Doubles Take: Top two seeds out on men's side

Major upsets, mixed doubles previews: It's all in your daily Wimbledon Doubles Take report.

It’s not every day that you see a second-round match where the four players on court have 88 titles between them. In a match-up like that, anything is bound to happen.

Just ask Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot. The second seeds and defending champions were bounced from the tournament yesterday by the veterans Jonathan Erlich and Marcin Matkowski in four sets.

Kubot and Melo have some unexpected company on the sidelines as the top seeds and last year’s runners-up Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic are also out. The Australian Open champs and French Open finalists, up two sets to none, lost in five to Federico Delbonis and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela.

It looks like the upset bug that hit the singles draws has worked its way over to the doubles side.

Here’s a preview of three matches taking place today.

Ivan Dodig/Latisha Chan (3) vs. Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi/Arantxa Parra Santonja: The last time Chan and Dodig were knocked out of their respective doubles draws early, good things happened when they put their energies into the mixed competition.

This year’s French champs are facing a couple of veteran players on the other side of the net, but their Grand Slam-winning experience should carry them through.

Lucie Safarova/Bethanie Mattek-Sands vs. Kaia Kanepi/Andrea Petkovic: A place in the second week of the tournament is up for grabs here: a spot that’s been quite familiar for Team Bucie over the years. While Kanepi and Petkovic both possess a lot of firepower, Mattek-Sands and Safarova’s doubles savvy gives them the edge.

Marcelo Demoliner/Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (15) vs. Jack Sock/Sloane Stephens: Dominic Inglot has been near untouchable on the doubles court the past few months, and he and Samantha Stosur—a Slam-winning mixed doubles champ—made a formidable pairing.

Sock and Stephens chopped them up 2 and 3 in less than an hour.

Can the Americans keep up that level of play? Demoliner and Martinez Sanchez both make their livings on the doubles court and won titles on grass leading up to Wimbledon. If Sock and Stephens take the court with a clear focus of working toward the title, it might be too much for their opponents to handle.

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