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Vonce · Club Coach

RE: ATP Mumbai

goldenboy · Club Coach

doesn't l0ok like their playing today (friday) in the doubles, but James first up in the singles on court 1 vs tursunov at 6pm in mumbai which is 1:30 here i think!

jamie d must be loving the fact that he turns up, prob gets nice hospitality, and plays 1 match in a week!

tough sf's - should never underestimate "home" opponents but jamie/james would be slight favourites i think

Salmon · Tennis legend

It won't be that easy. Rohan Bopanna is a very good doubles player. He partnered Prakash Amritraj and they reached the finals of ATP Chennai earlier this year, defeating quality teams on their way.

Since then, he has reached three Challenger finals, winning on one occasion.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 01:06, 2006-09-29

Vonce · Club Coach

Didn't say it would be easy, I just said Auckland/Delgado should be really looking to win this match. I'm certainly not overlooking the Indians at all. As since Bopanna is in or just outside the top 150 in the doubles rankings.

-- Edited by Vonce at 02:41, 2006-09-29

goldenboy · Club Coach

they're last (4th match) on centre court, with play starting at 5pm local time, or 12.30pm UK time. At a guess, they'l lbe on about 5pm our time then!

3rd match on, according to the OOP, Ancic is taking on Paes and Quereshi single-handedly! Which may prove a little tough!

Sheddie · administrator

goldenboy wrote:

jamie d must be loving the fact that he turns up, prob gets nice hospitality, and plays 1 match in a week!

tough sf's - should never underestimate "home" opponents but jamie/james would be slight favourites i think

Lol, yeah I expect both Delgy and Auckland are loving it, it must be a world apart from what they're used to, they get free physio and massage treatment in ATPs !!

-- Edited by UltimateBoggoFan at 22:30, 2006-09-29

Sheddie · administrator

goldenboy wrote:

they're last (4th match) on centre court, with play starting at 5pm local time, or 12.30pm UK time. At a guess, they'l lbe on about 5pm our time then!

3rd match on, according to the OOP, Ancic is taking on Paes and Quereshi single-handedly! Which may prove a little tough!

That's good, it should mean that Greenleaf gets to watch it and so can hopefully do some commentary

Lol @ the Ancic match

I think he'll struggle in that one !

Bopanna is ranked 156 in doubles [peaked at 141 in July]. Aswell as reaching that final as a wildcard in ATP Chennai in Jan, he's also reached 3 challenger finals and a semi.

Ghouse plays mainly in futures and sats because his singles ranking has dropped so low. He's ranked 338 in doubles [peaked at 176 in April 2005]. This year he's reached 2 futures finals and 3 satellite finals.

Bopanna is a massive server, like Auckland. Don't know anything about Ghouse's game. He and Ghouse had a superb win in rd1 over Kunitsyn and De Voest. Incidentally this is the first time he and Ghouse have played together since 2005, but the delay has obviously not harmed their partnership !

If Auckland and Delgado hit their best form, I reckon that they have a good chance of winning.

-- Edited by UltimateBoggoFan at 22:43, 2006-09-29

Akhenaten · Pro player

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Akhenaten, here's your next challenge. When was the last time we had 4 Brits in the singles main draws of ATPs plus 2 British pairs in ATP doubles main draws all in the same week [British tournaments don't count].

Sorry, can't do. I've got database of mens singles results, so it's easy for me to query it for singles stats, but I've not got doubles results.