SHANGHAI DOUBLES 2012: Main thread - draw and information.

[Sallydaisy]

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SHANGHAI ROLEX MASTERS
Qizhong Tennis Center, No. 5500 Yan Jian Road, Minhang District, Shanghai 201111 PR China
WEB SITE: http://www.shanghairolexmasters.com (http://www.shanghairolexmasters.com/)

Dates: OCTOBER 7-15, 2011 (Sunday Start)
SURFACE: Hard court
BALL: Head

56 MAIN DRAW/28 QUALIFYING DRAW
Qualifying draw: Friday, October 5, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, October 6, 10:30 a.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, October 6, 6:00 p.m.

DOUBLES DRAW
Advanced entry deadline: September 24, 2012
On-site entry deadline: October 6, 2012
Seeding: October 1, 2012

[1]BRYAN/BRYAN v BYE
BUTORAC/PETZSCHNER v BELLUCCI/TOMIC
CILIC/MELO v BERLOCQ/SEPPI
BYE v [5]FYRSTENBERG/MATKOWSKI

[4]PAES/STEPANEK v BYE
ANDERSON/QUERREY v DOLGOPOLOV/TSONGA
MELZER/RAONIC v [WC]CHANG/LI
BYE v [8]PEYA/SOARES

[6]QURESHI/ROJER v BYE
MARRERO/VERDASCO v ANDUJAR/LOPEZ
ALT FOGNINI/KLIZAN HARRISON/ISNER v FLEMING/HUTCHINS
BYE v [3]LINDSTEDT/TECAU

[7]BHUPATHI/BOPANNA v BYE
HUEY/MARRAY v [WC]GONG/ZHANG
GONZALEZ/LIPSKY v BERDYCH/ZIMONJIC
BYE v [2]MIRNYI/NESTOR

W: 1000, F: 600, SF: 360, QF: 180, R16: 90, R32: 0

[jaysee]

The bad news is that this presumably means they won't get to Shanghai by tomorrow's OS entry deadline? There's no SE provision in doubles! :grrr:
I obviously got this wrong! They ARE in the Shanghai draw, up here (http://en.shanghairolexmasters.com/draws/2012/pdf/2012_doubles.pdf) - and if they beat Isner & Harrison in R1, then it's Lindstedt and Tecau again in R2!!

[hfwardhouse]

:yahoo: and :sofa:

[Sallydaisy]

DOUBLES ENTRY LIST
Advanced entry deadline: September 24, 2012
On-site entry deadline: October 6, 2012
Seeding: October 1, 2012

1 Bryan, Bob (USA)/Bryan, Mike (USA) 2
2 Mirnyi, Max (BLR)/Nestor, Daniel (CAN) 6
3 Lindstedt, Robert (SWE)/Tecau, Horia (ROU) 12
4 Paes, Leander (IND)/Stepanek, Radek (CZE) 14
5 Berdych, Tomas (CZE)/Zimonjic, Nenad (SRB) 20
6 Granollers, Marcel (ESP)/Lopez, Marc (ESP) 21
7 Fyrstenberg, Mariusz (POL)/Matkowski, Marcin (POL) 21
8 Dolgopolov, Alexandr (UKR)/Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried (FRA) 27
9 Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq (PAK)/Rojer, Jean-Julien (NED) 29
10 Cilic, Marin (CRO)/Melo, Marcelo (BRA) 32
11 Bhupathi, Mahesh (IND)/Bopanna, Rohan (IND) 33
12 Marrero, David (ESP)/Verdasco, Fernando (ESP) 43
13 Melzer, Jurgen (AUT)/Raonic, Milos (CAN) 44
14 Benneteau, Julien (FRA)/Gasquet, Richard (FRA) 48
15 Gonzalez, Santiago (MEX)/Lipsky, Scott (USA) 54
16 Peya, Alexander (AUT)/Soares, Bruno (BRA) 57
17 (OS)
18 (OS)
19 (OS)
20 (OS)
21 (OS)
22 (OS)
23 (WC)
24 (WC)

Alternates
1 Butorac, Eric (USA)/Cermak, Frantisek (CZE) 58
2 Anderson, Kevin (RSA)/Querrey, Sam (USA) 61
3 Chardy, Jeremy (FRA)/Marach, Oliver (AUT) 62
4 Huey, Treat Conrad (PHI)/Marray, Jonathan (GBR) 63
5 Fleming, Colin (GBR)/Hutchins, Ross (GBR) 72
6 Andujar, Pablo (ESP)/Lopez, Feliciano (ESP) 74
7 Ratiwatana, Sanchai (THA)/Ratiwatana, Sonchat (THA) 141
8 Draganja, Marin (CRO)/Zovko, Lovro (CRO) 214
9 Ebelthite, Colin (AUS)/Pospisil, Jaroslav (CZE) 227
10 Marse-Vidri, Jordi (ESP)/Poch-Gradin, Carlos (ESP) 650

[patmoren]

Good start by Jonny and Huey beating the Chinese pair.

[Sallydaisy]

Good start by Jonny and Huey beating the Chinese pair.
Quite a tussle though going by the scoreline ...
Jonny Marray and Treat Conrad Huey beat Wildcard pair Gong/Zhang - 7'5, 4'6, 10'6

[RoastLamb]

Really hope Danny and Max have more success this time but not holding my breath. Can't understand why Milos is playing. He's played too much as it is.

[pabbers]

Really hope Danny and Max have more success this time but not holding my breath. Can't understand why Milos is playing. He's played too much as it is.

Sharpening those volleying skills!

[Jennan]

Pleased that they won today.

[Sallydaisy]

Good win for Colin and Ross today over Fognini/Klizan in 3 sets 5-7 6-4 10-5.

They play [3] Lindstedt/Tecau in R2.

[Sallydaisy]

TennisScotland just resent this tweet (3minutes ago)

Tennis Scotland ‏@tennisscotland (https://twitter.com/tennisscotland) In the doubles - Colin Fleming (@colin_fleming (https://twitter.com/colin_fleming)) and Ross Hutchins (@RoscoHutchins (https://twitter.com/RoscoHutchins))
are up against Fabio Fognini and Martin Klizan. #VAMOS (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23VAMOS&src=hash)!


And got immediately jumped on in twitter terms by Hfwardhouse, me and others to tell them the match had already been played and WON by Flemchins!!!
;)

(in fairness they originally made the tweet at 03.59am but probably didn't check before hitting send again).

[Sallydaisy]

Nice win for Butorac/Petzschner over the Bryan Bros 6'4, 3'6, 10'6.
:clap:

[Jan]

Flemchins beat Lindstedt and Tecau 6-4 7-5 :cheer::cheer:

[Sallydaisy]

Flemchins beat Lindstedt and Tecau 6-4 7-5 :cheer::cheer:
Wonderful news and great to see they did it in 2 sets!!!

:clap:

[Jan]

Huey and Marray are in a tb in the first set against Bhupathi and Bopanna

edit - they lost the tb 9-11 :sad:

[Sallydaisy]

Could do with Marray/Huey knocking out Bhubop here ... it'd increase Flemchins chances of making it to the WTF's possibly as the ALT pairing.

[Jan]

H&M lose 6-7(9) 4-6 :sad:

[jaysee]

Flemchins beat Lindstedt and Tecau 6-4 7-5 :cheer::cheer:
Lindstedt & Tecau must hate the sight of British players in the draws! :swingin:

[cazza99]

(in fairness they originally made the tweet at 03.59am but probably didn't check before hitting send again).

Or possibly their computer went down.

[patmoren]

Great win by Flemchins and good fight by Huey and Marry. Another good GB week including the ladies.

[supergran]

Great news for GB tennis.....Good luck to all for tomorrow.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

[jaysee]

Flemchins get broken, but break straight back! serving at 3*-4

[lynne]

Flemchins 5-5....:thumbup:

[Sallydaisy]

5-5 after Flemchins held to 30. A break now would be good!

[jaysee]

Hold serve from 15-40 to force the tie-break at 6-6:sofa:

[jaysee]

And they win the tie-break 7-2:swingin: :swingin:

[Sallydaisy]

6-6, tie-break for the first set.

*1-0 Q/R
2-0* Flemchins down a mb
2-1*
*2-2 they got the MB back ...
*2-3 AND BROKE!!! Come on guys, just hold your own serves now.
2-4* change of ends
2-5* come on!!!
*2-6 :)
*2-7

:yahoo:

Let's have another one chaps (but a bit easier!).

[lynne]

First set to Flemchins 7-6(2)


2nd set....3-3

[jaysee]

3 break points but no joy - still on serve at 4-4

[jaysee]

:grrr:An ace from Ross isn't enough and they're broken. 4-5*

[Sallydaisy]

CTB for the match:

Seems to be going with serve so far.
Flemchins to serve next at 3-4
*4-4
*5-4 2 good holds from our lads. Can they break now?
6-4* that's one mini-break, let's have another!
6-5* phew, this is very close. Flemchins MUST HOLD 2
*7-5 at the change of ends.

[lynne]

Flemchins......8-8

[Sallydaisy]

*7-5 to Flemchins with mini-break and 2nd serve to come.
*7-6 Oh No!!!
7-7* and t'others are edging this .....
7-8* Colin and Ross MUST hold here or they'll be out .....
*8-8

Livescore seems stuck, long gap after a 'Let' so not sure what is happening now.

Oh dear, they're broken and Qureshi/Rojer will have 2 serves at *9-8

[Sallydaisy]

Ahhhh! DF from Q/R, still life in this match.
9-9 at the change of ends.

[Sallydaisy]

Flemchins serving 9-10. 2 holds could put them at match point.

*10-10, that's one in the bag, let's have another.
*11-10 YES.

:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

[jaysee]

:yahoo:Yeeessss!! Well done, Flemchins!:yahoo:

[lynne]

WELL DONE FLEMCHINS!!!!!:thumbup::thumbup:

[Sallydaisy]

That was SOOOOOOOOOOO close!!! They won with 80 points to 79!

Hope they can beat Bhupathi/Bopanna and edge closer to the Alt place in London.

[Caro]

So happy that my favourite doubles team are back to what they were doing before Colin got injured :dance::dance:

Really hope they can get a place at the O2. Would dearly love to watch them play there.

[Jan]

Phew that was close!
Well done Flemchins :cheer:

[LC the fan]

Well don Ros and Colin......do hope to see you at the O2 in London. I think the roof would go off

[pabbers]

Brilliant!!!

[patmoren]

Great win by Colin and Ross, they need to win this tournament to go ahead of Bhupathi/Bopanna.

[lynne]

Flemchins are first on Stadium court at 2pm(local) - 7am(UK)...:sleepy:

[Hawkeye]

Up on live scores now.

[Elenive]

Really hope they win this torny and do well in Paris to make sure they get to play in the O2!!!!

Edit: Things are looking good, they take the first set 7-6(4)!!

[Jan]

yes - come on Flemchins!

Crucially they've just saved 2 bp's in the second game of the second set - with 2 aces from Ross :clap:

[Jan]

Flemchins serving to stay in the second set - looks as though the match will be decided by the dreaded mtb. (Unless they can break back of course!!)

[Jan]

BhuBop win the second 6-3

MTB time

Come on Flemchins!!!!!!

[Sallydaisy]

'morning all. Up just in time to catch the dreaded MTB!!!

Flemchins serving first, the Brits can't afford any errors if they want to win this.

*1-0
1-1*
1-2*
*2-2 Ace Fleming
*3-2 Well held guys!
3-3* at the change of ends, all going with serve for now.

[Jan]

morning Sally!

[Sallydaisy]

3-3* and Bhubop have their 2nd serve to come.
4-3* Mini-break to the Brits. Must hold 2 to keep it secure!
*5-3 1 down, 1 to go.
*6-3 Well done guys, now we need to push for another mb for a good cushion!
6-4*
6-5* Ace from Team India.
*7-5 Ace from Team GB
*8-5
8=6*
8-7* Flemchins to serve for the match with 2 serves of their own to come.

[Sallydaisy]

Oh No!!! They just lost BOTH serves. Bhubop at *9-8 need only 1 point for the match.

[Jan]

oh no - so very close :crying:

[Sallydaisy]

:crying::crying::crying:

They lost in the CTB. Such a shame because they really needed to beat Bhubop to stand a chance of being doubles Alts at the WTF in November.

Well done Team India who toughed it out in the closing moments winning 6'7, 6'3, 10'8.

[lynne]

Awww! what a shame!!!:sad:.....thanks everyone for your posts!!!

[JAMES4578]

A great fight but sadly Colin and Ross just came up a bit short, disappointing for them in their WTF chances. Still sure they can build on the good form.

[RoastLamb]

Awww sad they lost. Bummeroo. :sad:

[super8]

Paes/Stepanek have beaten Bhupathi/Bopanna in the final 6-7 6-3 10-5

Any 'perceived' rivalries/ needle in the Men's singles game (and there is a lot of frankly bizarre, speculative writing about that) - pales into insignificance compared with the ongoing Paes-Bhupathi-Bopanna saga. Even WTA player Sania Mirza got dragged into this during the Olympics debacle.

And this match will undoubtedly have had some needle to it.

[RoastLamb]

Was hoping Paes would win!!! Ha ha to Team India. Sorry but their childish behaviour cost them potential medals at the Olympics.