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Weeks 3 & 4 - Australian Open (hard) - doubles


Close !

Found myself preferring Luke & Jonny to win, much as I like Jamie and that he & Bruno had probably had more chance of going all the way but we were winners either way. Great effort.

Now go Jamie & Bruno, been with you all the way  



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Really promising for Luke and Johnny who can only get better, what fantastic progress for them both, very mindful of Lukes brutally honest podcast he did with Mike C where he discussed his commitment to making it as a doubles player and had his own timeframe to get to a viable level. He must have exceeded his targets by some way. Jamie and Bruno obviously an elite pairing.

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Stircrazy wrote:
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L64:  (10) Dominic Inglot & Franko Skugor (CRO) CR 45 (20+25) defeated Taro Daniel & John Millman (JPN/AUS) UNR (0+250) by 5 & 3

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L32:  (10) Dominic Inglot & Franko Skugor (CRO) CR 45 (20+25) vs Marcelo Demoliner & Frederik Nielsen (BRA/DEN) CR 126 (69+57)

L32:  (12) Henri Kontinen & John Peers (FIN/AUS) CR 56 (28+28) defeated Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 87 (55+32) by 3 & 4


L32:  (3) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 14 (7+7) defeated Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 106 (51+55) by 3-6 6-2 7-5  smile  cry

Not that much in it, going by the stats, though Luke & Jonny served more aces AND double faults...

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L16:  (3) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 14 (7+7) vs Kevin Krawietz & Nikola Mektic (GER/CRO) CR 84 (70+14)

The German-Croat pair took out the 13th seeds, Dodig & ERV, in striaght sets in the second round...


L32:  Marcelo Demoliner & Frederik Nielsen (BRA/DEN) CR 126 (69+57) defeated (10) Dominic Inglot & Franko Skugor (CRO) CR 45 (20+25) by 3 & 2  bleh

L32:  (11) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 49 (22+27) defeated Pablo Cuevas & Fernando Verdasco (URU/ESP) UNR (0+83) by 3 & 2  smile

L32:  Jack Sock & Jackson Withrow (USA/USA) UNR defeated Taylor Fritz (USA) & Cameron Norrie CR 396 (209+187) by 6-7(6) 6-3 7-6(8)  cry

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L16:  (5) Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut (FRA/FRA) CR 23 (11+12) vs (11) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 49 (22+27)



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Good effort by cam and Fritz. Sock and withrow may well win this event

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Joe and Rajeev look good, tough draw ahead of them but nothing well

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Jamie and Joe not playing until Monday now.

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JonH wrote:

Jamie and Joe not playing until Monday now.


 Well, Joe isn't but Jamie is in the mixed, Bruno is there too(partner Nicole Melichar - didn't she play with Anna for a while? - as is Neal & Dom.



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Jamie and Joe not playing until Monday now.


 Well, Joe isn't but Jamie is in the mixed, Bruno is there too(partner Nicole Melichar - didn't she play with Anna for a while? - as is Neal & Dom.


 True, I was thinking men's doubles though. 



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Jamie and Joe not playing until Monday now.


 Well, Joe isn't but Jamie is in the mixed, Bruno is there too(partner Nicole Melichar - didn't she play with Anna for a while? - as is Neal & Dom.


Yes Anna and Nicole played successfully together in late 2017, and then at the beginning of 2018 Nicole went on to partner with Kveta Peschke, who she is still partnering with now. Interesting that Peschke is now 43 whilst Melichar is 'only' 25.  



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L16:  (3) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 14 (7+7) beat Kevin Krawietz & Nikola Mektic (GER/CRO) CR 84 (70+14) by  6-7(3) 6-2 7-5  

QF:  (3) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 14 (7+7) vs (12) Henri Kontinen & John Peers (FIN/AUS) CR 56 (28+28)



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Joe & Rajeev a set up and now starting a 2nd set TB.

6-4 6-6

C'mon !

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Were 5-2* up in the TB then from *5-4 served 2 consecutive DFs ( just the pair's 2nd and 3rd of the match ) and lost the following point and the set.

6-4 6-7(5) ...



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Missed put on a couple of BPs in the Frenchmen's first service game of Set 3.

Now 1/6 on BPs as against 0/1 ( don't think there were any BPs in set 2 ).

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0-30* and 30-40* but manage to save just the 2nd BP they have faced in the match and lead on serve

3-2*

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This time Joe & Rajeev miss out on a BP.

*3-3

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