DUBAI 2012, 27/2-3/3 (ATP500): * * DOUBLES * * Main thread - Info and Entry List

[Sallydaisy]

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DUBAI DUTY FREE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Dubai Tennis Stadium, The Aviation Club, Al Garhoud, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
WEB SITE: www.dubaitennischampionships.com (http://www.dubaitennischampionships.com/)

Dates: FEBRUARY 27–MARCH 3, 2012 (SATURDAY FINAL)
SURFACE: Decoturf II
BALL: Head ATP

32 MAIN DRAW (16 QUALIFYING)
Qualifying draw: Friday, February 24, 9:00 p.m.
Main draw: Saturday, February 25, 3:00 p.m.
Doubles draw: Saturday, February 25, 2:00 p.m.

W: 500, F: 300, SF: 180, QF: 90, R16: 0

DOUBLES DRAW
[1]Llodra/Zimonjic v [WC]Ilhan/Jaziri
[WC]Ghareeb/Maqdas v Knowle/Peya
[4]Bhupathi/Bopanna v Dlouhy/Dolgopolov
Qureshi/Rojer v Hanley/Murray

Kohlmann/Stakhovsky v Cerretani/Ljubicic
Baghdatis/Youzhny v [3]Fyrstenberg/Matkowski
Erlich/Ram v Lipsky/Ram
Paes/Tipsarevic v [2]Lindstedt/Tecau


DOUBLES ENTRY LIST
Advance entry deadline: February 13, 2012
On-site entry deadline: February 25, 2012
Seeding: February 20, 2012

1 Llodra, Michael (FRA)/Zimonjic, Nenad (SRB) 11
2 Lindstedt, Robert (SWE)/Tecau, Horia (ROU) 18
3 Fyrstenberg, Mariusz (POL)/Matkowski, Marcin (POL) 24
4 Bhupathi, Mahesh (IND)/Bopanna, Rohan (IND) 26
5 Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq (PAK)/Rojer, Jean-Julien (NED) 39
6 Lipsky, Scott (USA (http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=196917#))/Ram, Rajeev (USA) 70
7 Dlouhy, Lukas (CZE)/Dolgopolov, Alexandr (UKR) 74
8 Baghdatis, Marcos (CYP)/Youzhny, Mikhail (RUS) 75
9 Hanley, Paul (AUS)/Murray, Jamie (GBR) 86
10 Erlich, Jonathan (ISR)/Ram, Andy (ISR) 89
11 (OS)
12 (OS)
13 (OS)
14 (OS)
15 (WC)
16 (WC)

Alternates
1 Cerretani, James (USA)/Marx, Philipp (GER) 127
2 Kohlmann, Michael (GER)/Knowle, Julian (AUT) 133
3 Cipolla, Flavio (ITA)/Stebe, Cedrik-Marcel (GER) 157
4 Huey, Treat Conrad (PHI)/Inglot, Dominic (GBR) 163
5 Marray, Jonathan (GBR)/Zovko, Lovro (CRO) 174
6 Rosol, Lukas (CZE)/Zelenay, Igor (SVK) 175
7 Delgado, Jamie (GBR)/Skupski, Ken (GBR) 179
8 Huey, Treat Conrad (PHI)/Inglot, Dominic (GBR) 254
9 Bednarek, Tomasz (POL)/Motti, Alessandro (ITA) 266
10 Bury, Alexander (BLR)/Kowalczyk, Mateusz (POL) 342
11 Sykut, Maciek (USA)/Zivkovic, Denis (USA) 436

[Sallydaisy]

Jamie/Paul not on today's OOP so it looks like Wednesday before they kick off their Dubai campaign.

[Sallydaisy]

:lol:

And @andy_murray (https://twitter.com/#!/andy_murray) not expecting to sent congrats to coach Ivan Lendl in Delray oldies v Carlos Moya. "I don't have high hopes for him."
Barry Flatman (journo in Dubai).

[Jane]

Best of luck to Jamie and Paul:thumbup::thumbup:

1-1 in the first set

[Linda]

Down a break. Come on guys!

First set gone 4-6 :sad:

[Jane]

Bad luck, guys - better luck in the rest of the match:thumbup::thumbup:

[Sallydaisy]

they need to find a way to break QuJer to stand a chance of winning the 2nd set and gunning for it in the tiebreaker

Come on Jamie and Paul .......
:swingin::swingin::swingin::swingin::swingin:

[lynne]

2-2 in the 2nd.............COME ON LADS!

[Linda]

4-4 Come on guys! :swingin:

5-5 :sofa:

6-5 Come on! :swinging:

6-6 tb :sofa:

[lynne]

Come On Jamie/Paul!!!!!!!..........2-1

[Linda]

They have a minibreak! Vamos! :swingin:

Aaargh the others pulled back from 5-2 to 6-6. Come on guys, don't let it slip away!

[Jane]

:sofa::sofa:

[patmoren]

Jamie dfs to lose their last mini break point now a mini break down!!!

[Linda]

Oh no the others have MP on their serve :sofa:

[patmoren]

Holding on by the skin of their teeth 8-8, 9-8, 9-9, 10-9, set point to Paul,Jamie, 11-10 P&J, 11-11,

[Linda]

they have set point now

back to 9-9 nailbiting

[Sallydaisy]

Lose the match again 6-4, 7-6
Crikey the livescoreboard is well behind then 'cos it's still showing them playing.
Jamie/Paul had a set point at 9-8 but now it's 9-9.

[lynne]

Stu fraser is tweeting that they have lost 3 mins ago!:confused: He has just realised that it is still going on, his scoreboard said it has finished:rolling:

[Linda]

10-10 now

11-10 Where did you hear they lost? :confused: ETA - thanks Lynne - I wonder why the livescore is so far behind? It was only the usual one point behind for Andy's match.

12-12

[Linda]

Stuart Fraser is watching live scores too. Now thinks it showed wrong score & match is still going.

[Linda]

They take the second set 14-12! :clap: :clap:

Now for the mtb :sofa:

[hfwardhouse]

Ooooh Jamie and Paul won the second set - I thought it was finished too - silly livescore!

[lynne]

Bravo Jamie/Paul now for:sofa:

[Jane]

Yeeesss - well done, guys :cheer: - now for the ctb!!!!:sofa::sofa:

[Sallydaisy]

livescore does that sometimes .............

Glad they held on though. Tussle for the 3rd set MTB..

Come on Jamie and Paul .......
:swingin::swingin::swingin::swingin::swingin:

[patmoren]

Keep it going guys you have the edge.

[Linda]

Strangely, I never saw the error on livescore myself - although I thought I was glued to it! Must have flashed up as I was typing.

Good start in the mtb.

Back on serve now.

They have a minibreak again.

6-4

Oops, back on serve again. 6-5

They get a mb again, 7-5

7-6 still a mb up

8-6

9-6

[Linda]

They win! 4-6, 7-6, 10-6 :cheer: :cheer: :yahoo:

[Sallydaisy]

:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

Well fought lads. It's a Murray double today!!!

[lynne]

:clap::clap::clap: Bravo Boys!!!!!!!

[patmoren]

Well done Jamie and Paul, tough win.

[Jane]

Well done, Jamie and Paul I am so pleased for them - they were due a bit of luck:cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::)

[hfwardhouse]

:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

[Mickey]

Well done to Paul and Jamie. Great fighting spirit.:cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:

[40-15]

Great result Jamie and Paul - to come back from a set down

brilliant :clap:

[harriet]

need nerves of steel to want to play dubs with jamie, i thought they had the second set nailed, but it slithered away for another 10 points
still, good win, breaks the first round defeat pattern they had been setting.

[Jan]

great win!:cheer:

[JAMES4578]

Tough match as expected but fantastic Jamie/paul find away through. Hopefully will give them some confidence!

[david1610]

Well done. Must be strange when the "normal tiebreak" is much longer than the extended one :)

[supergran]

Missed this because of being away from computer but thrilled they won. Hope this sets them up for next match!!

[Alis]

Well done Jamie and Paul - great result!

[Jennan]

Great that they won. Hope the win gives Jamie a much needed boost.

[RoastLamb]

Well done to them! I didn't think they'd win tbh. :shamed:

[hfwardhouse]

Up on livescores for their quarters match - things not going according to plan for the seeds in 3 of the 4 matches so can Jamie/Paul provide another upset?

Semi-finalists are Knowle/Peya v the winners of this match and The Poles v Erlich/Ram!

[harriet]

had 3 break points there,, lost it on a DD

[harriet]

1-1, jamie serving first, loosed off a df
bhupathi second
hanley third
bopanna fourth

[Jane]

Best of luck to Jamie and Paul 2-2

[harriet]

living dangerrously here, DD, second serve, c'mon jamie, nup, dropped it
2-4 down now

[harriet]

paul now, 2-5 down

[harriet]

good work there, bopanna to serve for first set, 5-3

[harriet]

first set lost, 3-6
same serving order do you think?

[harriet]

well, that went from 40-0 to a DD, which they won,
1-1, paul to serve, 15-40, dropped serve,1-2 now

[Jane]

Oh dear - come on Jamie and Paul!!!!:thumbup:

[JAMES4578]

Come on Guys! Of course we knew this would be tough but hopefully they still have a shot here!

[harriet]

another DD, on bopanna's serve, but he makes it
jamie now at 1 -3
made it, bhupathi 3-2

[harriet]

4-2, ace bopanna, so my serving order is wrong,
paul serving now at 2-4, ace to him too, 3-4, well held

[harriet]

jamie now, trailing 3-5
0-15, 0-30, 15-30, ace! 30-30, 30-40, DD, 3-6.
lost 3-6, 3-6
shame they could not force the B team to serve it out.

[Jane]

Come on, guys

[Jane]

:crying:Oh no - really bad luck, guys:crying:

[harriet]

luck???? jamie could not get a first serve in court

[hfwardhouse]

:sad: disappointed for the guys.

[Jan]

shame

[JAMES4578]

Yes a pity Jamie/Paul couldn't make more of an impression but obviously up against a quality team.

[patmoren]

They failed to convert 8 BPs , can't afford to do that at this level.

[supergran]

Must do better!!:)