I always have a soft spot on these two. They have the doubles skills and are hitting really big shots, but were so close on so many occasions. Now this is another really good win in a slam, not too surprising actually, Beth and Lucie are just not as confident right now.
But well they have a death draw "sobbing: .....hopefully they'll go far and make it to at least another quarterfinal.
I saw most of this match and Bertens/Larsson were excellent. They played conventional doubles tactics, moving forwards together as a pair which proved very successful and they wisely targeted Lucie at the net. They barely missed an overhead and Larsson in particular showed some brilliant skills around the net. I didn't even think Lucie/Beth played particularly badly although Beth did miss an easy overhead when it looked as though the momentum was beginning to swing in the second set. I think she was still struggling with her forearm injury as she was slicing a lot of BH returns.
Wasn't @chingching banned for using too many nicknames, but now a moderator is using them it's allowed oh the hypocrisy of tennis forum :lol: if it wasn't sad it would be laughable.