Presumably this confirms the foot injury rumours:

QF:  Niels Desein & Igor Sijsling (BEL/NED) CR 560 (294+266) "defeated" Matt Ebden (AUS) & James Ward UNR by a walkover 

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SF:  Niels Desein & Igor Sijsling (BEL/NED) CR 560 (294+266) vs Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 277 (139+138)

Bob in Spain wrote:

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Which leads to the question (another one), if he has been carrying this foot injury, why is he having a go at doubles anyway ?

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 After a doubles wildcard for Wimbledon

Stircrazy wrote:

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SF:  (1) Eric Butorac & Colin Fleming (USA) CR 127 (40+87) vs (3) Marcus Daniell & Marcelo Demoliner (NZL/BRA) CR 177 (78+99)

Anyone know whether Eric's angling to become an honorary Brit again?  Presumably, if he's still with Colin come Wimbledon, they could expect a wild card...

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 ... if they needed a WC. That's a pretty handy CR. When's the doubles entry list determined ?

Something finally (pun intended  ) seems to have clicked again for the brothers:

SF:  Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 277 (139+138) defeated Niels Desein & Igor Sijsling (BEL/NED) CR 560 (294+266) by 3 & 4 

They're timing their run on grass quite nicely, methinks...  48 precious ranking points (& 750 apiece, though I imagine that matters less than the points) in the bag.

Jaffa wrote:

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CR 127 would normally get them in anyway wouldn't it?

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Having done a bit of digging, i.e. checking the rankings of last year's champions, Pospisil & Sock, at the start of the fortnight & after it finished, I now think that it would (their combined ranking on 23rd June last year was a lowly 193, but, unsurprisingly, it had shot up to 64 by 7th July).  A more extreme example would be Austin Krajicek & Donald Young:  CR = 470, largely as a result of Young's individual doubles ranking (390), so I assume the use of the singles ranking wheeze came into play there.  Arguably more pertinent is the fact that Ken & Neal Skupski were DAs with a CR of 133, but may well need a WC this year.  I think I must have got confused by the fact that it's a 64-team draw & the irritating habit of some singles players throwing their caps in the doubles ring at Grand Slams & larger Tour events & assumed that anything in the 100s meant that a wild card would be required.