What's happening in singles is, I agree, bad enough. But I wouldn't say the doubles clouds the issue. It was reasonable to foresee that a multiple Wimbledon QF-ist might make the fourth round in singles. It was also clear by last Wednesday that he was going to have to play a second-round match in doubles against Rojer and Tecau. One would have thought that that made getting him a schedule that spread out his matches a bit of a priority. Instead they put him - on a day which they knew would have rain issues - third on court for both singles and doubles.

More generally, I certainly wouldn't want to suggest that if a top player in both disciplines chooses to play in both disciplines he somehow deserves whatever nightmare he gets (which isn't what you're saying, Madeline, but is what the implication could be, if it were taken to the extreme) ... or that the fact that a player is playing in two disciplines shouldn't be taken into consideration at all in scheduling. Of course, it's a choice players make, and they can't ask for too much once they've made it. But a little basic common sense wouldn't hurt!