Juan Martin Del Potro, Radek Stepanek, Andy Roddick, and David Nalbandian were part of the doubles draw at London's Queen's Club.
Juan Martin del Potro and Radek Stepanek defeated David Nalbandian and Andy Roddick 6-3, 6-4 Tuesday at the AEGON Championships in London. All four players had won their singles matches earlier in the day prior to taking the court for the first-round doubles match. Del Potro and Stepanek, partnering for the second time this season, won 78 per cent of their service points and converted one break of serve in each set to claim victory.
Rafael Nadal teamed with countryman Marc Lopez to defeat Brazilians Thomaz Bellucci and Andre Sa 7-6(6), 6-2. Both teams struggled to break serve in the first set; Lopez and Nadal went zero of 11 on break point opportunities, while the Brazilians missed all five of their break chances. After winning a close tie-break, the Spaniards broke Bellucci and Sa twice in the second set to clinch the win in one hour and 29 minutes.
Xavier Malisse and Ken Skupski beat Andy Murray and Jamie Murray 6-3, 6-4 to move into the second round. The Belgian-British tandem won three more total points than their opposition, but converted three breaks of serve, opposed to just one by the Scottish brothers.
Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins dispatched Igor Kunitsyn and Ivan Ljubicic 6-2, 6-4 in their first round doubles encounter. The British pair won 88 per cent of their first serve points to overwhelm the Croatian combination.
No. 1 seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi opened their Gerry Weber Open campaign with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Ivan Dodig and Alexandr Dolgopolov in Halle. The Indo-Pak Express fired eight aces and saved 10 of 11 break points faced. The two improve to 18-12 on the season.
2009 champions Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber upset fourth seeded Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram, taking the first-round match 6-3, 6-3. The Germans won 84 per cent of their service points and did not face a break point.
Robin Haase and Milos Raonic rallied from a set down to defeat Florian Mayer and Rogier Wassen 5-7, 6-3, 10-4. Haase and Raonic will next face the wild card pairing of Dominik Meffert and Mischa Zverev, who edged alternates Marco Chiudinelli and Lars Uebel 7-6(0), 6-4.
