Week 41 - ATP Masters 1000 Series: Shanghai Rolex Masters (hard) - doubles

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 41 - ATP Masters 1000 Series: Shanghai Rolex Masters (hard) - doubles

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

i agree spectator but I wonder is it worth finishing the season out together and then Jonny having very little time to gel before the Aussie open. Although the have done reasonably well you do get the feeling the could do better and the chemistry that Colin and Ross had or even Jonny and Freddie is just not the same. I have wondered many time if Colin would have been better off with Rohan Boppana when he was avalible shortly after they won in marseile together which would have allowed jonny to find a permanent partner

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Spectator wrote:
And maybe a telephone call to Freddie?

That's not a bad idea.

Freddie didn't want to be permanent with Jonny to work on his singles, which has gone down not up (318>587) . His dubs ranking is now 43 - the lowest it's been since they won Wimby.

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

Jamie and John were a double break up but Jamie had his serve broken

DWH · Club Coach

They re-break and hold for 5-1.

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

Jamie and John break again then hold now 5-1

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

GSM 6-4 6-2

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Well, that looked, from the scores, like a 'walk in the park' against the No 7 seeds, though I'm sure it wasn't.

Brilliant

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

The way they are right now I think they can win this week and all their rivals from 8th to them are out

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

and the Daily Mail will be pleased (hum?) as they've just run their big article about Jamie being the New Murray for the O2 Masters . . .

DWH · Club Coach

Congrats to them. Good stuff. smile

So between them all they've been drawn against 5 teams above them in the race and taken out 4. Not bad.

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

QF Jamie Murray & John Peers CR 66 vs Robert Lindstedt & Vasek Pospisil CR 60

john · Top national player

Tough match, Pospisil in unreal form

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

A couple of excellent results to see when I was finally to log on this morning. Well done to Dom & TCH & Jamie & John. Commiserations to Colin & Jonny. cry

A round-up to get them all one one page:

R2: Dominic Inglot & Treat Huey (PHI) CR 57 defeated (6) Rohan Bopanna & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (IND/FRA) CR 26 by 7-6(4) 5-7 [10-6] (sweet revenge for the defeat in Tokyo last week! biggrin )
R2: Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 66 vs (7) Julian Benneteau & Nenad Zimonjic (FRA/SRB) CR 37 by 4 & 2 biggrin
R2: (2) Marcel Granollers & Marc López (ESP/ESP) CR 17 defeated Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray CR 49 by 2 & 4 cry

*****

QF: Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (USA/USA) WR 1 vs Dominic Inglot & Treat Huey (PHI) CR 57
QF: Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 66 vs Robert Lindstedt & Vasek Pospisil (SWE/CAN) CR 131

The Bryans are by no means invincible now, but it's still going to be tough for Dom & TCH, while the Lindstedt/Pospisil combination will prove a real handful for Jamie & John. Pospisil seems to have pushed on convincingly & consistently since his victory over Evo in the Vancouver Challenger in July in a way that the latter just doesn't seem to have been able to manage.

steven · Tennis legend

Both winning pairs move up a place in the Race - Jamie & John to 11th, Dom & Treat to 13th (up 2 this week) - they could all do with Marrero and Verdasco (in-running 8th) losing to Fognini and Seppi later.