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Murray Scores 300th Doubles Win

Jamie Murray recorded the 300th match win of his doubles career by partnering Bruno Soares to a 6-3, 5-7, 11-9 quarter-final win at the Rio Open presented by Claro over Andres Molteni and Diego Schwartzman. Murray and Soares nearly squandered a 9/5 lead in the Match Tie-break, but recovered to prevail on their fifth match point. The top seeds now go on to face either third seeds Pablo Carreno Busta and Pablo Cuevas, who advanced 6-4, 7-5 over qualifiers Facundo Bagnis and Gastao Elias. Fourth seeds and defending Rio champions Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah continued their win streak with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Nicholas Monroe and Artem Sitak. The Colombian Power took the title last week at...

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Carreno Busta Fights Through In Rio

Fourth seed Pablo Carreno Busta weathered a stern test on Thursday from Victor Estrella Burgos to reach the quarter-finals of the Rio Open presented by Claro with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 win. Carreno Busta comfortably cruised through the opening set but Estrella Burgos, who received a Lucky Loser spot into the main draw after Gerald Melzer withdrew due to illness, grabbed the lone break in the second set at 5-4 to send the match into a decider. But the Spaniard was not to be denied, breaking Estrella Burgos twice and dropping just five points on serve to wrap up the contest in one hour and 42 minutes. He improves his FedEx ATP Head2Head record over the Dominican Republican player to...

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