Stircrazy wrote:

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Colin perseveres with Scott Lipsky:

QR1:  (q1) Colin Fleming & Scott Lipsky (USA) CR 109 (64+45) vs Taylor Fritz & Ryan Harrison (USA/USA) CR 475 (237+238)

They can't have missed out on the main draw by much!  They will face the second seeds, Klaasen & Ram, if they qualify. 

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 Given Eric Butorac has just retired, I guess if they click this could become a settled partnership.

It'll be interesting to see how that wily old campaigner, Ugly Mug, copes with Santillan.  Fascinating surname, which suggested some Hispanic ancestry to me (I instinctively pronounce it the Spanish way, with the stress on the final syllable, in my head - something along the lines of Santeel-YAN), so I decided to dig a little deeper.  He's 19, was born in Tokyo, lives in Brisbane & is coached by Richi Sanchez & Dean Santillan.  Wicki describes him as an Australian-Japanese tennis player with a Japanese mother (no surprise) & a South African father, which is a bit of a surprise (I was expecting South American, until I saw the name of one of his coaches, Australian, when I saw that he lived in Brisbane, or US).  Apparently, the family moved to Brisbane, where he took Australian citizenship, but in March last year, he opted to play under the Japanese flag on account of a "fractious relationship" with Tennis Australia (another one!   Makes it look like the Down-Under version of our beloved LTA!  ).

FQR:  (q1) Colin Fleming & Scott Lipsky (USA) CR 109 (64+45) vs (q2) Nicholas Monroe & Artem Sitak (USA/NZL) CR 119 (58+61)

That is going to be a close encounter!

Madadman wrote:

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Dan has pulled out of the Doubles the draw sheet cites foot pain.

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In light of this and the fact that Santillan has pushed Stepanek to 6-4 in the third today perhaps yesterday was not too much of a disastrous result.

-- Edited by Priesty on Sunday 2nd of October 2016 08:40:59 AM

Darn

Evidently they will pick up 25 points as doubles FQR losers, but not greatly here nor there or even a counter for Colin just now.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 2nd of October 2016 10:03:47 AM

R1: (1) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 9 (4+5) beat Martin Klizan & Joao Sousa (SVK/POR) CR 429 (279+150) 6-4 6-1

R1: (3) Dom Inglot & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 47 (36+11) beat Benoit Paire & Vasek Pospisil (FRA/CAN) CR 186 (174+12) 6-3 6-3


QF: (1) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 9 (4+5) vs Juan Sabastian Cabal & Robert Farah (COL/COL) CR 54 (27+27)

QF: (3) Dom Inglot & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 47 (36+11) vs Marcel Granollers & Marcin Matkowski (ESP/POL) CR 71 (30+41)

The winners of these two QFs will meet in the SF.

Dan doesn't seem to have gotten over the Wawrinka loss yet.