Week 6 - ATP 250 Series - South of France Open - Montpellier (indoor hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 6 - ATP 250 Series - South of France Open - Montpellier (indoor hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
And that's not even all of them. It's Murray (J) and John Peers v Junaid and Nieminen in R1 (at least if I read the draw correctly), and TCH and DI against the Ratiwatana brothers.

Isn't it lovely to have gone from a world in which we were lucky to see one Briton in a given ATP doubles tournament to a world in which there are six!

Whoops! You're quite right, Spectator. Dunno how I got that so wrong (I even double-checked the list of names - or thought I had...! ), except perhaps that I was getting carried away by the sight of so many Brits in the draw & successfully overlooked the elder Murray! ashamed Think I'd better edit my opening post right away...

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 2nd of February 2013 06:46:50 PM

Spectator · All-time great

And that's not even all of them. It's Murray (J) and John Peers v Junaid and Nieminen in R1 (at least if I read the draw correctly), and TCH and DI against the Ratiwatana brothers.

Isn't it lovely to have gone from a world in which we were lucky to see one Briton in a given ATP doubles tournament to a world in which there are six!

Spectator · All-time great

As a fellow doubles enthusiast, I can well understand getting carried away! It's quite amazing to see the level of success at present. Have you seen the Wawrinka/Chiudinelli v Rosol/Berdych match, by the way? Six hours and counting ....

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Thanks for that. I've now tuned it to it. By 'eck !!!!!!

Spectator · All-time great

Quite amazing, no? Can't exactly see Berdych turning up at Montpellier after all this. Especially if he then tries to play tomorrow.

If anyone reading this missed it (and reads German), there's a blow by blow from the Basler Zeitung at http://bazonline.ch/sport/tennis/WawrinkaChiudinelli-verlieren-historisches-Doppel/story/29928984. Sure there will be lots of other stories, too. The Swiss saved 12 match points before succumbing on Chiudinelli's double fault after 7 hours and 2 minutes.

indiana · Tennis legend

It's great to see. But I would trade in much of that doubles success and high rankings for much more singles success and some half decent rankings backup to Andy.

But hey we can rely on the LTA to continue to throw money at doubles players as against some promising singles players, who may gawd forbid be over age 21,

But of course the LTA feel that they have to keep flinging resources there to keep up the overall top 100 statistics no matter how relatively **** we may be at singles.

Please excuse my lack of enthusiasm compared to some of you guys and real questioning as to where the LTA is concentrating its resources.

Ratty · County player

indiana wrote:

But hey we can rely on the LTA to continue to throw money at doubles players as against some promising singles players, who may gawd forbid be over age 21,

But of course the LTA feel that they have to keep flinging resources there to keep up the overall top 100 statistics no matter how relatively **** we may be at singles.

It's perfectly logical. Fling loads of money and resources at something that nobody much cares about, and *Hey Presto!* you have instant success on the world stage.

(And, er ... isn't that what we did in the Olympics with Cycling, Rowing, Sailing and Horsey-crap?)

smile

wolf · Tennis legend

Delgado/Skupski win 7-5 5-7 [10-5] for their first win of the season, and revenge against the team that beat them in Chennai.

Murray/Peers are on after another doubles match, while Fleming/Marray are last on centre.

Both courts are streamed.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) defeated Rameez Junaid & Jarkko Nieminen (AUS/FIN) by 7-6(2) 6-2 smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
R1: (1) Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray vs (WC) Gaël Monfils & Josselin Ouanna (FRA/FRA)

The boys took the first set by 7-5, but conceded their opening service game in the second (no idea who's serving first): 7-5 1-2*.

daisy · County player

They just broke back, 2-2 on serve.
Jonny Maz is serving first in this set.
Am watching on Bet365
30-30

daisy · County player

Ooops. Jonny's serve broken again to 30.

wolf · Tennis legend

Frenchies break again, Ouanna has hit a lob winner to get both breaks.

7-5 2-3*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The boys recover the break in the fourth game of the second set, but concede another break in the very next game: 2-3*. cry