Week 31: ATP 500 - Citi Open, Washington DC (hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31: ATP 500 - Citi Open, Washington DC (hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Ken & Jamie break the fourth seeds to 30 in the eleventh game of the second set & will serve for the match: *6-5...

S&V · Club Coach

Nice one, keep it up!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
I think QF opponents are actually Drew Courtney and Steve Johnson, both recent American college graduates (and national champions, respectively, in doubles and singles), who beat Cerretani and Mayer.

You're quite right, Spectator. ashamed I misread my draw sheet. Thank you for pointing out to me so genteelly the error of my ways. Error duly rectified. wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 2nd of August 2012 07:40:24 PM

Spectator · All-time great

I think QF opponents are actually Drew Courtney and Steve Johnson, both recent American college graduates (and national champions, respectively, in doubles and singles), who beat Cerretani and Mayer.

To make matters more complex, when I was checking the records, I discovered that Farah was formerly Johnson's teammate, and Courtney in fact won the championships one year with Inglot (and would also, therefore, have been on the team with Huey). So it's really up to Delgado/Skupski to win in order to prevent the otherwise inevitable, but unfortunate situation in which former teammates would oppose each other.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jonny's really not getting the rub of the green, or rather the American hard courts, at the moment:

R1: (2) Robert Farah & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (COL/PAK) defeated Matt Ebden (AUS) & Jonny Marray by 6-2 4-6 [10-4] cry

It's so unfair! furious

******

QF: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs (2) Robert Farah & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (COL/PAK)

At least there'll be no divided loyalites there!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Wow:

QF: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot defeated (2) Robert Farah & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (COL/PAK) by 2 & 2! biggrin

Sadly:

QF: (WC) Drew Courtney & Steve Johnson (USA/USA) defeated (ALT) Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski by 7-6(5) 6-4 cry

So:

SF: (WC) Drew Courtney & Steve Johnson (USA/USA) vs Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot

Spectator · All-time great

Unfortunate for the losing pairs, but suspect it must have been like playing the Murrays at Wimbledon -- I get the impression from some tweets that for the University of Virginia players, this is their "home tournament." Or, as Ben Rothenberg put it,

"At least one Cavalier will be in doubles final at #CitiOpen. Treat Huey/Dom Inglot (both UVa) take on Courtney (UVa)/Johnson (USC) in semis. "

Indeed, it would also appear that Huey was born in Washington, and he plays World Team Tennis for the (undefeated) Washington team. From a British perspective, since all this benefits Dom Inglot, it's not a complete loss!