{"id":855,"date":"2016-11-18T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T20:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=855"},"modified":"2016-12-08T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:59:55","slug":"jamie-murray-bruno-soares-end-the-year-with-number-one-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/jamie-murray-bruno-soares-end-the-year-with-number-one-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Murray &#038; Bruno Soares end the year with number one ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8934562929349122\" data-ad-slot=\"3379014842\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nBritain&#8217;s Jamie Murray and Brazilian Bruno Soares will end the year as the number one doubles team in the world.<\/p>\n<p>French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut saw their number one ranking challenge end with defeat at the ATP World Tour Finals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>They lost 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 10-4 to Henri Kontinen and John Peers in their final group match in London.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert and Mahut, who failed to reach the semi-finals, trail Murray and Soares by 25 points.<\/p>\n<p>Murray and Soares are assured of topping the ATP doubles team rankings for 2016, and the Brazilian could overtake Mahut in the doubles individual rankings if they win the title.<\/p>\n<p>Murray, speaking to BBC Two shortly after finding out the news, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s very exciting. It&#8217;s a strange way to do it in the end but we&#8217;ve had a great year and won some big tournaments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Jamie Murray and Brazilian Bruno Soares will end the year as the number one doubles team in the world. French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut saw their number one ranking challenge end with defeat at the ATP World Tour Finals on Friday. They lost 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 10-4 to Henri Kontinen and John Peers in their final group match in London. Herbert and Mahut, who failed to reach the semi-finals, trail Murray and Soares by 25 points. Murray and Soares are assured of topping the ATP doubles team&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}