IPTL 2015 Results: Saturday Tennis Scores, Winners and Latest Singapore Schedule
The OUE Singapore Slammers will contest the final of the International Premier Tennis League with the Micromax Indian Aces after beating them in the final round-robin match of the season in Singapore on Saturday.
The Slammers triumphed 27-21 in a comfortable victory at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Earlier, the Philippine Mavericks denied the OBI UAE Royals a place in the showpiece after beating them by the narrowest of margins.
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Here are the results from Saturday's action and a complete recap of how the matches panned out:
| James Blake | 6-4 | Goran Ivanisevic |
| Jarmila Gajdosova | 6-3 | Kristina Mladenovic |
| Somdev Deverrman & Jarmila Gajdosova | 1-6 | Daniel Nestor & Kristina Mladenovic |
| Treat Huey & Edouard Roger-Vasselin | 6-4 | Marin Cilic & Daniel Nestor |
| Edouard Roger-Vasselin | 4-6 | Marin Cilic |
| Ivo Karlovic | 10-9 | Marin Cilic |
| Carlos Moya | 6-2 | Fabrice Santoro |
| Stan Wawrinka | 6-5 (7-4) | Bernard Tomic |
| Belinda Bencic | 6-2 | Svetlana Kuznetsova |
| Dustin Brown & Karolina Pliskova | 4-6 | Rohan Bopanna & Sania Mirza |
| Marcelo Melo & Nick Kyrgios | 5-6 | Rohan Bopanna & Ivan Dodig |
Saturday Recap
Carlos Moya kicked off the proceedings for the Slammers and made short work of Fabrice Santoro, breaking him three times on the way to a comfortable 6-2 victory.
Stan Wawrinka's set with Bernard Tomic was a much tighter affair, with both players playing some exquisite shots, according to the tournament's official Twitter feed:
The pair broke each other twice apiece to force a tiebreaker, which Wawrinka eventually won.
Belinda Bencic then significantly increased the Slammers' lead to nine with a 6-2 win over Svetlana Kuznetsova, the former breaking twice while the latter was made to rue six missed opportunities to reply.
The Aces managed to fight back and claim the last two sets, but solid performances from the Slammers ensured they only won 6-4 and 6-5—nowhere near enough to eat into their considerable lead:
Earlier, the Mavericks put an end to the Royals' hopes as they beat them in a thrilling encounter.
James Blake and Jarmila Gajdosova's wins in the men's legends and women's singles, respectively, gave the Mavericks a five-game lead after two sets, before Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic levelled the scoring with a 6-1 win over Gajdosova and Edouard Roger-Vasselin:
Roger-Vasselin and Treat Huey then got the Mavericks' noses in front once again as they took a 6-4 victory over Nestor and Marin Cilic, with this rally proving one of the highlights:
To force a shootout, Cilic then needed to reverse that scoreline against Roger-Vasselin in the men's singles, and the Croatian duly did so.
He was unable to overcome Ivo Karlovic in the first-to-10 shootout—the first in the competition so far—though, with Karlovic sealing the tightest of wins in style:
The final will be held on Sunday, December 20, at 8 a.m. GMT (3 a.m. ET, 4 p.m. local).
The Aces have been comfortably the best team throughout the tournament with eight wins from 11 matches, but with the Slammers now having both confidence and momentum behind them they could well produce another big upset.
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