Monte Carlo: Jurgen Melzer and Leander Paes lost their men's doubles quarterfinal clash against the top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan here at the Monte Carlo Masters on Friday. The Bryan brothers won 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 in one hour and 13 minutes to proceed to the semifinals of the 1000-point ATP clay court tournament.
The Indo-Austrian pair broke the top seeds twice in as many chances they got to get past the tough first set. Paes-Melzer quashed six of the seven breakpoint chances of the Americans.
Bob and Mike returned the favour by breaking the only game in the second set and taking the match into the decider.
In the deciding super tiebreak, the unseeded men were no match for the Bryan brothers who easily raced away to 10 points and will now face Canada-Australian pair of Milos Raonic and Bernard Tomic in the last four Saturday....
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09:55 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Idaho: The United States trail Serbia 2-1 in their Davis Cup quarter-final after the top-ranked doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan lost to Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1), 5-7, 4-6, 15-13 on Saturday in a match that stretched to 4 hours and 23 minutes. Zimonjic served three aces in the final game, closing out the victory with an ace on the second match point....
08:28 AM, Apr 07, 2013
The top-ranked pair lost to Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares 7-6 (6), 6-7 (7), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ...
05:08 PM, Feb 03, 2013
The Bryans now have six Australian Open titles to go along with four at the US Open, two at Wimbledon and one at the French Open. ...
07:35 PM, Jan 26, 2013
India's challenge ended in the men's doubles event of the Australian Open with the defeat of Mahesh Bhupathi and Daniel Nestor even as Sania Mirza and Bob Bryan progressed to the mixed doubles quarter-finals on Monday. ...
01:13 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Sania Mirza and Bob Bryan began their partnership with a convincing straight-set victory over Australian pair of Samantha Stosur and Luke Saville in the mixed doubles first round of the Australian Open, here on Friday. ...
06:23 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Djokovic will team with his idol Sampras to play Bryan brothers in a doubles exhibition on March 4. ...
11:59 AM, Jan 18, 2013
London: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek will go into the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finale as the unbeaten team as they pipped the top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan in their last Group A match, here on Saturday. Third seeds Paes and Stepanek held their nerves to beat three-time champions 6-4 6-7(6) 10-7 in one hour and 45 minutes. Now Bryans would be praying that seventh seeds...
08:58 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza said it's an honour to team up with 18 time Grand Slam winner Bob Bryan in the mixed doubles of the 2013 Australian Open. Speaking at the 'Marks for Sports' campaign launched by the NDTV-Nirmal for which the Hyderabadi is the brand ambassador, the 25-year-old Sania hoped that her tennis academy near the outskirts of the city would help in grooming young talent to...
10:39 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Kollam: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza said she was looking forward to team up with American Bob Bryan in the mixed doubles event of the 2013 Australian open. "Yes, I am going to play with Bryan in the Australian Open," Sania, who inaugurated the President's Trophy boat race here this evening, told reporters. In the women's doubles, American Bethanie Mattek would be her partner, she said. Sania, ranked 7 in...
09:03 PM, Nov 01, 2012
American twins Bob and Mike Bryan will end the tennis season on top of the world for a record eighth time, the sport's governing body said on Monday. The Olympic gold medallists are the only doubles team to win at least five titles for 10 consecutive years, and won a record-equalling 12th grand slam title at the US Open last month. "Finishing number one is always our ultimate goal when...
04:34 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Gijon: Top-ranked United States pair Bob and Mike Bryan kept US hopes of upsetting holders Spain alive when they fought off a brave challenge from Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez to win their Davis Cup semi-final doubles 6-3 3-6 7-5 7-5 on Saturday. Spain had put themselves within a point of a fourth final in five years when David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro beat Sam Querrey and John Isner in...
11:40 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New York: Kim Clijsters hit her last shot as a pro tennis player into the net. Doubtful anyone will remember that, though. Smiling right until the end in front of 2,800 buzzing fans on Court 17 at Flushing Meadows, Clijsters officially made her way into retirement on Saturday night. She and mixed doubles partner Bob Bryan fell 6-2, 3-6, 12-10 to Ekaterina Makarova and Bruno Soares in a back-and-forth match...
08:33 AM, Sep 02, 2012
London: America's Bob and Mike Bryan added a gold medal to their trophy haul on Saturday with a 6-4 7-6 win over France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra in the Olympic tennis men's doubles final. The Bryan twins, who have won 11 grand slam titles together and took home the men's doubles bronze in Beijing, were handed the victory in a second set tiebreak when Llodra ploughed the ball into...
03:06 AM, Aug 05, 2012
Paris: Serena Williams' French Open is over after a first-round loss in the mixed doubles to go with her quick exit in singles. Playing together for the first time, Williams and Bob Bryan were beaten 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 by Gisela Dulko and Eduardo Schwank of Argentina at Roland Garros on Friday. Williams was upset by 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano in singles on Tuesday, the American's only first-round loss in 47 Grand...
08:39 AM, Jun 02, 2012
It is the third time the American brothers have won the tournament. ...
10:35 AM, Nov 30, 2009
The title is Bryan's second consecutive in mixed doubles at the French Open. ...
02:56 AM, Jun 05, 2009
Bhupathi's seven-year Grand Slam title drought in men's doubles continues. ...
06:09 PM, Jan 31, 2009
