Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis reach the doubles semifinal at the Miami Open - UBITENNIS

Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis reach the doubles semifinal at the Miami Open

By sampaolo
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Reigning Australian Open doubles champions Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios won nine of the last eleven games to beat third seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 7-5 6-2 reaching the semifinals at the Miami Open. 

Kokkinakis and Kyrgios saved the only break point they faced in the match, as they came back from 30-40 to serve out the first set. 

Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski cruised into the semifinal with a 6-2 6-1 over Denis Shapovalov and Rohan Bopanna. 

Koolhof and Skupski fended off three break points they faced at the end of the first set and saved one more on the the match point. Bopanna and Shapovalov saved three match points from 40-0 to bring the final game to deuce. 

Koolhof and Skupski won three of their six tournaments as a team in Melbourne, Adelaide 2 and Doha and they reached the quarter finals at Indian Wells. TheBritish and Dutch doubles team are currently ranked second in the ATP Doubles Team Ranking behind Kyrgios and Kokkinakis. 

Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini came back from one set down to beat Federico Delbonis and Maximo Gonzales 4-6 6-3 10-7. 

Bolelli and Fognini earned an early break in the first game.  Delbonis and Gonzales converted their break-back point in the fourth game to draw level to 2-2. Fognini and Bolelli did not convert two break points in the ninth game. Delbonis and Gonzales sealed the first set 6-4 with a break in the ninth game. 

Bolelli and Fognini saved a break point in the second game of the second set. The Italian doubles team broke twice in the fifth and ninth games to seal the second set 6-3. Fognini and Bolelli won the tie-break 10-7 in the Match tie-break. 

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