In Bucha on hard courts tennis club “Campa” the match between the national teams of Ukraine and Austria.
The Austrians were considered the favorites in doubles match – the visitors in the third match of the standoff with Ukraine has delegated to the 66-th racket of the world and experienced Jurgen Melzer, five years ago were in the top 10 of the ATP ranking.
The outcome of the first set was decided by an early break away from Austria – Molchanov and Smirnov tried to return his serve, but to no avail. In the second game the Ukrainian Duo regularly had problems on his serve, is not without sin acted and the Austrians repeatedly allowed a lot of break points. In the end, everything was decided in a tie-break – both sides had a set of balls, and cool turned out to be guests.
The deciding set Molchanov and Smirnov lost in the sixth game – Meltzer and Oswald without problems twice defended his serve and kept an intrigue in a match.
Tomorrow when the score was 2:1 in favor of Ukraine’s Ilya Marchenko will play against Gerald Melzer and Sergiy Stakhovsky will compete with Dennis Nowak.
Denys Molchanov / Artem Smirnov (Ukraine) – Jurgen Melzer / Philipp Oswald (Austria) – 3:6, 6:7, 3:6
