Bangkok Doubles 1st Rnd: A Murray/J Murray vs Dancevic/Ginepri

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Bangkok Doubles 1st Rnd: A Murray/J Murray vs Dancevic/Ginepri

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

Madeline wrote:

As Jamie has lost his regular doubles partner, and Auckland doesn't have one, I would really like to see these two get together and see how they gel. They could make a really good pair if it works.

Jamie Delgado is Auckland's regular doubles partner, they've played the majority of their doubles tournaments with each other. Auckland has also had the most success with Andy so far [though of course that could change this week].

There's a lot at stake for Jamie as if he starts doing really well with Andy, not only will he move into the top 100 and higher, he'll also be almost guaranteed a DC live rubber

I have to call you on this one, UBF. It depends how you define "majority". He has admittedly played more with Delgado than anybody else, but only 5 out of 17 Tournaments.

Jamie Delgado 5 - 1 GS 1 IS, 3 Ch
Andy Murray 3 - 2 GS, 1 IS
Richard Bloomfield 3 - 2 Ch 1 Fu
Lee Childs 2 - 2Fu
Paul Capdeville 1 - 1 Ch
Jonny Marray 1 - 1 Ch
Jeroen Masson 1 - 1 Ch
Largs Bergsmuller 1 - 1 IS

I wouldn't call that regular in comparison with Bjorkman/Mirnyi, the Bryan Bros etc!

Sheddie · administrator

Well I thought that he'd played with Delgado more times than with anyone else but for some reason I thought that they'd played a lot more tournaments together this year.

Jamie Murray on their rd1 win:

"So we pulled through in the doubles yesterday..i was psyched! we won 3-6 7-6 and then 10-0 in the deciding tie break! I don’t think I could do that again if I tried! I thought we played pretty well but never got the breaks we deserved…I would have been very disappointed to lose as we were a better team than them but thats the way it can go with the new scoring system in doubles…"

Full blog here: http://andymurray.com/about/news/28-09/jamies-blog-from-bangkok-part-2/

"Andy said that they got off to bad start - first 3 games went to deuce - i.e next point wins…they lost all 3! Second set went with serve to the breaker where they went 5-3 up then fell behind again and saved a matchpoint with a smash from Jamie followed by a smash from Andy. Then they stormed the deciding breaker 10-0…….Andy said he played really well and could only remember missing one volley all match - a tricky pick up volley. Jamie got better and better as the match went on and volleyed particularly well in the deciding breaker.”