I agree with Madeline - it must be pretty frustrating when you are a guy who likes to craft points and suddenly there is someone else there who isn't on the same page as you and can't do the things you would normally do. Andy's game is probably never going to translate well on a doubles court unless he plays his more attacking net game which is still very much in the transition phase.

One of the match reports says that the problem with what is going on in DC now is that we have to watch that Andy doesn't get dragged down to the level of the guys he's playing with, and instead hope that the guys he's playing with raise their level to meet him.

I think today was a prime example of him playing alongside a guy who, with all due respect to Jamie, isn't on the same level talent wise and him not having the experience or knowledge of how to overcome that without getting frustrated at his own game because of it. We already know that Andy's not a great doubles player - although he is trying to play more doubles to improve that, and it's times like that where you hope the experienced doubles player would take control and lead by example. That's why I believe Auckland should have been in the team - him and Andy have experience with each others games, they play doubles a fair bit and they get on really well.

No excuses for getting broken twice on double faults though - although that goes back to the whole serving issue he has in his singles game as well so it would be naive to think he wouldn't have the same problems in doubles considering how often he gets broken normally.