Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon (grass) - mixed doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon (grass) - mixed doubles

DF · Tennis legend

2 - 0 in the second set

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Looks as though they may just have rediscovered their mojo: 3-0* in the second...

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Neal Skupski Joke

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Mergea plays a truly shocking game to give away his serve to love so Skupski/Broady up a break in the final set *3-2

Spectator · All-time great

Yes! 6-4 in the final set. Mr Skupski and Ms Broady into the QFs.

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Was it 12 mps it took ? Last 2 games were just ridiculous. Admittedly some of them were saved by aces and amazing shots but some horrible misses too.

Sim · County player

Great entertainment especially the last 2 games.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Only saw the last three games, but what entertainment - cracking win for the NW GB pair.

Sim · County player

£11500 per couple for quarter finals so starting to be good earnings for Neal and Naomi.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thrilled for Naomi and Neal !!!!!

And what about poor Jamie ? he won too (with Casey) so he deserves a mention :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Once again, terrific news to which to come. Summary:

R3: (10) Jamie Murray & Casey Dellacqua (AUS) CR 44 (32+12) defeated (6) Horia Tecau & Sania Mirza CR 32 (26+6) by 5 & 3 smile
R3: (WC) Neal Skupski & Naomi Broady CR 210 defeated Florin Mergea & Elina Svitolina (ROU/UKR) CR 311 (39+272) by 4-6 6-3 6-4 biggrin

*****

QF: (14) Max Mrinyi & Chan Hao-Ching (BLR/TPE) CR 50 (32+18) vs (10) Jamie Murray & Casey Dellacqua (AUS) CR 44 (32+12)
QF: (WC) Neal Skupski & Naomi Broady CR 210 vs (6) Aisam Qureshi & Vera Dushevina CR 55 (21+34)

Good call with that wild card! wink And, since the two pairs are in opposite halves of the draw, there's even the possibility of a 75% Brit/25% Aussie final... wink

indiana · Tennis legend

And Murray and Dellacqua beat Tecau and Mirza 7-5 6-3, so that's one and a half British pairs into the QFs :)

What's the etiquette these days in mixed doubles ?

I don't watch that much mixed, but was watching earlier and Tecau absolutely pulverised a return back down the line past Dellacqua. The commentator then effectively said that it's fine to impose yourself, but you don't want to be doing that too often.

Rather intrigued, I watched some more and to my mind the guys certainly seemed to hold back at times against the women.

So what's the score here and is the trick to winning to go quite close to some sort of limit, but not over it ?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Sim wrote:
£11500 per couple for quarter finals so starting to be good earnings for Neal and Naomi.

I imagine Naomi in particular will welcome her share of that cheque. Let's hope they can make it more.

Sim · County player

Stircrazy wrote:
Sim wrote:
£11500 per couple for quarter finals so starting to be good earnings for Neal and Naomi.
I imagine Naomi in particular will welcome her share of that cheque. Let's hope they can make it more.

Actually probably Neal will welcome it more. Naomi has her cheque from the singles to bank. You made me look up their earnings to put it in perspective

2014 ytd Naomi $28k Neal $30k (excluding Wimbledon of course). The mixed doubles is nearly $10k each (and counting)......