FILIPINO-American Treat Huey and tennis doubles partner Dominic Inglot, of England, went down to America’s Eric Butorac and South Africa’s Raven Klaase in the quarterfinal of the 2014 Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, January 20.
Huey, a port-sider, and Inglot were two points away from winning in the second-set tie-break.
A report on www1.skysports.com describes it further:
Huey’s serve was broken in the seventh game but the Fil-Am’s mis-hit return on break point in the next game turned into a perfect lob and they levelled at 4-4.
The pair missed a set point in the 12th game but won the final four points of the tie-break.
The second set was tight, with only a couple of break points, and it looked like Butorac and Klaasen were poised to win the tie-break at 6-3.
But Huey and Inglot saved all three set points. A fourth followed and this time Butorac and Klaasen netted a volley.
The crucial moments of the match came at the end of the deciding set. First Huey saved a break point in a long service game to make it 4-3, and he and Inglot had four chances to break the Butorac serve but all of them went begging.
When Butorac and Klaasen brought up 0-40 on the Inglot serve, they were not so charitable, and the South African served out the victory.
Huey and Inglot reached the quarterfinals at the 2013 US Open.
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Picture:Treat Conrad Huey hitting
a backhand at an earlier tournament.
