Week 9 - ATP 500 Series - Acapulco (Hard) - Doubles

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Week 9 - ATP 500 Series - Acapulco (Hard) - Doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bugger! disbelief bleh

Shhh · Challenger level

R1: (3) Treat Huey & Dominic Inglot d. Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins 7-6(3) 6-3

Edited to add the tie-break score.

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 25th of February 2014 10:01:10 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Such rotten luck. Well done to Messrs Huey and Inglot, nonetheless.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Well done to BBD

. We were on a loser either way

indiana · Tennis legend

BBD gets through, but encouragingly close by Colin and Ross against a very good pair. I guess we couldn't hope for much more.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (3) Treat Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot CR 55 (25+29) vs Jarkko Nieminen & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FIN/FRA) CR 109 (94+15)

Spectator · All-time great

QF: (3) Treat Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot CR 55 (25+29) d. Jarkko Nieminen & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FIN/FRA) CR 109 (94+15) 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)

indiana · Tennis legend

Very good. 180 ranking points so far and hopefully going to be more.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
QF: (3) Treat Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot CR 55 (25+29) d. Jarkko Nieminen & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FIN/FRA) CR 109 (94+15) 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4)

Terrific win for the boys. I feared that Nieminen & ERV might be a bit of a banana skin! Clearly I underestimated "our" boys' resilience, but so glad I did! smile I'd actually settled down to keep track of the score, but dozed off...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Feliciano López & Max Mirnyi (ESP/BLR) CR 152 (124+28) vs (3) Treat Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot CR 55 (25+29)

Surely the boys must have a ghost of a chance of bagging the title now? OK, "Deliciano" & "the Beast of Belarus" will be no pushovers, given that they dumped out the top seeds, Kubot & Lindstedt, by 3 &4 in their QF, but they are the only seeded pair left in the draw, Booty & Klaasen (4) having been outgunned by Kevin Anderson & Matt Ebden by 6-7(5) 6-3 [11-13] & the pair I always regard as dangerous "floaters", Santiago González & Scott Lipsky, by 6-1 3-6 [8-10] by the Mexican wild cards, César Ramírez & Miguel Angel Reyes (González & Lipsky had themselves accounted for the second seeds, JJR & Tecau, in the first round).

Spectator · All-time great

While I'd like to be hopeful (and will be so), I regard seedings in doubles as generally of limited utility; they seem to give more benefit than should be the case to established pairings and don't take into account the strength of the singles players (like Anderson on the other side of the draw) making the occasional foray into doubles. Add to that the fact that Mirnyi is, to me, like Nestor ... you can put him together with almost anyone and the pairing will be a threat ... and I'm hopeful without being overconfident.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

not sure capitulated quite captures a close defeat 13-11 in the MTB. Are you sure they "surrendered"?

-- Edited by johnnylad on Friday 28th of February 2014 05:18:55 PM

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

'Succumb' is also a synonym and looks to be quite relevant.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Yes, I like succumbed.