Weeks 10/11 - ATP 1000 series: Indian Wells (hard) - doubles

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Weeks 10/11 - ATP 1000 series: Indian Wells (hard) - doubles

seagull · Hall of fame

Said on 5Live this morning that Jamie served 4 DF's in a row!!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

yeah i heard that too. that's pretty painful. just go underarm man.

indiana · Tennis legend

Josh wrote:

Disaster, they lost 7-6 3-6 8-10

I think those couple of wins might take Andy ahead of Fleming and not far behind Hutchins to GB no.4 in the doubles but someone might want to confirm that.

Andy doesn't quite go ahead of Fleming with the Hutchins / Fleming QF place in their Challenger in China just keeping Colin as 4th Brit.

1. Murray J       1685
2. Skupski        1212
3. Hutchins      1015
4. Fleming          974
5. Murray A        970

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

only just found out that those 4 doubles came at 3*-0 40-0 in the second, hard to take

-- Edited by Tennis36 on Thursday 17th of March 2011 12:48:48 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Tennis36 wrote:

only just found out that those 4 doubles came at 3*-0 40-0 in the second, hard to take

-- Edited by Tennis36 on Thursday 17th of March 2011 12:48:48 PM

Wow, particularly for Jamie himself for whom the doubles and the rankings points that come here mean so much more.

You had to think the match almost looked won in the 2nd set and again in the MTB disbelief

indiana · Tennis legend

Well, Dolgopolv and Malisse just went and won the whole blooming thing, beating Fed and Stan in the final 6 - 4 6 - 7 (5) 10 - 7

They do quite like their MTBs, winning by that method in all 5 of their matces, successively 10 - 8 10 - 7 10 - 8 10 - 8 and 10 - 7

Murray Bros of course were up 6 - 1 and 8 - 4 on them before losing 8 - 10.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Sky yesterday replayed a point from the final which would probably make the final shortlist for point of the year if there was one.

wolf · Tennis legend

What this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHfYc5xkJSg&feature=player_embedded

It was a decent point but hardly one of the best of the year.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Yes it was, not that impressed then, seeing as I don't watch alot of doubles it looked good to me at the time.

wolf · Tennis legend

The only really good shot was from Dolgo and the winning shot was set up by a net cord.

Obviously IMO though.

philwrig · Hall of fame

To me the doubles last week was one of the highlights of the tournament as all the top singles players were taking part and more importantly taking it seriously. All the so called doubles specialists were wiped out and the quality of the tennis was higher IMO. This point I think summed up the high quality of the weeks action. The rally wasn't particularly long but each shot was hit with a pureness( perfect timing and power) that doubles specialists could only dream of.

wolf · Tennis legend

There was what two matches televised?

Pairs with just doubles specialists were 5-5 with pairs with two singles players in....

philwrig · Hall of fame

None of the top 4 doubles teams made it past the second round.
Three out of the four semifinalists contained specialist singles players and the final was all specialists singles players.
I agree it wasn't a complete whitewash but it certainly wasn't 50/50 either.
I think it is fair to say that doubles players would be singles players if they were good enough.
People tweeting from the venue left you with the impression that there was a buzz about the doubles this year because the top singles players were making such a big impact.

wolf · Tennis legend

All the above statements are true.

Lets see what happens in Miami. smile