(1) Peschke/M. Bryan vs. Vinci/Bracciali
Date-Krumm/Nishikori vs. Dulko/Schwank
Barty/Mitchell vs. Jankovic/Tomic
(7) Hlavackova/Qureshi vs. Dokic/Hanley

(4) Raymond/Bopanna vs. Voskoboeva/Peya
Rogowska/Matosevic vs. Dellacqua/Ebden
Petrova/Melo vs. Hsieh/Matkowski
(5) Vesnina/Paes vs. Pavlyuchenkova/Mirnyi

(6) Mirza/Bhupathi vs. Grandin/Rojer
Benesova/Melzer vs. Llagostera Vives/Marach
Uhlirova/Lipsky vs. Zahlavova Strycova/Lindstedt
(3) Kirilenko/Nestor vs. Huber/Fleming

(8) Mattek-Sands/Tecau vs. Hradeca/Cermak
Rodionova/Kas vs. Shvedova/Ram
Spears/Fyrstenberg vs. Peng/J. Murray
(2) Srebotnik/Zimonjic vs. Gajdosova/Soares

Mixed doubles has been a bit of a damp squib but I'm really looking forward to this. Plenty of interesting teams!

intriguing!! go Willdick

Nevets wrote:


WOW, what a blockbuster for the Mixed...but beyond that

Is Serena's pairing with Andy practice for a Mixed back-up come the Olympics if Venus isn't available

liam_valid wrote:


Roderena

vivahate wrote:


I thought Serena was planning to enter all three events

From Tennis.com:

Serena Williams and Andy Roddick, who plan on playing together in the London Olympics, have entered the Australian Open mixed doubles draw. They will face top seeds Mike Bryan and Kveta Peshke in the first round. Williams and Roddick are longtime friends from the juniors, but have not worked out their strategy yet.

"I texted Andy and he said, ‘What side do you want to play? I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, we forgot to discuss that,'" Serena said with a laugh. "I always play the forehand side. He didn't care what side he plays, so it's good. We're looking forward to it. It's going to be fun. Why not start out [playing] the best?"

Serena also joked that "her forehand must be stronger" than Roddick’s because she beat him once when they were kids and that she will let him serve first. "I was thinking I should, but I'll let him feel like, you know, macho man and let him start first."



I think Andy will do well to keep out of the way of Serena's racket

Roddicks injured so that litte sideshow is now over

R1 mixed
(ALT) Vinci/Bracciali d. (1) Peschke/Bryan 36 62 11-9
Date-Krumm/Nishikori d. Dulko/Schwank 64 61
Jankovic/Tomic d. Barty/Mitchell 61 63
(7) Hlavackova/Qureshi d. Dokic/Hanley 63 61

(4) Raymond/Bopanna d. Voskoboeva/Peya 61 60
Dellacqua/Ebden d. Rogowska/Matosevic 64 62
Hsieh/Matkowski d. Petrova/Melo 46 76 10-5
(5) Vesnina/Paes d. Pavlyuchenkova/Mirnyi 62 75

(6) Mirza/Bhupathi d. Grandin/Rojer 64 62
Benesova/Melzer d. Llagostera Vives/Marach 61 76
Uhlirova/Lipsky d. (ALT) Hercog/Cabal 76 75
Huber/Fleming d. (ALT) Kops-Jones/Butorac 75 62

(8) Mattek-Sands/Tecau d. Hradecka/Cermak 46 63 10-6
Shvedova/Ram d. Rodionova/Kas 46 63 10-5
Spears/Fyrstenberg d. Peng/Murray 63 57 11-9
Gajdosova/Soares d. (ALT) Jans-Ignacik/Gonzalez 67 62 11-9

It would have been fantastic to see Serena and Andy play. Pity he had to withdraw!

R2
(7) Hlavackova/Qureshi d. Jankovic/Tomic 63 63

(4) Raymond/Bopanna d. Dellacqua/Ebden 64 62

(6) Mirza/Bhupathi d. Benesova/Melzer 36 64 12-10
Huber/Fleming d. Uhlirova/Lipsky 63 62

T01 wrote:


Serena may rue the extra practice a couple of doubles matches would have given her

liam_valid wrote:


Yeah, I was thinking the same. Whenever Serena plays in doubles in a GS, she always seems to play well in singles although I think she was saying her injury bothered her a bit so it might have gone the other way.