Kyrgios Pushes Slammers Past Mavericks in IPTL
The OUE Sinagpore Slammers won all five sets against the Philippine Mavericks on Friday en route to a 30-22 record to improve to 3-3 in the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL).
Carlos Moya got the Slammers going with a 6-4 win over Mark Philippoussis in the Men’s Legends set to give the Slammers the early lead. The next set up was the Mixed Doubles contest, and Dustin Brown and Karolina Pliskova padded the Slammers lead by edging Treat Huey and Jarmila Gajdosova 6-5.
After Belinda Bencic knocked off Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3 in the Women’s Singles set to give the Slammers a big advantage.
The top set of the afternoon came from the men’s doubles contest between Nick Kyrgios and Marcelo Melo as they took on Treat Huey and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. The set would go back and forth until Kyrgios and Melo finally outlasted Huey and Roger-Vasselin 7-5 in the tiebreaker.
To cap things off, Kyrgios would defeat Roger-Vasselin 6-5 (7-2) in the final Men’s Singles set.
“We had a great match today, winning all our sets,” said Kyrgios. “I love the IPTL, it’s a great format, and I really look forward to this time of the year. For me personally, it’s not difficult adjusting to the regular game when I go back on the tour. It’s just fine.”
In the second match on Friday, the Micromax Indian Aces defeated the Legendari Japan Warriors 26-21.
