Week 30 - ATP 250 - B,B&T Open, Atlanta, GA, USA (hard)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Week 30 - ATP 250 - B,B&T Open, Atlanta, GA, USA (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Taylor Fritz (USA) & Cameron Norrie CR 491 (279+212) defeated (4) Jonathan Erlich (ISR) & Joe Salisbury CR 113 (72+41) by 3 & 4

Impressive!

*****

QF: Purav Raja (IND) & Ken Skupski CR 139 (83+56) vs Taylor Fritz (USA) & Cameron Norrie CR 491 (279+212)

JonH · All-time great

With his tournie win with Kyle a month or two back, Cam is showing he can clearly play well at doubles. Beating Joe and partner is good and if they beat Ken and partner it will show in reality Cam is a top 100 player and maybe higher, belying his ranking position of 212 as it stands. Probably provides a decent option in Davis Cup (whatever that looks like going forwards!), Leon can choose the best singles players (Kyle, Cam, Andy in future perhaps, Dan maybe at some stage, Liam if he gets it back together again??) and maybe pop in Jamie alongside them or Dom and know he can still form a good doubles pairing.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Taylor Fritz (USA) & Cameron Norrie CR 491 (279+212) defeated (4) Jonathan Erlich (ISR) & Joe Salisbury CR 113 (72+41) by 3 & 4
Impressive!
*****
QF: Purav Raja (IND) & Ken Skupski CR 139 (83+56) vs Taylor Fritz (USA) & Cameron Norrie CR 491 (279+212)

QF: Romain Arneodo & Jérémy Chardy (MON/FRA) CR 244 (90+154) vs Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 172 (84+88)

The Franco-Monégasque pair despatched the top seeds, Sharan & Sitak, by 4 & 5 in their first round match.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Who are these two fellas he has been playing 250 doubles with? Fritz and Edmund are they any good??

seagull · Hall of fame

Cam only faced one break point in first set and lost it and the set 7-5

seagull · Hall of fame

Leads 4-2 in second set

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
With his tournie win with Kyle a month or two back, Cam is showing he can clearly play well at doubles. Beating Joe and partner is good and if they beat Ken and partner it will show in reality Cam is a top 100 player and maybe higher, belying his ranking position of 212 as it stands. Probably provides a decent option in Davis Cup (whatever that looks like going forwards!), Leon can choose the best singles players (Kyle, Cam, Andy in future perhaps, Dan maybe at some stage, Liam if he gets it back together again??) and maybe pop in Jamie alongside them or Dom and know he can still form a good doubles pairing.

With 5 in a team now, you can afford to and I'd generally be for including what you think is your best doubles partnership in that team. If at least one of these players is also very good at singles and warrants a place for that, all well and good. Though if they are so good such as likely to be down for two singles matches you might still want a further back up doubles specialist.

In general 3 singles specialists is enough, allowing 3 singles specialists and 2 doubles specialists. If one of your proposed doubles players is also more of a singles player all well and good, effectively giving you 4 in the singles mix if needed rather than 3. I certainly woudn't be going in without probably our best doubles player, Jamie for now.

It is great to have players so good at both but in truth the switch from 4 in a team to 5 makes this much less important.