Finn Reynolds and Roy Stepanov are through to the quarter-finals in Telavi after winning their first round doubles match, but they needed to go to a match tie-break before completing the victory over Andrey Chepelev and Artur Yurkevich. The latter pair needed to get through a deciding point before holding serve in the second game, but lost the fourth after winning just the first point.
They were able to break straight back, winning the two points they needed from 40-30, but had to fight a lot harder in the next game when coming back from 0-40. The pressure told on whoever served next, as he hit three double faults in the first four points. Reynolds and Stepanov won the next point as well to get another break, and they lost just one point as they served out the set after 34 minutes.
The second set didn’t even have a deuce until the second to last game, with Chepelev and Yurkevich coming back from 30-40 to hold serve. Reynolds and Stepanov won just one point in the next game, and that gave Chepelev and Yurkevich the set after 40 minutes.
Whatever thoughts Chepelev and Yurkevich may have harboured about winning the match were quickly dismissed, with Reynolds and Stepanov winning the first seven points in the match tie-break. Chepelev and Yurkevich interrupted the sequence by winning the next point, but two more gave Reynolds and Stepanov eight match points. They lost the first, but a double fault from the other side of the net completed the victory after an hour and 24 minutes. The final score was 6-3, 4-6, 10-2.