By Glenys Furness
- Henry Patten made quarter-final in Madrid
- Best placed British doubles player
- Defeated by eventual winners
MADRID, SPAIN – Henry Patten & Harri Heliovaara were the second seeds in Madrid. The pair made the quarter-final of the Masters event.
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Henry Patten & Harri Heliovaara entered the Madrid Masters event and were the second seeds. The two times grand slam champions drew Yuki Bhambri & Robert Galloway in the first round. The Indian/American found the seeds too strong in the first set as the Brit/Fin broke serve early and took the lead. The second set was much closer though, as Bhambri & Galloway forced a tiebreak. In the breaker it was the seeds who edged through and into the next round 6-3, 7-6(4).
The second round saw the Brit/Fin against Alexander Erler & Constantin Frantzen. The Austrian/German pair stayed close at the start of the first set. Eventually, though, Patten & Heliovaara broke serve and took the lead. The second set was more of the same, and once again the seeds broke serve and moved into the next round 6-4, 6-4.
In the quarter-final the Brit/Fin were against fifth seeds Horacio Zeballos & Marcel Granollers. The Argentine/Spaniard went toe-to-toe with Patten & Haliovaara and forced a tiebreak. In the breaker the fifth seeds eased through and took the lead. The second set saw Zeballos & Granollers break early, and although the Brit/Fin tried, they were not able to get back on terms. The fifth seeds moved on 7-6(3), 6-3.
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Doubles Round Up
Luke Johnson & Sander Arends were defeated by Horacio Zeballos & Marcel Granollers in the first round in Madrid 6-4, 6-2.
Katie Boulter with Daria Kasatkina were defeated by Linda Noskova & Clara Tauson in the first round in Madrid 7-6(4), 5-7, 12-10.
Olivia Nicholls with Tereza Mihalikova were defeated by Su-Wei Hsieh & Jelena Ostapenko in the first round in Madrid 6-2, 6-2.
Jamie Murray with Rajeev Ram were defeated by Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez & Mate Pavic in the second round in Madrid 6-1, 3-6, 10-4.
Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski were defeated by Christian Harrison & Evan King in the second round in Madrid 6-3, 7-5.
Luke Johnson with Sander Arends were defeated by Robert Cash & James Tracy in the semi-final in Aix-en-Provence 7-6(4), 2-6, 13-11.
Joshua Paris with Daniel Cukiermann were defeated by Ray Ho & Matthew Romios in the semi-final in Guangzhou 6-3, 6-2.
Mark Whitehouse with Luca Sanchez were defeated by Patrik Niklas-Salminen & Szymon Walkow in the quarter-final in Ostrava 1-6, 6-4, 11-9.
Jay Clarke with Daniil Golubev were defeated by Lorenzo Carboni & Marco Furlanetto in the quarter-final in Santa Margherita di Pula 6-3, 6-4.
Charles Dossetter with Alberto Barroso Campos were defeated by Nazim Makhlouf & Damien Wenger in the first round in Monastir 6-4, 6-3.
Lucia Cassidy & Elizabeth Evans were defeated by Hibah Shaikh & Aran Teixido Garcia in the first round in Monastir 6-3, 6-1.
Georgina Hays with Aaddi Gupta were defeated by Alessia Popescu & Maria Toma in the first round in Monastir 6-0, 6-1.
Madeleine Brooks with Petra Hule were defeated by Maria Kozyreva & Iryna Shymanovich in the semi-final in Bonita Springs 6-3, 6-2.
Jodie Burrage & Eden Silva were defeated by Zhibek Kulambayeva & Darja Semenistaja in the first round in Wiesbaden 7-6(2), 6-7(1), 10-8.
Heather Watson with Lizette Cabrera were defeated by Cody Wong & Zhu Lin in the first round in Gifu 6-7(4), 7-6(4), 10-7.
Yuriko Miyazaki with Emina Bektas were defeated by Momoko Kobori & Ayano Shimizu in the final in Gifu 6-1, 6-2.
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