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Tennis: Huey, Blumberg suffer upset in Nottingham doubles semis

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Treat Huey IG" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/life/06/11/20220611-treat-huey-ig.jpg"/><figcaption>Treat Huey of the Philippines at the Rothesay Open Nottingham of the ATP Challenger Tour. <em>Photo courtesy of Treat Huey on Instagram.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>No. 4 seeds Treat Huey of the Philippines and William Blumberg of the United States were bested by Britons Julian Cash and Henry Patten, 6-7(5), 3-6, in the Rothesay Open Nottingham semifinal, Friday in Great Britain. </p><p>The Nottingham Open is a 125 event in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour.</p><p>Their semifinal at Court 3 of the Nottingham Tennis Centre opened with a very tight first set, without breaks of serve.</p><p>An ace by Huey equalized the match at 3-3, and in the eighth game, Huey and Blumberg saved a break point to be at 4-4, following a return of serve error by Cash and Patten.</p><p>A 6-6 outcome resulted in a tiebreak, which Cash and Patten took control of with a 4-1 edge.</p><p>A forehand volley winner from Huey reduced the gap to 3-4, after which he and Blumberg saved two set points to be at 5-6.</p><p>A long forehand from them, however, gave the first set to the Britons, 6-7(5).</p><p>In the second set, Cash and Patten took an early lead, 3-1, which they widened to 4-2.</p><p>In the seventh game, Huey and Blumberg managed to save two break points to trail at 3-4.</p><p>The British tandem then won the next two games to march on to the final, 6-3, after Blumberg hit a forehand error.</p><p>On their way to the semis, Huey and Blumberg moved past home bets Liam Broady and Jay Clarke, 6-4, 3-6, 10-2, in the opening round. </p><p>They followed this up with a come-from-behind win over another British pair, Alastair Gray and Ryan Peniston, in the quarterfinals, 3-6, 7-6(4), 10-5.</p><p>Huey, an eight-time ATP doubles winner and Wimbledon men’s doubles semifinalist, is coming off his men’s doubles gold victory with Ruben Gonzales at the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam in May.</p><p>Meanwhile, Gonzales also suffered an upset this week at another ATP Challenger event, the Orlando Open in the United States.</p><p>No. 3 seeds Gonzales and Reese Stalder of the U.S. were ousted in the quarterfinals, 6-7(4), 5-7, by Malek Jaziri of Tunisia and Kaichi Uchida of Japan.</p><p>In the first round, Gonzales and Stalder saw off Americans Jack Vance and Tennyson Whiting, 6-2, 6-1.</p><p>Gonzales’ previous ATP Challenger stint was in Georgia, where he and Huey bagged the Savannah Challenger doubles title in April.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/21/22/sea-games-gonzales-huey-win-mens-doubles-tennis-gold">SEA Games: Gonzales, Huey overwhelm compatriots to notch men’s doubles gold</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/01/22/tennis-huey-gonzales-bag-savannah-challenger-title">Tennis: Huey, Gonzales bag Savannah Challenger title</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2045394" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Treat Huey and William Blumberg were bested by Julian Cash and Henry Patten, 6-7(5), 3-6, in the Rothesay Open Nottingham semifinal.