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Less of the big names playing doubles this week, but still a few.

Nadal/Gasquet have teamed up

Murray/Bhupathi are drawn to meet the Bryans in the second round

Butorac is playing with Sam Querry - they've got a wild card in to the draw

and Djokovic is playing with fellow Serb Zimonijc

Gonzo and Ljubicic are teaming up again as well.

Thanks for that. Looks like a few there should be a few interesting games.

Hopefully Bhupathi's good run will continue with Murray. I don't think they should be daunted by the Bryans as a second round match. Although the twins have dominated the last few years they still lose quite a few matches.

Nice to see Nadal and Djoko in the doubles draw again

Only one double result on Monday 13 August 2007

Doubles - First Round
J Benneteau (FRA) / A Clement (FRA) d G Canas (ARG) / M Garcia (ARG) 64 46 10-7 (Match TB)

Results for Tuesday 14th August 2007

Doubles - First Round

D Tursunov (RUS) / R Wassen (NED) d (alt) D Hrbaty (SVK) / P-H Mathieu (FRA) 46 62 10-5 (Match TB)
N Djokovic (SRB) / N Zimonjic (SRB) d [WC] E Butorac (USA) / S Querrey (USA) 63 64
T Berdych (CZE) / N Kiefer (GER) d F Gonzalez (CHI) / I Ljubicic (CRO) 64 76(2)
[WC] A Delic (USA) / J Isner (USA) d A Pavel (ROU) / A Waske (GER) 76(5) 75

MissS - you're a star! Thanks for posting results - i'm not being very organised this week :unsure:

am glad Tursunov won, and the Serbian pair of Djoko/Zimonijc are doing well :ok:

No worries, like said, any distraction from dissertation writing is a welcome one! :)

Hopefully Murray the elder will do better than his brother today!

shocking behaviour!!! :P

hopefully murray will do better than his former partner as well :unsure:

Ah, what kind of dissertation are you writing? And in what subject?

Looks like Jamie is off to a good start; they've just won the first set, and are up an early break in the second :ok:

Back on serve, sadly ... 2-3 ... Come on, Jamie!

Good god. They had 13 (!) break points this match, and only converted 2 ...

Looks like it's heading for another tie-break.

Considering that Murray/Bhupathi held 13 break points, and their opponents only 3, one would have thought that the match should be over by now ... :wacko:

They're up a mini-break though :clap:

Back on serve in the tie-break again :angry:

4-4.

Oh no! Now Murray/Bhupathi are a mini-break down, and face set point! :yikes:

And there goes the second set. :(

No-one following this? Admittedly, it's already quite late ...

For anyone's information who's still up - they took the sorry excuse for a third set 10-3. :yahoo: :bigwave:

:bigwave: woooo!!!!!

Yay! Bring on the Bryans!

MissS - did you get my PM yesterday?

Hey, just sent a PM back, sorry only just checked!

Results for Wednesday 15 August 2007

Doubles - First Round
M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) d F Cermak (CZE) / J Nieminen (FIN) 63 36 10-5 (Match TB)
M Bhupathi (IND) / J Murray (GBR) d J Monaco (ARG) / T Perry (AUS) 76(1) 67(5) 10-3 (Match TB)
N Almagro (ESP) / D Ferrer (ESP) d J Melzer (AUT) / T Robredo (ESP) 63 63


Doubles - Second Round
[5] P Hanley (AUS) / K Ullyett (ZIM) d [WC] A Delic (USA) / J Isner (USA) 76(5) 36 11-9 (Match TB) - Saved 1 M.P.
[7] L Dlouhy (CZE) / P Vizner (CZE) d D Tursunov (RUS) / R Wassen (NED) 62 63

I agree. Bhupati is a very experienced quality player, look at last week - he won with Vizner. The Bryans are not invincible at all Not so sure that Jamie shoudl have split form Booty though - I thought they made a good pair and were growing together into a good team.

Hopefully they'll do well against the Bryans (although I have predicted a 2-0 loss lol :blush: ).

Think when we look back the split with Booty will have been a wise one. Still not sure if they are playing together at the US though...

Well well well. The itches beat Bjorkman and Mirnyi 10-7 in the Champions Tie Break. They're another pair who haven't been in form of late!

the itches!!! :lmaao: :lmaao: :lmaao:

Murray lost I see :(

Yep, straight sets. I guess the Bryans were determined not to lose the Bhupathi after last weeks final!

Results for Thursday 16 August 2007

Doubles - Second Round

[3] M Knowles (BAH) / D Nestor (CAN) d M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) 76(10) 64
N Djokovic (SRB) / N Zimonjic (SRB) d [2] J Bjorkman (SWE) / M Mirnyi (BLR) 67(5) 64 10-7 (Match TB)
[6] J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR) d N Almagro (ESP) / D Ferrer (ESP) 61 64
[4] M Damm (CZE) / L Paes (IND) d J Benneteau (FRA) / A Clement (FRA) 64 75
[8] S Aspelin (SWE) / J Knowle (AUT) d T Berdych (CZE) / N Kiefer (GER) 75 64
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d M Bhupathi (IND) / J Murray (GBR) 6-3 6-2.

Early start for the doubles today- Dlouhy/Vizner are currently playing Knowles/Nestor. The 7th seeds are currently a set up against the 3rd seeds.

Erlich/Ram vs The Itches could be unpredictable.

Damm/Paes vs Hanley/Ullyett is always a good match to watch.

Bryans should overcome Aspelin and Knowle but in this heat, you never know!

this not having deuce is really really annoying :banghead: you just lose those epic games :(

I know it's ridiculous.

The Itches haven't turned up today- two breaks of serve to Erlich and Ram after only 8 minutes!

honestly, you get the feeling that eventually doubles will turn in to trhe players flipping a coin to decide who wins :angry:

Goodness me, call myself a doubles fan? I predicted a win for Knowles and Nestor who have just lost 6-4 7-5 and a win in three for the Itches who are losing the first set 4-0!

but do you think that perhaps the new rules have made it more unpredictable? maybe that's a good thing??? (except for our predictions of course :angry: )

It's nice to have unpredictable matches and it does mix things up but on the other hand the tb is as much, if not more, to do with luck as it is with skill. I know that applies to all sport at times but still, BRING BACK THE THIRD SET!

:(

Not a disaster against the Bryans, though. Apparently he's down to play New Haven, but doesn't have a partner yet. :o

To be honest, I can live with the deciding tie-break (at least outside of grand slams). I'm not a big fan yet, but I think I can get used to it.

This business of having no deuce on the other hand ... :angry:

BRING BACK DEUCE! :devil:

Personally i can deal with the Final set tie breaker thing-y mahjig. What I HATE with a real passion is the no advantage thing!!! I mean WHY?!

Yeah the advantage thing is much worse and non-sensical!