At €2.75M Paris Masters, France
(6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 75 75
At last Mahesh and Max managed to lift title in 2010 and that is also Masters title ... In the final they defeated unseeded giant-killers Knowles and Ram.
In the first set they take important break in 12th game to won this set ... They didn't face any break point on their serve ... But in second set Mahesh lost his serve in 3rd game, they immediatly broke Knowles's serve in next game to make it 2-all ... In 12th game they again broke Knowles's serve, after leading 0-40 they needed 4 match point before completing victory ... So this was their first title of 2010 after playing five finals.
Mahesh Bhupathi - "Coming into this week it was a bit of a dog fight [to qualify for the Finals], but with the way we played we won and now I think we will go in as the No. 3 seeds. So we’re hopefully going to have a good showing there and finish the year strong."
“We’ve been playing well. We reached the final in Valencia and put ourselves in a position to win again today," said Bhupathi. "It was very frustrating not to win a title before now, we’d been playing well in the Masters 1000 [tournaments], but if you keep putting yourself in the position you’re going to eventually win. It’s been 12 years since I last won [the Paris-Bercy title] and I’m happy to be out here so long."
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