Week 17 - ATP 250 - Munich - red clay (doubles)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 17 - ATP 250 - Munich - red clay (doubles)

wolf · Tennis legend

QF: (2) Jamie Murray & John Peers CR 49 (24+25) v (WC) Alexander Zverev & Mischa Zverev (GER/GER) UNR

Spectator · All-time great

Good stuff all around from the Murrays. That top half is tough, though - especially the Peya/Soares v Paes/Stepanek match. That's not really a 250 QF.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Andy Murray & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 584 (572+11) defeated Rameez Junaid & Adil Shamasdin (AUS/CAN) CR 121 (66+55) by 2 & 2 biggrin

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SF: (1) Alexander Peya & Bruno Soares (AUT/BRA) CR 33 (17+16) vs Andy Murray & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 584 (572+11)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The defending champs crash out to the unranked "German" wild cards!

QF: (WC) Alexander Zverev & Mischa Zverev (GER/GER) UNR defeated (2) Jamie Murray & John Peers CR 49 (24+25) by 3-6 6-3 [10-8] bleh

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I saw most of the match, on a dodgy free fuzzy livestream with reflections on the monitor from the bright sun, and the gas heating engineer drowning out the sound - so I didn't really see a lot of it. Well done Andy and Juls - Andy is going to be a busy boy, through in both singles and doubles. He is certainly getting match practice on the clay.

Edit - oh dear ^^. Not so good for the elder Murray, then. Mischa Z gets his revenge on Andy by beating his big bro.

-- Edited by Madeline on Thursday 30th of April 2015 04:25:55 PM

Babfive · Satellite level

Stircrazy wrote:
The defending champs crash out to the unranked "German" wild cards!
QF: (WC) Alexander Zverev & Mischa Zverev (GER/GER) UNR defeated (2) Jamie Murray & John Peers CR 49 (24+25) by 3-6 6-3 [10-8]

Ouch. cry

indiana · Tennis legend

Bah.

Jamie and John are 'up' over the last 2 weeks, their 300 points from last week effectively replacing the 250 points they haven't defended this week.

But it would have been good to build on last week and make more of a gain.

Spectator · All-time great

Always a potential banana skin. The Peya/Soares v Murray/Rojer match is an interesting one. The former pairing is, for me, one of the two or three that can beat anyone on any given day. But Murray and Rojer would not, I'm sure, be the pairing they'd like to see in the SF. Will be fascinating to see what happens.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Can anybody help me on the pronunciation of Rojer's surname? He is Dutch, his Christian names are French. The umpire today and yesterday is pronouncing his name as "Roy-air". Is that right?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Alexander Peya & Bruno Soares (AUT/BRA) CR 33 (17+16) defeated Andy Murray & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 584 (572+11) by 3 & 2

Only to be expected, I suppose. That said - & idle speculation - but had they managed to squeak home, they'd've had a great chance in the final against the Zverev brothers. hmm

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:
Can anybody help me on the pronunciation of Rojer's surname? He is Dutch, his Christian names are French. The umpire today and yesterday is pronouncing his name as "Roy-air". Is that right?

Have to admit I've wondered the same myself. See here. Then again again (recorded by Dutchman), so still up in the air a bit, methinks...

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Yes, that's cleared that up then - not! SC, I couldn't find a pronunciation by a Dutchman (or anybody else) in your second link, but I googled it and found one.

-- Edited by Madeline on Saturday 2nd of May 2015 06:34:16 PM

Spectator · All-time great

Playing Peya and Soares fresh it might be an interesting match. Playing Peya and Soares when they are fresh and you are on your third match of the day (with more to come tomorrow) is bound to be less so.