Weeks 27 & 28 - Wimbledon (grass) - men's doubles

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 27 & 28 - Wimbledon (grass) - men's doubles

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Brilliant. And actually, what a wonderful way for Jay Clarke to play on the 'main stage' at Wimbledon for the first time. Marcus Willis - whatever his tendency occasionally to make the younger player do the running - would be a super person to be on court with for your first match: relaxed and funny as well as talented. Jay Clarke looked, in the bits I saw, not only to be playing really well, but also as if he was having fun - which is the best possible way to begin your Wimbledon career. Congratulations to the two WC teams for a wonderful day.

Yes. Although the 'age' thing was quite funny (made me smile yesterday to see Liam doing the same mad scampering around, while Naomi was more 'go, brother, go' as she smiled serenely - enjoyed that match and wish them well), I agree that Marcus was a great partner for Jay and definitely helped him deal with the situation. And great to see that sharing/handing down of skills.

Well done to the Skupskis too - agree with paulisi that you'd think there was definite sponsorship material there, even if only of a local kind - it's a great story having the two brothers playing together and they're such likeable blokes.

Spectator · All-time great

Well they were getting quite a lot of Twitter and Instagram love (and humour) from their respective World Team Tennis teams.

Jaffa · Challenger level

Forgot to say yesterday just how good the Skupski's were, especially Neal. Ken did nothing wrong to get broken serving for it in the third but it took a lot of mental strength to start again and win the match.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Jonny and Scott lose the 1st set 6-3. Just the solitary break of serve.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The Bryans (5) follow Jamie & Bruno out of the exit door, beaten by Matkowski & Mirnyi by 3, 5 & 4! hmm

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Jonny and Scott lose the 1st set 6-3. Just the solitary break of serve.

Same story in the second set, though that goes by the board by 4-6.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Predictably:

L32: (1) Henri Kontinen & John Peers (FIN/AUS) CR 3 (1+2) defeated (WC) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 573 (255+318) by 3, 4 & 4 cry

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Highly respectable performance though. I hope they both enjoyed and learned from the experience.

Ian1314 · Lower Club Player

Good performance but thought their opponents were off-putting while serving from what I could see on telly; seemed to be talking to each other.

DF · Tennis legend

Marcus and Jay lost the first set 3-6 but are 4-0 up in the second!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Am I reading this right ? Willbomb and Jay 5-0* up in the 2nd against the reigning champions ?

Get in there.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 8th of July 2017 04:53:22 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Willbomb aceing Mahut twice in one game - wonderful

DF · Tennis legend

One set all

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Marcus and PHH have met before in singles. I was privileged to see that match in Marseille a couple of years back - qualies for the ATP250. Not much to choose between them that day as PHH ran out a winner 7-6 7-6.