Week 24 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Eastbourne - Doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - ATP 250 - AEGON Championships, Eastbourne - Doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Not to be: Jamie & Stakh lose the MTB by 11-13. cry

DavidC · Tennis legend

Colin & Ross play their QF fifth match tomorrow on centre (after Nishikori-Schuettler)

daisy · County player

Stircrazy wrote:
Not to be: Jamie & Stakh lose the MTB by 11-13.

Too many R1 losses over the last 7/8 weeks for Jamie, he's clocking up 0 pointers but really needs to be earnng points ahead of the autumn.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Looks as though Colin & Ross are heading for the exit door: 4-6 2-3*. cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Somehow they've clawed their way back into it: 6-5* in the second - after almost be broken again in the eleventh game!

Ballavong · Lower Club Player

They had 2 match points against them too! Major turnaround!!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And they take the second set by 7-5 to level the match! smile Lottery time! I'll keep on ing! It seems to work! wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 16th of June 2011 02:24:13 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Yes!!! As Ballavong rightly says, a major turn-round: they take the MTB by 12-10! biggrin

Shhh · Challenger level

4-6 4-5 15-40* down and they come back to break serve, into a MTB and win the match. Great stuff!

Ballavong · Lower Club Player

THEY WON!!! YAY!!!

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes ! 4 - 6 7 - 5 ( 12 - 10 )

They sure are liking these MTBs wink

Each pair 50 / 76 on service, 26 / 76 on return, 76 / 152 points overall, but only one winner.

Actually still got to score more points than their opponents this week but that ain't the point.

Ballavong · Lower Club Player

Dmitrov and Seppi next so a good chance to make the final (I hope!)

Especially as they both still have to play their singles today

-- Edited by Ballavong on Thursday 16th of June 2011 02:44:54 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And here's a bit of a turn-up for the books:

SF: Grigor Dimitrov & Andreas Seppi (BUL/ITA)* vs (WC) Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins

*Dimitrov & Seppi took out the top seeds (& fifth best doubles team in the world at the moment), Bops & Qureshi, by 5 & 3 in their QF, so Colin & Ross will have to be on their mettle tomorrow!

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
And here's a bit of a turn-up for the books:
SF: Grigor Dimitrov & Andreas Seppi (BUL/ITA)* vs (WC) Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins
*Dimitrov & Seppi took out the top seeds (& fifth best doubles team in the world at the moment), Bops & Qureshi, by 5 & 3 in their QF, so Colin & Ross will have to be on their mettle tomorrow!

Ah, so that's what happened to the top seeds - on the ATP site it shows their R1 match not having been played let alone the R2 match v Dimi & Seppi, with neither of those matches on today's OoP either.

They must surely look on this as a great chance to reach an ATP Final. The semi is actually scheduled for later today, weather permitting, by which time Dimi will have played singles v Tipsy or Kuku as well.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 16th of June 2011 02:52:46 PM