{"id":6626,"date":"2023-08-17T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2023-08-17T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:56:13","slug":"mens-doubles-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/mens-doubles-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Doubles Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is part of a series of reference posts that lay out what historical data is available at TennisAbstract.com. I recently did a similar post about pre-Open era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/pre-open-era-mens-singles-results\/\">men&#8217;s singles data<\/a>. I&#8217;ll try to keep this post updated as the site expands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amateur-era doubles data&#8211;even doubles results from early in the Open era&#8211;is thin on the ground. I&#8217;m trying, slowly, to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The TennisAbstract.com site now contains over 1,300 men&#8217;s doubles results from 1957 to 1967, the last eleven years of the amateur era. That includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Grand slam finals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All Davis Cup doubles rubbers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doubles matches from <em>professional<\/em> tournaments and barnstorming stops. This varies enormously from year to year, in part because the pro tours sometimes played doubles every night, and sometimes they rarely did. At the extremes, I have 83 pro doubles matches from 1958 and only one from 1961. Reporting of these matches was extremely inconsistent at the time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doubles finals from all amateur tournaments where at least one member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/01\/introducing-the-tennis-128\/\">Tennis 128<\/a> competed&#8211;assuming I could find it. This amounts to roughly 60 finals per year, spanning most of the circuit&#8217;s most notable events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note my focus on <em>finals<\/em>. Eventually, I may expand on that, especially for grand slams. But collecting doubles results is extremely slow going, and contemporary coverage was much spottier than for singles. There&#8217;s nothing quite so disheartening as trying to add a match to the database when the losing side is listed only as &#8220;Smith\/Smith.&#8221; Or worse: &#8220;Smith\/partner.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On any player page, you can find doubles results&#8211;assuming the player has some&#8211;by scrolling down, or by clicking here:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dubs-menu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dubs-menu.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dubs-menu.png 862w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dubs-menu-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dubs-menu-768x346.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll see, at least if you&#8217;re on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=RodLaver\">Rod Laver&#8217;s page<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laver-dubs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laver-dubs-1024x465.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laver-dubs-1024x465.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laver-dubs-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laver-dubs-768x349.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laver-dubs-1536x698.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/laver-dubs.png 1876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Rocket was pretty good at doubles, too<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This &#8220;notable&#8221; table is limited to 20 matches. For most players, that&#8217;s all I have at this point. If I have more, the &#8220;notable&#8221; table lists a combination of slam finals and the most recent matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there is an &#8220;All results&#8221; link above the table&#8211;as there is for Laver&#8211;that means I have more than 20 matches, and you can click through to get the full list. Here, for instance, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player-more.cgi?p=109818\/Gordon-Forbes&amp;table=doubles\">Gordon Forbes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/forbes-dubs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/forbes-dubs-1024x486.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/forbes-dubs-1024x486.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/forbes-dubs-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/forbes-dubs-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/forbes-dubs-1536x728.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/forbes-dubs.png 1841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>By the time he retired, the man had a lot to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/20\/podcast-episode-91-book-club-a-handful-of-summers-by-gordon-forbes\/\">write<\/a> about.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually, these pages will be filterable, like the singles results. For now, it&#8217;s just a reverse-chronological list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next up, I hope to add men&#8217;s doubles from the 1968 season, as well as a few more seasons from the beginning of the Open era. Then I&#8217;ll go back to 1956 and add more amateur-era seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*<\/em> * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Subscribe to the blog to receive each new post by email:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__supports-newline wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?post_type=post&#038;p=6626\" style=\"font-size: 16px;padding: 15px 23px 15px 23px;margin: 0; margin-left: 10px;border-radius: 0px;border-width: 1px; background-color: #113AF5; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; margin-left: 0\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of a series of reference posts that lay out what historical data is available at TennisAbstract.com. I recently did a similar post about pre-Open era men&#8217;s singles data. I&#8217;ll try to keep this post updated as the site expands. Amateur-era doubles data&#8211;even doubles results from early in the Open era&#8211;is thin on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/mens-doubles-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Men&#8217;s Doubles Results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,94,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-reference","category-tennis-abstract"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}