Murray/Soares Win Opener At Wimbledon

Third seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares couldn’t convert a match point in the second-set tiebreak against Jonathan Erlich and Colin Fleming, but rebounded to move into the second round of Wimbledon 6-2, 6-7(9), 6-3 on Thursday. Murray reached the Wimbledon final last year with John Peers. Next up for them is the winner of the match between Federico Delbonis/Diego Schwartzman and wild cards Kyle Edmund/James Ward.

2013 Wimbledon doubles champion Jonathan Marray and partner Adil Shamasdin scored the upset of the tournament by knocking out defending champions and fourth seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau in the opening round 6-2, 7-6(3). The unseeded duo swept the final five points of the second set tie-break to take the match. They will now play Dustin Brown and Jan-Lennard Struff, who defeated Andres Molteni and Julio Peralta, 6-4, 6-4.

Second seeds and three-time champions Bob and Mike Bryan narrowly avoided a similar upset by defeating Inigo Cervantes and Paolo Lorenzi, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. The Bryans grabbed the lone break of serve in the final set at 3-3. Next up for them is the winner of the match between Malek Jaziri/Lukas Rosol and wild cards Daniel Evans/Lloyd Glasspool.

Twelfth seeds Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi didn’t drop serve in defeating Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 6-3, 7-6(5). They will now play Marcelo Demoliner and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, who defeated Julian Knowle and Artem Sitak, 7-6(5), 6-3.

Thirteenth seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah defeated Brian Baker and Marcus Daniell, 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-3. They’ll next play the winner between Leonardo Mayer/Joao Sousa and Sam Groth/Robert Lindstedt.

All first-round doubles matches were shortened to a best-of-three format due to inclement weather earlier this week. Matches will be best-of-five from the second-round on.

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