Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L64: (5) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 17 (8+9) defeated Janko Tipsarevic & Viktor Troicki (SRB/SRB) CR 630 (569+61) by 6-3 7-6(0)

L64: Treat Huey & Denis Istomin (PHI/UZB) CR 214 (38+176) defeated Robin Haase (NED) & Dom Inglot CR 153 (113+40) by 7-6(10) 3-6 6-3 bleh

Spectator · All-time great

Which means that if they were to win the tournament, one of two players could (theoretically) move into the #1 or #2 spot (Mahut, Melo) and any of three (PHH/Murray/Soares) could move into the #2 spot. In actuality, PHH would have more points than the current number one if he and Mahut won the tournament - but since they are playing together and Mahut has more points than he does, Mahut would be #1.

A good win from Mr Murray and Mr Soares; I was afraid that Tipsarevic and Troicki would be a banana skin. Pity that Mr Inglot lost (and to his own old doubles partner, yet!) ... and such a close match.

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting, Spectator.

Re Jamie & Bruno, for the time being although having the same counting ranking points, Jamie will stay ahead of Bruno based on less tournaments played, Bruno having had the audacity to play 3 additional tournaments with other folk

DF · Tennis legend

The no 2 seeds PhH and Mahut have lost the first set to Kyrgios and Thompson 6-7(8)

But have just won the second 6-4 !

-- Edited by DF on Wednesday 31st of May 2017 03:13:53 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Kyrgios the Odious & Thompson have done it, dumping out the second seeds by 7-6(8) 4-6 6-3!

I see the R-G site is persisting in gallicising the name of any male player called "Jordan" as "Jordanie", which is what the French call the country of Jordan! disbelief It used to do the same with Jordan Kerr's name.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (5) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 17 (8+9) vs Mikhail Elgin & Karen Khachanov (RUS)/RUS) CR 324 (68+256)

Khachanov is presumably in on his singles ranking of 53. Kubot & Melo (4) still there...

skibbarriz · Strong Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:
Kyrgios the Odious & Thompson have done it, dumping out the second seeds by 7-6(8) 4-6 6-3!

Is this where we have one of those 'how dare singles players come and ruin it for doubles players in slams' debates. Because the very premise that you can object to who enters doubles is hilarious.

Doubles is there for everyone and there is no clear line between the two tours. Lot's of respectable singles players are also good doubles players. Some people who play doubles aren't competetive in singles, so don't enter singles draws. Doesn't mean that doubles tournaments somehow belong to them.

Some of the doubles specialists can be thankful that some potentially very good doubles players don't play it most of the time, due to them focusing on singles.

It's almost like Davis Cup, their ranking reflects how committed they are to routinely playing in events that others are happy to mostly overlook.

-- Edited by skibbarriz on Wednesday 31st of May 2017 08:30:32 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

I don't believe we were having one of these debates, but might do now

In general I agree and am happy to see well ranked singles players in doubles, certainly in Slams. Probably my one gripe for the doubles specialists is not concerning Slams, but is in 24 pair masters fields that attract a good number of such singles players and very decently ranked doubles players ( sometimes with end of year tour final aspirations ) can't get in, though there I feel it's really a problem of the draw size. Make masters doubles minimum 32 pair fields.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I don't believe we were having one of these debates, [...]

Correct. I made a point of mentioning Khachanov's singles ranking merely in case anyone questioned his & Elgin's presence in a Grand Slam draw. For the record, Kyrgios the Odious' & JT's combined DOUBLES ranking is a lowly 183 (76+107), while their singles rankings are 19 & 92 respectively & I didn't bother drawing attention to that fact.

Spectator · All-time great

That wasn't an entirely unexpected result. Just as Nick Kyrgios could be a top-10 singles player if he wanted to be, he could be a top doubles player if he wanted to be. So, as with Jack Sock, whenever he enters a partnership with someone reasonably decent (or better), that partnership has the potential to beat any other given pairing. Pity, though. Not because I object to the poaching in this instance, but because I like PHH and Mahut.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 1st of June 2017 08:00:18 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dom Inglot has just won his first round match in the Mixed Doubles, with Klepac.

adz1983 · Intermediate Club Player

In the crowd watching Jamie and Bruno. So far they have been pretty untouchable.

adz1983 · Intermediate Club Player

So easy that Bruno asked umpire what the score was on court next to us... it is melo and kubot who are currently down a set

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

adz1983 wrote:
In the crowd watching Jamie and Bruno. So far they have been pretty untouchable.

Give them a cheer from us and enjoy your day.