Week 10 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 10 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard) - doubles

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Well whoever is doing the ace count in Andy's match should be kept busy!!

-- Edited by The Optimist on Thursday 10th of March 2016 10:53:08 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Botheration. Of all the unranked teams in all the joints in California, they had to draw that one ....

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Murray's dubs will be shown on Skye's 'red button' this evening

TMH · Futures qualifying

Raonic must be the highest ranked doubles player of all time. Wonder what one has to go do to get a 0 ranking.

-- Edited by TMH on Friday 11th of March 2016 09:09:19 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

First round doubles on skysports 3 live - must be a first

Josh Milton sat with the Murray camp.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Great tennis so far.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
R1: John Isner & Milos Raonic (USA/CAN) UNR (120+0) vs Colin Fleming & Andy Murray CR 204 (58+146)

7-5 6-7(4). Still all to play for...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: John Isner & Milos Raonic (USA/CAN) UNR (120+0) defeated Colin Fleming & Andy Murray CR 204 (58+146) by 7-5 6-7(5) [10-8] cry

paulisi · Tennis legend

Big crowd, big names, cracking match. I wish we have more doubles on TV.

Unfortunately the singles superstars don't play too often.

RJA · Hall of fame

paulisi wrote:
Big crowd, big names, cracking match. I wish we have more doubles on TV.

Unfortunately the singles superstars don't play too often.

Indian Wells really is a fantastic tournament. Brilliant facilities, very reliable weather, every court is televised / streamed, big crowds and really good fans who are appreciative of tennis and are even fair to players competing against Americans.

All in all it is a much better tournament than the US Open.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I don't think you are comparing like with like. Indian Wells is great and the opportunity it affords top singles players who like to play doubles for fun with their friends is fantastic as is the weather and the ambience. It is not a grand slam and doesn't have the constraints of being a test for the best who countenance playing doubles as they have their eyes on the ultimate prize.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Shame the courts are so god-damn slow that the tennis is often quite unappealing.

RJA · Hall of fame

Oakland2002 wrote:
I don't think you are comparing like with like. Indian Wells is great and the opportunity it affords top singles players who like to play doubles for fun with their friends is fantastic as is the weather and the ambience. It is not a grand slam and doesn't have the constraints of being a test for the best who countenance playing doubles as they have their eyes on the ultimate prize.

Obviously it isn't a like for like comparison, I don't think that that detracts from anything that I said.

RJA · Hall of fame

TMH wrote:
Shame the courts are so god-damn slow that the tennis is often quite unappealing.

That is my one gripe, but presumably it reflects what the tour want at this stage of the season because Miami is also slow as hell. The US summer events are played on quicker hard courts.