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Murray & Soares Clinch Year-End No. 1 Emirates ATP Doubles Team Ranking

The first-year pairing of Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares has clinched the year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Doubles Team Ranking. Murray and Soares join Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith (1993), and Jonas Bjorkman and Todd Woodbridge (2001) to claim the honour in their first season together. Great Britain’s Murray and Brazil’s Soares, who completed Group Edberg/Jarryd play this week with a 3-0 record to advance to the semi-finals at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, are guaranteed the year-end No. 1 honour after French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut lost their final round-robin match at The O2 in London, venue of the season finale. Additionally, as a result of Mahut’s loss, if Soares goes on to win the season...

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Player Blog: Murray/Soares Cruise To The O2

Our typical ride to the courts of an ATP World Tour tournament looks like this: I sit in one row of the tournament transportation van, and my doubles partner, Jamie Murray, sits in another, and we enjoy some down time. During our rides to tournament sites, either before or after matches, we're usually not itching to catch up or talk about current events; I spend more time with Jamie than I do my wife, so we have plenty of time for small talk during every other part of the day. But pre- and post-match transportation looks a lot different at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. Namely, we travel by boat instead of by car. The boats come and...

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Murray/Soares Soar Into London SFs

Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares have clinched a Barclays ATP World Tour Finals semi-finals berth and boosted their chances of finishing as year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings after the second seeds defeated Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo 6-3, 3-6, 10-6 on Thursday at The O2 arena. Murray/Soares completed their Group Edberg/Jarryd campaign with a maximum three victories and can still overtake Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut as the World No. 1 pairing, depending on the outcome of the Frenchmen's final round-robin match on Friday. Herbert/Mahut, who will not qualify for the final four, must prevail in their final Group Fleming/McEnroe contest with Henri Kontinen and John Peers, otherwise the prestigious year-end top spot is in...

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