I haven't checked this myself, but saw this on twitter:-
Playing doubles in Rome - Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov, Boran Coric, Denis Shapovalov, Frances Tiafoe, Fabio Fognini, David Goffin, Karen Khachanov, Juan Martin Del Potro, and Diego Schwartzman
So many sad(?) faces there SC! Including one for Joe's match when actually Joe & partner are higher ranked. I can only assume its because they are facing Argentineans on clay. Plenty of singles players in the doubles draw this time too...
I haven't checked this myself, but saw this on twitter:-
Playing doubles in Rome - Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov, Boran Coric, Denis Shapovalov, Frances Tiafoe, Fabio Fognini, David Goffin, Karen Khachanov, Juan Martin Del Potro, and Diego Schwartzman
The only player - in my opinion who is a bit on that list is Dimitrov given the fact that for a while he has been withdrawing from tournaments left right & centre this year. Everyone else can either play doubles, are wanting matches (often from injury/poor form) or in Fog's case, Italian (which is the same as giving British players a chance in our tournaments)
I haven't checked this myself, but saw this on twitter:-
Playing doubles in Rome - Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov, Boran Coric, Denis Shapovalov, Frances Tiafoe, Fabio Fognini, David Goffin, Karen Khachanov, Juan Martin Del Potro, and Diego Schwartzman
RE: Goffin, he's doing Chardy a favour as Chardy was meant to be playing with Mahut but Mahut is injured.
Disappointing loss. To be honest, Kyle and Neal look like most likely winners from the others, although perhaps Joe and Rajeev will overcome Schwartzmann playing with a different partner.
Hoping we pull off 2 wins from the others, probably only one though...
Soares not happy with the court conditions, he's told by the umpire they've been playing with it how it is so far so they're not going to stop now.
10:56 AM - 12 May 2019
Rome can be very dusty and less consistent than other clay events presumably that's what bruno means. He needn't worry as he wont be playing here any more this year.