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Mischa Zverev talks about the difficulties of playing Tommy Haas at the MercedesCup in Stuttgart. Watch live matches at tennistv.com. Video courtesy MercedesCup

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). [ALSO LIKE] At the...

World No. 7 Marin Cilic and No. 10-ranked Alexander Zverev both advanced to the Ricoh Open semi-finals on Friday. Top-seeded Croatian Cilic recorded the 50th grass-court match win of his career when he knocked out Vasek Pospisil 6-3, 7-5 in 77 minutes. Cilic recovered from a 2-5 deficit in the second set to keep alive his hopes of reaching a third grass-court final. “I feel better and better, obviously after each day I’m getting used to the grass,” Cilic told ATPWorldTour.com. “I felt today I played a little bit better than yesterday, despite the difficult gusty conditions. I felt I served well in critical situations and I managed to turn the break around in the second set.” Cilic will now...

Feliciano Lopez reflects on beating Tomas Berdych in the MercedesCup quarter-finals and looks forward to potentially playing one of his idols growing up, Tommy Haas. Video courtesy: MercedesCup

Watch Tomas Berdych slip on the lush grass, but recover to strike a winner against Feliciano Lopez on Friday in Stuttgart. Video courtesy: MercedesCup. Photo: Peter Staples/ATP World Tour