L16: Shinji Hazawa & Yamato Sueoka (JPN/JPN) CR 1028 (459+569) vs (2) Charles Broom & Mark Whitehouse CR 511 (287+224)
Charles & Mark won in a MTB.
Golly gosh, an all British partnership!
Now I know that pro tennis is very much an international game and no doubt most partnerships are mixed nationalities.
But looking through all this week's tournament threads I make it that this is the only men's or women's all British partnership ( Oliver Crawford & David Stevenson were due to be partners in Guangzhou but withdrew ).
Meanwhile I make it that this week there are 29 instances of a Brit partnering another nationality ( 15 men and 14 women ).
Plenty tournaments with a number of GB players players competing and 2 or 3 in doubles, with the absolute being the normal huge men's squad in Tunisia and 5 in doubles, none of whom are partnering each other.
Now while as I said absolutely fair enough and understandable that the majority of partnership are mixed nationalities. But still in the various draws I see loads this week that are from the same nation yet the Brits seem to be actively avoiding each other. Very strange.
Ha, the France 25+H doubles draw hasn't yet been posted and there are 5 all British partnerships in that!
It has now! I must have been typing as you were posting, Indy! The number of Brits involved meant that it took a while. For the record, how may of the Brit+pesky partnerships this week are at tournaments where the Brit happens to be ploughing a lone furrow?