Bob and Mike Bryan will play for their fourth ATP World Tour Finals title.
The top seeds and former Stanford stars overwhelmed fourth-seeded Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-0, 6-3 in 53 minutes today in London. The Bryans improved to 4-0 against the Frenchmen.
The 36-year-old Bryan twins will meet seventh-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcelo Melo of Brazil today for the title.
Dodig and Melo, the only team in the ATP World Tour Finals not to have won a title this year, edged eighth-seeded Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden 4-6, 6-4 [10-6].
The finalists have met once this year. The Bryans prevailed 6-3, 3-6 [10-8] on clay in Monte Carlo in April for one of their nine titles this year.
The Bryans also beat Dodig and Melo 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in 2013 for the last of their three Wimbledon crowns.
The Bryans won the ATP Finals in 2003,
2004 and 2009. They were the runners-up in 2008 to Daniel Nestor of
Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and last year to Spaniards David
Marrero and Fernando Verdasco.
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