In the doubles Greg had teamed with 28 year-old American Jesse Witten. Greg had planned to play with Aussie mate John Millman but John is suffering from shin splints, so he opted not to play doubles. They were up against the pairing of 25 year-old Canadian Chris Klingeman and 23 year-old Kiwi Michael Venus.Greg and Witten were in total charge to start with, cruising the first set 6-0, and then lead 2-0 in the second set. Serving at 0-15, Witten served three double faults to lose his serve and then hardly hit a ball in court after that, losing the second set 3-6.
Witten then steadied himself, regained his composure and with Greg continuing to fire, they managed to re-assert their dominance and got through the match-tie break, winning it 10-3, to squeeze through to the 2nd round.
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