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MIRNYI BLR / NESTOR CAN [1] vs. JOHNSON USA / SOCK USA (W)
NORMAN BEL / WASKE GER vs. CERMAK CZE / MERTINAK SVK
BLAKE USA / QUERREY USA vs. HUEY PHI / INGLOT GBR
MURRAY GBR / SA BRA vs. PEYA AUT / SOARES BRA [15]

MELZER AUT / PETZSCHNER GER [10] (W) vs. FISHER AUS / KERR AUS
BRUNSTROM SWE / CERRETANI USA vs. DELGADO GBR / SKUPSKI GBR
KUBOT POL / YOUZHNY RUS vs. ECKER GER / NIEMINEN FIN
CHARDY FRA / KLIZAN SVK vs. GRANOLLERS ESP / LOPEZ ESP [6]

LINDSTEDT SWE / TECAU ROU [3] vs. BRACCIALI ITA / ZEBALLOS ARG
RAMIREZ HIDALGO ESP / RAMOS ESP vs. PAIRE FRA / ROGER-VASSELIN FRA
STAKHOVSKY UKR / TROICKI SRB vs. KOHLMANN GER / PHAU GER
KNOWLE AUT / POLASEK SVK vs. MARRERO ESP / VERDASCO ESP [13]

MARRAY GBR / NIELSEN DEN [11] vs. CIPOLLA ITA / FOGNINI ITA
LEVINE USA / MATOSEVIC AUS vs. BUCHANAN USA / KLAHN USA (W)
NALBANDIAN ARG / SCHWANK ARG vs. KARLOVIC CRO / MOSER GER
BROWN GER / KAS GER vs. PAES IND / STEPANEK CZE [5]



BHUPATHI IND / BOPANNA IND [8]
vs. EBDEN AUS / TOMIC AUS
BOGOMOLOV JR. RUS / KLAASEN RSA vs. ITO JPN / SOEDA JPN
BERLOCQ ARG / MAYER ARG vs. DLOUHY CZE / DOLGOPOLOV UKR
KUKUSHKIN KAZ / LU TPE vs. QURESHI PAK / ROJER NED [9]

FLEMING GBR / HUTCHINS GBR [14] vs. KAVCIC SLO / ZOPP EST
EMMRICH GER / SIJSLING NED vs. BAKER USA / RAM USA
ELGIN RUS / ISTOMIN UZB vs. ERLICH ISR / RAM ISR
HARRISON USA / HARRISON USA (W) vs. FYRSTENBERG POL / MATKOWSKI POL [4]

LLODRA FRA / ZIMONJIC SRB [7] vs. MONROE USA / YOUNG USA (W)
BENNETEAU FRA / MAHUT FRA vs. RATIWATANA THA / RATIWATANA THA
REYNOLDS USA / RUSSELL USA (W) vs. NOVIKOV USA / REDLICKI USA (W)
CABAL COL / FARAH COL vs. DODIG CRO / MELO BRA [12]

GONZALEZ MEX / LIPSKY USA [16]
vs. HAASE NED / SEPPI ITA
ANDUJAR ESP / GARCIA-LOPEZ ESP vs. KNOWLES BAH / MALISSE BEL
BUTORAC USA / HANLEY AUS vs. HAJEK CZE / LACKO SVK
DARCIS BEL / GOFFIN BEL vs. BRYAN USA / BRYAN USA [2]
 
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#2 ·
Bottom-half it's gonna be hard to stop the Bryans from making the final.


Top-half looks more uncertain. Think one of Mirnyi/Nestor, Lindstedt/Tecau or Paes/Steps will make it in the end.



Think Marray/Nielsen will crash and burn and go out early. One of the un-seeded US teams will probably cause some upsets, having home advantage and so forth
 
#3 ·
Bottom-half it's gonna be hard to stop the Bryans from making the final.


Top-half looks more uncertain. Think one of Mirnyi/Nestor, Lindstedt/Tecau or Paes/Steps will make it in the end.



Think Marray/Nielsen will crash and burn and go out early. One of the un-seeded US teams will probably cause some upsets, having home advantage and so forth
Unseeded Americans wrecking havoc.
Sock/Johnson take out Mirnyi/Nestor
Monroe/Young take out Llodra/Zimonjic
Harrissons take out the Poles.

:eek:

The Bryans now have a cake walk to the finals
 
#10 ·
djez what the hell happened there in R1. So many seeds went out.

As I expected some of the american teams caused upsets. Still I think it's a shame they don't play BO5 like in Wimbledon in all slams. It benefits the better teams. One crap game or a bad tiebreak often costs the entire match.


Now the road is more open for my favs Lin-Tec in the top half but the big winners look to be the Bryan Bros. I have a hard time seeing anyone stopping Bryans from reaching the final now. On the other hand who knows anymore but I do hope the seeded teams left can show their skills because it's not got for doubles with too many surprises.
 
#11 ·
Round 2:

Steve Johnson USA/Jack Sock USA vs. Frantisek Cermak CZE/Michal Mertinak SVK
Treat Conrad Huey PHI/Dominic Inglot GBR vs. Alexander Peya AUT (15)/Bruno Soares BRA (15)
Jurgen Melzer AUT (10)/Philipp Petzschner GER (10) vs. Jamie Delgado GBR/Ken Skupski GBR
Lukasz Kubot POL/Mikhail Youzhny RUS vs. Marcel Granollers ESP (6)/Marc Lopez ESP (6)

Robert Lindstedt SWE (3)/Horia Tecau ROU (3) vs. Benoit Paire FRA/Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA
Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR/Viktor Troicki SRB vs. Julian Knowle AUT/Filip Polasek SVK
Jonathan Marray GBR (11)/Frederik Nielsen DEN (11) vs. Jesse Levine USA/Marinko Matosevic AUS
Thomaz Bellucci BRA/Joao Souza BRA vs. Leander Paes IND (5)/Radek Stepanek CZE (5)

Matthew Ebden AUS/Bernard Tomic AUS vs. Alex Bogomolov Jr. RUS/Raven Klaasen RSA
Carlos Berlocq ARG/Leonardo Mayer ARG vs. Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi PAK (9)/Jean-Julien Rojer NED (9)
Colin Fleming GBR (14)/Ross Hutchins GBR (14) vs. Brian Baker USA/Rajeev Ram USA
Jonathan Erlich ISR/Andy Ram ISR vs. Christian Harrison USA/Ryan Harrison USA

Nicholas Monroe USA/Donald Young USA vs. Julien Benneteau FRA/Nicolas Mahut FRA
Dennis Novikov USA/Michael Redlicki USA vs. Ivan Dodig CRO (12)/Marcelo Melo BRA (12)
Santiago Gonzalez MEX (16)/Scott Lipsky USA (16) vs. Pablo Andujar ESP/Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
Eric Butorac USA/Paul Hanley AUS vs. Bob Bryan USA (2)/Mike Bryan USA (2)


Easy path for the Bryans.

Very tough for Paes/Steps.Possible path R3 onwards:
Marray/Nielsen; Lind/Tec; Melz/Petz; Bryans
 
#14 ·
Paes/Stepanek are now candidates, with all those defeats from the top seeds
 
#19 ·
If anyone gonna beat Bryans in US Open, then it should be Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.
Looks set for a very interesting QF vs Paes/Stepanek but first one more round.....and in this USO no seeded pair is safe :)
From bottom half Bryans have easy road to the finals, top half will be decided in the QF between Paes/Steps and Lindst/Tecau, it seems. But nothing is set in stone in this tournament....
Gronollers-Lopez are tough too...
 
#18 ·
Round 16:

Frantisek Cermak CZE/Michal Mertinak SVK vs. Alexander Peya AUT (15)/Bruno Soares BRA (15)
Jamie Delgado GBR/Ken Skupski GBR vs. Marcel Granollers ESP (6)/Marc Lopez ESP (6)
Robert Lindstedt SWE (3)/Horia Tecau ROU (3) vs. Julian Knowle AUT/Filip Polasek SVK
Jesse Levine USA/Marinko Matosevic AUS vs. Leander Paes IND (5)/Radek Stepanek CZE (5)

Alex Bogomolov Jr. RUS/Raven Klaasen RSA vs. Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi PAK (9)/Jean-Julien Rojer NED (9)
Colin Fleming GBR (14)/Ross Hutchins GBR (14) vs. Christian Harrison USA/Ryan Harrison USA
Julien Benneteau FRA/Nicolas Mahut FRA vs. Ivan Dodig CRO (12)/Marcelo Melo BRA (12)
Santiago Gonzalez MEX (16)/Scott Lipsky USA (16) vs. Bob Bryan USA (2)/Mike Bryan USA (2)

7 seeds already out after 2 rounds
From bottom half Bryans have easy road to the finals, top half will be decided in the QF between Paes/Steps and Lindst/Tecau, it seems. But nothing is set in stone in this tournament....
 
#27 ·
Not many seeds left:

[2] Bryan/Bryan
[5] Paes/Stepanek
[6] Granollers/M. Lopez
[9] Qureshi/Rojer
[12] Dodig/Melo
[15] Peya/Soares
[16] Gonzalez/Lipsky

At least one and at most three of these will fall before the QFs.
 
#34 ·
Benny-Mahut scoreline was surprising, IMO. Dodig/Melo were in good form.


QF
Alexander Peya AUT/Bruno Soares BRA [15] vs. Marcel Granollers ESP/Marc Lopez ESP [6]
Julian Knowle AUT/Filip Polasek SVK vs. Leander Paes IND/Radek Stepanek CZE [5]

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi PAK/Jean-Julien Rojer NED [9] vs. Christian Harrison USA/Ryan Harrison USA
Julien Benneteau FRA/Nicolas Mahut FRA vs. Bob Bryan USA/Mike Bryan USA [2]


Paes/Steps by far the strongest team in the top half.
Somehow, the bottom half seems a lot more open.
 
#37 ·
SF
Marcel Granollers ESP/Marc Lopez ESP [6] vs. Leander Paes IND/Radek Stepanek CZE [5]

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi PAK/Jean-Julien Rojer NED [9] vs. Bob Bryan USA/Mike Bryan USA [2]



After all that seed exodus we have 4 seeded teams in SFs. Bryans won another close match versus the Frenchies; Paes/Steps vs. Spaniards could be interesting.
Hope for the same finalists like in the AO.
 
#38 ·
Qureshi/Rojer swept aside the Harrisons like they were yesterday's news. They have not played too many matches, so they would have a very tough time against the Bryans. Bryans have not been at their best, but should be able to reach the finals.

Nobody has given Paes/Steps any problem, but their draw had cleared up a lot.

My 0.02$ :
Both SF will be straight sets. Paes/Steps beat Bryans in 3 in the final. Bryans wining the second set in a TB.
 
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