Main Doubles Draw

Business as usual this week with all the main teams in action.
#1 Bryans
#2 Nestor/ Zimonjic
#3 Erlich/ Ram
#4 Knowles/ Bhupathi
#5 Bjorkman/ Ullyett
#6 Aspelin/ Knowle
#7 Dlouhy/ Paes
#8 Damm/ Vizner

Lots of other interesting combos including the Murrays, Nadal/ Robredo, and Federer/ Wawrinka as players gear up for the Olympics.
Unfortunately for the Murrays if they beat Mahut and Gasquet they would face the #2 seeds and Wimbledon champs.

Given that so many singles players are playing I hope there's at least some doubles coverage on tv!

Monday, 21 July 2008

Doubles - First Round
M Fish (USA) / A Roddick (USA) d A Clement (FRA) / M Llodra (FRA) 76(6) 62
R Federer (SUI) / S Wawrinka (SUI) d [WC] J Benneteau (FRA) / F Niemeyer (CAN) 64 64

Wow!

7 top 10 singles stars in doubles including Federer! :o

Doubles action on Monday at the Rogers Masters in Toronto featured past singles champions Roger Federer and Andy Roddick playing alongside their respective countrymen in first round matches.

World No. 1 Federer joined forces with World No. 10 Stanislas Wawrinka to defeat the wild card duo of Frenchman Julien Benneteau and Canadian Frederic Niemeyer 6-4, 6-4 in 62 minutes. It marked their first match win as a duo, having lost in the first round in their previous appearances last year at Rome and Hamburg.

Federer and Wawrinka, who will represent Switzerland at the upcoming Beijing Olympics, next face No. 7 seeds Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes.

Meanwhile, World No. 6 Roddick and fellow American Mardy Fish set up a tricky second round meeting with No. 4 seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles after defeating Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra 7-6(6), 6-2. Bhupathi is a four-time champion in Canada, and won the title last year with Czech Pavel Vizner.

Roddick and Fish won the 2002 Houston title in their team's ATP debut and are playing together for just the sixth time in ATP main draw action.

Seven Top 10 singles stars are playing in the Toronto doubles draw this week. No. 2 Rafael Nadal is teaming up with Tommy Robredo, No. 4 Nikolay Davydenko with Igor Andreev, No. 5 David Ferrer with Jarkko Nieminen and No. 9 Andy Murray with Jamie Murray.

Must be everyone trying to get their act together for the Olympic doubles competition ...

Is nice to see the top singlies in a bit of doubles action. V good luck to the Murrays later today! Go boys!!! :yahoo:

According to the atp website there will be a free live web stream of the Rogers Cup doubles final, beginning at 11 a.m. ET (3 p.m. GMT) on Sunday.

Murray x 2 up against Gasquet and Mahut :turkey: now.

and the Murrays are already are break down!

They managed to break back and take it to the tie-break...

...and they take it 7-6. Great stuff!

wow! MJT's :whip: really got them into shape

:clap:

The Murrays really pulled away in the second set and win 7-6 6-2 :clap:

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Doubles - First Round
A Murray (GBR) / J Murray (GBR) d R Gasquet (FRA) / N Mahut (FRA) 76(4) 62
P Mathieu (FRA) / M Youzhny (RUS) d D Ferrer (ESP) / J Nieminen (FIN) 62 62

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Just the two matches played due to the rain delays.

Doubles - Second Round
[4] M Bhupathi (IND) / M Knowles (BAH) d M Fish (USA) / A Roddick (USA) W/O (Fish - knee)

Doubles - First Round
I Andreev (RUS) / N Davydenko (RUS) d R Nadal (ESP) / T Robredo (ESP) 36 63 10-7

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Doubles - First Round
P Hanley (AUS) / J Kerr (AUS) d [WC] F Dancevic (CAN) / J Levine (USA) 63 75
M Ancic (CRO) / J Coetzee (RSA) d F Gonzalez (CHI) / A Sa (BRA) 63 62
F Lopez (ESP) / F Verdasco (ESP) d M Fyrstenberg (POL) / M Matkowski (POL) 62 76(7)

Doubles - Second Round
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d F Lopez (ESP) / F Verdasco (ESP) 75 62
[2] D Nestor (CAN) / N Zimonjic (SRB) d A Murray (GBR) / J Murray (GBR) 76(3) 64
P Hanley (AUS) / J Kerr (AUS) d [3] J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR) 63 62
[5] J Bjorkman (SWE) / K Ullyett (ZIM) d I Andreev (RUS) / N Davydenko (RUS) W/O (Andreev - left ankle)
P Mathieu (FRA) / M Youzhny (RUS) d [6] S Aspelin (SWE) / J Knowle (AUT) 64 ret. (Knowle - stomach muscle)
[7] L Dlouhy (CZE) / L Paes (IND) d R Federer (SUI) / S Wawrinka (SUI) 64 64
M Ancic (CRO) / J Coetzee (RSA) d [8] M Damm (CZE) / P Vizner (CZE) 64 63

Friday, 25 July 2008

Doubles - Quarterfinals
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d M Ancic (CRO) / J Coetzee (RSA) 63 75
[2] D Nestor (CAN) / N Zimonjic (SRB) d P Mathieu (FRA) / M Youzhny (RUS) 76(4) 64
[7] L Dlouhy (CZE) / L Paes (IND) d [4] M Bhupathi (IND) / M Knowles (BAH) 64 36 10-5
P Hanley (AUS) / J Kerr (AUS) d [5] J Bjorkman (SWE) / K Ullyett (ZIM) 64 36 10-5

Saturday, 26 July 2008

Doubles - Semifinals
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d P Hanley (AUS) / J Kerr (AUS) 63 64
[2] D Nestor (CAN) / N Zimonjic (SRB) d [7] L Dlouhy (CZE) / L Paes (IND) 63 76(5)

Sunday 27 July 2008

Doubles - Final
[2] D Nestor (CAN) / N Zimonjic (SRB) d [1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) 62 46 10-6