Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo, debuting in the ATP World Tour Finals, edged top-ranked and three-time champions Bob and Mike Bryan 3-6, 6-3 (10-8 match tiebreaker) in round-robin play today in London.
Dodig and Melo, who trailed 4-0 in the match tiebreaker, defeated the Bryans for the second time in four weeks. Dodig, a 28-year-old Croat, and Melo, a 30-year-old Brazilian, also won in the semifinals of the Shanghai Masters en route to the title.
This was the teams' second meeting in London this year. The Bryans, 35-year-old identical twins and former Stanford All-Americans, triumphed in four sets in the Wimbledon final in July.
The Bryans, who grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Camarillo, next will face Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands on Thursday.
Qureshi and Rojer lost to the Polish pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski on Monday.
Veteran journalist Paul Bauman, based in Sacramento, covers Northern California professional, collegiate and junior tennis. Contact him at norcaltennisczar@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @norcaltenczar.
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