Murray/Soares Battle Into Stuttgart Final

Second seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares came out on top in another tight match on Friday at the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, reaching the final with a 6-3, 6-7(5), 10-6 victory over Marcin Matkowski and Max Mirnyi. 

Murray/Soares needed 11 match points to prevail in their quarter-final on Wednesday against Brian Baker and Nikola Mektic, but only needed three in the Match Tie-break against Matkowski/Mirnyi to advance in 77 minutes.

Awaiting them in the final will be top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan or fourth seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic. Murray/Soares are 1-1 in ATP World Tour doubles finals in 2017, prevailing in Acapulco (d. Isner/Lopez) and finishing runner-up in Sydney (l. Koolhof/Middelkoop).

At the Ricoh Open in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, second seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram secured the lone break in the last game of their semi-final match against Aussies John Peers and Jordan Thompson to advance 7-6(4), 7-5. Klaasen/Ram have already lifted winner’s trophies this year in Delray Beach (d. Huey/Mirnyi) and the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells (d. Kubot/Melo).

They’ll play Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in a rematch of their Indian Wells final after the top seeds defeated Andre Sa and recent Roland Garros doubles champion Michael Venus 6-7(5), 6-4, 10-5. Kubot/Melo have excelled at Masters 1000 events this year, winning in Madrid (d. Mahut/Roger-Vasselin) and Miami (d. Monroe/Sock).  

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