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Michael D


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Dan's result was the most disappointing... This is of course his first tournament after his surprise split from David Felgate, so it's not a good omen on his capacity to go it alone at the moment, without a strong presence in his corner. Both Felgate and Mark Hilton before played extremely prominent roles in Dan's revivals. It will be important who and how he replaces Felgate, but that initial telegraph exclusive said it was unlikely before the US Open.

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So it's just general interest now as opposed to British interest.

The draw is massively unbalanced with the withdrawal of Nadal (primarily) and Thiem. Of the top 10 seeds, the 1,3,5,8 and 9 are all in the top half, whereas it's just the 6 and 7 in the bottom half, and none of them have actually been knocked out yet. Even generally popular (or interesting might be a better word for some) unseeded players like Kyrgios, Wawrinka and Shapovalov have ended up in that stacked top half. Just as well it's not a slam with one day on, one day off, as you'd be quite hard pressed to find show court players or matches from that bottom half. Maybe Zverez can finally get beyond the QF at 1000+ level in 2019, although it'll still be a tall ask. I guess Nishikori-Nishioka is relatively interesting especially with the latter making that speech when he won a title the other year telling everyone that he is not Kei, ha.

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Speak for yourself Ace, plenty of GB interest in the doubles! ;)

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Re that doubles, while Jamie still needs at least one further win to have a chance of remaining GB #1 ahead of Joe, Jamie's younger brother is now inside the live world top 100 at #96.

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Dimitrov & Fognini have withdrawn from the doubles so we now have :

L32: Rajeev Ram (IND) & Joe Salisbury CR 40 (17+23) vs (ALT) Rohan Bopanna & Denis Shapovalov (IND/CAN) CR 131 (39+92)

The winners will face the #1 seeds and joint WR 1s, Cabal & Farah, in the L16.



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Obviously it didn't happen in the singles, but how long do we need to go back to find 4 GB men in the main draw of a masters 1000?

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flamingowings wrote:

Speak for yourself Ace, plenty of GB interest in the doubles! ;)

 Deep joy....



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Jamie/Neal 6-3 3-0* up on Maherbert.

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French pair seem really out of sorts, wonder if they were partying last night?



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L16:  Jamie Murray & Neal Skupski CR 49 (12+37) defeated (5) Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut (FRA/FRA) CR 25 (19+6) by 3 & 3  biggrin



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Jamie could be playing his bro next round; really looking forward to Andy Murray and Lopez against Harrison and arguably the best doubles player in the world right now Jack Sock.

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flamingowings wrote:

Jamie/Neal 6-3 3-0* up on Maherbert.

 Is that there nickname? Really? Yuk. 

 

Well done to jamie and neal nonetheless,  jamie just still top brit in live rankings although outside top 20.



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flamingowings wrote:

Jamie/Neal 6-3 3-0* up on Maherbert.

 Is that there nickname? Really? Yuk. 

 

Well done to jamie and neal nonetheless,  jamie just still top brit in live rankings although outside top 20.

 Yes, I actually quite like it, however, different strokes for different folks biggrin

On another French related note, nice follow up win for Gasquet over LL Delbonis.



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Back to the real stuff is anyone watching Zverev here? 20 Double Faults and generally all over the place. Tsitsipas and Nishikori also out.
May as well give the title to Roger or Novak here.

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And thats Zverev out now as well. The youngsters just havent got it. Medvedev and Khachanov at least are going deep before the big 3 hand it to them. Can see another couple years of the top 3 at this rate. Roger, Rafa and Novak still miles ahead playing at 80 per cent tops most of the time.

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