
#700 with Lleyton Hewitt d 6 Lukasz Kubot & Oliver Marach - 64 76(0)
Only 4 other players have won 700 doubles matches on the ATP tour: Todd Woodbridge (782), Daniel Nestor (745), Sherwood Stewart (723) and Jonas Bjorkman (709). Many of Mark's 700 wins came with long-time former partner Daniel Nestor - who is now teamed with Nenad Zimonjic. They could meet in the Barcelona final.
The 38 year-old from the Bahamas has won 52 doubles ATP titles including 3 Slams with Nestor: '02 Aussie, '04 Us Open and '07 Roland Garros.
Other than Nestor, with whom he won 40 titles, his other winning doubles partners have included Jim Courier (1), Max Mirnyi (1), Mike Bryan (1), Mardy Fish (1) and Mahesh Bhupathi (4).
He won his 1st title with Courier in Montreal in 1993. His best year was '02 when he and Nestor won 7 titles, including the Aussie Open and 3 Masters 1000 trophies.
He is currently ranked #8 in doubles. Although he did enjoy the #1 ranking for 55 non-consecutive weeks between '02-'05.
Overall his doubles win/loss record is 700-338.
In his presser Mark elaborated, "It’s a great milestone. It reflects a pretty good career and I've had some great partners along the way to get me to that milestone. It's exciting [and] it's been a very challenging year. Every win is special these days based on the year I've had with injuries."
Rafael Nadal Wins 8th ATP Title at Barcelona
Barcelona ATP 500 - Men's Final
2 Rafael Nadal d 4 Nicolas Almagro - 64 63
This is Rafa's 8th title at BCN - he's only lost 1 match here - 10 years ago.
This marks his 54th title and 39th on clay.
He is now 13-0 against fellow Spaniards in finals. And 10-0 against Nico.
If that weren't enough - Rafa is the only man to win 2 tournies 8 times.
And he'll be looking for an 8th in about a month at Roland Garros.
Post: I feel very happy to lift the trophy once again here in Barcelona.
It means a lot especially after the difficult year I’ve had.
But what a comeback: 6 finals in 6 tournies - winning 4 of them.
In fact, he is the tour leader is titles so far in 2013.
Talk about a big vamos.
And the point of the match - Rafa's twenner realness:
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