Canadian Pair Wins Shanghai Rolex Masters Doubles

The Canadian pair of Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor is the newly crowned doubles Champions at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. The pair saved two match points against Michael Llodra of France and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia before taking out the title in three straight sets of 3-6 6-1 12-10. The Shanghai doubles Champions have already qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in November, 2011. With this win, it became Max Mirnyi’s 40th career doubles title and it was Daniel Nestor’s 74th career titles. This is their third title in 2011 after winning Memphis, TN and Roland Garros earlier in the year. The Belarusian/Canadian team came back from a set after going down in final. They broke serve twice in the second set to level the match one set all. They also saved two match points in the tiebreaker at 8-9 and 9-10. Both Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor will share $192, 000 and receive 1000 ranking points for this win.
The No.2 seed Andy Murray defended his title at the Shanghai Rolex Masters 2011 by defeating Spain’s David Ferrer in straight sets of 7-5 6-4. After winning the Shanghai Rolex Masters 2011, Andy Murray completed his trio of trophies in his Asian tour. The Shanghai Rolex Masters was held this Sunday, on 17th October, 2011. With this win, Andy Murray is all set to throw behind the Swiss superstar, Roger Federer as the World No.3 in the world rankings. According to Andy Murray himself, he admitted that during the last four seasons, after the U.S. Open, he was trying to improve on his rankings and was working hard to reach at the top of the world rankings. With the win the Shanghai Rolex Masters, he hopes to carry on with the momentum that he has been able to gain with this win. However, he also said that he is quite aware of the fact that he will have to work real hard to reach the top.
The British tennis star started his Asian trip with a win at the PTT Thailand Open in Bangkok. Andy Murray defeated Donald Young in the final of the PTT Thailand Open in Bangkok. Thereafter he went to Tokyo to win the Rakuten Japan Open Championships. In the final of the Shanghai Rolex Masters, Andy Murray broke David Ferrer in the first game of the match itself. However, David Ferrer immediately made a strong comeback. In the 11th game, Andy Murray broke the Spaniard in the first set itself by 7-5 in less than an hour.

The second set also witnessed the same pattern with Andy Murray breaking the serve again in the fifth game. The Brit start said that he feels really happy with the way he was focused in his game here. According to him, winning more matches means less pressure, but that soon fades away as the heat of the moment as you need to concentrate on the upcoming matches that are extremely important.
David Ferrer has already won two titles this year in Auckland and Acapulco.  He has also been the runner up in Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Bastad. The World No. 5 is one of five players who have secured a spot at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London in November. According to the Spaniard, he had the best moments of his career. He had reached the finals of Shanghai Rolex Masters earlier also. He hopes to win it in the next year.
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