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

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

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

wolf · Tennis legend

Jonny is in desperate need of some ranking points here. He is due to drop 850 points from Basel, Paris and WTF which would see him fall to 45 in rankings as it stands. He will probably have to reach the semis to stay top 40.

RJA · Hall of fame

wolf wrote:
Jonny is in desperate need of some ranking points here. He is due to drop 850 points from Basel, Paris and WTF which would see him fall to 45 in rankings as it stands. He will probably have to reach the semis to stay top 40.

Basel is currently uncountable and when his WTF points drop off he will add 45 from Queens (also uncountable at the moment) so worst case scenario is that he drops 715 points but yes he could really do with a good run here.

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
With Colin out injured, the race to be GB doubles number 1 is red hot.

Colin needs Dom and Jamie to go out before the QF's, and Jonny not to win the tournament.
Dom needs to reach the QF's and then just avoid losing to Jamie.
Jamie needs to reach at least the QF's and go a round further than Dom. If Jonny wins the tournament he needs to reach the SF.
Jonny needs to win the tournament and Dom to go out before the QF's and Jamie to go out before the SF's.

That looks about right to me! (though I reserve the right to re-check if any of it gets close to being an issue!) I added another table to that doubles race page after seeing how close they all were on today's new rankings because, like you, I think there's a chance that will be another interesting race this week - it would be fun if was decided by an all-GB QF ... especially if the winner went on to make the WTF. Well, we can dream ... wink

-- Edited by steven on Monday 28th of October 2013 12:18:57 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

Colin tweeted yesterday that it was an elbow injury that caused him to withdraw from this event.

Shhh · Challenger level

With Dom taking the title today is Jonny Marray down to GB No 4 now???

steven · Tennis legend

I haven't worked it out yet, but I wouldn't be surprised. Jamie, Dom and Jonny have been very close ever since Jamie became GB no. 2 after the Bangkok and Tokyo runs.

wolf · Tennis legend

With Colin out injured, the race to be GB doubles number 1 is red hot.

Colin needs Dom and Jamie to go out before the QF's, and Jonny not to win the tournament.
Dom needs to reach the QF's and then just avoid losing to Jamie.
Jamie needs to reach at least the QF's and go a round further than Dom. If Jonny wins the tournament he needs to reach the SF.
Jonny needs to win the tournament and Dom to go out before the QF's and Jamie to go out before the SF's.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
With Colin out injured, the race to be GB doubles number 1 is red hot.

Colin needs Dom and Jamie to go out before the QF's, and Jonny not to win the tournament.
Dom needs to reach the QF's and then just avoid losing to Jamie.
Jamie needs to reach at least the QF's and go a round further than Dom. If Jonny wins the tournament he needs to reach the SF.
Jonny needs to win the tournament and Dom to go out before the QF's and Jamie to go out before the SF's.

indiana · Tennis legend

4 Brits in the top 32 in the rankings is rather impressive ! Only Spain beats this with 4 in the top 17.

Their rankings are now indeed very close. I wonder how folk would generally rank them in ability order. A difficult one I'd suggest. Though in my opinion all 4 actually would remain behind Andy.

Spectator · All-time great

Looking forward (always dangerous), Mr Inglot has a total of 405 points to defend between now and the end of May 2014. Mr Murray (J) has 495. Mr Fleming has 1040 (of 2750). Mr Marray has almost half his points (1210 of 2500).

Barring ill-health, injury, a run of surprisingly bad form or other unfortunate circumstances, Messrs Inglot and Murray could wind up quite highly ranked indeed.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Table definitely getting more complicated now. Glad you're doing it and not me steven! Thanks

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting figures, Spectator.

They certainly even more show that the Dom and Jamie partnerships have in the last few months had significantly better results than Colin / Jonny.

Colin and Jonny have had some good results, but to my mind it is a partnership that has never really taken off, and maybe is just one that doesn't have a special chemistry. But of course, it was to some extent a partnership of convenience, and served a purpose

Hopefully all 4 will have very good 2014s.

paulisi · Tennis legend

The Brits are all scheduled for court 2 tomorrow from 2pm local time - one after another.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

indiana wrote:

Hopefully all 4 will have very good 2014s.

I'll second that in fact I hope that all 5 have good 2014s as, unless I've missed some bad news, Hutchins is still due to return some time next year.

On that note, I assume he'll have a protected ranking just like a singles player would can any more knowledgable confirm that?