IPTL 2015 Results: Friday Tennis Scores, Winners and Latest Singapore Schedule
The Legendari Japan Warriors earned just their second win in the International Premier Tennis League on Friday as they thrashed the Philippine Mavericks 29-15 in Singapore.
Then, the OUE Singapore Slammers narrowly lost out to the OBI UAE Royals in hard-fought contest.
Read on for a full roundup of the day's action, but first, here are all the results and the remaining schedule as the competition nears its end:
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| James Blake | 3-6 | Marat Safin |
| Jarmila Galjdosova | 1-6 | Kurumi Nara |
| Edouard Roger-Vasselin & Jarmila Galjdosova | 2-6 | Leander Paes & Mirjana Lucic-Baroni |
| Edouard Roger-Vasselin & Treat Huey | 6-5 (7-5) | Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Leander Paes |
| Ivo Karlovic | 3-6 | Pierre-Hugues Herbert |
| Carlos Moya | 4-6 | Goran Ivanisevic |
| Karolina Pliskova | 5-6 (6-7) | Kristina Mladenovic |
| Dustin Brown & Karolina Pliskova | 6-3 | Roger Federer & Kristina Mladenovic |
| Nick Kyrgios & Marcelo Melo | 4-6 | Roger Federer & Daniel Nestor |
| Stan Wawrinka | 4-6 | Roger Federer |
| Saturday, Dec. 19 | Singapore | Philippine Mavericks vs. OBI UAE Royals |
| Saturday, Dec. 19 | Singapore | OUE Singapore Slammers vs. Micromax Indian Aces |
| Sunday, Dec. 20 | Singapore | TBD vs. TBD |
Friday Recap
The Warriors have had a difficult time at the IPTL this year, but they well-and-truly finished their campaign on a high as they won their final match in style.
Marat Safin got the better of James Blake in the opening set, before Kurumi Nara wiped the floor with Jarmila Gajdosova.
The Japanese star ruthlessly took all three of her break-point opportunities as she opened up a healthy lead on the Mavericks, per the tournament's official Twitter feed:
Leander Paes and Mirjana Lucic-Baroni were similarly comfortable in the third set as they overcame Gajdosova and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-2.
Roger-Vasselin then teamed up with Treat Huey in the men's doubles to win the Mavericks' only set of the day. It failed to make a significant dent in the scoreline, though, as Paes and Pierre-Hugues Herbert were only defeated in a narrow tiebreaker:
Herbert then finished off the resounding win with an assured 6-3 victory over Ivo Karlovic.
The following match was a much-tighter affair.
Goran Ivanisevic's late break gave him a 6-4 victory over Carlos Moya, before Kristina Mladenovic edged out Karolina Pliskova in the tightest of tiebreakers after the pair broke each other twice apiece to give the Royals a three-game lead.
Mladenovic and Pliskova then teamed up with Roger Federer and Dustin Brown, respectively, and the Slammers pairing levelled the scores with a 6-3 victory—Brown sealing the win majestically with an ace:
Federer and Nestor went a break ahead of Nick Kyrgios and Marcelo Melo in the men's doubles' fourth set, and at 4-3 down, the Slammers unleashed the big guns as they introduced French Open champion Stan Wawrinka:
Wawrinka was unable to save the set as the Slammers went on to lose 6-4.
Wawrinka then took on compatriot Federer in the men's singles, and despite fighting back from 3-1 down to pull level at 4-4, he was unable to complete his comeback.
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