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Ram-Mirnyi Clinch Second ATP World Tour Team Title
Andy Ram and Max Mirnyi Israeli Andy Ram and Max Mirnyi of Belarus won their
second ATP World Tour team title with a hard-fought 6-7(4), 6-2, 10-7 victory
over Australians Ashley Fisher and Stephen Huss on Saturday in the final of the
Sony Ericsson Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tennis tournament in Miami.
Mirnyi's victory marked the second triumph of the day for Belarus after World
No. 10 Victoria Azarenka won the women's singles title by defeating five-time
former champion Serena Williams.
"It's so important to any country, but particularly to such a small country like
Belarus, because it's certainly going to make the headline of general news
tomorrow," said Mirnyi. "It makes me proud. It makes me want to give back to the
country that gave me so much. It's just great. I think Victoria is an incredible
story. It's been a while since we had a female player that's played at such a
high level."
It is the fourth Sony Ericsson Open title for Minsk-native Mirnyi, after he also
lifted the trophy in 2003 (w/ Federer), and 2005 and 2006 (w/ Bjorkman).
Mirnyi's four titles tie Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde for the most in
tournament history. Ram was contesting his first Sony Ericsson Open final.
"Playing with Max this week made things much easier to win this tournament,"
said Ram. "I would feel very bad if I would lose before the finals. He won it
three times (previously). He's just playing unbelievabley well at the moment.
So much fun playing with him. I feel like I'm learning so much from him. Just
from the first day here I thought we could win the tournament. It gave me so
much confidence every practice and every match."
Currently 10th in the 2009 ATP Doubles Team Rankings, Mirnyi and Ram were
competing in their second consecutive ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final after
losing to Americans Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick in the BNP Paribas Open in
Indian Wells two weeks ago.
The Belarusian-Israeli duo won its first ATP World Tour title on its partnership
debut in Vienna last October (d. Peya-Petzschner). They have a 15-4 match
record.
With no breaks of serve in the first set of Saturday's final – the first in
Miami to feature two unseeded teams since 1991 - Fisher and Huss quickly took
command in the tie-break by racing out to a 4-1 lead before going on to close it
out 7-4 to take a one-set lead. Mirnyi and Ram hit back with two breaks of serve
in the third and seventh games of the second set to level the match before
rallying from a 1-4 deficit in the match tie-break to clinch victory 10-7 after
one hour and 37 minutes. They did not face one break point in the match. The duo
had saved five match points in the second set tie-break of their semifinal win
over Austrians Julian Knowle and Jurgen Melzer.
The 31-year-old Mirnyi won his 36th tour-level doubles title (36-27 record) and
extended his streak of winning at least one title for 11 consecutive years. The
28-year-old Ram was contesting his 30th tour-level final and captured his 16th
trophy; he has won at least one title every year since 2003.
Fisher and Huss were trying to become the first Australian duo to win the Sony
Ericsson Open title since Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in 2000. They were
contesting their first ATP World Tour final after ousting top seeds Bob and Mike
Bryan in the semifinals. They dropped to a 8-10 match record together.