[3] Finn Reynolds (NZL) and James Watt (NZL) v [ALT] Rio Noguchi (JPN) and Kasidit Samrej (THA)

Players generally breathe a sigh of relief when an original opponent withdraws and is replaced by an alternate, and I imagine that was the case when Finn Reynolds and James Watt found out that they would be playing Rio Noguchi and Kasidit Samrej in their doubles quarter-final in Jinan, even though they had of course…