Top seeds Mark Knowles from Bahamas and Canadian Daniel Nestor advanced to the Tennis Masters Cup doubles' final for the consecutive year as they beat second seeds Paul Hanley from Australia and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe in the semifinals.
After squandering three match points in the second-set tie-break, Knowles/Nestor took charge early in the match tie-break to win at 6-4, 6-7(8), 10-5.
In the final they will play U.S. Open champions Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Austrian Julian Knowle, who advanced to their first final since Flushing Meadows with a 6-4, 6-4 win over veteran duo Czech Martin Damm and Indian Leander Paes.
"We'll try to go out with a bang," Knowles said. "It would be a great way to finish the year. We like the way we're playing. We look to play even better in the final. We know we're going to have to play a great match to win the title."
In their straight-sets win over Damm and Paes, Aspelin and Knowle fought off all six break points they faced, while breaking in the third game of the first set and again in the seventh game of the second set.
"Today we managed to win the big points and I thought this was our best performance of the week," Knowle said.
Looking ahead to the final, Knowle said: "They beat us in the round-robin and they are playing well, but it's our first time in the Masters so we have nothing to lose. It's been a great week no matter what happens in the final."
Source: Xinhua
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