Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan broke serve four times to top Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nenad Zimonjic 6-4, 7-5 in the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Thursday. The No. 2 seeds will next face countrymen John Isner and Jack Sock, who took out Spain’s Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez. The Bryans, who have 112 team titles, are two wins away from becoming the first doubles team to reach 1,000 match wins.
Bryan/Bryan raced to a 3-0 lead in the opening set before Tsonga/Zimonjic broke back in the seventh game. Serving to stay in the set at 4-5, the French/Serbian duo saved three set points before dropping the winner-takes-all deuce point. In the second set, the Bryans failed to serve out the match at 5-4, but secured the win on their third attempt minutes later.
Bryan/Bryan and Lopez/Lopez are third and fourth the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London respectively, and have already qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
Henri Kontinen and John Peers topped Robert Lindstedt and Vasek Pospisil 6-7(5), 6-1, 10/7 for a quarter-final berth. Kontinen/Peers will next face Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray. With a win, Soares will become the 50th player to reach No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings on Monday.
Pablo Cuevas and Marcel Granollers knocked out No. 3 seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 4-6, 6-4, 10/4 to reach the quarter-finals.