There’s a new No. 1 team in the 2011 ATP World Tour Doubles Team Rankings.
Third seeded Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes claimed their first title together at the Sony Ericsson Open Saturday, overcoming a first-set deficit to defeat No. 2 seeds Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-5. Paes is now a two-time reigning champion after winning the event last year with Lukas Dlouhy; Bhupathi earned his first career title at Crandon Park. “The key [to us winning] was just fighting as a team. Like Leander said, we didn’t play our best match of the week. All four of us were tentative in the beginning,” Bhupathi told www.sonyericssonopen.com after winning his first title in Miami.
Huge celebrities in India, this is one of the rare occasions where Bhupathi and Paes’ success will not be front-page news in their home country. India won the cricket World Cup earlier today, a massive achievement for a team that hadn’t won the event in 28 years. “I just want to congratulate the team, all of them. Great job boys!” an enthused Paes said after the match.
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