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Stircrazy


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Tough draws for both our representatives - & there's just no escaping one or other of "the bloody Poles" disbelief :

R1:  Liezel Huber (USA) & Colin Fleming vs (3) Maria Kirilenko & Daniel Nestor (RUS/CAN)

R1:  Abigail Spears & Mariusz Fyrstenberg (USA/POL) vs Shuai Peng (CHN) & Jamie Murray

I see JJ, the partner with whom Jamie won the Wimbledon mixed in 2007, has taken up with young Bernie Tomic this year!



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Well, at least Colin found himself an OK doubles partner  smile

Must have been close to being seeded.  In the current rankings, the 8th seed's ( Mattek-Sands & Tecau ) joint ranking total is 30, whilst Liezel & Colin's is 31 ( 1 + 30 ). Though Colin did move uo 3 places for this week, so probably slightly bigger difference the previous week.



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They gave it a go, but... cry

R1: Abigail Spears & Mariusz Fyrstenberg (USA/POL) defeated Shuai Peng (CHN) & Jamie Murray by 6-3 5-7 [10-5]



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Watched the match not because I was particularly interested in the result but just to see Jamie's level of play. It was mostly shoddy returning and middle of the box serving. He was the only one broken in the first set after Spears hit his serve for a return winner on break point.

Fyrstenberg was serving for the match at 5-4 second set and had 40-0 but they broke back. Went to sleep after that.

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wolf wrote:

Fyrstenberg was serving for the match at 5-4 second set and had 40-0 but they broke back. Went to sleep after that.

Who would dispute that this is the appropriate response to a doubles match?

I have a theory why they still have doubles, which is that it fills up all of the outside courts. Nobody actually watches, but it creates a buzz of activity - much better than acres of deserted space. 



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Well it was 4am in the morning. If it was a men's doubles I would have stayed, I just don't really care about the mixed.

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EDIT - Wrong thread



-- Edited by RJA on Saturday 21st of January 2012 10:21:25 AM

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The day on Rod Laver began with Maria Kirilenko retiring from her singles R3 match with Petra Kvitova when  6 - 0  1 - 0 down,  which I assume was far from unconnected with a change of opponent for Liezel and Colin to some familar doubles names.

R1:

Liezel Huber (USA) & Colin Fleming (GBR)  beat  Racquel Kop-Jones & Eric Butorac USA)   7 - 5   6 - 2   smile



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R2:  Vladimira Uhlirova & Scott Lipsky (CZE/USA) vs Liezel Huber (USA) & Colin Fleming



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R2: Liezel Huber (USA) & Colin Fleming beat Vladimira Uhlirova & Scott Lipsky (CZE/USA) 6-3, 6-2

QF: Liezel Huber (USA) & Colin Fleming v (6) Sania Mirza & Mahesh Bhupathi (IND/IND)

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Colin and Liezel's quarter final match is scheduled for the Rod Laver Arena following Djokovic vs Ferrer ( which is due off at 7.30 pm,  i.e. 8.30 am GMT )



-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 24th of January 2012 04:23:28 PM

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0-15

0-30

15-30

15-40

30-40

40-40

adv mirza/bupathi

5-3

 

15-0

30-0

40-0

5-4



-- Edited by murrayman650 on Wednesday 25th of January 2012 12:20:41 PM

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fleming/huber on in ten minutes



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Huber/fleming to serve

0-15

15-15

15-30

30-30

30-40

1-0

 

15-30

30-30

40-30

40-40

adv huber/fleming

1-1 (Break Back)

 

15-0

30-0

30-15

40-15

2-1

 



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0-15

15-30

30-30

30-40

40-40

adv Mirza/ Buhpathi

2-2

 

15-0

15-15

30-15

40-15

3-2



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