He's doing what most doubles players do if they want to try to pick up big points at an event that they can't get into with their current partner. If I remember correctly, last year, Treat Huey and Dom Inglot split up a few times for the same reason. It doesn't mean you're switching permanent partners, just trying to get up your ranking so that you (and your partner) can get into more tournaments.

Marray's ranking is 43, but he's going to lose 45 points from Montpellier and he's defending 90 points at Rotterdam. Hanley's is 81; he's defended his Montpellier points and doesn't have any to defend before Memphis. If Marray didn't play Rotterdam and so lost his points, it would do neither of them any good. If Marray and Tursunov gain points in Rotterdam, everyone benefits.

That said, on Tursunov's side, he has often been playing with Nieminen, who's playing this week with Kontinen. That's more likely (given the fact that it makes an all-Finn pairing) to be something which if it works out could become a more frequent pairing. So Tursunov, who is sporadic in his doubles efforts, may be looking for an occasional-regular partner (if that makes any sense).

Jade is a late withdrawal from Talinn.
Egypt looks weak as Dasha may well be seeded

Plenty of seeds this week. Andy, Oli, Kyle, Marcus, Gabb, Evo?

Helen40 wrote:

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I thought we had three Brits at Memphis in qualies this week?

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Yes we do/did.

In QR1, Connor Glennon and David O'Leary played each other with Connor coming out on top, whilst Joe Salisbury managed a Career Best win.

Spectator wrote:

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He's doing what most doubles players do if they want to try to pick up big points at an event that they can't get into with their current partner. If I remember correctly, last year, Treat Huey and Dom Inglot split up a few times for the same reason. It doesn't mean you're switching permanent partners, just trying to get up your ranking so that you (and your partner) can get into more tournaments.

Marray's ranking is 43, but he's going to lose 45 points from Montpellier and he's defending 90 points at Rotterdam. Hanley's is 81; he's defended his Montpellier points and doesn't have any to defend before Memphis. If Marray didn't play Rotterdam and so lost his points, it would do neither of them any good. If Marray and Tursunov gain points in Rotterdam, everyone benefits.

That said, on Tursunov's side, he has often been playing with Nieminen, who's playing this week with Kontinen. That's more likely (given the fact that it makes an all-Finn pairing) to be something which if it works out could become a more frequent pairing. So Tursunov, who is sporadic in his doubles efforts, may be looking for an occasional-regular partner (if that makes any sense).

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 Cheers, that makes more sense now. Johnny didn't seem to have that 'sleep around' mentality, so I was kinda suprised. I wasn't aware that Mr Inglot and Mr Huey had done the same thing. they seem to have been together for years now

Madeline wrote:

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Seagull, you need to add Andy in Rotterdam into the first post.

I've heard a rumour that Evans has withdrawn from the Challenger next week, but I don't have a source.

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I think that the published draw sheet counts as a very reliable source.