I'm guessing, but maybe to ease the strain on the players & thus to encourage them to participate? Most, if not in fact all, of them are also involved in the men's & women's doubles & quite a few in their respective singles competitions as well...
Great results, Hutch in particular. Didn't see this coming at all, the first round win that is, never mind the second round!
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It'll probably be tomorrow at the earliest before we know whom [Hutch & Huss will] face in the last 16 (Cermak & Kerr, the 13th seeds, or Kunitsyn & Tursunov), as both pairs only won their R1 matches earlier today.
It'll probably be tomorrow at the earliest before we know whom [Hutch & Huss will] face in the last 16 (Cermak & Kerr, the 13th seeds, or Kunitsyn & Tursunov), as both pairs only won their R1 matches earlier today.
Second match on Court 17 tomorrow...
And 'twill be K & T, who saw off the 13th seeds by 3 & 2!
* The seeded pairs are dropping like flies in the men's. The only ones now left standing are the 1st (the Bryans), the 2nd (Nestor & Zimonjic), the 5th (Aspelin & Knowle) & the 8th (Björkman & Ullyett)! Interestingly, the unseeded Pablo Cuevas & Luís Horna (URU/PER) are going like a train in the top half of the draw: so far they've seen off the 7th seeds (Clément & Llodra), Lindstedt & Nieminen & the 9th seeds (Dlouhy & Paes), all fairly easily in straight sets (5 & 4, 4 & 1 & 4 & 4 respectively)! They take on the Bryans in the QFs & I wouldn't bet against them...
Stircrazy wrote: * The seeded pairs are dropping like flies in the men's. The only ones now left standing are the 1st (the Bryans), the 2nd (Nestor & Zimonjic), the 5th (Aspelin & Knowle) & the 8th (Björkman & Ullyett)! Interestingly, the unseeded Pablo Cuevas & Luís Horna (URU/PER) are going like a train in the top half of the draw: so far they've seen off the 7th seeds (Clément & Llodra), Lindstedt & Nieminen & the 9th seeds (Dlouhy & Paes), all fairly easily in straight sets (5 & 4, 4 & 1 & 4 & 4 respectively)! They take on the Bryans in the QFs & I wouldn't bet against them...
Now the third seeds, Erlich & Ram, have gone, beaten 4 & 4 by the alternates, Soares & Vemic (BRA/SRB)!
Do we dare hope the BBC will televise Ross' match? They can't give us any crap about it not being on a televised court, as Andy's match against Almagro was on the same court. I mean, look at the other options, two Russian women on the main court (who cares outside of Russia, really) and Gonzalez v Ginepri on the other court, which hardly sets the pulse racing.
Just seen that Knowles & Yan have given Murray & Huber a walkover into R3 of the mixed.
I.e. the QFs. So they have! Well spotted, wolfie! Let's hope they don't get too ring-rusty while they're waiting to find out whether they face Vladimira Uhlirova & Marcin Matkowski's partner, Mariusz Fyrstenberg, or the third seeds, Victoria Azarenka & Bob Bryan, there!