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With 5 GB players in 4 pairs  ( one pair in each quarter) I think it is worth a separate doubles thread. Let's hope for plenty matches.

L32: Kyle Edmund & Neal Skupski CR 192 (158+34) vs Nikola Mektic & Horacio Zeballos (CRO/ARG) CR 40 (15+25)

L32: Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 40 (19+21) vs Ben McLachlan & Jan-Lennard Struff (JPN/GER) CR 53 (24+29)

L32: Dominic Inglot & Franko Skugor (CRO) CR 57 (27+30) vs Feliciano Lopez & Diego Schwartzman (ESP/ARG) CR 141 (36+105)

L32: (2) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 11 (6+5) vs Rohan Bopanna & Denis Shapovalov (IND/CAN) CR 342 (38+304)

 

An immediate repeat of their Dubai final for Rajeev & Joe. Let's hope for the same result. 



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Lots of singles players in draw, djoko and fognini play raonic and chardy, there's also kyrgios, nishikori, Kyle of course and others. Lots of tough draws for the British pairs also, should be interesting.



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I rate all our draws as too hard to call this time, not confident for a change!



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I see that Bruno has slipped ahead of Jamie in the rankings. His recent extra curricular activity with Melo is now counting in his 18 with Jamie just having 17 counters.



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The entry level for masters doubles has always been pretty fierce with some well ranked pairs not getting in while some other players join in with their singles rankings.

Hopefully if the remaining masters do increase this year from 24 pairs to 32 pairs we will continually have quite a few representatives. Indian Wells and Miami are normally 32 pair fields anyway.

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I forgot that IW has an incentive of a bonus for the player that wins both the singles and doubles titles, hence why I suspect there is a large contingent of singles players playing doubles. Strikes me quite unfair but there you go...

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flamingowings wrote:

I forgot that IW has an incentive of a bonus for the player that wins both the singles and doubles titles, hence why I suspect there is a large contingent of singles players playing doubles. Strikes me quite unfair but there you go...

Especially when they don't even bloody need it!!!  furious



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These are 5 matches the ATP has selected to watch in IW

Matches To Watch
- Herbert/Mahut vs. Isner/Querrey
- Cabal/Farah vs. Zverev/Zverev
- Bryan/Bryan vs. Khachanov/Medvedev
- Djokovic/Fognini vs. Chardy/Raonic
- Murray/Soares vs. Bopanna/Shapovalov

One thing here is that these will be v interesting indicators (at least in the case of the first 3 matches) on that age old doubles specialists v top singles players debates. Even Jaggy might want to keep an eye out on these match ups.

IW often has decent singles players taking part, Miami not so much, so dont really expect many of these to play Miami.

ATP article also picks up Joe and Ram as a pair to watch

www.atptour.com/en/news/indian-wells-2019-doubles-preview

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As much as I enjoy Maherbert, nothing entices me to watch Isner/Querry. I have barely watched Andy play them.

Anyway, slightly off topic but may be of interest in relation to our own players, Herbert will be playing much less doubles to concentrate on his singles career (he may have said this before though...)

 

 



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Due to a number of quick matches, Joe and Rajeev should be on court imminently.

Joe making his Masters 1000 debut.



-- Edited by wolf on Saturday 9th of March 2019 01:02:35 AM

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L32: Ben McLachlan & Jan-Lennard Struff (JPN/GER) CR 53 (24+29) beat Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 40 (19+21) 7-5 6-3

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Shame but not surprised. Mclachlan and struff are strong a d nd doubles is up and down.

I actually think all are lads are fifty fifty chances, hope we get a win somewhere.

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Joe has done amazingly well to get here, it is worth considering the massive leap he has made for example Maclachlan was a much stronger college tennis player than Joe, although his wiki page has no mention of a college career. In his final year he was playing no 1 singles for Cal and made the all conference first team. Cal is a very strong tennis programme (Jack Molloy presently plays 3) in one of the three strongest power conferences his doubles record include a Nothwest regional win with his coach, his brother Ricki.

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Kyle and Neal on today as is Jamie. Nice warm up for Kyle.

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Kyle & Neal soon to start

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