Yesterday was round two of the adventures of Nadal and Co. I detailed yesterday what happened the first round. In the second round, they ran into an experienced doubles team of Max Miryni and Andy Ram, who also happened to be seated seventh. This time the experienced team picked on Roig and kept the ball away from Nadal.

Nadal, to his credit, kept the match close. Roig played better than yesterday, but it still was not enough to move him out of mess territory. Nadal and Roig were able to win the first set, and it looked like they were going to slide by again. Mirnyi and Ram cut down on unforced errors and won the second set. They then won the third-set tiebreak and the match at 4-6 6-3 10-8.

Nadal did not look happy at the end of the match. Hopefully, he learned a valuable lesson yesterday – that he cannot just play doubles with anyone and expect to do well.

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Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Andy Ram of Israel beat the Aussie duo of Ashley Fisher and Stephen Huss 6-7(4) 6-2 10-7 in the Sony Ericsson Open doubles final. Mirnyi and Ram, who are currently 10th in ATP Doubles Team Rankings, earned their second title together and first ATP World Tour Masters title. The duo almost won another Masters title in Indian Wells two weeks ago when they lost to Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick in the final.

The win was gravy for Belarus after Victoria Azarenka won the women’s singles championship title earlier in the day.

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