2016 Olympic Tennis Tournament - Doubles

Mixed doubles QFs

Melo / Pereira (BRA)
Sock / Mattek-Sands (USA)

Stepanek / Hradecka (CZE)
Begu / Tecau (ROU)

A Murray / Watson (GBR)
Bopanna / Mirza (IND)

Ram / V WillIams (USA)
Fognini / Vinci (ITA)
 
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Hitman said:
The dream to see him hold all three medals is over. Darn it Rafa! Why?

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You were right, kind of crazy playing 3 events when he isn't fully healed.
 
helennnnnn said:
Mixed doubles QFs

Melo / Pereira (BRA)
Sock / Mattek-Sands (USA)

Stepanek / Hradecka (CZE)
A Radwanska / Kubot (POL) or Begu / Tecau (ROU)

A Murray / Watson (GBR)
Bopanna / Mirza (IND)

Ram / V WillIams (USA)
Fognini / Vinci (ITA)
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I see the winner of the GBR/IND match making the finals. Think the other finalist wll come from the BRA/USA match, though I'm not as convinced of this one. POL is not gonna cut it though, Radwanska will get overpowered by any decent male player.

Will get really, really interesting though. I think some players just have a doubles game that works distinctively worse or better in mixed doubles than regular doubles. I think Andy Murray and Jack Sock's game works better in mixed than in regular doubles, and I think Jamie Murray's game works a lot worse in mixed compared to regular doubles.
 
gogo said:
I think he looked exactly the same back then. ;) That sad dog look.
By all accounts an absolutely fabulous person.
I really wish that Pospisil could have kept his game from completely falling apart. Nestor deserved better.

Hopefully Pops will redeem himself in the Bronze medal playoff.
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I didn't see much of the match, but Nestor double-faulted twice in the second set tiebreak. :(
 
InvisibleSoul said:
I didn't see much of the match, but Nestor double-faulted twice in the second set tiebreak. :(
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Have to think Nestor was still fuming over the blown call. They should have gone right into the breaker, but a ball was called out. Nestor had a few words with the ump then asked Nadal/Lopez if the ball was in, but they didn't seem to reply. They still held serve to get to the tiebreaker, but it probably affected them mentally, as they basically fell apart with 2 or 3 doubles plus the massive derp from Pospisil on the volley where he hit Nestor.
 
stringertom said:
Real BS move to enter a 16-draw mixed and then withdraw, depriving teams that wanted to play.

#SelfishBullsh1t
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You do know that some teams could've signed up and stuck around to have a chance if there are any withdrawals right.?
What's BS is the schedule not allowing players to participate in all events without possibly having to play 3 matches a day. Especially when there is no roof for any court.
Really feel for anyone who wanted in, but not going to blame Rafa for that.
 
oneness said:
You do know that some teams could've signed up and stuck around to have a chance if there are any withdrawals right.?
What's BS is the schedule not allowing players to participate in all events without possibly having to play 3 matches a day. Especially when there is no roof for any court.
Really feel for anyone who wanted in, but not going to blame Rafa for that.
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Coming off injury, was it realistic to enter all three even before the rain messed up the schedule? In the back of his mind, he knew if he advanced in both the singles and the dubs, he was going to bail on the mixed. And there were teams wanting in (Pospisil/Bouchard for one).

It's also crapola that France, U.S., Spain and G.B. each had two teams in mixed and Canada was shut out.
 
stringertom said:
Real BS move to enter a 16-draw mixed and then withdraw, depriving teams that wanted to play.

#SelfishBullsh1t
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At the Olympics, there are more rules than just players' willingness to participate. Players have to be nominated by their National Olympic Committee (NOC), and there is a limited number of entries per country.

Rio 2016 Olympic Tennis Event Regulations

SECTION II
3. NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS PER COUNTRY
A maximum of two men and two women may compete as teams in the mixed double.

SECTION III
3. WITHDRAWALS
...For Doubles events, if one player withdraws, he/she can be replaced by another player from that NOC provided the new team’s combined ranking is better than the next eligible team.
 
stringertom said:
Coming off injury, was it realistic to enter all three even before the rain messed up the schedule? In the back of his mind, he knew if he advanced in both the singles and the dubs, he was going to bail on the mixed. And there were teams wanting in (Pospisil/Bouchard for one).

It's also crapola that France, U.S., Spain and G.B. each had two teams in mixed and Canada was shut out.
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Why didn't Bouchard stay in Rio?
 
Yeah, the Genie argument doesn't work. She posted on every single avenue of social media about leaving, being 3rd alternate for mixed was never a consideration.
 
stringertom said:
Coming off injury, was it realistic to enter all three even before the rain messed up the schedule? In the back of his mind, he knew if he advanced in both the singles and the dubs, he was going to bail on the mixed. And there were teams wanting in (Pospisil/Bouchard for one).

It's also crapola that France, U.S., Spain and G.B. each had two teams in mixed and Canada was shut out.
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Yet, teams can be on stand by and if they did not bother to it is not Rafa's fault. No one can predict the rain or how far you can go in tgedraw , he could've easily lost singles/doubles especially being rusty after a break, so anyone in his place will take the chance if available to enter all three events.
Correct me if I am wrong about the stand by option.
 
gogo said:
I think he looked exactly the same back then. ;) That sad dog look.
By all accounts an absolutely fabulous person.
I really wish that Pospisil could have kept his game from completely falling apart. Nestor deserved better.

Hopefully Pops will redeem himself in the Bronze medal playoff.
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All accounts?
 
Can't wait for the doubles final. Nestor is one of the best active doubles players, and Nadal/Lopez spanked him and Pospisil. It would be nice if the final were best of 5 sets, but it's better for Nadal's resting time for his singles matches to play a best of 3 set final.
 
stringertom said:
Coming off injury, was it realistic to enter all three even before the rain messed up the schedule? In the back of his mind, he knew if he advanced in both the singles and the dubs, he was going to bail on the mixed. And there were teams wanting in (Pospisil/Bouchard for one).

It's also crapola that France, U.S., Spain and G.B. each had two teams in mixed and Canada was shut out.
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I think there's an argument for the other teams to stay in Rio then. I really don't think Pospisil/Bouchard could've done much tbh. I would've like the mixed to be 32 team draw though (or even 24). Only one extra match for the players, 16 extra matches may have been a logistsical problem though.

That said, I'm tilted at the scheduling anyway. They could've taken more time for the Olympic tennis tournament, let it finish in the last week of the Olympics, switch Cincinatti with Winston-Salem and that stuff.
 
nadal_winning said:
Tecau is a slam champion, Mergea isn't. But according to betting websites, Nadal/Lopez are the favourites to win the gold medal.
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Betting sites are a relativey poor indicator here, as all the fan money is going on Nadal and is bringing their odds down. But I would think they're indeed favourites.
 
I don't get why Lopez didn't just join her? I'm assuming they don't have a high enough ranking...but if they wanted to play and there were no other teams waiting, doesn't that make them the highest ranked team waiting?
 
tacou said:
I don't get why Lopez didn't just join her? I'm assuming they don't have a high enough ranking...but if they wanted to play and there were no other teams waiting, doesn't that make them the highest ranked team waiting?
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Marc Lopez' ranking is definitely high enough. He's 21st in doubles, combined ranking would be like 24th or something. Thing is that they put up Nadal instead of Lopez, and you can't just substitute a player
 
nadal_winning said:
Can't wait for the doubles final. Nestor is one of the best active doubles players, and Nadal/Lopez spanked him and Pospisil. It would be nice if the final were best of 5 sets, but it's better for Nadal's resting time for his singles matches to play a best of 3 set final.
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It seems inconceivable, but was something going on here....was the fix in to get the markee Nadal through? With no electronic line judging there were at least 5 questionable calls that went against the Canadian duo, three of which were horrendous calls. The worst was a sharp angled volley struck by Nestor that replay showed to be at least a foot in. It was called out, and the umpire would not overrule it. Nestor was still fuming this morning over the calls, which he called a disgrace to tennis. Having said that. Nadal played well, Nestor played well, and Pospisil stunk the place out!
 
Ironwood said:
It seems inconceivable, but was something going on here....was the fix in to get the markee Nadal through? With no electronic line judging there were at least 5 questionable calls that went against the Canadian duo, three of which were horrendous calls. The worst was a sharp angled volley struck by Nestor that replay showed to be at least a foot in. It was called out, and the umpire would not overrule it. Nestor was still fuming this morning over the calls, which he called a disgrace to tennis. Having said that. Nadal played well, Nestor played well, and Pospisil stunk the place out!
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Now, now. Olympic tennis, heck, everything to do with the Olympics is beyond reproach.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if something was up. Especially with the Romanians advancing to the final, could not have that many no-names(to the greater public) in a final.

Not to say Nadal/Lopez would not have won on their own merits. But it looks very bad on those involved when calls that clear are missed that badly. I don't know the scheduling and court availability, but it is interesting that the matches to decide medals to start(ie, losers can only play for bronze) are played on a court like that. Also makes it clear just how important Olympic tennis is is administrator's minds if they can't be bothered to demand hawkeye on more than one court....I get not all 16, but I have to assume court 2 is third in the pecking order of courts?

*Edit-- see that they played on court 3 due to the delay, despite protests from Nestor. Yeah this looks bad on all fronts...
 
nadal_winning said:
Can't wait for the doubles final. Nestor is one of the best active doubles players, and Nadal/Lopez spanked him and Pospisil. It would be nice if the final were best of 5 sets, but it's better for Nadal's resting time for his singles matches to play a best of 3 set final.
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Indeed. Wasn't even close.
 
Red Rick said:
Gonna depend a lot on dynamics. It seemed Mergea/Tecau stayed back a lot against 'Murica, you can't stay back vs Nadal in doubles
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  • This would be a change for Spain to revenge themselves for the recent doubles loss to Romania (same Mergea and Tecau that just started to play together again) in the DC, without Nadal.
  • Nothing bad about 2 back formation in doubles if you have exceptional ground games (at least at amateur level, b/c against Nadal it might be different like you said)
 
Jack Sock is playing for an Olympic medal. Jack Sock is no ordinary man however. Jack Sock can multitask. Jack Sock also cracking jokes, as he is playing for an Olympic medal
 
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