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After playing a solid qualification tournament, the Aussie team of Becchara Palmer and Louise Bawden have given a solid account of themselves in the main draw. They pushed the Swiss team, Kuhn-Zumkehr to three sets, in the end losing 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 15-9) in 56 minutes, but pulled out a gutsy win against the Italians,…
When not to peel off the block Bo Soderberg and Anders Hoyer showed us why they have become a regular in the World tour main draw, with what I thought was a pretty solid performance against a team that on paper, was simply a level above them. The first five side outs from Anders were…
Jason Lochhead serves on centre court against Austrians Gosch-Horst It was a hot day, the stadium was full and Florian Gosch was working the crowd up into a frenzy as he pumped himself up and celebrated every point with them. Kirk and Jason are no strangers to this situation, having beaten the same team on…
It was a tough day for the Aussie boys, Boehm-McHugh in the qualifier, playing the polish team; Fijalek-Prudel POL in their first round match. Although I could not watch the match myself (more about that later), by all accounts the guys played close to their best and did well to take it to three sets….
The good news is that Palmer-Bawden AUS made it through the qualifiers. They won their first match quite convincingly against the team from Great britain, (who interestingly is being coached by our very own Matt Grinlaubs). They then went on to win a very close match against the German qualification team of Banck-Günther GER [2]…