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
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
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
Wimbledon: Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina will have to wait for their first Grand Slam title together as they lost the closely fought Wimbledon mixed doubles summit clash to Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond, here on Sunday. The fourth-seeded Indo-Russian pair suffered a 3-6 7-5 4-6 defeat at the hands of second seed Americans after battling for two hours and four minutes. It is for the second time in this...
01:44 AM, Jul 09, 2012
It is the third time the American brothers have won the tournament. ...
10:35 AM, Nov 30, 2009
Bhupathi's seven-year Grand Slam title drought in men's doubles continues. ...
06:09 PM, Jan 31, 2009
Bhupathi and Knowles beat Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach in semis. ...
04:19 PM, Jan 31, 2009
