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Jamie Murray and John Peers into doubles final
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Published 11/09/2015 at 10:25 GMT+1
Jamie Murray and John Peers reached the US Open men's doubles final at Flushing Meadows.
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Murray and Peers saved a match point to beat Americans Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (9-7).
It is the second successive Grand Slam final for the brother of Andy Murray and Australian Peers after Wimbledon in July.
They will face French duo Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, who beat Brit Dom Inglot and Robert Lindstedt 7-5 6-2.
"My nerves are shot but we're so happy to win and get to the final," said Murray.
"We played a very high level match and the other guys were serving really well but we managed to turn it around."
Murray and Peers took the opening set but the Americans, who failed to take any of their first four break points, won the second set 7-2 on a tie-break.
Eighth seeds Murray and Peers moved 5-3 ahead in the deciding set and were serving for the match only to be immediately broken back by the Americans.
Murray and Peers dodged one match point against them in the deciding set before ultimately winning the tie-break.
In the other semi, Inglot and Sweden's Lindstedt were playing in only their fourth tournament together, but could not build on an early break and struggled on serve as Herbert and Mahut took control.
Two breaks of serve gave the French duo the first set in 47 minutes, and they moved 3-1 clear in the second on the way to matching their run to the Australian Open final in January.
"Credit to them, they were just better on the day," Inglot said.
"It wasn't my best day, I thought I let us down a bit so I'm a bit disappointed with that."
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