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whattheheck · 08-09-2009, 04:35 AM

(1) Bryan/Bryan vs BYE
Parrott/Polasek vs Lindstedt/Melo
(WC) Dancevic/Duclos vs Davydenko/Kunitsyn
BYE vs (8) Kubot/Marach

(4) Soares/Ullyett vs BYE
Dlouhy/Petzschner vs Kohlschreiber/Wawrinka
(WC) Nadal/Roig vs Djokovic/Vemic
BYE vs (7) Mirnyi/Ram

(6) Fyrstenberg/Matkowski vs BYE
Chardy/Simon vs Haas/Stepanek
Kas/Troicki vs Hutchins/A.Murray
BYE vs (3) Bhupathi/Knowles

(5) Moodie/Norman vs BYE
Aspelin/Hanley vs Lopez/Verdasco
Ferrer/Robredo vs Llodra/Tsonga
BYE vs (2) Nestor/Zimonjic

(WC) Nadal/Roig vs Djokovic/Vemic

Chardy/Simon vs Haas/Stepanek

JMG · 08-09-2009, 08:14 AM

Pathetic wildcard for Nadal and the old guy. But he has the power to have a big name. If he wants a wc, the clowns give him one.

mr_burns · 08-09-2009, 02:00 PM

the germans should play together once...who is Roig? never heard this name

kiwi10is · 08-09-2009, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mr_burns

the germans should play together once...who is Roig? never heard this name

the only German team that would make the cut would be Haas-Kohlschreiber I guess... would be strange to see them playing together somehow

Truc · 08-09-2009, 07:37 PM

Kas-Troicki seem to have pulled out, Murray-Hutchins are playing against an alternate team according to tomorrow's OOP.

Filipo · 08-09-2009, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by mr_burns

the germans should play together once...who is Roig? never heard this name

it's Rogi, but they want to be a surprise

CooCooCachoo · 08-09-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mr_burns

the germans should play together once...who is Roig? never heard this name

Francisco Roig. Used to be a player himself. Reached Top 100, and had better results in doubles than in singles. But he's 40+ now so it's a weird choice for a WC. JMG is right though, if Nadal wants a WC, he gets it. Regardless of his partner.

CooCooCachoo · 08-09-2009, 07:54 PM

Good Luck:

Dlouhy/Petzschner
Djokovic/Vemic
Fyrstenberg/Matkowski
Chardy/Simon

Nestor/Zimonjic

Congrats to Haas and Stepanek for winning their match already. I mean, Jérémy won one out of his 18 doubles matches this season and Simon one out of 12, so Haas/Stepanek practically need to only step onto court and they have already won.

Aenea · 08-09-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by JMG

Pathetic wildcard for Nadal and the old guy. But he has the power to have a big name. If he wants a wc, the clowns give him one.

That would be true for any of the top 4. As if Djokovic didn't rely on his big name to get his worldwide unpopular brother into some doubles here and there. If Murray asked for a WC to play doubles with whomever he wished he'd get it

ImmzB · 08-09-2009, 08:32 PM

Whos the ALT team?

CooCooCachoo · 08-09-2009, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Aenea

That would be true for any of the top 4. As if Djokovic didn't rely on his big name to get his worldwide unpopular brother into some doubles here and there. If Murray asked for a WC to play doubles with whomever he wished he'd get it

Here and there in Djokovic's case is not in TMS events. It's one thing for Nadal to ask for/accept a WC in Chennai to play with someone like Salva-Vidal or Rotterdam to play with Coll-Riudavets - both of whom are young guys - than to show up with a non-Canadian retired player in such a big event as the Roger's Cup. Roig/Carbonell may have been a good team, but I doubt Roig ever made such a big impact upon Canadian viewers that they will want to see him.

whattheheck · 08-10-2009, 01:59 AM

If Federer and Nadal team up for doubles, should they just give the trophy already to them? That would be a dream.

coonster14 · 08-10-2009, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by whattheheck

If Federer and Nadal team up for doubles, should they just give the trophy already to them? That would be a dream.

i really hope that will happen one day.

Aenea · 08-10-2009, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by CooCooCachoo

Here and there in Djokovic's case is not in TMS events. It's one thing for Nadal to ask for/accept a WC in Chennai to play with someone like Salva-Vidal or Rotterdam to play with Coll-Riudavets - both of whom are young guys - than to show up with a non-Canadian retired player in such a big event as the Roger's Cup. Roig/Carbonell may have been a good team, but I doubt Roig ever made such a big impact upon Canadian viewers that they will want to see him.

Would it matter to the viewers if Nadal had played with say Marc Lopez? I'm sure it wouldn't. If they go to that doubles match they'd do it because they want to see Nadal and Djokovic and their partners are of no interest no matter if they are Roig/Vemic/Lopez/etc nobody. TBH Rafa's decision to team up with his coach looks strange to me and is something I can't fathom. But that's the benefit of being named Rafael Nadal - sometimes you get what you want.