Friday, April 3, 2009

Wild card team goes to Miami final

The wild card team of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amelie Mauresmo will play the number 3 seeded team of Kveta Peschke and Lisa Raymond in the Sony Ericsson Open doubles final. Kuznetsova and Mauresmo defeated Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Patty Schnyder, also unseeded, in the semifinals. Peschke and Raymond defeated the unseeded team of Chuang Chia-Jung and Sania Mirza.

4 comments:

  1. I thought peschke and raymond were seeded 3?

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  2. Ah, they are. I had two teams' seeding switched on the list I was looking at. Thanks, David. Correction made.

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  3. It's nice to see two famous singles players team up and do so well at an event like this. I think some more players should do this, as it would really highlight doubles more which is a good thing as doubles is very exciting.

    Diane, do you think that having a mixed doubles competition at a mens/womens event would be good?

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  4. I think it would be fun for people like us, Matt, but I don't think the tournament directors could find a way to fit it in. And I don't know whether the players would be interested. Mixed doubles is such an afterthought for them.

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