Weeks 10 & 11 - ATP 1000 - BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard) - DOUBLES

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 10 & 11 - ATP 1000 - BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells, CA, USA (hard) - DOUBLES

Madadman · Top national player

JonH comes home wrote:
Madadman wrote:
Apparently Indian Wells are putting on a last minute 8 team mixed doubles tournament to start Wednesday.
Any Brits in it?

No draw yet, letter went to players Monday evening. So assume a Tuesday sign in deadline. Might hear something this evening.
https://x.com/stu_fraser/status/1767408686283022838?s=46&t=HQ-l_ZmPv-CnAm8WRXRGZA

-- Edited by Madadman on Tuesday 12th of March 2024 11:43:11 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
9vicman wrote:
Madadman wrote:
Apparently Indian Wells are putting on a last minute 8 team mixed doubles tournament to start Wednesday.
Another one? They had the tiebreak 10s event before the start of the competition.
Did they? I quite like teibreak tens as a concept. Who played this time?

Very brief video summary. Lots of big names involved

https://bnpparibasopen.com/news/behind-the-scenes-at-tie-break-10s

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (7) Kevin Krawietz & Tim Pütz (GER/GER) CR 33 (15+18) defeated Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 54 (35+19) by 6-3 5-7 [10-8] hmm

brittak · Pro player

Yep Lloyd+ out.
They did well to get it to the final tiebreak as the German pair had largely been the better earlier on
Thought Lloyds partner was the weaker link and a nice bit of sportsmanship from Lloyd in the second set of when a ball was called out and the score given but Lloyd acknowledged he had touched it on the way and gave the point to his opponents. Nice to see.

brittak · Pro player

Will need to look into XD 10s
Katie was still here today supporting Alex. . .

brittak · Pro player

Just found draw for XD
Joes in playing with Ena Shibahara from Japan (she played brilliantly today in knocking out Gauff/Pegula with her partner Asia Muhammad).

-- Edited by brittak on Wednesday 13th of March 2024 04:42:22 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Here is the draw

x.com/josemorgado/status/1767762878826705021

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Here is the draw

x.com/josemorgado/status/1767762878826705021

Not very exciting really, in terms of entrants. i read somewhere that this is linked to the Saudi deal CD reported, all the 1000 events over 10 days will be introducing this; not sure if that is correct or not.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Austin Krajicek goes to world number one, despite losing in the quarters.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Neal and Santiago leave Indian wells as our top ranked team (part team) in the race, at 11th. Strange not seeing any Brits in the top 8 pairs, recognising its still early days of course

9vicman · Strong Club Player

Interesting that Koolhof and Mektic are proving to be the consistent pair of 2024 to date. Their victory in Indian Wells is their third title in six events.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
Interesting that Koolhof and Mektic are proving to be the consistent pair of 2024 to date. Their victory in Indian Wells is their third title in six events.

Turning out Koolhof got it right, maybe.

any more news on Harri H and new partner - he and Peers are in Miami together. I tried reading Harris blog but my phone wont translate Finnish and the blog post is too long to put into google translate so I cant read what he has said!