Who should be our Davis cup doubles pair ?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Who should be our Davis cup doubles pair ?

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Ah well, we're all agreed to disagree, then

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeeed :)

While I agree it will be tempting to play Andy & Jamie, it is all about the W

Yield not to temptation.

Andy and Jamie give a great long and emotional performace in a 5 set defeat to the Bryans as Isner spends the day following all the best recovery techniques to be ready for Sunday....NO, don't do it / allow it, Leon. Quite apart from anything, Andy could ( clearly probably won't ) pick up an injury. Dom or Jamie vs Isner ? No, thanks.

Andy bringing it home tomorrow will do me if Dom & Jamie ( 2 doubles players in form ) don't get it done today.

British_is_Best · County player

Just to replicate my earlier post on the main Davis Cup thread, the LTA have tweeted it will be Dom and Jamie for the Doubles.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ah well, wrong again

No problem ! Go for it, GB.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Good!

savva0122 · Intermediate Club Player

Really pleased it's Dom and Jamie too.
Shows our team has strength in depth now and less reliant on AM (although obviously very reliant!)

I think if the tie is dead at 3-0, they play 2 x best of three rubbers and whilst they are supposed to use the main players I think it's pretty accepted the junior players get a game for experience. If live at 2-1 and goes 3-1 up, then if the match goes past three sets the final rubber is not played

Where do you think the QF will be played (not getting ahead of myself mind!) - Queen's?

indiana · Tennis legend

Teams do indeed very often play 'back up' players in dead rubbers, but I always thought that these still had to be from the named team of four - i.e. primarly doubles players or back up singles players from the four named.

And a big PHEW re the doubles choice.

Sim · County player

savva0122 wrote:

Where do you think the QF will be played (not getting ahead of myself mind!) - Queen's?

Queen's would be an obvious choice especially now with the additional week between Queen's and Wimbledon so would have 3 1/2 weeks recovery time for court. Only shame would be the capacity as could fill Queen's 2 or 3 times over. Eastbourne actually has larger capacity 8000 vs 6850 but one less week to prepare court.

Anyway that is a discussion for later today or tomorrow.....

DF · Tennis legend

Pleased with Jamie and Dom. Hope they gel for the future

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

I'm in the Jamie and Dom camp. I think we need a non Andy pairing for the future, and also Dom's beaten the Bryans this years twice already. He deserves a chance. I know he played badly last time, but it was his first tie. I hope he gets the W today.

airsmashers · County player

Even if they don't go on to win I think Dom has proven why he was a good selection.

Spaced · Lower Club Player

Yeah, fair play to Dom. He's performed well and looks a much better player than his last DC appearance.

GBJ · Club Coach

I don't really follow the doubles pairings enough to have an idea of reasons against this - given how well they did once they got used to each other today wouldn't it make sense for Dom and Jamie to play together regularly and try to be our regular doubles pair to take pressure off Andy in these type's of matches?

Also do people think that today's match suggests they were the right choice or that if Andy had played we'd have finished them off by now?

indiana · Tennis legend

I definitely think that Dom & Jamie were the right doubles choice. For me, the arguably better chance we would have had in the doubles with Andy playing ( and I think it would have been a better chance and thus a possible win ) was far outweighed by keeping Andy fresh for his singles tomorrow. It doesn't matter what day we clinch the match on ( as hopefully we will ! )

The issue with Dom and Jamue playing regularly together ( repeating myself from the main Davis Cup thread ) is how do you ? / do you ? incentivise them to play regularly together when they have their whole professional careers to consider and the world to choose from for regular partners ( and both are in good shape with their respective regular foreign partners ).

Yes, very promising that they gelled better and better as the match went on and being a regular partnership would increase their understanding and cut down on today's occasional communication problems.

But great as it is for them ( and us ! ) to do well in the Davis Cup, I imagine that they would need to be convinced that they would really work well as a pair on a year round basis.