily Łukasz Kubot And soon his companion managed to settle the state of the competition, which took the formula “blow by blow”.

At 4-4, Cobot and Hussey were able to break their opponents again, with two chances, but they didn’t use either of them at the end – then they had two more stopping points waiting for them. In the end, the first set ended with Klassen and MacLachlan winning 7-5.

At first, it seemed that we would notice a very similar picture in the second part of the game – at first we were dealing with a 1:1 situation in the games, but then the representatives of Poland and the Netherlands accelerated and (they achieved two feats along the way) took the 5:1 lead. Only their opponents managed to respond with a winning small skirmish. However, the fate of this group did not change – our representative and his companion finally achieved their goal and won in a ratio of 6: 2.

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So the final victory had to be decided by the tiebreak. In it, the British and New Zealanders quickly built a strong 5-0 advantage, and only then faced incremental responses – in the end, the third set ended with a score of 10-5.

Thus, Kubot and Hase were eliminated from the tournamentIn turn, their opponent in the finals 1/4 will face the winners of the Niedowiesow / Qureshi – Brkić / Ćaćić duel.

Klassen / MacLachlan 2-1 Kubot / Haas

Adjust 1: 7: 5

Setting 2: 2: 6

Setting 3: 10-5

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