{"id":9070,"date":"2014-11-16T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:46:40","slug":"the-bryan-brothers-reign-again-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/the-bryan-brothers-reign-again-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bryan Brothers Reign Again in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bryan<\/a><\/p>\n

Bob and Mike Bryan beat Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in the final of the Barclays ATP World Tour finals, 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-7.<\/p>\n

In the first set, both teams were able to hold serve easily, barely losing a point on serve. In the tiebreak, Dodig\/Melo managed to pull out a mini-break lead, and clenched the set when Mike Bryan returned a serve wide.<\/p>\n

At 1-2 in the second set, Melo quickly got down 15-40. They managed to save the first break point, but lost the game on a double fault.<\/p>\n

Serving to stay in the set, Melo again went down double break point, and this time Bob Bryan grabbed the set with a backhand volley.<\/p>\n

The super-tiebreak opened with a flurry of mini-breaks. Eventually the Bryans pulled out a 9-7 lead, and on championship point, Melo sent a lob long.<\/p>\n

This was the Bryan brothers\u2019 fourth time winning the prestigious year-end championship. They had previously won in 2003, 2004, and 2009.<\/p>\n

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Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob and Mike Bryan beat Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in the final of the Barclays ATP World Tour finals, 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-7. In the first set, both teams were able to hold serve easily, barely losing a point on serve. In the tiebreak, Dodig\/Melo managed to pull out a mini-break lead, and clenched the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,464,662,244,661,779,462,463],"class_list":["post-9070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-atp","tag-barclays-atp-world-tour-finals","tag-bob-bryan","tag-bryan-brothers","tag-mike-bryan","tag-tennis","tag-world-tour-finals","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}