Weeks 35 and 36 - US Open Men's Doubles

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 35 and 36 - US Open Men's Doubles

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

On the upside it keeps Dodiq away from the clay a while longer and hopefully might give Dan an advantage on day 1 in umag

indiana · Tennis legend

...if Dan is playing on Day 1.

Spectator · All-time great

Sorry about that loss. Keenly aware that a SF place for either Murray/Peers or Inglot/Huey would have put them in a reasonable space potentially to contend for an alternates position in the year end championships. But one can only rejoice in three teams that made it to the QFs, all exceeding their seeding (where relevant) in the process. Brilliant results, and a terrific base for future work.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Wow! The Bryans dumped out at the semi-final stage by the fourth seeds, Leander Paes & Ugly Mug (6-3 3-6 4-6)! disbelief

Now for the main course of the day... *rubs hands*

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 5th of September 2013 06:11:05 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

Rather pleased to see that doubles result.

Spectator · All-time great

We'll have to disagree on that one. The Bryans work tirelessly to promote doubles and tennis in general, and are - by all accounts - very good colleagues and well liked on the Tour. A calendar-year Slam would have been good for them and good for tennis generally. By contrast, after Mr Paes' behaviour vis a vis the Olympics last year, he's not really a favourite in this corner. Had the Bryans gone down to Marray and Fleming (not only a GB pairing, but also another set of good colleagues and good ambassadors for tennis) that would have been different ....

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, I agree, Spectator.

After the career the Bryans have had, a calendar year Grand Slam ( THE GRAND SLAM ) would have been a tremendous and appropriate reward.

Pity, but well done Paes and Stepanek.

Spectator · All-time great

Take a look at the Bryans' press conference: www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2013-09-05/201309051378409436179.html They are, for want of a better term, a class act.

steven · Tennis legend

Colin's run to the QFs here has taken him into the top 20 for the first time

- up 4 at 17

Our other quarter-finalists also rise, though not to new career highs:

Jonny up 4 to 27
Dom up 5 to 33
Jamie up 16 to 39

... and all 3 pairs are now in the top 17 of the Race to the WTF:

14 Dom & Treat
16 Jamie & John
17 Colin & Jonny

Spectator · All-time great

Very well done to them all. Super stuff! Also noticed that barring the final (in which Peya was playing with an injury), Mr Murray and Mr Peers pushed the second seeds harder than any other pairing had.

If they do very, very well in the post-USO swing, do Messrs Inglot and Huey have any chance at the alternates role?

steven · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Very well done to them all. Super stuff! Also noticed that barring the final (in which Peya was playing with an injury), Mr Murray and Mr Peers pushed the second seeds harder than any other pairing had.

If they do very, very well in the post-USO swing, do Messrs Inglot and Huey have any chance at the alternates role?

They've got 1470 points at the moment and the teams ranked 8, 9 and 10 have 2250, 2220 and 2030 respectively (and are unlikely to stand still between now and early November) so it's highly unlikely - they'd need something like a Masters title or a couple of Masters finals or a Masters final and an ATP 500 title.

Spectator · All-time great

Thanks, Steven.