Bryan brothers seal number one ranking with doubles win

LONDON: Americans Bob and Mike Bryan beat Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram 7-6, 6-3 on Sunday to win the doubles title at the ATP World Tour Finals and regain the end-of-season number one ranking.

The US duo were pushed all the way in the first set by the Belarus-Israeli pairing, taking it on a tie-break, before sealing the win with a solitary break in the second.

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Victory took the Bryan brothers ahead of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic in the doubles standings.

"It means so much," Bob Bryan said at a news conference. "It's pretty much what we play for now... The ultimate goal is to finish number one."