Rafael Nadal salvages weekend with doubles title

These guys make the most adorable doubles team as I pointed out the other day in a cute little post.

Well, Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez have shown, once again, that they are a winning pair by taking the doubles crown at the BNP Paribas Open for the second time in three years.

“We are very close friends so it makes things more easy,” said Nadal. “Our styles of game are closer in doubles than with different partners because we feel comfortable from the baseline, we feel comfortable having some tactics from the net. Just enjoying the doubles for me is very good practice. I’m able to practice the volley, the return, and at the same time, I practice competing.”

It had to be satisfying for Nadal after losing his singles semifinal to great rival Roger Federer on Saturday. He and Lopez beat the American team of Sam Querry and John Isner 6-2, 7-6. For Isner, it was his second losing effort of the day – he had lost the singles final to Federer earlier in the day.