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Doubles Draw

The Bryan brothers are the defending champions and the seeds are:

Bryan/Bryan
Erlich/Ram
Nestor/Zimonijc
Bhupathi/Knowles
Asplin/Knowle
Dlouhy/Vizner
Clement/Llodra
Bjorkman/Ullyett

Murray/Miryni are playing but have a fairly rotten draw, meeting the Polish pair Fyrstenberg/Matowski in the first round, with possible meetings with Bjorkman/Ullyet and then Erlich/Ram after that. :yikes:

Other interesting pairings include:

Gasquet/Tipsarevic
Djokovic/Stepanek
Andreev/Ljubicic
Nadal/Robredo (what on earth is nadal doing playing doubles??? if he's worried about the schedule you'd think he'd focus on singles..... :shrug: )
Nalbandian/Prieto

Monday 21st April

Doubles First Round
N Djokovic (SRB) / R Stepanek (CZE) d J Kerr (AUS) / R Wassen (NED) 64 63
P Hanley (AUS) / L Paes (IND) d D Nalbandian (ARG) / S Prieto (ARG) 64 63
R Nadal (ESP) / T Robredo (ESP) d [WC] G Couillard (MON) / J Lisnard (MON) 62 61

Doubles Second Round
R Nadal (ESP) / T Robredo (ESP) d D Nestor (CAN) / N Zimonjic (SRB) 57 63 10-3

Doubles First Round
M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) d M Mirnyi (BLR) / J Murray (GBR) 63 63 :(
J Coetzee (RSA) / W Moodie (RSA) d J Acasuso (ARG) / D Ferrer (ESP) 63 64
M Melo (BRA) / A Sa (BRA) d *[Alt] C Kas (GER) / J Nieminen (FIN) 62 63
J Benneteau (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA) d P-H Mathieu (FRA) / F Santoro (FRA) 26 76(3) 11-9
F Cermak (CZE) / P Kohlschreiber (GER) d I Andreev (RUS) / I Ljubicic (CRO) 36 63 10-5

*[Alt] C Kas (GER) / J Nieminen (FIN) replaced R Gasquet (FRA) / J Tipsarevic (SRB) - (Gasquet - back)

Nestor and Zimonjic continuing their bad year - although i'm still convinced that nadal doesn't actually want to be winning his doubles matches :shrug:

Doubles Second Round
[2] J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR) d P Hanley (AUS) / L Paes (IND) 46 63 10-3
[4] M Bhupathi (IND) / M Knowles (BAH) d M Melo (BRA) / A Sa (BRA) 64 63
[5] S Aspelin (SWE) / J Knowle (AUT) d N Djokovic (SRB) / R Stepanek (CZE) 62 76(3)
[8] J Bjorkman (SWE) / K Ullyett (ZIM) d M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) 67(7) 75 10-7
F Cermak (CZE) / P Kohlschreiber (GER) d L Dlouhy (CZE) / P Vizner (CZE) 57 64 10-5

Doubles Second Round
J Coetzee (RSA) / W Moodie (RSA) d [7] A Clement (FRA) / M Llodra (FRA) 76(5) 63 :(
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d [WC] J Benneteau (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA) 62 26 10-8

Doubles Quarterfinals
[8] J Bjorkman (SWE) / K Ullyett (ZIM) d [2] J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR) 64 64
R Nadal (ESP) / T Robredo (ESP) d F Cermak (CZE) / P Kohlschreiber (GER) 67(5) 61 10-3

Isn't it amazing that Nadal is still playing doubles as well in MC? Do you think that helps or hinders his singles campaign?

Nadal and Robredo won the doubles :yikes: Apparently Nadal is only the second player in Masters series history to win both the doubles and singles titles :ok:

vamos Rafa :bow: