The Australians Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis succumbed this Monday against the pair formed by the Dutch Wesley Koolhof and the English Neal Skupski in the Turin ATP Finals, in a match that was decided with a super tiebreaker after just over an hour and a half, with a score from 6-7 (3), 6-4 and 10-5.
The Australians, champions of the Australian Open and the Atlanta Open As a couple so far this year, they trained together for the first time this morning, as Kyrgios, a finalist at Wimbledon, where he lost to Djokovic, arrived in the Italian city from Mexico last night.
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And to beat the top seeds of the prestigious event, champions of the ATP Masters 1000 Paris, ATP Masters 1000 Canada, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, ATP Masters 1000 Madrid, Doha, Adelaide 2 and Melbourne, it takes more than a couple of rallies .
Nevertheless, The pair number 8 in the ranking surprised and won the first set despite the fact that the serve of the number one was unstoppable. Kyrgios and Kokinakis twice saved two break balls. The first to put the 1-1 on the scoreboard and the second to put the 4-4.
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After a very even set but slightly dominated by Skupski and Koolhof, the ‘special k’ signed a great ‘tie-break’ and, with two breaks, sThey arranged the tiebreaker 3-7, even wasting a set ball in their favor.
Stunned by what happened, the top favorites to lift the gold in Turin, reacted with a 6-4 win in the second set after breaking their rivals’ service in the seventh game, with 3-3, in which this time they did take advantage of two breaking balls.
The match was decided with the super tiebreaker, at ten points, in which Koolhof and Skupski, unleashed, prevailed very easily.
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The Dutch and the English are placed first in their group, the green, pending the result of the other match, in which the Croatians Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic will face their compatriot Ivan Dodig and the American Austin Krajicek.
