{"id":86726,"date":"2017-01-25T21:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86726"},"modified":"2017-01-25T21:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:53:26","slug":"bryan-brothers-reach-australian-open-doubles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/25\/bryan-brothers-reach-australian-open-doubles-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Brothers reach Australian Open doubles final"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob and Mike Bryan (Pictured) earned a shot at a seventh Australian Open doubles title after a rain-interrupted 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 semifinal win Friday over Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. (Photo: karlnorling\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013Bob and Mike Bryan earned a shot at a seventh Australian Open doubles title after a rain-interrupted 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 semifinal win Friday over Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. The third-seeded American twins celebrated with their traditional chest bump leap after closing out the match, their 10th semifinal appearance at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n

Mike Bryan dropped serve in the first game but the brothers were quickly back on track in what became a tight set decided in a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

The Bryans’ variety of shots came to the fore on the critical points as they reeled off the first six points in the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

After a 25-minute rain delay to start the second set, the match resumed under the closed roof on Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n

At 2-2, Garcia-Lopez found himself under attack on serve and he double-faulted to hand the Bryans the vital service break.<\/p>\n

He dropped serve again in the ninth game when Carreno Busta sent a reflex volley over the baseline to give the Bryans the straight sets warmup for another Australian final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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