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R1:  Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) defeated (1) Jean-Julien Rojer & Horia Tecau (NED/ROU) CR 32 (16+16) by 3 & 4 biggrin

I see "Booty" is seeded fourth here with Sam Groth, while his erstwhile (?) partner, Raven Klaasen, is the top seed in Chennai with Leander Paes... confuse 



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Erstwhile indeed, SC. These are their new pairings for the season.

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QF:  Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) vs Milos Raonic & Bernard Tomic (CAN/AUS) UNR (*)

(*) because Tomic currently has no doubles ranking, though a career high of 145 from August 2013.  Raonic is currently WR 570 (CH 106 in June 2013).



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Thus going to show that drawing an UNR pairing is not always a good thing - though I hope it will be despite the august nature of the particular pairing in question.

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Erstwhile indeed, SC. These are their new pairings for the season.

Thanks for that, Spectator.  I was rather out of touch after 12 days in the wild & woolly North East without an Internet connection!  As a matter of interest, is there a dedicated site on which such facts can be checked or did you simply see the new pairings mentioned in passing in an article somewhere?



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The ATP did a preview (not labelled as such) which happened to include the above teams: www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2015/01/1/Doubles-2015-Preview.aspx. But I would also love to know if there's a "doubles pairs" website somewhere ... it would be quite helpful.

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QF: Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) d Milos Raonic & Bernard Tomic (CAN/AUS) UNR (*) 6-4 7-5

Messrs Murray and Peers had no break points on their service games and converted two of the four they held. Well done, they!

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QF: Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) d Milos Raonic & Bernard Tomic (CAN/AUS) UNR (*) 6-4 7-5

Messrs Murray and Peers had no break points on their service games and converted two of the four they held. Well done, they!

I'll second that! smile  Great news to wake up to.   Next the conquerors of Booty & Groth...

SF:  Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) vs Steve Johnson & Sam Querrey (USA/USA) CR 161 (97+64)



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Spectator wrote:

The ATP did a preview (not labelled as such) which happened to include the above teams: www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2015/01/1/Doubles-2015-Preview.aspx. But I would also love to know if there's a "doubles pairs" website somewhere ... it would be quite helpful.

And welcome back!

Thanks - & thanks! smile

The ATP preview was an interesting read.  Equally interesting is the fact that none of the new pairings featured has survived beyond the quarter-finals of the events for which they were entered, not even Max Mirnyi, who was the fourth seed in Doha, but alongside Ivan Dodig rather than Feliciano López, as advertised (they fell to Señores Marrero & Verdasco in straight sets in the first round)!  disbelief  Teething troubles while they all adjust to one another's games, perhaps, or just poor early season form?

Just finished updating my copy of the Brisbane draw & I see that there are now no seeded pairs left in it! disbelief  In fact, Jamie & John are the highest ranked pair remaining.  The semi-finalists in the bottom half of the draw are the WCs, Dimitrov & Kokkinakis (CR 585), & Dolgopolov & Nishikori (CR 884).  The former did for Chardy & Kubot in three in the first round & Lindstedt & Matkowski (3), both pairs mentioned in the ATP list, in the QF.  "Dolgo" & "Nish" accounted for Bopanna & Nestor (2) in the first round, then saw off Hewitt & the Gooch in the QF.

Johnson & Querrey seem to have played together on & off since 2011.  They dumped out Booty & Groth in three in the QF, so could prove a bit of a handful, but if Jamie & John can squeeze past them, they must stand a chance of lifting the title against whichever of what I take to be the two scratch pairings in the bottom half.  Fingers crossed, anyway...



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Yes, I also noticed that there had been a measure of carnage with the new doubles pairings. I think the combination of getting used to a new partner, some strong pairings of singles players, and a few oddities (whoever got the Marrero/Verdasco theoretically unseeded pairing was going to have a rough ride) was too much to overcome.

At a guess, though, Dimitrov/Kokkinakis and Dolgopolov/Nishikori are going to be interesting teams, and I don't think the seedings are very relevant. Several of them are (as I understand it) quite creative players, so more likely to be useful in adapting to doubles than a group of straight baseliners would be.

Since every other prognostic comment I've made this week has proven wrong, I think I may just have assured a British win?

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SF:  Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) defeated Steve Johnson & Sam Querrey (USA/USA) CR 161 (97+64) by 7-6(3) 7-6(2) smile

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Final:  Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) vs Aleksandr Dolgopolov & Kei Nishikori (UKR/JPN) CR 884 (337+547)

So far, so good... My Fingers Are Crossed emoticon (Hand gesture emoticons)



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Very good to see, and with all the partnership changes Jamie now very settled with John.

I think Dolgopolov and Nishikori could be a quite fun partnership and are clearly pretty effective. But let's be beating them !

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That's two wins against really strong servers - excellent stuff. Final should be fun to watch (at least if you don't care who wins).

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We have a !

Final:  Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 84 (42+42) defeated Aleksandr Dolgopolov & Kei Nishikori (UKR/JPN) CR 884 (337+547) by 6-3 7-6(4) biggrin

From the Beeb.  Quite a nice picture. smile



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Nice start to the year.

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