Week 43 - ATP - Lyon

seagull · Hall of fame

Week 43 - ATP - Lyon

seagull · Hall of fame

They break for 5-4!!

seagull · Hall of fame

ARRGGHH 5-5!

seagull · Hall of fame

They break for 6-5!

seagull · Hall of fame

And get broken again and lose the tie-break...had enough chances

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

helki · Futures qualifying

I find this result very worrying. On paper Jamie and Kerr should have won with ease. Their combined ranking is 60 to the 121 of Kubot and Zovko. cry

Something has gone seriously wrong since the euphoria of Wimbledon and the early success of Booty and Stretch. ashamed

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

I think Jamie needs a regular partner. Someone he can practise with and get to know the game of. Part of what made Booty and Stretch (and the Murray bros though they didn't play so much together) a great team wasn't so much their ability (though that was good too) but the fact that they knew each other so well they instinctively knew what the other player was going to do and therefore could cover the whole court extremely well. Until you play repeatedly with someone and get to know their game I don't see how Jamie can have that with someone else, and therefore it doesn't surprise me that he's losing to lower ranked but more established teams.

wolf · Tennis legend

imoen wrote:
and therefore it doesn't surprise me that he's losing to lower ranked but more established teams.

This was the first tourney Zovko and Kubot have played together!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Really? I thought they'd been playing for a while, oops.

My point still stands - though perhaps not as effectively!!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Z & K make the final ousting Erlich and Ram, a very "established" team.

L Kubot (POL) / L Zovko (CRO) d [2] J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR) 76(4) 46 10-5