Rifles?

ForeverDelayed wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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For the first time for God knows how long (though I've no doubt someone will put me wise, sooner or later!  ), we have a Briton seeded for the men's doubles in SW 19:  take a bow, Jamie Murray & Max Mirnyi (surprise, surprise!), who enter the lists at N° 14.   Fingers firmly crossed for them & the five all-British WC pairs, Aucks & Delgo, Bamfs & Goody, Bloomers & Skups, Boggo & Jonny Marray & last, but not least, Chris Eaton & Slabba.

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And to Ross Hutchins and Stephen Huss who also made the cut and so didn't need a WC.

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Oops!  Completely forgot about those two!  That was unforgivable of me!   Quite a decent little contingent, all things considered!


-- Edited by Stircrazy at 14:59, 2008-06-18

Count Zero wrote:

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when do we find out the XD? i wodner who jamie will team up. also i wonder fi boggo and mel will renew their partnership after last years success.

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From the site:

Please check back the week of 27 June for the Mixed Doubles draw.

* Bit of an odd statement, given that 27th June is a Friday! Still, after the shambles surrounding the awarding of the wild cards, I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised!

**  I posted this extract from an article in last Friday's Times, giving a few thoughts on Jamie's strengths from a potential mixed doubles partner (& someone who presumably knows what she's talking about!  ), on the Queen's doubles thread:

Liezel Huber, a strong favourite for the doubles title [at the DFS Classic in Edgbaston] with Cara Black, said that she was expecting to partner Jamie Murray in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon after Jelena Jankovic, from Serbia, revealed that she was not prepared to risk her fitness to defend the title with Murray. Huber, the 31-year-old who was born in South Africa, but is now a United States citizen, teamed up with Murray to reach the semi-finals at last year's US Open. "I assumed we'd play the whole year because you need to build up a relationship and grass is a good surface for us, but I expect more from him than what he's achieved," she said. "We can win Wimbledon, but we'll have to work hard for every match. Some of his winners are incredible and he has a great serve, although he can be a bit too nice with the lady on the other side - he needs to crush them."

Bob Bryan USA (1)
Mike Bryan USA (1)
v
Chris Eaton GBR
Alexander Slabinsky GBR

Richard Bloomfield GBR
Kenneth Skupski GBR
v
Frantisek Cermak CZE (13)
Jordan Kerr AUS (13)

Neil Bamford GBR
Joshua Goodall GBR
v
Rik De Voest RSA
Lukasz Kubot POL

James Auckland GBR
Jamie Delgado GBR
v
Lukas Dlouhy CZE (9)
Leander Paes IND (9

KJ Hippensteel USA
Tripp Phillips USA
v
Stephen Huss AUS
Ross Hutchins GBR

Max Mirnyi BLR (14)
Jamie Murray GBR (14)
v
Marc Gicquel FRA
Fabrice Santoro FRA

Alex Bogdanovic GBR
Jonathan Marray GBR
v
Daniel Nestor CAN (2)
Nenad Zimonjic SRB (2)

Good draws for Hutch, as well as Goodall & Bamford, but bad draws for the rest. Hopefully Jamie can complete a Murray double over Santoro.

Third set won 7-5.

And H&H eventually wrap it up in four, 6-3 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2!   Still unclear whether they will face Lipsky & Martin or the third seeds, Erlich & Ram, in the next round, as their match is poised at 5-7 4-6 6-3 6-3 8-8!