Week 9 - ATP 500 - Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai, UAE (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 9 - ATP 500 - Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai, UAE (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Sander Gillé & Joran Vliegen (BEL/BEL) CR 52 (26+26) vs (3) Jamie Murray & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 37 (18+19)

L16: (WC) Michael Agwi & Osgar O'Hoisin (IRL/IRL) CR 2881 (2284+597) vs Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 50 (30+20)

wolf · Tennis legend

Mansouri has a WC again this time with a proper partner in Qureshi although they have drawn the top seeds Bopanna/Ebden.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Shame for Luke, they were 9th alts so not sure if hes just knocking around whilst his partner picks up wildcards; must be annoying.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The Irish pair of Agwi and OHara also get a wildcard, as per SC above

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 24th of February 2024 04:48:47 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
The Irish pair of Agwi and OHara also get a wildcard, as per SC above

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 24th of February 2024 04:48:47 PM

Agwi & O'Hoisin even... wink

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
The Irish pair of Agwi and OHara also get a wildcard, as per SC above

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 24th of February 2024 04:48:47 PM
Agwi & O'Hoisin even...

Yes!

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Shame for Luke, they were 9th alts so not sure if hes just knocking around whilst his partner picks up wildcards; must be annoying.

Luke & Mansouri have looked very good as a partnership so hopefully they plan to continue to play together going forward.

If Mansouri can't get in a tournament with Luke and gets another opportunity I just wish him the best for improving his ranking and thus their potential combined ranking. Bopanna & Ebden is as tough a draw as they could get though.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 25th of February 2024 12:24:41 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Shame for Luke, they were 9th alts so not sure if hes just knocking around whilst his partner picks up wildcards; must be annoying.
Luke & Mansouri have looked very good as a partnership so hopefully they plan to continue to play together going forward.
If Mansouri can't get in with Luke and gets other opportunities zi just wish him the best for improving his ranking and thus their potential combined ranking.

Agreed - I think Manaouri got the opportunity and why not take it if he and Luke would not have got it. But Luke must be a little frustrated if hes just there practicing and hoping!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Shame for Luke, they were 9th alts so not sure if hes just knocking around whilst his partner picks up wildcards; must be annoying.
Luke & Mansouri have looked very good as a partnership so hopefully they plan to continue to play together going forward.
If Mansouri can't get in with Luke and gets other opportunities zi just wish him the best for improving his ranking and thus their potential combined ranking.
Agreed - I think Manaouri got the opportunity and why not take it if he and Luke would not have got it. But Luke must be a little frustrated if hes just there practicing and hoping!

Except that he's in the Lille Challenger this week, in a scratch pairing with the American, George Goldhoff, & a bum draw against the top seeds, Frantzen & Jebens. hmm

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Shame for Luke, they were 9th alts so not sure if hes just knocking around whilst his partner picks up wildcards; must be annoying.
Luke & Mansouri have looked very good as a partnership so hopefully they plan to continue to play together going forward.
If Mansouri can't get in with Luke and gets other opportunities zi just wish him the best for improving his ranking and thus their potential combined ranking.
Agreed - I think Manaouri got the opportunity and why not take it if he and Luke would not have got it. But Luke must be a little frustrated if hes just there practicing and hoping!
Except that he's in the Lille Challenger this week, in a scratch pairing with the American, George Goldhoff, & a bum draw against the top seeds, Frantzen & Jebens.

Ok, cool - he must have managed to get some action then, better than nothing !

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 50 (30+20) defeated (WC) Michael Agwi & Osgar O'Hoisin (IRL/IRL) CR 2365 (1778+587) by 6-0 7-6(5)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 50 (30+20) defeated (WC) Michael Agwi & Osgar O'Hoisin (IRL/IRL) CR 2365 (1778+587) by 6-0 7-6(5)

The Irish pair (sans O'Hara!) seem to have made a decent fist of the second set.

Would be good to see Lloyd and Rojer make some headway this week, like Joe and Neal's pairings, none of the three have quite hit the road yet this season. Fortunately, Jamie and Julians pairing (and Luke) seem to be gathering momentum.

indiana · Tennis legend

Still very early days of course but that win currently takes Lloyd & Jean-Julian up to #6 in the live doubles race on 835 points.

Next Brit is Joe with Rajeev at #15 on 610 points

Edit: these ranking position and points figures ( taken from live-tennid.eu ) are actually wrong. See my next post for the correct figures from the ATP site.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 26th of February 2024 02:19:32 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Still very early days of course but that win currently takes Lloyd & Jean-Julian up to #6 in the live doubles race on 835 points.

Next Brit is Joe with Rajeev at #15 on 610 points

It is indeed early days, and I am perhaps being harsh. I think the two back to back Masters events coming up will shake it up. At the moment, the top 12-20 teams feel a bit all over the place and have a few singles predominately players in there, and seem pairs that did well at AO but arent really a long term pairing.