Delray Beach ATP - Doubles Final : Auckland\Huss v Armando\Malisse

Drew · Feb 4, 2007

Delray Beach ATP - Doubles Final : Auckland\Huss v Armando\Malisse

Sheddie · administrator

Hopefully Blake can sufficiently tire out and demoralise Malisse

It's a winnable match for Aucks and Huss, would be really great if Aucks can get his first ATP title
Malisse is ranked 77 in doubles and has been in great form in singles and doubles so far this year. He won both titles in Chennai at the beginning of January (beating Nadal in straight sets in the singles semis) and he's made the singles final here aswell. Armando is ranked 126 in doubles and plays mainly on the US and South American challenger circuits, where he reached 5 finals in 2006. Before this tournament, he hadn't had the best start to the year but he and Malisse have definately combined well this week. In the quarters they knocked out 2nd seeds Butorac and Parrott; 6-4, 7-6 and in the semis they beat 3rd seeds Kubot and Pavel; 10-8 in a champions tiebreak.

I believe that the last British player to win an ATP doubles title was Tim Henman who won Monte Carlo in 2004 with some Serbian dude.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tim and Zimonjic were the last ones.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

who was it before that?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Not sure. Maybe Henman and Oliver Delaitre in Monte Carlo in 1999?

Or did some win one in between?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Did Neil Broad ever win an ATP tournament?

Salmon · Tennis legend

http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/players/playerprofiles/titles.asp?playernumber=B075

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

The Blake v Malisse match has been rained off in the middle of the third game; goodness know when the doubles will get started.

Sheddie · administrator

Arka wrote:

Not sure. Maybe Henman and Oliver Delaitre in Monte Carlo in 1999?

Or did some win one in between?

No one won one between then and 2004. The closest was Henman who made the Rotterdam doubles final in 2000 aswell as the singles final.

I didn't realise quite how illustrious Neil Broad's career was until recently. He made the doubles top 10, won an Olympic silver medal with Henman in Atlanta and reached the doubles finals of tournaments like Hamburg, Rotterdam, Queens, Basel, Cincinnati and Barcelona.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Madeline wrote:

The Blake v Malisse match has been rained off in the middle of the third game; goodness know when the doubles will get started.

It's back on again now. Blake won the first set 7-5 but Malisse is 2-1 (with a break) up in the second so could be a while before the doubles!

-- Edited by Sally at 20:27, 2007-02-04

Sheddie · administrator

Good good, Malisse is a fit guy so it'll need at least 3 sets to tire him out, preferably a long 3 setter.

Blake also needs to win to make sure he's suitably demoralised

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 20:33, 2007-02-04

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

ultimateshedman wrote:

Good good, Malisse is a fit guy so it'll need at least 3 sets to tire him out, preferably a long 3 setter.

Blake also needs to win to make sure he's suitably demoralised

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 20:33, 2007-02-04

Blake broke back and now leads 3-2 so it might not go to three but Blake might well win now.

davidB · Junior player

The rain delays are messing everything up... I need Auckland's match to start soon! I got a superbowl to watch... ;)

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I'm confused

. Just got back to the computer after ironing, the Blake/Malisse match has vanished from the live scoreboard, but the result is not on the result section. Has it finished? Who won if so? And have we any idea when the doubles will start?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Arka wrote:

http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/players/playerprofiles/titles.asp?playernumber=B075

SO Broads last title was 1998. Reason I was asking about Broad is he will have been our last doubles specialist to have won, like Aucks is. It'll be 9 years since a British doubles specialist won a tournament at ATP level IF Aucks can win tonight!