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Watch highlights from the doubles final at the Shanghai Rolex Masters, as Henri Kontinen and John Peers emerged as champions. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.

Better late than never. One year after coming up just short of lifting the trophy, Henri Kontinen and John Peers have their title at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. Top seeds Kontinen and Peers defeated second seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-4, 6-2 to emerge victorious in Shanghai, claiming their second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title as a team. The Finnish-Aussie duo had fallen to John Isner and Jack Sock in last year's final, but needed just 69 minutes to dispatch Kubot and Melo on Sunday. Kontinen and Peers have enjoyed great success on Chinese soil this month, having captured the title at the China Open in Beijing last week. Now riding a seven-match win streak, they move to...

High-quality tennis was on display throughout the week at the Copa San Cristobal in Buenos Aires, with six of the eight seeds reaching the quarter-finals. While the $50,000 ATP Challenger Tour event is set to culminate on Sunday with an all-Argentine affair - top seed Horacio Zeballos battling third seed Nicolas Kicker - the action off the court was just as entertaining. Challenger stars traded their racquets for paintbrushes during the player party, joining renowned artist Milo Lockett to support Foundation Red en Juego. Zeballos, Kicker, Federico Delbonis, Federico Coria, Maximo Gonzalez and Carlos Berlocq attended the fundraising event. "We did something new in tennis during the inaugural tournament party," said Zeballos. "There was an important artist Milo Lockett and we...

It is only fitting that the penultimate ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the calendar is down to the players who have dominated the tour all year. World No. 1 Rafael Nadal will attempt to extend his 16-match winning streak Sunday in pursuit of his first Shanghai Rolex Masters title in the final against World No. 2 Roger Federer. Nadal is trying to earn a record 31st Masters 1000 title, which would break his tie with Novak Djokovic at 30 each. A victory will almost guarantee that the Spaniard closes the year with the No. 1 Emirates ATP Ranking for the fourth time, as he would own a 2,760-point lead over Federer. The Swiss seeks to narrow the gap in...

Considering there were concerns he might not even be able to take the court against Roger Federer, Juan Martin del Potro gave the fans a semi-final to savour at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Saturday. After his three-set victory over Viktor Troicki in the quarter-finals, del Potro’s communications manager, Jorge Viale, posted on Twitter that the Argentine had his wrist in a splint and would decide on Saturday morning if he could play against Federer. While not a serious injury, del Potro had suffered a wrist contusion. But play he did and the Tandil native had Federer in all sorts of trouble as he took the first set against the Swiss. The tide turned when Federer broke in the sixth...