Jamie Murray and John Peers upset defending champions
Monday 6 July 2015 22:19, UK
Jamie Murray and Australian partner John Peers caused a big upset in the men’s doubles at Wimbledon by beating the defending champions Jack Sock and Vasek Pospisil.
And Murray did brother Andy a favour in the process by making it a marathon five-set epic – Andy plays Pospisil in the singles quarter-finals on Wednesday.
A match on Court 12 ended in Murray and Peers triumphing 6-3 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (5-7) 3-6 8-6 against Canadian Pospisil and his American partner Sock.
Victory meant that Murray has reached the quarter-final stage of the men's doubles at Wimbledon for the first time, and came on the same day that younger sibling Andy Murray reached the last eight of the singles.
Jamie Murray, now 29, won the mixed doubles title with Jelena Jankovic in 2007.
Britain's Jonny Marray won the Wimbledon men's doubles with Danish partner Freddie Nielsen in 2012, but their run this year came to an end at the hands of second seeds Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.
The Croatian-Brazilian partnership proved too strong for Marray and Nielsen, who lost 6-1 6-4 7-6 (8-6) in just an hour and 20 minutes.
