06.03.10 - DOUBLES DAY
Another cheerful day for Cyprus tennis with both of our Champions, Baghdatis and Kallias, playing excellent doubles and being very focused, bring the necessary win in the critical third match 7-6, 7-5, 6-1.
The first set was characterised by high percentage of serving by both teams and the match being decided in a mind-breaking tie-breaker for our team 9-7. The second set continued at the same momentum with the Egyptians taking an early break in the beginning, however, both Baghdatis and Kallias rose to the occassion, broke back and won the set 7-5. In the third and decisive set, both of our players played extremely well, looked very confident and played very solid, took the upper-hand and gave no chances to the opponents, winning the set by 6-0.
It was the crowd's turn to start celebrating inside the indoor arena with Baghdatis singing "Happy Birthday" to our Champion Photos Kallias!
"...it is a great honour for me working with such a team of players...all of us together make a family and this wonderful group feeling, brings always the positive results...they were very determined today, although starting kind of slow in the beginning, they gave no chances to the opponents at the end...we look forward to the match tomorrow and hope that all the fans will join us at the Spyros Kyprianou stadium to celebrate together the victory..." noted the captain Yiannos Hadjigeorghiou at the press conference.
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