Fleming/Hutchins crush Bohli/Chiudinelli in second round – Swiss Indoors 2011
British duo of Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins drilled through local wild card entrants, Stephane Bohli and Marco Chiudinelli, with a breadstick at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors 2011, an ATP World Tour 500 series event held at St.
Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland. They registered a 6-3, 6-1 success over the Swiss pair to advance into the last eight on Thursday.
Ranked 16th in the ATP World Tour doubles rankings, Fleming and Hutchins took almost an hour to overpower the wild card enterers and stayed on course to lift their second year-to-date title.
The British tandem confidently entered the opening set and smoothly bagged entire serves without facing any obstacle or a breakpoint. They cashed in the only breakpoint opportunity to their advantage in the fourth game to clinch
the opener with a 6-3 score line.
Fleming and Hutchins manifested a much better first serve share of 68 percent as compared to their rivals’ 37 percent and registered a perfect win on it.
The British junction went berserk in the final set as they went on a four games tear through their amazing co-ordination. After the local stars put their nose in the score sheet on the fifth game, Fleming and Hutchins pocketed
last two games to earn a breadstick.
They formulated a slightly higher first serve share of 60 percent as opposed to Bohli and Chiudinelli’s 56 percent and registered a spectacular 89 percent win on it. Furthermore, the British duo saved the only breakpoint faced
and capitalised on three out of five breakpoint chances to their advantage.
Next up for the high spirited British pair is the Belgian team of Xavier Malisse and d**k Norman who stunned fourth seeds, Indian Mahesh Bhupathi and Slovak Michal Mertinak in brutal three sets.
In the only other doubles match that took place on Thursday, the Croat Serbian collaboration of Ivan Dodig and Viktor Troicki upset third seeds, German Christopher Kas and Austrian Alexander Peya, in a three setter mouth watering
match.
Overpowering in an hour and twenty minutes long marathon, the unseeded Croat Serbian tandem bounced back to register a 4-6, 6-4, 10-5 victory over the thirteenth ranked Kas Peya collaboration.
They failed to ward off all three breakpoints faced but cashed in three out of five breakpoint opportunities to their advantage to win comfortably. Dodig and Troicki also clobbered a slightly higher first serve share of 57 percent
as compared to their nemesis’ 52 percent and registered an impressive 76 percent win on it.
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