Week 25 - Challenger (€127,000) - Aegon Trophy, Ilkley, Great Britain (grass) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 25 - Challenger (€127,000) - Aegon Trophy, Ilkley, Great Britain (grass) - doubles

Jaffa · Challenger level

Another great result that they were great value for. Both returning so well!

indiana · Tennis legend

FINAL :

(WC) Brydan Klein & Joe Salisbury CR 313 (161+152) vs (1) Leander Paes & Adil Shamasdin (IND/CAN) CR 104 (62+42)

Updated to this week's rankings. Two of the finalists are at CHs, Joe ( going to go higher still on Monday ) and 35 yo Shamasdin. Adil's partner Leander, a former #1, is though clearly on the slide at age 44

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Again, not to be, but at least they gave the top seeds a good run for their money:

Final: (1) Leander Paes & Adil Shamasdin (IND/CAN) CR 104 (62+42) defeated (WC) Brydan Klein & Joe Salisbury CR 313 (161+152) by 2-6 6-2 [10-8]

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, well done to the two of them.

Whatever one's feelings about the Joe/David v Joe/Brydan issue, there's no denying that Joe and Brydan have made a very good fist of playing together.

(Just in principle, and not really as a direct comment on the situation here, but I agree with the previous poster (The O? Oakie?), that established partnerships are slightly overrated and it does a lot of good to play with different partners, and US college players, as well as European league players, are used to playing with different players, and have to do so on a very regular basis, and it has many positive benefits).

Spectator · All-time great

Very well done: they've been playing at Tour level.

And yes, they have done well as a team. The objection wasn't to people mixing and matching - Oakland's point, which you echo, is a fair one. The objection was enforced mixing and matching when there was no evident desire for it within the pairing and it was to the detriment of a loyal partner. But I do indeed hope that Mr O'Hare benefits both from Mr Salisbury's increased ranking and from anything he's learned in the process.

indiana · Tennis legend

Meantime in a Spanish futures quite far away a certain David O'Hare partnering a certain Frederik Nielsen have won ( indeed retained ) that title.

Joe will overtake David in the rankings on Monday, up to another new CH at currently showing a live ranking of 141.

Once David's futures title points go on on 03/07 he will sneak back ahead, 562 points to 560 ( edit: unless Joe wins a round in Eastbourne with Brydan )

So they've been brought together in one sense while I'd still agree quite needlessly separated.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 26th of June 2017 09:00:31 PM