Week 44 - ATP Masters 1000 - BNP Paribas Masters - Paris (indoor hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - ATP Masters 1000 - BNP Paribas Masters - Paris (indoor hard) - doubles

seagull · Hall of fame

And early break 2-0

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Looking quite promising - early break in the second: 3-0*. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Easy peasy! biggrin

R1: Paul Hanley (AUS) & Jonny Marray defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber & Florian Mayer (GER/GER) by 5 & 1

*****

And now the acid test:

R2: (1) Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (USA/USA) vs Paul Hanley (AUS) & Jonny Marray

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
R2: (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski (POL/POL) vs Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins

So far, so good: first set in the bag by 6-3. smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Not so good in the second: broken in the sixth game. cry 2-4*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Not so good in the second: broken in the sixth game. 2-4*

But they recover it immediately: *3-4. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

But they still manage to lose it by 6-3! disbelief Squeaky-bum time...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bugger!

R2: (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski (POL/POL) defeated Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins by 3-6 6-3 [10-5] cry

seagull · Hall of fame

I see in the Mail today that Nielsen/Marray wont be together in 2013 as Neilsen wants to concentrate on singles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
I see in the Mail today that Nielsen/Marray wont be together in 2013 as Neilsen wants to concentrate on singles

That was covered in an interview with him in The Sunday Times at the weekend. He's apparently advertised for a permanent partner for next year in the "players only" section of the ATP site.

Mikeduke · County player

Stircrazy wrote:

And now the acid test:
R2: (1) Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (USA/USA) vs Paul Hanley (AUS) & Jonny Marray

On court now and off to a decent start

2-1*

Mikeduke · County player

Jonny and Paul break to take the first set 6-4

Miriambee · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:
seagull wrote:
I see in the Mail today that Nielsen/Marray wont be together in 2013 as Neilsen wants to concentrate on singles
That was covered in an interview with him in The Sunday Times at the weekend. He's apparently advertised for a permanent partner for next year in the "players only" section of the ATP site.

I wonder if Jamie M will apply!

indiana · Tennis legend

Wimbledon doubles champion seeks doubles partner, I like it smile

I had thought of Jamie, but that word "permanent" hmm ...though to be fair he does currently seem in quite a long term relationship for him.