JonH comes home wrote:

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It shows our doubles strength is... strong !

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Very good but we mustnt miss the wood for the trees.

The health of any nations tennis from a professional perspective, ie when compared to its other professional sports sits with the number of singles wins. Maximising the quality of doubles play is all well and good, I like doubles, it is a game that allows you to keep playing tennis as you get older and cant cope with the athletic demands of singles play.

It is a bit like the way in which you put a journal together can significantly affect its impact factor which is reliant on the number of times an article is quoted by others. Reducing the number of original articles whilst rejecting them and encouraging them to be re submitted as letters, the letters section counts as one article, is a classical way a new editor can show a perceived. immediate impact on quality. A good letters page is all well and good bit like doubles wins but the number and impact of original articles is what really counts when assessing performance. Indeed a comparison of the two is a useful quality metric and marker of the amount of gaming going on/sensible decision making by players with limited prospects in the singles game.

JonH comes home wrote:

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so, just a teaser - it is that time again and i will be posting the prediction competition for the fo in the next two weeks. remember, we got 23 wins at the ao, indiana was the nearest predictor.

does anyone know if we have mixed this year at the french, presumably yes?

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 Mixed dubs is back, yes - BBC article