Weeks 26 & 27 - Wimbledon 2016 (grass) - mixed doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 26 & 27 - Wimbledon 2016 (grass) - mixed doubles

RJA · Hall of fame

Stircrazy wrote:
L64: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) "defeated" Denis Kudla & Louisa Chirico (USA/USA) CR 871 (431+440) by a walkover
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L32: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) vs (2) Bruno Soares & Elena Vesnina (BRA/RUS) CR 16 (9+7)

And now Heather and Henri get a walkover into R3 presumably as a result of Bruno and Jamie having been on court so long in the men's double quarter final.

indiana · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L64: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) "defeated" Denis Kudla & Louisa Chirico (USA/USA) CR 871 (431+440) by a walkover
******
L32: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) vs (2) Bruno Soares & Elena Vesnina (BRA/RUS) CR 16 (9+7)
And now Heather and Henri get a walkover into R3 presumably as a result of Bruno and Jamie having been on court so long in the men's double quarter final.

... allied to Vesnina's possible schedule with her already in the singles SF and doubles QF.

Soares and Vesnina had a bye into R2. I thought we had alts on standby ??

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
RJA wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L64: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) "defeated" Denis Kudla & Louisa Chirico (USA/USA) CR 871 (431+440) by a walkover
******
L32: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) vs (2) Bruno Soares & Elena Vesnina (BRA/RUS) CR 16 (9+7)
And now Heather and Henri get a walkover into R3 presumably as a result of Bruno and Jamie having been on court so long in the men's double quarter final.
... allied to Vesnina's possible schedule with her already in the singles SF and doubles QF.
Soares and Vesnina had a bye into R2. I thought we had alts on standby ??

Somebody might have signed in as an alt this morning but then not bothered hanging around all day.

indiana · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
indiana wrote:
RJA wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L64: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) "defeated" Denis Kudla & Louisa Chirico (USA/USA) CR 871 (431+440) by a walkover
******
L32: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) vs (2) Bruno Soares & Elena Vesnina (BRA/RUS) CR 16 (9+7)
And now Heather and Henri get a walkover into R3 presumably as a result of Bruno and Jamie having been on court so long in the men's double quarter final.
... allied to Vesnina's possible schedule with her already in the singles SF and doubles QF.
Soares and Vesnina had a bye into R2. I thought we had alts on standby ??
Somebody might have signed in as an alt this morning but then not bothered hanging around all day.

That would surely have been very daft - take that initiative and then not wait around for an obvious possibility following Soares and Vesnina's respective doubles matches. Their mixed was the one to wait for ( I believe just one of two pairs who hadn't competed at all or already had a w/o - the other pair being Stepanek & Safarova who did finally play their mixed today ).

So I take it that noone was signed in as alts with Vesnina having had potentially to play 11 matches in the last 5 days and partnering Soares.

So Heather and Henri benefit again from evidently noone particularly bothered about potential gifts.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 6th of July 2016 06:25:50 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (16) Leander Paes & Martina Hingis (IND/SUI) CR 56 (55+1) vs Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119)

Can't see Paes & Hingis giving them a third walkover!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The defending champions dumped out in three!

L16: Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119) defeated (16) Leander Paes & Martina Hingis (IND/SUI) CR 56 (55+1) by 3-6 6-3 6-2

That was a lovely match to watch on Court 1 (I saw the second half of the second set & all of the third). smile Not bad for a scratch pairing, although it seems that Chris Eaton (remember him?) is Henri's coach.

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QF: Scott Lipsky & Alla Kudryavtseva (USA/RUS) CR 62 (38+24) vs Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson CR 154 (35+119)

Lipsky & "Kudry" despatched the fifth seeds, Zimonjic & Chan, in their third-round match...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Wow, that's a good result.

Hev and Henri win, 6-2 in the third

Spectator · All-time great

Did not see that one coming. Fabulous!

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 7th of July 2016 06:44:29 PM

goldfish · Futures qualifying

In the post-match interview, Henri & Heather said that they had hoped to play at RG but weren't able to, presumably due to ranking.

Jan · Hall of fame

Sooo pleased for Heather!
I do love watching Mixed. In fact I really love watching Paes and Hingis, but just for once didn't want them to win!

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Great result, Hev obviously highly motivated she has a fine to pay! Nice to see some positive vibes coming her way.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Coup Droit wrote:
Wow, that's a good result.

Hev and Henri win, 6-2 in the third

Very nice indeed biggrin

Spectator · All-time great

First set to Ms Watson and Mr Kontinen: 6-3

wimdledont · Challenger level

I'm starting to worry for Mr Kontinen.

Does he realise that if he makes the final here, the full imbecility of the British press will be devoted to demanding that he makes a decent woman of her? (Though Jamie seems to have got away without any pressure to announce his civil partnership with Bruno, so far.)