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Both pairings were given a huge ovation by an enthralled crowd on court two, who were sad to see the Murray and Williams partnership end but delighted for their inspired opponents. After they came through in three sets in their first-round match under the Court One roof, most fans on court two on Sunday might have expected them to see off O'Mara and Barnett, but the Britons rose to the occasion.
With the attention on their opponents, it was O'Mara and Barnett who first threatened to break when Murray was serving but after that chance was saved, the Scot and 42-year-old Williams struck in the eighth game, with a Murray ace then sealing the set.Fantastic scrambling and retrieving from Williams along the baseline helped them get another break in the second set but, from 4-2, O'Mara and Barnett won four games in a row to level the match.
Into the first-to-10 tie-break, Scot O'Mara and England's Barnett raced to a 5-1 lead but Murray and Williams then won five points in a row. The British pairing came again with a Barnett volley bringing up two match points for them at 9-7, but a stunning exchange of volleys at the net eventually went Murray's way to help level it up again.
Eventually, Murray volleyed into the net to hand O'Mara and Barnett victory, the crowd rising to their feet and giving both pairings a huge ovation for the two hours and 12 minutes of superb entertainment.Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram fought back from a set down to move into the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at Wimbledon.
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