Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and Donald Young of the U.S. advanced to the Roland Garros semi-finals on Monday, upsetting fifth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 3-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(4). Murray/Soares served for the match at 5-4 in the second set and had a match point at 40/30, but Gonzalez and Young, playing together for only the second time, strung together three consecutive points to break and stay in the quarter-final contest. The next game, they erased a break point and held, and they later took the tie-break to even the match. Neither team broke in the decider, but Gonzalez/Young claimed their first match point. Gonzalez/Young actually won eight fewer points than Murray/Soares during the two-hour and 19-minute match, 111 to...
The doubles quarter-finals are locked in at Roland Garros, with fifth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares among the final three teams to book their spots in the last eight on Sunday. Murray/Soares took out ninth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas 7-6(5), 6-2. The pairing struggled on clay leading into Roland Garros, posting a 2-4 record on the red dirt, but have cruised through their first three matches in Paris without losing a set. Murray/Soares will next play Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young. [ALSO LIKE] Veterans Fernando Verdasco and Nenad Zimonjic eased past Sam Groth and Robert Lindstedt 6-2, 6-4. Zimonjic prevailed here in 2010 (w/Nestor), while Verdasco is looking for his first Grand Slam semi-final. They’ll face Rogerio...
The doubles quarter-finals are locked in at Roland Garros, with fifth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares among the final three teams to book their spots in the last eight on Sunday. Murray/Soares took out ninth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas 7-6(5), 6-2. The pairing struggled on clay leading into Roland Garros, posting a 2-4 record on the red dirt, but have cruised through their first three matches in Paris without losing a set. Murray/Soares will next play Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young. [ALSO LIKE] Veterans Fernando Verdasco and Nenad Zimonjic eased past Sam Groth and Robert Lindstedt 6-4, 6-2. Zimonjic prevailed here in 2010 (w/Nestor), while Verdasco is looking for his first Grand Slam semi-final. They’ll face Rogerio...
Seventh seeds Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers continued their strong clay-court season by reaching the quarter-finals on Saturday at Roland Garros. Joining them in the last eight are 16th seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, and a host of first-time Grand Slam quarter-finalists. Dodig/Granollers saw off 11th seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3. Dodig prevailed at this event in 2015 (w/Melo) and Granollers was runner-up in 2014 (w/M. Lopez). This is their fourth quarter-final on clay this year, having finished runners-up at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Rome, and recorded quarter-final showings at Masters 1000 events in Monte-Carlo and Madrid. They will play Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus or Indian duo Purav Raja...
Top teams continue to bow out in doubles at Roland Garros as third seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, and fourth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, suffered surprising second-round upsets on Friday. The top four seeds have all been eliminated before the round of 16 and only five seeds remain in the draw. Sam Groth and Robert Lindstedt handed the Bryan brothers their earliest exit since 2010 with a 7-6(4), 6-3 win. The Bryans, making their 19th consecutive appearance, had reached at least the quarter-finals for 14 of the past 15 years. Groth/Lindstedt will next play Fernando Verdasco and Nenad Zimonjic, who defeated Julian Knowle and Florian Mayer 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. [ALSO LIKE] Fourth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo...