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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

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

Jan · Hall of fame

Those 2 matches were very entertaining and came up with the right results too!

DF · Tennis legend

Yes. Well Done to both pairs.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Sim wrote:
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)......

Point taken. For all Neal's doubles partnership with his elder brother, Ken, seems to have faltered of late, I guess I assumed he was still doing rather better in the prize money stakes than Naomi, whose struggles to keep her head above water were well documented in The Times, if in no other UK newspaper, last week. Indeed, the figures you quote would appear to bear out my assumption - just ...! wink

Spectator · All-time great

Not to mention having had the fun of playing on a show court. Really thrilled for them all.

So miffed that what I had thought was going to be a possible day off now won't be. Tomorrow would be a great day for grounds passes: the Murray mixed doubles QF, three wonderful doubles semifinals (though the best is one Court 1), some potentially super juniors matches, some great wheelchair matches ...

Hope that at least some people from this board get the benefit!

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 3rd of July 2014 09:03:52 PM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

And how much more thrilling was that last set with deuce scoring as opposed to a single golden point?

Spectator · All-time great

So true! (Let alone the whole MTB thing ...)

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, I think most folk in previous discussions have had more problems with no ad scoring than MTBs. I sense, if still not liking, many folk are understanding of MTBs in other tournaments, but no ad just somehow gets at the very essence of tennis scoring, and ad-deuce-ad- etc can be so enthralling.

The mixed doubles has been pretty entertaining, if in a not totally serious way, with the question of etiquette that I raised earlier ( and maybe some want to hide from ).

All the best to our quarter finalists.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jamie and Casey lost out in three sets.

Neal and Naomi worked hard in the first to come back after having been broken but Neal missed every single first serve at 4*-5 and they lost the set 4-6

Long time reader · Lower Club Player

Naomi and Neal lose 6-4 6-3. Close match, they had a lot of break points that they couldn't convert.

Naomi didn't play as well as yesterday but the big problem was Neal's serve. Very few first serves made and even when they did go in he got very few free points from them. Think he needs to improve his serve if he wants to get to the top of the doubles game.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Recap:

QF: (14) Max Mirnyi & Chan Hao-Ching (BLR/TPE) CR 50 (32+18) defeated (10) Jamie Murray & Casey Dellacqua (AUS) CR 44 (32+12) by 6-2 3-6 6-3
QF: (6) Aisam Qureshi & Vera Dushevina CR 55 (21+34) defeated (WC) Neal Skupski & Naomi Broady CR 210 by 4 & 3

Was busy preparing for meetings all afternoon & at Covent Garden this evening, so disappointing to see those results, even if the latter wasn't entirely unexpected. cry Interesting to read the comments on some of the players' performances.

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Yes favouritism again !

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Watched the match

My ratings below

Neal 8/10

Miss Broady 3/10 ( 4 double faults in one service game was dire ) Struggled with men's serve block back repeatedly with poor lobs that came but short and were smashed repeatedly for winners

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, my post above agrees with Long time reader in that, no, Naomi didn't play all that well but Neal's serve was a big problem.

This is one of your money shots in mixed doubles. If Naomi had trouble returning serve that;'s partly because the guy was serving well. If neal had been serving well, then Vera may well have had the same problems. Which he wasn't so she didn't. Not pointing the finger at all but at 4*-5 it was Neal's lack of first serve that lost them the game/set and the momentum.

However, net net, I think both had an excellent run in the mixed doubles, thoroughly earned their place and, over the ten days or so, gave the crowd a huge amount of enjoyment. So a mega well done to both of them.