Matt Donald and Jakub Nicod had to save a deciding point in the third game of their match against Stuart Parker and David Quayle in Heraklion, but weren’t able to convert any of the break points when they had the British pair on the ropes at 0-40 in the next game. It was the Czech pair who were first to crack, managing only one point on their serve in the seventh game. They had to save two set points when down 30-40 two games later, and couldn’t break the British pair when they got them to deuce in the final game of the set, which took 35 minutes.
Donald and Nicod had to come back from 30-40 to win the opening game in the second set, but they broke from 40-30 in the second game before again winning only one point when losing their serve in the third. They had break points in the fourth as well, and had to come back from 15-40 in the seventh before breaking in the eighth when Parker and Quayle had been up 40-30. The British pair again had Donald and Nicod in trouble at 30-40 when they were trying to serve out the set, and the Czech teenagers were again able to win the two points they needed. This set lasted for 36 minutes.
The match tie-break started well for Donald and Nicod, with a mini-break on the first point before they won their own first serve – and then it all fell apart. Parker and Quayle won the next four points to be a mini-break in front as they changed ends, with Donald and Nicod winning the next point before Parker and Quayle won the next six. The final score was 6-4, 3-6, 10-3, and the match took an hour and 22 minutes.