Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares fall to semi-final defeat in London
ByPA Sport
Updated 18/11/2017 at 20:18 GMT
Britain's Jamie Murray and his partner Bruno Soares missed out on a maiden final appearance at the ATP Finals.
Britain's Jamie Murray (R) and Brazil's Bruno Soares react after winning against Croatia's Ivan Dodig and Bosnia-Herzegovina's Marcel Granollers during their men's doubles round-robin match on day four of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament at the
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The duo were defeated by defending champions Henri Kontinen and John Peers 7-6 (7/2) 6-2 to bow out at the semi-final stage for the second year running.
Murray and Brazilian Soares would regret passing up an early break point, the only sniff of a chance in a first set which otherwise belonged to the servers.
That was until Soares served at 5-6 and promptly found he and Murray staring down the barrel at 0-40, before they recovered to force a tie-break.
However, a couple of swings of Kontinen's forehand gave them the advantage and when Soares sent a forehand wide the set had slipped away.
That blow was magnified when Murray lost the first service game of the second set.
Kontinen and Peers - Murray's former partner - were by now giving nothing away on their serve.
And when Soares was broken for 5-2 Kontinen, who won the Wimbledon mixed doubles alongside Britain's Heather Watson last year, served out for the match.
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