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The opening set was a curtain raiser to what was in store in the next one hour of breathtaking tennis. After a wonderful tournament so far, that the final would be nerve-racking was a given, but what was unleashed was an unbelievable game of tennis at this level.
The pair of Khalifa Mohamed al-Mahmoud and Mohamed Abdulla al-Mohannadi engaged in a keen contest against an equally motivated team of Joud Alazmeh and Siddharth Ramesh but were able to the claim the first set 7-6. The second set saw the pair of Alazmeh and Ramesh up their ante, take the set 3-6 and level the match.
That probably was the shot in the arm that al-Mahmoud and al-Mohannadi wanted when they fought tooth nail to provide the spectators with an exciting brand of tennis. They rallied, the spectators applauded, they missed, the crowd sighed and after all that the scoreboard read 10-8 in favour of al-Mahmoud and al-Mohannadi. They had just won the probably the best game of the tournament so far.
In other matches, Cesarito Dumadaug Diong will play Robert El Hayek in the finals of Men’s veterans qualifying.
Meanwhile, last year’s finalist Amir El Bayoumy played a close game to beat Anass Lamrani in the Men’s singles main (semis). He will now meet Eleftherios Christou in the final, who overcame a stiff resistance from Reynaldo Amazona.
In the men’s double’s qualifying (semifinals) Simon Kusmartono & Zulmuchlis Wahidin beat Rawad Mouneer Ajib & Alfred Paul S Casareo while George Raymundo & Jasper Gappi defeated Obay Elsettawy & Waeil Elsadig. The 25th QAFCO Open will come to a close on November 7 with the men’s doubles finals being scheduled then.
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