The Draw is out!

Stretch and Booty are seeded 16 but unfortunately for them face a 3rd round match (if they get that far!) against #2 seeds Knowles and Nestor! Other pairings in this bottom half include Wimbledon champs Clement/Llodra, Hanley/Ullyett and Bjorkman/Mirnyi.

The top half of the draw should be interesting with seeds including Bhupathi/Zimonjic, the Bryans, Erlich/Ram and Damm/Paes.

Top- half matches start today.

when is the mixed doubles draw released MissS - do you know?

Not sure. It was the first Wednesday at Wimbledon I think so I'm guessing it will be about the same time for the USO.

Some quite interesting first round match ups here:

the number 4 seeds Damn/Paes get to play Benneteau/Mahut - not sure about Mathut's form on hard courts, but i don't think this is the easiest match for the Damn/Paes

Bhupathi/Zimonijc have got the Russians Tursunov/Kunitsyn in the first round. I think these two have been playing a fair amount of doubles together over the last few months, so they could challenge the 6th seeds here.

Grosjean/Tipsarevic have been drawn against the polish 12th seeds FYRSTENBERG / MATKOWSKI - these guys can be a bit inconsistent i think, so if Grosjean/Tipsarevic have a good day they could pull off a win here i reckon.

And the 2nd seeds (who will meet Butorac/Murray in the 3rd round) Knowles/Nestor are playing baghdatis/Wawrinka in the 1st round. i wonder whether Baggy will be looking to make amends for his singles loss yesterday?

Looking at Knowles/Nestor's draw it's not that easy really:

Baggy/Wawrinka, then possibly Vliegen/Allegro, then Butorac/Murray, then the Wimby champs Clement/Llodra in the quarters - with various teams capable of making it to the semis to meet them, including the third seeds Bjorkman/Miryni.

At first glance, the Bryan Brothers draw looks easier.......

ok, quick correction - according to the draw Knowles/Nestor are playing baggy/wawrinka in the first round. according to the OOP released today, they're playing Azzaro/Volandri :wacko:

kuerten has entered the doubles with robby ginepri.

Nice to see Kuerten competing. They'll have a tough match against Melo and Sa though!

Re: Baghdatis and Warwinka- I assume they must have pulled out? Maybe Baggy just wanted to get out of NYC after his first round loss? :shrug:

eeerm, have the men's doubles always been best of 3 at the US Open?

Is it best of 5 at all the other slams???

Think all the other slams have been like that for a while now :angry: that's why Wimbledon is the best!

Round 1- Tuesday 28 August 2007

[12]Frystenberg/ Matkowski bt Grosjean/ Tipsarevic 7-6 (7-4) 6-3
[5]Hanley/ Ullyett bt Gicquel/ Rochus 6-4 6-2
Granollers-Pujol/ Lopez bt Roitman/ Starace 6-3 6-4
Kuznetsov/ Levine bt Hrbaty/ Levy 6-1 6-4
[3]Bjorkman/ Mirnyi bt Damico/ Schnugg 6-4 6-2
[9] Dlouhy/ Vizner bt Lipsky/ Martin 1-6 6-4 6-3
[2] Knowles/ Nestor bt Azzaro/ Volandri 6-1 6-2
Kohlmann/ Schuettler bt Kas/ Peya 6-2 7-5

I noticed that the mixed doubles starts today, and when i last checked the draw *still* wasn't up on the US Open site :angry:

Lol, great minds! Just found that out too but have still set up the MD thread.

good start for knowles/nestor. their likely quarter opponents would be clement/llodra, and i like the frenchmen's chances. solid on the hardcourts - as well as the dip in form from the no. 2 seeds since the french is fairly noticeable.

Wednesday 29 August 2007

Round 1

Mertinak/ Pala bt Levinsky/ Perry 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 5-2
Lee/ Parrott bt Bolelli/ Ljubicic 3-6 7-5 7-6 (7-1)
Haggard/ Johansson bt Auckland/ Becker 3-6 6-4 6-2
Lindstedt/ Nieminen bt Mathieu/ Roger-Vasselin 7-6 (7-3) 6-3
[13]Coetzee/ Wassen bt Acasuso/ Monaco 6-4 6-4
[15]Cermak/ Friedl bt Montanes/ Ramirez Hidalgo 4-6 6-1 6-4
[10]Aspelin/ Knowle bt Kubot/ Skoch 6-2 6-2
[7]Clement/ Llodra bt Kohlschreiber/ Koubek 6-3 6-3
Calleri/ Horna bt Ram/ Young 6-4 4-6 6-4
Massu/ Spadea bt Garcia/ Prieto 6-2 1-6 6-3
Kerr/ Phillips bt [14]Moodie/ Santoro 6-1 7-5
Serra/ Simon bt Almagro/ Navarro Pastor 6-1 6-2
Kendrick/ Querrey bt Cibulec/ Suk 6-3 6-3

I'm confused, the USO website said that AUckland lost but the BBC website said that they won????

I don't think they won, I was watching the livescore last night. I got my results of the beeb this morning and they said he'd lost.

No big shocks there then......Murray senior in action today :ok:

Yep, I saw their opponents (Behrend/Mayer) play at Wimbledon this year and they played the most boring doubles match I've ever seen so fingers crossed for Stretch and Booty! :ok:

Damm/Paes won't be defending their title as they've just lost 7-6 3-6 4-6.

:blink:

to Benneteau and Mahut i see - i did wonder if they could be a dangerous pairing - just wasn't sure of their hardcourt form.

i see Mr Tursunov is out of the doubles as well :hug:

Jamie M is on court, he and Booty are currently 2-1 up (on serve) in the first set.

:) I suppose he was really bruised by th e loss to Tim...
next year...

bugger! Butorac and Murray just lost the first set :(

Lost the first set 6-4..

4-3 and deuce on the behrend/mayer serve. It's now or never!

4-4 :angry:

come on boys - BREAK!!!

Booray win set two 7-5 :yahoo:

HAve we got proper third sets or pansy ass champions TBs

Full set, thankfully! The chamipons tb is just in the mixed.

1-1 Booty to serve.

Stretch & Booty break serve and now lead 3-1.

:yahoo: Let's hope they can hold on to this lead!

how long as that been the case???

at least we have a proper deuce here :ok:

No idea, I only spotted it about half an hour or so ago! :unsure:

Ok peeps, Murray serving for the match!

He's not doing the best job, it's 15-40 :(

Booray pull through the final service game, winning the match 4-6 7-5 6-3 :clap:

Woo! Stretch and Booty make it through 6-3 in the third! Bring on Delic and Gimelstob! :yahoo: