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
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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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!
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]! They obviously improved as they went along! 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!
Thank goodness someone found this result. I searched high and low for it last evening to no avail. Well done Delgo and Soares, now for a place in the final.
[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.