Weeks 10 & 11 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Weeks 10 & 11 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard) - doubles

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 10 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard) - doubles

Spectator · All-time great

Oh, hurrah! So glad about the scratch pairing. Great practice for Mr Murray and always happy to see anything that forwards the cause for Mr Marray.

Just looked at the full draw. Can't recall a recent tournament when so many of the top singles players were playing doubles. Federer/Wawrinka, Murray/Marray, Cilic/DelPotro, Djokovic/Krajinovic, Gasquet/Erlich, Tsonga/Mahut, Gulbis/Raonic, Isner/Querrey, Fognini/Seppi, Mirnyi/Youzhny, Anderson/Haase, Robredo/Lopez, Janowicz/Kohlschreiber: that's 70% of the top 10 and top 20!

Will be really interesting to see (especially in view of the McEnroe/Bryans controversy!) what happens. Under the circumstances, the pretty rotten draws for Messrs Murray and Peers and Hutchins and Fleming don't look quite so awful. And it's a difficult but interesting match-up for the Huey and Inglot pairing, at least insofar as it gives a chance for GB to see their likely DC opponents up close!

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 6th of March 2014 04:59:28 AM

TMH · Futures qualifying

Spectator wrote:
Oh, hurrah! So glad about the scratch pairing. Great practice for Mr Murray and always happy to see anything that forwards the cause for Mr Marray.
Just looked at the full draw. Can't recall a recent tournament when so many of the top singles players were playing doubles. Federer/Wawrinka, Murray/Marray, Cilic/DelPotro, Djokovic/Krajinovic, Gasquet/Erlich, Tsonga/Mahut, Gulbis/Raonic, Isner/Querrey, Fognini/Seppi, Mirnyi/Youzhny, Anderson/Haase, Robredo/Lopez, Janowicz/Kohlschreiber: that's 70% of the top 10 and top 20!
Will be really interesting to see (especially in view of the McEnroe/Bryans controversy!) what happens. Under the circumstances, the pretty rotten draws for Messrs Murray and Peers and Hutchins and Fleming don't look quite so awful. And it's a difficult but interesting match-up for the Huey and Inglot pairing, at least insofar as it gives a chance for GB to see their likely DC opponents up close!

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 6th of March 2014 04:59:28 AM

Probably this tournament and Miami last year. The top singles players always play doubles here, Andy included.

daisy · County player

Marray/Murray play 4th on Stadium 3 tomorrow, approx 01.00hrs UK time.
Dom/Treat play the Italians around 9pm UK time (nicely after Hev).

savva0122 · Intermediate Club Player

Quite excited about the doubles here. Hope we can have success!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

That was a bit close for comfort for a while: they were a break down early in the second set...

R1: Treat Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot CR 48 (20+28) defeated Fabio Fognini & Andreas Seppi (ITA/ITA) CR 123 (70+53) by 4-6 7-5 [10-6] smile

I guess superior doubles experience must've told in the end.

savva0122 · Intermediate Club Player

Good result. One down...

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Oh, great to hear they did win. The result isn't showing in 'completed' yet.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I gave up following when they were a set and a break down. That's the Italian's DC pairing?

TMH · Futures qualifying

Interesting. Is that likely to be Italy's doubles pairing in the DC?

Edit: I really need to start reading the rest of the thread before posing questions. doh

-- Edited by TMH on Friday 7th of March 2014 10:49:15 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Just looked at the full draw. Can't recall a recent tournament when so many of the top singles players were playing doubles. Federer/Wawrinka, Murray/Marray, Cilic/DelPotro, Djokovic/Krajinovic, Gasquet/Erlich, Tsonga/Mahut, Gulbis/Raonic, Isner/Querrey, Fognini/Seppi, Mirnyi/Youzhny, Anderson/Haase, Robredo/Lopez, Janowicz/Kohlschreiber: that's 70% of the top 10 and top 20!

Interestingly, Fed & Stan have seen off Bops & Qureshi (6) by 6-2 6-7(4) [10-6]... disbelief

indiana · Tennis legend

I am not at all surprised that two such essentially great tennis players, and the 2010 Olympic doubles champions, have beaten an extremely good specialist doubles pair.

It is not my purpose to reignite some previous debates re doubles here ( and in particular in relation to top singles players playing doubles ), just saying what I think, and partly responding to SC's apparent disbelief.

indiana · Tennis legend

OK, the 2008 Olympic doubles champions. Though Swiss, they weren't competing in the two man luge :)

steven · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
I gave up following when they were a set and a break down. That's the Italian's DC pairing?

They may be trying out with that in mindt but they have never played doubles together in Davis Cup before - in fact, both have only played doubles in Davis Cup four times.