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Week 1 - Challenger (100k+H) - Sao Paulo, Brazil (hard)


Julio Silva was top 150 I think once but never heard of any doubles exploits.....interesting decision to go here...in South America, altitude, heat and biased line judges/umpires always make it tough but looks like Jamie was in fine form in the singles

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Del's partner Soares is ranked 193 in doubles with a career high of 109 in 2004, the year Arvind Parmar beat him in US Open QR1 in singles. He won Challengers in Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia last year, 2 on clay, 1 on hard, all with different partners.

Funnily enough, Jamie has been on a doubles court with Soares before, on another jaunt to South America in 2000, when Del & Martin Lee beat Soares and Ivo Karlovic (yes, that Ivo Karlovic!) 4 & 2 in R1 of the Belo Horizonte Challenger. The Brits eventually reached the Final of that event, losing to the no. 1 seeds.

Just for the record, Del was seeded no. 2 in singles in that Challenger but lost to an unseeded Numpty (yes, I do mean David Nalbandian) in R2 - Numpty eventually went out in the semis to Bash-a-lot, who had edged out Martin in the QFs 8-6 in the final set tiebreak and went on to lose the Final to Karlovic's R1 conqueror Nenad Zimonjic.

Ah, those were the days! LOL

Silva is top 200 in singles but has a less impressive record in doubles.

-- Edited by steven at 23:34, 2007-12-30

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wow, how long did it take you to find all that stuff biggrin.gif

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2 or 3 minutes - I just edited it to add a bit more too.

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johnnylad wrote:

Jamie and Bruno are 4th seeds.



They are successfully through to the next round, clap.gif having beaten Silva and Simoni 7-6 (3) 6-2. Slow start but fast finish. thumbsup.gif

Happy New Year all.biggrin

-- Edited by helki at 10:29, 2008-01-01

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First 19 points of the year for Jamie! Notice that Soares qualified for the singles main draw so must be in pretty good form too!

Good for Jamie to have a Brazialian on his team in Sau Paulo as well I guess!

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Well done Delgado. Great to see him playing doubles now turned 30 and having success.


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Jamie and Bruno play Alves and Berlocq. Both higher ranked in singles but don't seem to play as much doubles.

(q)Thiago Alves (BRA) d. (q)Bruno Soares (BRA) 6-3 7-5 in MDR2.

So Alves has beaten Jamie and Bruno this week, but can he beat Jamie and Bruno together! laughing.gif

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johnnylad wrote:

Jamie and Bruno play Alves and Berlocq. Both higher ranked in singles but don't seem to play as much doubles.

(q)Thiago Alves (BRA) d. (q)Bruno Soares (BRA) 6-3 7-5 in MDR2.

So Alves has beaten Jamie and Bruno this week, but can he beat Jamie and Bruno together! laughing.gif



Apparently not!  Jamie & Bruno didn't have it all their own way by any stretch of the imagination, but they eventually got the better of him & Bellocq, 6-7(4) 6-1 [10-2]! clap.gif  They obviously improved as they went along! biggrin thumbsup.gif  Their SF opponents, in the 4th & final match on the cente court tomorrow (with the second of those four kicking off not before 15.00 GMT), will be the unseeded Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) & the other Delgado, Ramón (PAR), who earlier today saw off the second seeds, Frank Moser & Martín Vilarrubi (GER/URU), 2 & 3.  Bellucci & Delgado, on that evidence, are obviously no slouches, but Delgo & partner must surely be in with a chance of making the final! smile pray.gifplease.gif



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Delgy! Well done sir. That is 36 points so far.

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w00t.gif With so little to defend until April I hope Jamie will be top 100 by then!

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excellent resultclap.gifclap.gif

I second that hope Johnnylad.

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Thank goodness someone found this result. clap.gif I searched high and low for it last evening to no avail. Well done Delgo and Soares, handshake.gif now for a place in the final.



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Live scores here. http://www.abertosp.com.br/. Click on 'placar on line'. Singles match (just started) and a doubles match to go before Jamie starts.

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[Our] Delgado and Soares won 6-4, 6-4! They face the top seeds Brian Dabul and Horacio Zeballos in the final. They have 56 points so far, 80 is they win.

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