NEW YORK – Britain’s Jamie Murray and Brazil’s Bruno Soares swept the Spanish duo of Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2 6-3 to win the US Open doubles on Saturday for their second grand slam title of the year.
Murray and Soares had each lost in the Flushing Meadows final with a different partner — Murray last year with Australian John Peers, and Soares in 2013 with Austrian Alexander Peya.
They made sure the trophy would not slip away a second time, adding the US Open to the Australian Open title they won to start the year.
Fourth-seeded Murray and Soares become the first team to win multiple slam doubles titles in a season since American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan won three in 2013.
Murray, the brother of twice Wimbledon singles champion Andy Murray, became the first British man to claim the US Open doubles crown since Roger Taylor in 1972, while Soares is the first Brazilian to land the title.
Andy Murray, the Olympic gold medallist in Rio this year, lost in the U.S. Open singles quarter-finals to Kei Nishikori of Japan.
By the measure of grand slam tournaments won this year, elder brother Jamie now has bragging rights, leading Andy 2-1.
