Best Rivalries In Doubles

Which two players have had the best doubles rivalries, despite their partners. Davenport and Sanchez-Vicario come to mind.

Or, which teams have been rivals?

Just a cute little thread.

I think Hingis and Davenport had a great doubles rivalry, especially in the late 90's when they faced off in numerous GS and Tour finals. Doubles H2H's are incredibly hard to compile so I cant think of much else off the top of my head.

Yeah Hingis-Davenport had a great rivalry against each other in doubles (although Hingis won the Slam finals:fiery:) lol but they were mostly very good matches. The 90's had so many great names around always switching partners so any match was a good one. Novotna, Zvereva, Gigi Fernandez, Kournikova, Sukova and many more. All of them had good rivalries.

Black/Huber vs. Kuznetsova/Petrova

Yeah Hingis-Davenport had a great rivalry against each other in doubles (although Hingis won the Slam finals:fiery:) lol but they were mostly very good matches. The 90's had so many great names around always switching partners so any match was a good one. Novotna, Zvereva, Gigi Fernandez, Kournikova, Sukova and many more. All of them had good rivalries.

Hingis led Davenport 14-5 in their doubles matches inlcuding four straight GS finals in '98.

Well there ya go! Still, I think their singles rivalry carried over into the doubles court and they had lots of great matches.

Current good rivalry is Black/Huber vs. Sugiyama/Srebotnik

The latter team only did really well against the first one at the GS's, not in the other tournaments mostly.

Suarez/Ruano Pascual vs Black/Stubbs

All those matches were so dramatic :eek: I really enjoyed watching them :tears:

Suarez/Ruano Pascual vs Kuznetsova/Likhovtseva

Especially during 2004.

Suarez/Ruano Pascual vs Petrova/Shaughnessy

2004's matches were so :tape:

I think the Williams sisters and Martina Hingis whoever she was partnered with

Hingis led Davenport 14-5 in their doubles matches inlcuding four straight GS finals in '98.
Martina/partner beat Natasha/Lindsay in all four GS finals in 98 plus AO99 final. :sobbing:
Natasha was also finalist in USO97 (Novotna/Davenport bt Zvereva/G. Fernandez 6-4 6-3). Her best results after AO99 final were semi-finals at Wimbledon99 (with Jana) and 2000 (with Kournikova, losing to Venus/Serena)

I also liked Kournikova/Rubin when they played together at Wimbledon one year.

I think the Williams sisters and Martina Hingis whoever she was partnered with

not really, head to head was 2-2, with their meetings in GS going to the Williams Sisters. Also they had more of a rivalry with Kournikova, almost every slam they won they had to play Anna and someone.

Suarez/Ruano Pascual vs Black/Stubbs

All those matches were so dramatic :eek: I really enjoyed watching them :tears:

Suarez/Ruano Pascual vs Kuznetsova/Likhovtseva

Especially during 2004.

Suarez/Ruano Pascual vs Petrova/Shaughnessy

2004's matches were so :tape:

Don't forget when they just couldn't beat Clijsters/Sugiyama :tape:

Hingis reached 6 straight GS Finals in the period January 1998 - May 1999. :clap:

Williams vs Hingis-Kournikova

Grand Slam doubles titles are hard to come by

G.Fernandez/Zvereva vs Sanchez-Vicario/Novotna

G.Fernandez/Zvereva vs Sanchez-Vicario/Novotna

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:devil:

Hingis reached 6 straight GS Finals in the period January 1998 - May 1999. :clap:

Winning 5 in a row as well. :worship:

From the beginning of 1998 to the end of 2006, Hingis was 178-19 (94%). HAIL.

Hingis reached 6 straight GS Finals in the period January 1998 - May 1999. :clap:

i'm glad to say the Williams Sisters broke that at 1999 French Open:devil:

VRP/Suarez - Clisjters/Sugiyama
Raymond/Stosur - Yan/Zheng

Hingis/partner vs. Davenport/Zvereva immediately came into mind.

I tried putting martina/pam against someone but couldnt come up with competitive names