Week 1 - ATP 250 - Tata Open Maharashtra - Pune, India (hard) - doubles

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 1 - ATP 250 - Tata Open Maharashtra - Pune, India (hard) - doubles

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 118 d. (WC) Purav Raja & Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND/IND) CR 341 7-6 6-3

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

L8/R2: Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 118 (56+62) Vs (WC) N.Sriram Balaji & Arjun Kadhe (IND/IND) CR 319 (110/209)

-- Edited by Madadman on Monday 31st of December 2018 04:01:58 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
L8/R2: Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 118 (56+62) Vs (WC) N.Sriram Balaji & Arjun Kadhe (IND/IND) CR 319 (110/209)

The Indians have just dumped out the second seeds, Oswald & Pütz, in three sets.

P.S. What was wrong with calling it the quarter-final? confuse

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Stircrazy wrote:
P.S. What was wrong with calling it the quarter-final?

Good point. I was trying to follow suit from the L16 that had been posted for the first tie. It didn't look right so I added R2. Completely not thinking it's the quarter final. Was obviously out of practice due to the off season!!

wolf · Tennis legend

Luke and Jonny have started their QF against the locals with some very noisy support. As Madadman pointed out the general tennis section, the only way to watch it, in 2019, is on a betting stream.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 118 (56+62) defeated (WC) Sriram Balaji Narayanaswamy & Arjun Kadhe (IND/IND) CR 319 (110+209) by 7-6(5) 6-1 smile

*****

SF: (4) Gerard Granollers & Marcel Granollers (ESP/ESP) CR 117 (92+25) vs Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 118 (56+62)

JonH · All-time great

hurrah!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First tournament of the year, first final:

SF: Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 118 (56+62) defeated (4) Gerard Granollers & Marcel Granollers (ESP/ESP) CR 117 (92+25) by 6-4 3-6 [10-6]

They could have won in in two, having led by a break up to about the half-way point.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Top stuff from Luke & Jonny. The other Semi final is tomorrow.

JonH · All-time great

Excellent and unseeded as well (albeit by one ranking spot). Good start to the season for them!

Jaffa · Challenger level

Did well there to overcome what can only be described as a shocking 4 games in the second set

wolf · Tennis legend

Luke up to LR 51 and Jonny LR 55, and a final win would nudge then up a few more spots. If they can get into the top 40 they should be getting into the Masters draws as they have they have increased the draw sizes to 32. This would be massive for them to play for bigger points and be good if they can do it as quickly as possible so they don't get stuck at the this level.

Jan · Hall of fame

Great start to the new year!

JonH · All-time great

wolf wrote:
Luke up to LR 51 and Jonny LR 55, and a final win would nudge then up a few more spots. If they can get into the top 40 they should be getting into the Masters draws as they have they have increased the draw sizes to 32. This would be massive for them to play for bigger points and be good if they can do it as quickly as possible so they don't get stuck at the this level.

good point Wolf - what size is the draw at IW and Miami, do they only have 32 pairs also or will it be 48?