Doubles Draw

Bhupathi/Zimonjic are the top seeds and Ram/Erlich are the second seeds.

Murray teams up Jordan Kerr for this one, while in the other half of the draw Butorac teams up with Ashley Fisher. Don't they need any practice together before the U.S. Open?!

Results for 20 August 2007

Doubles First Round

[1] M. Bhupathi/ N. Zimonjic d. N. Almagro/ F. Verdasco 7-5 6-3
F. Cermak/ L. Friedl d. [3] S. Aspelin/ J. Knowle 7-5 6-4

Hey, is play rained off cos I can't see any scores at New Haven?

Yep, still raining! This will be a headache for the organisers- players won't want a to have to play two matches in a day just before the slam!

I know! Well there is still no play as far as I can tell. I hate ti with predictions when you get shceduling problems as it is hard to keep up. If we do crap we can blame the weather though roflmao

First shock of the tournament-

A. Kuznetsov/ R. Sweeting d. J. Erlich/ A. Ram 7-6 6-2

The Israeli duo must be a bit tired after their masters win last week.

J. Kerr/ J. Murray d S. Lipsky/ D. Martin 6-4 7-5

E. Butorac/ A. Fisher d. P. Starace/ F. Volandri 6-3 6-2


Congrats to Stretch and Booty for winning their matches with their respective partners. According to Butorac (Murray doesn't seem to bother with their website now!) they "were hoping to play together this week, but ended up splitting to help get Fisher and Kerr into the tourney as well. "

Murray should be particularly pleased after beating Lipsky and Martin who he and Butorac had lost to 3 weeks in a row a few weeks back.

:yahoo: Go stretch and Booty!!!!! :yahoo: hopefully this bodes well for the US Open :pray:

Results for Wednesday 22 August 2007

Doubles - First Round

Levinsky/Perry d Hrbaty/Kohlmann vs 76(2) 61
[WC] Kuznetsov/Sweeting d [2] Erlich/Ram 76(2) 61
Butorac/Fisher d Starace/Volandri 63 62
Kerr/J Murray d [WC] Lipsky/Martin 64 75
[4] Fyrstenberg/Matkowski d Allegro/Clement 63 76(5)

Results for Thursday 23 August 2007

Doubles - Quarterfinals

[1] Bhupathi/Zimonjic d Ferrer/Montanes 76(3) 76(3)
[4] Fyrstenberg/Matkowski d Levinsky/Perry 62 62
Butorac/Fisher d Cermak/Friedl 62 64
Kerr/J Murray d [WC] Kuznetsov/Sweeting 36 63 10-5 (Match TB)

eeerm - does that mean that butorac and Murray are going to be playing again one another in the semis? I haven't been paying much attention this week :blush:

No, they're in different halves. Murray and Kerr are first on court (3pm here) of all the matches today and face M. Matkowski and M. Fyrstenberg who are seeded 4.

Butorac and Fisher seem to have the tougher match against Bhupathi and Zimonjic. Think they should be on about 9.30pm.

No luck for Murray and Kerr today. They've been convincingly beaten 6-2 6-3 by the number 4 seeds. The match only lasted 51 minutes!

In the other semi-final Bhupathi and Zimonjic have just taken a close first set 7-5. The set lasted 43 minutes- nearly as long as the entire other semi-final!

:( :( :(

Results for Friday 24 August 2007

Doubles - Semifinals

[1] Bhupathi/Zimonjic d. Butorac/Fisher 7-5 7-6
[4] Fyrstenberg/Matkowski d. Kerr/J Murray 6-2 6-3

oh, that bodes well for Butorac and Murray for the US - or maybe not :unsure:

so winning wimbledon was just a joke and worthy of a mention on his CV then? :unsure:

Results for Saturday 25 August 2007

Doubles - Final

[1] Bhupathi/Zimonjic d. [4] Fyrstenberg/Matkowski 6-3 6-3