In a small, noisy arena in Lyon whose rafters eventually filled with cigarette smoke, Leconte and Forget scaled the heights to beat a powerhouse U.S. team: Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras and the great doubles duo of Ken Flach and Robert Seguso.
Mike and Bob Bryan, the dynamic doubles duo from Camarillo, lost the first set and were taken to a tiebreaker in the second, but prevailed in four sets.
Like so many successful doubles duos preceding them — McEnroe and Fleming, Shriver and Navratilova, and Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge — the Bryan brothers are hip to the meteorological and mathematical advantages inherent in being a lefty/righty team.
The men's and women's doubles duos of Chris Adcock and Andy Ellis and Gabby Adcock and Lauren Smith also lost.
The double-A duo doesn't have a totally monopoly on the smartphone market but their numbers are heading in that direction.
The British lightweight double scull duo won the first World Cup regatta of the season in Belgrade but finished sixth in Lucerne and Munich.
So we get Zelda strolling across a field, the Double Dragon duo side-scrolling through mean streets, a karted-up Bowser driving across a beach, E Honda caving in a car's door, or the rider from Excitebike leaping across London's Tower Bridge.
Double acts, duos, two-twos, twixles, zweisters.
Shortstop Juan Uribe has excellent hands and a strong throwing arm, forming a slick double-play duo with second baseman Tadahito Iguchi.
