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Doubles – Final: (1) Bryan/Bryan def. (11) Granollers/Lopez 6-3 6-4
Another week, another item for the Bryan Brothers record book. In this case, one hundred titles. Pretty routinely. Granollers/Lopez actually had more winners, but they also had far, far more errors — the Bryans officially produced only five. Hard to beat a team that plays like that.
It’s not only title #100 for the Twins, it’s also #100 for Bob (Mike has 102). And, of course, it breaks their year-long Slam drought. And, for all intents and purposes, it clinches the year-end #1. Again.
They have sixteen Slams as a team, the all-time record. They have five U. S. Open titles, the Open Era record and tied for the all-time record. They have won at least one Slam in each of the last ten years.
The records go on endlessly, but we’ll let Mike Bryan sum it up: “We’re obviously ecstatic. To win it here in front of this crowd makes it all the more special but we had to play our best match of the tournament to win today.”
Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez have only one title this year, and it small (Buenos Aires), but they have two Slam finals (the other coming at Roland Garros). They came in at #9 in the doubles Race. It appears this will take them to #5. They haven’t clinched a spot at the year-end Championships, but it now looks like the way to bet. And they make nice rankings moves — Granollers from #20 to #10, and Lopez from #22 to #13:
1..(1) Bryan………….11810
1..(1) Bryan………….11810
3..(5) Nestor………….6070
4..(7) Zimonjic………..5910
5..(6) Melo……………5870
6..(3) Peya……………5690
6..(3) Soares………….5690
8..(8) Dodig…………..4960
9..(9) Roger-Vasselin…..4740
10.(20) Granollers………4380
11.(13) Marrero…………4370
12.(10) Benneteau……….4290
13.(22) LopezM………….4210
Topics: 100th title, Bob Bryan, Bryan Brothers, Feliciano Lopez, Marcel Granollers, Mike Bryan, tennis dubs, US Open tennis
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