Drama at 9-9 in Tiebreak in Rublev-Lacko. Lacko played a backhand slice floater that Rublev let go but it curled in. Initial ball call was good, but then because the umpires, line and the chair weren't sure (!?) the petulant brat demanded the point to be replayed. And in the end umpire replayed the point. Lacko was super angry.
Desein was up 5-2* in the final set but Zemlja broke back and I thought he would take it. But at 5-5 in the tie-break he made a really bad backhand error to set up MP on Desein's serve and the Belgian took it. Really surprising and disturbing loss for Zemlja, IMO.
Ruben BEMELMANS / Philipp PETSCHNER (BEL/GER) d. [1] Rameez JUNAID / Igor ZELENAY (AUS/SVK) 6-2 6-1
Farrukh DUSTOV / Federico GAIO (UZB/ITA) d. Mirza BASIC / Aleksandr NEDOVYESOV (BIH/KAZ) w/o
Mateusz KOWALCZYK / Dino MARCAN (POL/CRO) d. [4] Ilija BOZOLJAC / Mate PAVIC (SRB/CRO) 7-6(6) 6-7(4) 12-10
Sander ARENDS / Costin PAVAL (NED/ROU) d. [WC] Uladzimir IGNATIK / Aslan KARATSEV (BLR/RUS) 4-6 6-3 14-12
Ken SKUPSKI / Neal SKUPSKI (GBR) d. [WC] Kevin KRAWIETZ / Maximilian MARTERER (GER) 7-6(1) 7-6(6) [WC] Johannes HAERTEIS / Daniel MASUR (GER) d. [3] Sergey BETOV / Andrey RUBLEV (BLR/RUS) 7-5 2-6 10-7
Carsten BALL / Dustin BROWN (AUS/GER) d. Frank MOSER / Antonio SANCIC (GER/CRO) 6-7(7) 7-5 10-6 [2] Aliaksandr BURY / Andreas SILJESTROM (BLR/SWE) d. [PR] Marco CHIUDINELLI / Mariusz FYRSTENBERG (SUI/POL) 6-4 4-6 10-8
Federico GAIO (ITA) d. [1] Ricardas BERANKIS (LTU) 3-6 6-4 6-3
Mikhail YOUZHNY (RUS) d. [PR] Marco CHIUDINELLI (SUI) 6-2 6-4 [LL] Jan HERNYCH (CZE) d. [WC] Philipp PETSCHNER (GER) 6-7(2) 6-2 6-3 [Daniel BRANDS (GER) has withdrawn] [7] Luca VANNI (ITA) d. Jan MERTL (CZE) 7-5 6-2
[3] Marsel ILHAN (TUR) d. Maxime AUTHOM (BEL) 7-6(5) 6-4 [Q] Ante PAVIC (CRO) d. [WC] Daniel MASUR (GER) 6-2 6-0 [Q] Marton FUCSOVICS (HUN) d. Uladzimir IGNATIK (BLR) 7-6(3) 6-4 [6] Lukas LACKO (SVK) d. Andrey RUBLEV (RUS) 7-6(11) 6-4
[5] Dustin BROWN (GER) d. [Q] Yannick HANFMANN (GER) 6-2 6-1 [Q] Niels DESEIN (BEL) d. Grega ZEMLJA (SLO) 6-1 6-7(5) 7-6(5)
Aslan KARATSEV (RUS) d. [WC] Oscar OTTE (GER) 6-4 6-4 [4] Benjamin BECKER (GER) d. Aleksandr NEDOVYESOV (KAZ) 6-1 3-0 ret'd
Mirza BASIC (BIH) d. [8] Farrukh DUSTOV (UZB) 6-1 7-6(2)
Aldin SETKIC (BIH) d. Andrea ARNABOLDI (ITA) 6-1 3-6 6-2
Marius COPIL (ROU) d. Igor SIJSLING (NED) 6-3 6-2 [2] Ruben BEMELMANS (BEL) d. [WC] Maximilian MARTERER (GER) 6-4 6-3
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