7-8* match point down ... but they get the mini-break back 8-8*

Close, but no cigar. Only saw the second set, but Colin and Ross had their chances to force a MTB.

Good spot by one of my Twitter followers - Jamie Murray's progress this week appears to have made him the 6th Brit to go over $1m in career earnings.

The top 10 Brits in career earnings without adjustment for prize inflation (so it gives the more recent players quite an advantage) as at the end of last week were (as far as I can see, since unhelpfully, the ATP list doesn't give nationalities so you can't search on that!):

1 Andy Murray $ 31.8 M (6th in the world all time)
2 Tim Henman $ 11.6 M (32nd)
3 Greg Rusedski $ 8.9 M (54th)
4 Jeremy Bates $ 1.3 M (423rd)
5 Neil Broad $ 1.2 M (466th)
6 Jamie Murray $ 997 K (525th)
7 Jonny Marray $ 950 K (537th)
8 Jamie Delgado $ 813 K (594th)
9 Colin Fleming $ 778 K (609th)
10 Ross Hutchins $ 767 K (620th)

The next highest-earning Brit who won most of their prize money in singles rather than doubles is Boggo in 660th (GB 11) with $ 695 K, then rounding out the top 15 are Mark Petchey, Chris Wilkinson, John Lloyd and Martin Lee, with James Ward now less than $ 10,000 behind Martin.

-- Edited by steven on Friday 25th of April 2014 11:33:00 PM

Well, you can certainly see the appeal of a doubles career!!

3 in the top 400 of all time earners isn't exactly brilliant. But then we have only had 3 top 100 singles players in the last umpteen years.

But yes, there certainly seems a very decent living to be made in doubles if you can stay in the top 50 in the doubles rankings for a while.

Jamie and John into MTB 6-2 6-7