Marcos Freitas

Marcos Freitas and Andrej Gacina were the players to cause the upsets as proceedings commenced in the Men’s Doubles event at the German Open in Berlin on Friday 19th March 2010. The pair formed by Portugal’s Marcos Freitas (no. 89) and Cratian’s Andrej Gacina (no. 60) were unbeaten yesterday since they overcame Belgium’s Lauric Jean (no. 498) / Cedric Nuytinck (no. 608) in three straight games (11-8, 11-5, 11-9), later they ousted Russia’s Mikhail Gladyshev (no. 275) / Alexey Liventsov (no. 137) again in three games (11-9, 12-10, 11-9) and finally they accounted for Spain’s Alfredo Carneiros / Carlos Machado (no. 84) in five games 8-11, 11-4, 11-7, 5-11, 11-9. Today Friday in the Round of 16, the double formed by the Portuguese and the Croatian ousted Singapore’s Gao Ning the no.19 seed / Yang Zi (no. 61) in a seven games duel, with the margins of 13-15, 11-8, 1-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 6-11. Today’s  victory was surprizing and tomorrow 20th March in the Men’s Doubles Quarter Final, Freitas / Gacina will defeat Russia’s pair Tomas Konecny (no. 173) / Dmitrij Prokopcov (no. 95), at 11:15 AM.

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