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DOUBLES NEWS 2011

No. 3 Seeds Overcome 4 MPs In Washington SFs

ATP World Tour 2011 Season: Week 31

by ATP Staff

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06.08.2011

No. 3 seeds Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic saved four match points en route to a 6-7(6), 7-6(7), 10-8 victory over Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the semi-finals of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic on Saturday.

The Brazilians led 6-3 in the second set tie-break before Llodra and Zimonjic clawed their way back to 6-6. Melo and Soares won the next point to set up their fourth match point, but the third seeds claimed the final three points to force a deciding set.

Melo and Soares also had a 6-3 lead in the match tie-break, but were unable to maintain their advantage, and the French-Serbian tandem closed out the win on their first match point, taking the hard-fought encounter in one hour and 54 minutes.

Llodra and Zimonjic are looking to win their first title together, having finished runner-up at the Mutua Madrid Open (l. to Bryan-Bryan) and Rotterdam (l. to Melzer-Petzschner). They’ve been a consistent pairing in 2011, reaching four semi-finals, including Roland Garros and Wimbledon, and the quarter-finals at the Australian Open and ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events in Miami and Rome.

In the final, the two will square off against Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau, who advanced after Tommy Haas and Radek Stepanek withdrew.

Lindstedt and Tecau will contest their sixth final of the season, having claimed titles at Casablanca (d. Fleming-Zelenay) and Bastad (d. Aspelin-Siljestrom). They reached their second straight Wimbledon final (l. to Bryan-Bryan) and were also finalists at 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Bracciali-Cermak) and Brisbane (l. to Dlouhy-Hanley).

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