Weeks 21-22 - French Open: mixed doubles

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RE: Weeks 21-22 - French Open: mixed doubles

steven · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
steven wrote:
(or in other words, I'm as cynical as Ratty when it comes to assessing the comedy value of Bahrami and his mates )
You miserable bugger
In fairness I see your point, their routine does get old after a while but I think you miss the point. The crowds seem to enjoy watching it and as long as that remains the case I am all for it.

LOL true, I'm not against them putting these matches on if the crowds enjoy them. It does remind me of Shakespeare plays at the Barbican though, where you can tell by the timing that half the audience is waiting to laugh at the 'jokes' to show that they've read or seen the play enough to be clever enough to have worked out where they're supposed to be rather than because they're at all funny.

Cynics R us wink

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Jamie and Nadia came from a break down but lost the first set on the tie breaker.

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Second set going better 6-7, *3-2

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The were broken in game 8 but are now serving for the set at *6-5

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Unfortunately Petrova was again broken and they lost the tie break

6-7, 6-7

Ratty · County player

Shame I missed Bahrami v Leconte ...

Gotta be careful what I say, but (while I like doubles about as much as I like Formula 1) I was merely making an Economics point, on the theme of "there is no such thing as a free lunch". In other words, effort generally matches reward.

Pro tennis doubles is one of those interesting exceptions to this usually reliable rule, because the rewards are greater than what one might expect from the ability of the players. And they can carry on earning a lot longer than singles players - for example, 9 of the top 10 players are over 30, and Nestor at no 3 is 38.