Week 40 - Commonwealth Games, Delhi, India

Tim · Intermediate Club Player

RE: Week 40 - Commonwealth Games, Delhi, India

steven · Tennis legend

Sounds like Flembo & Joss gave (2) Mirza & Paes a big battle but eventually went down.

Ross Hutchins: "Sitting on court 1 watching an Indian pair playing vs Scots..crowd r going WILD!!Can't believe it..chants of 'INDIA..INDIA!!' Over and over"

Some random CWG watcher: "#Sania has won her doubles tennis match against SCO. What a turnaround!"

Scrap that - it may have been Rae/Brown that Sania beat in the women's doubles .... I'll try to find out!

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 01:54:32 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Just worked out that it's Scotland v India in men's women's and mixed doubles ... no wonder it's confusing.

Looks like Ross is watching Flembo/Murray take on (2) Boppy/Devvy and it was Rae/Brown who pushed (4) Mirza/Chakravarthi so close before going out - quite an effort if so.

steven · Tennis legend

The men's QF line-up is now complete:

No-GB: (1) Somdev Devvarman (IND) WR 97 v (6) Rubin Statham (NZL) WR 353
QF: (7) Josh Goodall (ENG) WR 395 v (3) Matt Ebden (AUS) WR 165
QF: (4) James Ward (ENG) WR 227 v (5) Greg Jones (AUS) WR 234
QF: (8) Josh Milton (WAL) WR 400 v (2) Peter Luczak (AUS) WR 133

Three tests to decide the tennis 'Ashes' then!

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 02:12:52 PM

wales1994 · Club Coach

Come on Josh, do it for Wales ;)

mjd · Challenger qualifying

So Singles has gone exactly according to seeding thus far then !

steven · Tennis legend

mjd wrote:

So Singles has gone exactly according to seeding thus far then !

Not just men's singles:

All 8 seeds made the QFs in men's singles.

7 seeds made the QFs in women's singles - the one who didn't (Katie) is thought to be carrying an injury.

All 4 seeds are still in the men's doubles - 1 already in SFs, 3 waiting to play QFs.

All 4 seeds are still in the women's doubles - 3 already in SFs, 1 waiting to play QFs.

All 4 seeds are still in the mixed doubles - 3 already in SFs, 1 waiting to play QFs.

I hope it gets a bit more interesting from now on, not least because the no. 1 seeds in all 5 competitions are either Aussies or Indians!

wolf · Tennis legend

Borwell/Skupski beat Watson/Ogier 6-0 6-1 and are now in the SF's
Fleming/Murray lost to Bopanna/Devvarman 6-3 6-1 in the QF's
Smith/Hutchins beat Sri Lankans 6-2 6-2 and are in the SF's
Lewis/Milton lost in 2 in the QF's to Hanley/Luczak

wolf · Tennis legend

Steven, can you give us a full results update of all the matches involving Brits so far in all 5 comps? I bet if you didn't spend your day rambling on twitter, you would have done this already.

The coverage of this has been a joke, and I'm a bit lost. Website is crap, and the BBC seem more interested in showing bowls than tennis.

clayfan · Lower Club Player

This is a really strange tournament. Cananda and South Africa did not even bother to send out a tennis team. Many big names are missing. I am pleasently surprised that some reasonable players took the time off to compete.

Tennis, in common with the badminton and table tennis, have has shown a huge gap between the best and the rest. Unlike the olympics there is no qualifying standard for many sports. Small nations, have sent their amateur players to play along side the big boys and girls. It can't be much fun to be hit off the court! But I supposed just being here is publicising countries few have heard of.

I got the feeling Scotland had given up on singles when Jos did not enter. They put their effort into the doubles understandably. However the draws have been bad, especially men's doubles with a poor result for Flemurray against the Indian pair. Perhaps Colin should have played on in singles! The girls went out 6-1 7-6 to Chakravarthi/Mirza. Only Rae/Fleming left in mixed to be played tomorrow.

I think Luczak will win gold, Devvarman silver and Ward the bronze. Yoshi might just miss out, although I am looking forward to seeing the new leaner, fitter version he describes!

For the girls, Rodionova for gold(sorry Heather!) Rogowska the silver, and Mirza the bronze.

In MD the Indian pairs for gold and silver with Hutchins/Skupski fighting it out with Hanley/Luczak for bronze.

In WD Peers/Rodionova for gold, Borwell/Smith for silver, Moore/Rogowska for bronze.

In XD Mirza/Paes for gold, Rodionova/Hanley silver and Smith/Hutchins the bronze.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

The coverage of this has been a joke, and I'm a bit lost. Website is crap, and the BBC seem more interested in showing bowls than tennis.

Couldn't agree more, wolf. disbelief

Smidster · Challenger level

Although in fairness up to now the bowls has probably been more competitive than the tennis

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

Borwell/Skupski beat Watson/Ogier 6-0 6-1 and are now in the SF's

where they play the Aussie top seeds, Paul Hanley & Anastasia Rodionova. Should be a good match. On the face of it, Sarah & Ken, as seasoned doubles players, could perhaps just have the edge (no idea what kind of record Rodionova has...)?

wolf · Tennis legend

Full results finally up - http://www.itftennis.com/abouttheitf/news/newsarticle.asp?articleid=21839

Still no coverage scheduled for tomorrow on the BBC.

wolf · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

(no idea what kind of record Rodionova has...)?

If she put as much as effort into her tennis as she does complaining to the umpire every other point she would be a world beater.