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Having put next week's R1 draws onto the Race top 20 table ( http://bit.ly/1gqhHkq ), it looks like the boys have picked badly (or been unlucky) again - the top four pairs in the Race who are playing next week are all in Valencia (seeded 1-4), while the 3 pairs just above JM & JP in the race (excluding Paes & Stepanek, who have already qualified as slam champs and are not playing next week) are seeded 2-4 in Basel.

The top seeds in Basel are Bopanna & ERV, who are only 14th in the Race so must have been playing with other partners for a fair bit of the year.



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R1:  Julien Benneteau & Nenad Zimonjic (FRA/SRB) CR 36 vs Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 59



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Rotten draw pitting the two pairs tied at 10th in the Race against each other.

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... or a good chance to get rid of one rival pair very early!

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True! Good to look on the bright side.



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Please have a big week and make the o2 Jamie lad!

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Jamie and John are 5-3* up in the first set.

Vamos.

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steven wrote:

... or a good chance to get rid of one rival pair very early!

So far, Steven's optimism is proving well founded:  first set in the bag by 6-3 (two service breaks!). biggrin   



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The boys are going like a train at the moment *3-1 in the second set...



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A stroll in the park! biggrin

R1: Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 61 (32+29) defeated Julien Benneteau & Nenad Zimonjic (FRA/SRB) CR 36 (23+13) by 3 & 2 biggrin



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Good win.

I have happy memories of watching Andy and Jamie winning in Valencia in 2010. Let's hope Jamie has those happy memories in his mind as well this week.

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that's impressive!

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Mirnyi & Tecau went out to Begemann/Emmrich in Basel too

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Super win. Tough next round.

Read that Nestor/Zimonjic are planning to team up again next year ...

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Hmmm. I'm not wholly certain that I'd call Nieminen and Tursunov a pair of singles specialists per se - Tursunov has always struck me as having parallels with people like Bjorkman and Mirnyi, insofar as being quite handy in both disciplines goes (though he's probably not as good in either as the aforementioned Swedish/Belarussian pair). In fact, he has more doubles titles/finals than singles. Nieminen's not bad in terms of doubles either, though less spectacular. And they won the Munich title together earlier this year.



-- Edited by Spectator on Tuesday 22nd of October 2013 08:19:58 PM

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