ATP World Tour Finals: Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares win doubles opener
Sunday 13 November 2016 21:11, UK
Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares made a winning start to their doubles campaign at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
The Scottish-Brazilian pairing have won two Grand Slam titles this year and have the added incentive of trying to finish the season as the world's top duo.
To do that they will need to overhaul French pair Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who have a handsome lead, so an opening win over Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi was a must.
Murray failed to serve out the opening set, but a fine return from Soares helped the pair take their fourth set point the following game.
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The second seeds then saw a 3-0 lead slip away in the second set and missed a match point at 5-4 before clinching a 6-4 7-5 victory on a HawkEye challenge.
Huey and Mirnyi were unhappy with the time taken to challenge, but Murray said: "I guess it happens a lot. To be honest, I walked over and I said to the guy, 'I want to challenge that'.
"I think Bruno kind of lost the ball, where it was, because the guy mis-hit, whatever. When it landed, I kind of felt like it was out. I walked over, saw the mark was there. Wasn't totally sure that it was out.
"I mean, it was match point. Go ahead and challenge it. It was a weird way to finish in the end. But happy to win obviously."
