Kuwait 2nd and 3rd Tournaments: 2nd Career Doubles Title
After making the finals of singles and doubles of Kuwait F1, I only had one day off before the second tournament started. In my first round of doubles, my partner Miles and I faced off against the Polish team of Kossek/Smola. One of our opponents was clearly the better player as he has a career high ranking of 331 in doubles. He had a huge serve and good volleys at net. His partner went for his shots but was more erratic. There were no breaks early in the match as both teams were serving well. Both teams got solid holds to make it 3-all in the 1st. At this point we got broken on the No-Ad point as our opponents hit a good return to take a 4-3 lead. We played a solid return game and broke them right back to even it at 4-all. Both teams held their next two service games to send it to a 1 st set tiebreak. My partner and I came out focused by holding our first service point to go up 1-0. We then played two good return points which made it 3-0. We held both our service points to take a c