{"id":6312,"date":"2010-09-10T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6312"},"modified":"2010-09-10T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T15:55:12","slug":"us_open_mens_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/us_open_mens_do\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open Men&#8217;s Doubles Finals (open thread)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Indian Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani doubles partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Quresh <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/scores\/schedule\/index.html?promo=ScheduleofPlayRightRailPromo\" target=_blank>try and make history<\/a>!  The Men&#8217;s Double Finals will be carried on CBS this afternoon.  They will face the American Bryan brothers (twins), who they beat last month.  Any of you fortunate enough to be able to watch it can leave your observations in the comments thread here (note: all jingoistic and non-secular comments will be deleted).<\/p>\n\n<p><center><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/auwraH\" target=_blank><img class=picture border=0 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/boquer_1.jpg\" width=272 height=315><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<div align=left>NPR <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129768353\" target=_blank>featured the dynamic duo<\/a> this morning.<\/div>\n\n<div align=left> <\/div>\n\n<div align=left>And the two ambassadors are bhai-bhai.<\/div>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<div align=left>&#8220;There&#8217;s always the potential,&#8221; the Pakistani ambassador, Abdullah H. Haroon, said. &#8220;Hardeep [Indian Ambassador] and I are in the New York area and we&#8217;re always looking for avenues to open and this is a magnificent one. The message going back to Pakistan is, here&#8217;s a team seeded 16th, and they&#8217;re in the finals for the first time at the U.S. Open. That&#8217;s great news.&#8221; [<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2010\/tennis\/09\/08\/doubles.ap\/index.html#ixzz0z8e6pnM8\" target=_blank>link<\/a>]<\/div>\n<div align=left> <\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n<div align=left>Let&#8217;s hope for a good match.<\/div>\n\n<div align=left> <\/div>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Indian Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani doubles partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Quresh try and make history! The Men&#8217;s Double Finals will be carried on CBS this afternoon. They will face the American Bryan brothers (twins), who they beat last month. Any &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/10\/us_open_mens_do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}