Aspelin and Knowle win the doubles championship

Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Julian Knowle of Austria came up big on their returns in the men's doubles final and won their first Grand Slam title over the Czech duo of Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner, 7-5, 6-4.

Dlouhy and Vizner played the I-Formation, targeting the strong service-retrun game of Aspelin and Knowle. The latter sensed which way the poach was going often enough, which meant they could pick on the net-rushing server with their strong returns.

Which goes to show how the I-Formation helps bring your server to net safely - provided that your opponents don't figure out how to tell which way you are going to poach.

None of the four players in this match qualified for the singles. Dlouhy is the highest ranked at 133 and lost out in the 2rd round of qualifying.

That's a controlling fact of a certain matter. And it means what it means, not whatever one can wish or twist into not exactly meaning. Of course the best singles players aren't always the best doubles players. But come on, not any in the top 100?

Far more tennis players play doubles than singles, so the disinterest isn't in the game itself.

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