Week 3 & 4 - Australian Open - men's doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 3 & 4 - Australian Open - men's doubles

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Does this mean that the Skupskis didn't get in ? I know they were travelling down as 1st Alternates.

indiana · Tennis legend

No sign of the Skupskis in the draw I'm afraid.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Does this mean that the Skupskis didn't get in ? I know they were travelling down as 1st Alternates.

I'm afraid it looks that way at the moment, Bob. hmm There's certainly no sign of them in the draw I printed off earlier. No "alts", either, however, so it may be worth their while hanging about for another day or two in case pairs start to pull out. For the record, their CR's 182 (91+91).

paulisi · Tennis legend

They are definitely there, so they must be hopeful of a late withdrawal.

Mburnett1 · Social player

Can someone explain how the combined ranking works for me here? Why don't the skupskis find themselves in the main draw with a CR of 182, even though Jonny Marray and stakhovsky have a CR of 251?

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Mburnett1 wrote:
Can someone explain how the combined ranking works for me here? Why don't the skupskis find themselves in the main draw with a CR of 182, even though Jonny Marray and stakhovsky have a CR of 251?

The combined rankings listed here are the doubles rankings of both players added to each other, but the reason some doubles pairings get in to the MD with a worse CR than some who don't is because they're using singles rankings to get in. Marray has a doubles ranking of 58 and Stakhovsky has a singles ranking of 69, so they used this combined ranking of 58+69=127 to get in to the MD.

RJA · Hall of fame

All 3 pairs start their campaign tonight. The draws all look fairly reasonable to me so hopefully 2 or 3 wins.

Spectator · All-time great

Not too confident about the scratch pairing taking on two very accomplished doubles players ... but would love all three pairs to win. Marray and Stakhovsky would be fun to see playing doubles on grass - even on hard, scope for lots of creative play.

RJA · Hall of fame

Spectator wrote:
Not too confident about the scratch pairing taking on two very accomplished doubles players ... but would love all three pairs to win. Marray and Stakhovsky would be fun to see playing doubles on grass - even on hard, scope for lots of creative play.

Marrero and Cuevas aren't a fully established pairing either so I think it is a winnable match, albeit a far from easy one.

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Shame the Liverpool bro's must be our highest combined ranked all GB pair and are certainly good enough !

RJA · Hall of fame

Jamie and John cruise to the first set. 6-1

RJA · Hall of fame

A1 tennis academy wrote:
Shame the Liverpool bro's must be our highest combined ranked all GB pair and are certainly good enough !

If they were certainly good enough they would be ranked high enough that they would have been in the main draw.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, unfortunately the Skupskis' results ( yes, results, these annoying blighters ) were often a bit disappointing last year, hence their ranking, hence just missing out on the Aussie Open.

Hopefully, they can push on this year and get clearly into Slams.

RJA · Hall of fame

Nice easy win for Dom and Florin. 6-2, 6-2