Week 31: Olympic tennis - Wimbledon (grass ;) ) - doubles

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31: Olympic tennis - Wimbledon (grass ;) ) - doubles

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Surely Andy and Robson, Hev and Hutchins?

SMC1809 · All-time great

Don't know if Andy will want to bother with mixed, but surely Colin & Ross would jump at the chance I would imagine.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Well the singles is only best of three sets, so maybe, and he's played with Robbo before albeit a long time ago.

daisy · County player

Mixed Doubles

Someone on AMFF asked why Jamie Murray wasn't entering for the Mixed Doubles. In giving the answer I looked up the ITF criteria for this event so will copy in below.

It's only a 16-team draw and there are likely to be higher ranked players/potential teams fighting for places. Jamie doesn't meet the ITF criteria so he can't be on the entry list.

GBR can only nominate 2 men and 2 women and it's by ranking on 11th June (see below for ITF Rules). Colin Fleming (D#30) and Ross Hutchins (D#31) would be ahead of Jamie (D#35) for consideration; as would Andy with his #4 singles ranking at that date IF he wanted to be involved. (personally I'd rather Andy concentrated on the Singles).

From various pages of the ITF Rules for the Olympics Mixed Doubles Tennis event:-

Draw of sixteen teams, both players from the same country and not more than two teams from any one country comprising: 12 Direct Acceptances and 4 ITF Places.

Four (4) ITF Places shall be selected for the mixed doubles event. Selection will be based on the recognised international computer rankings and geographical location.

The ITF will select doubles teams for direct acceptance from mixed doubles entries comprising players accepted in the singles and/or mens/womens doubles events, received from National Associations no later than Tuesday 31 July 2012 at 11.00, taking into account the recognised international singles and doubles computer rankings of 11 June 2012.

A maximum of two (2) men and two (2) women may compete as teams in the mixed doubles.

It's possible that GBR might not have a team in the Mixed Doubles event at all (unless we're given an ITF place) because there may well be a lot of higher ranked 'team' combinations from other countries using their best singles and doubles players.

-- Edited by daisy on Sunday 29th of July 2012 12:05:21 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
R1: Julien Benneteau & Richard Gasquet (FRA) beat Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins 7-5 6-3
R1: Jürgen Melzer & Alexander Peya (AUT) beat Andy Murray & Jamie Murray 5-7 7-6(6) 7-5

I don't know why I bother... disbelief