who is your favourite doubles team?

when Mary and Lindsay teamed up it was great fo me because they were my 2 fave singles players, but the best long term partneship for me was Fernanez and Zvereva. Not only were they great together as players, but their fiendship shone though on the court and it made great viewing, especially Zvereva, she always looked so happy, even when Steffi routed her in '88 she was smiling thoughout :)

The first team I remember watching and thinking that they played really well was the Raymond/Stubbs pairing so I think I'd say them.

Suarez/Pascual were always fun to watch with their smiling and laughing!

Not a team, but I watched Navratilova play in her second wind at doubles and was in awe of her reflexes at the net!

I dont like Navvy, but i loved watching her play, as you say, in her second wind. Its been a great story following her career at the later stages

1. Venus/Serena :D

2. Suarez/Pascal :D

3. Davenport/Morrariu :D

4. Black/Huber- Black has some of the best skills i've ever seen in doubles.

5. Pierce/Davenport :D

Yeah Black is a great player- She's been in the end of year championshop 8 years in a row!

I really liked the pairing of Julie Harlard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama and later Clijsters/Sugiyama.

I also was a massive fan of Lina Krasnoroutskaya/ Elena Dementieva who took out the Williams Sisters in a dramatic 3rd round encounter at Wimbledon back in 04 or 03....shame Lina had to get injured...then pregnant...she's now a tv presenter for Russian tv.

Yeah, Sugi is a great doubles player and has had quite a few successful partnerships- the one with Clijsters being the best I think!

Yeah they were really good but they didn't play after 2003 (I think). I guess Kimmy had tasted being number 1 and was focusing on her singles career from then on which is a shame but with her injury prone body I guess it was a sensible move.

Ai is such a compact player and has been as high as number 8 in singles - she has also reached the QF stage at Wimbledon and Australian, and I think 4th round at the other two. She really proves that you can do well in both disciplines...as do Stosur and Likhovtseva :)

crap, i bet you lot were too young to appreciate Gigi and Natasha then :cry: roflmao

I've seen vids of them Liam, i always liked Zvereva as a singles player. Gigi had a wondeful backhand volley as i recall and a bit of a temper roflmao

I've also seen some clips of Vicario/Novotna when they won Wimby in 1995 :D

Fraid so! I saw Novotna play at Wimbledon back in the early 1990s and remember enjoying watching Sanchez Vicario play but wasn't really old enough to fully appreciate the skill etc that is involved in tennis.

Guess who my favourite doubles team is :D

Hmm that's a tough one! I saw them win Wimbledon in, I think, 2002.

Yes you did :bow:

They haven't won a Grand Slam together since 2003 unfortunately :(

They did play and win one match this year at Wimbledon, so that's something I suppose :lol:

no contest, Hingis/Kournikova :D :wub:

It was great when Venus and Serena beat them in the RG 99 final :D

What a disaster that tourny was for Martina roflmao

oi :tsk:

well at least they have a YECs tournament win :P

At least Venus/Serena have a couple of Wimby titles :D

that's coz they never played together at wimbly :P

besides hingis has 4 wimbledon titles B)

So does Venus- and that's just in singles roflmao

roflmao i know, i expected that reply :P

well she doesn't have any australian opens :D

She has three- her mixed doubles and her title with Serena :D roflmao

i'm scraping the barrel for Aussie wins roflmao

roflmao

well now there's no more stepanek, maybe there could be an aussie 4 down the line :P

Doubt it, the Aussie open is owned by Serena now :D

But i suppose no Radek will help roflmao

well last time serena was the champion, she went out in the third round and venus went out in the first roflmao

yep no more stepanek, means 100% focus on tennis again :cheers:

Last time Hingis was champion was nearly a decade ago Obliv roflmao

At least Venus and Serena have been a bit more current roflmao

well she missed nearly five years of it though :P (if ya count half of 02 and half of 07)

and venus only looks capable of winning wimbledon every two years, everywhere else she is rubbish roflmao

Well she's still winning majors Obliv, which is more than i can say for Mrs stepanek roflmao

oops, she's split up :P

:tsk:

well i can see hingis doing a venus wimbledon 2005, and winning a slam from nowhere :P

did you know safarova and peer have better odds than her for the us open? roflmao

Over Hingis? roflmao

Aah well, i think she'll make the round of 16 :)

yeah, but they were 50/1, dementieva 60/1, hingis 66/1, hantuchova 100/1 and your favourite schnyder was 100/1 too roflmao

seriously what do they base it on? it wouldn't be the rankings :huh:

no suprises that henin is the favourite :rolleyes:

They probably based it on current form and hingis's recent inuries Obliv. hingis would've been much higher usually :)

I dont think henin should be regarded as the huge fav, the US Open has never been her best slam. She's certainly not as well equipped to win there as she is at the French. And sharapova at 11/2 :rolleyes:

I like venus's odds though :D

i reckon kuznetsova might do it, and 27/1 appeals to me B)

i would fancy putting a cheeky £1 on hingis :P

i think if hingis gets a decent draw, which doesn't look likely as she's 17th atm, then she could get to the second week :)

But Kuzy's a total headcase though Obliv roflmao

She might bomb out in round 1 :lol:

i know, but i have this feeling that a russian is going to win it, and i don't mean a certain american russian :rolleyes:

i would have made serena favourite, but this thumb injury may hamper her chances. apparently henin is suppost to have some shoulder injury too :huh:

Too true mon ami :(

i hope serena recovers in time, we need her there :(