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ANOTHER ATP TITLE FOR FLEMING
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By Stuart Fraser
Monday 2^nd November 2009

COLIN FLEMING won his second ATP World Tour title yesterday at the St. Petersburg Open.

Broxburn-born Fleming and Liverpudlian Ken Skupski came back from a set down to beat French pair Jeremy Chardy and former World No.7 Richard Gasquet 2-6, 7-5, 10-4.

Fleming said: “They started the match a lot better than us. We hadn’t played against either of them before so we weren’t really sure how they were going to play, particularly in doubles. We’ve seen them play singles.

“But we stuck together as a team and we kept things simple in the second set and really stuck to the basics, which helped us stay in the match.  Then we got the belief from that and went on and played very well at the end.”

The victory is part of a remarkable season for the British pair who won their debut ATP title in Metz in September and will now climb further towards the top 50 in today’s world rankings.

A place for the Brits in the 2010 Australian Open is now almost assured and the pair are also widely tipped to represent their country in the next Davis Cup tie away to Lithuania next March.

Skupski said: “In the last few weeks we have had a lot of success on the ATP World Tour to help us out with our rankings.  Hopefully we can start next year in Australia now.”