Pacheco and Mejia retire on first day of doubles draw
- Mexico’s Rodrigo Pacheco and Colombia’s Nicolas Mejia withdrew after a blow suffered by the second Australians Duckworth and Walton eliminated third seeds Lammons and Withrow.
Los Cabos, July 14, 2025.- Out of 16 starting pairs, two of them retired on the first day of the ninth edition of the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo. The Grandstand activity opened with the duel between the Australian duo of James Duckworth and Adam Walton against the Americans Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow, third seeds.
Lammons and Withrow started as favorites against two singles specialists. Although the first set ended up being a battle that had to be decided in a tie break after being equal in most of the statistics, the key for the second set was that the Australians were superior in their serve.
The Americans were unable to break their opponents’ serve and in one hour and 26 minutes the match was decided 7-6(5), 6-3, so now Duckworth and Walton will face the winner of the match between the British Joshua Paris and the Japanese Takeru Yuzuki against the Australians Blake Bayldon and Tristan Schoolkate.
Mexican Rodrigo Pacheco and Colombian Nicolas Mejia arrived in the second set as a duo. In the first set they seemed to be completely dominated by the fourth seeded couple of the ATP 250 in Los Cabos, Australians Matthew Ebden and John Peers, because until the fifth game they managed to get in tune to take a 4-1 lead. They were on the rise, however they were unable to break their opponents’ serve to finish 6-4.
As the second set started once again favorably for the Australians (2-0), Mejia suffered a fall and a blow to the head, so the pair had to retire from the match.
Doubles matches on July 15
N. Kaliyanda Poonacha/J. Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs C. Harrison/R. Ram (USA)
J. Paris (GBR) /T. Yuzuki (JPN) vs
B. Bayldon/T. Schoolkate (AUS)