By Nick Mulvenney SHANGHAI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Jonas Bjorkman brought the curtain down on his 17-year career in professional tennis after bowing out of the Masters Cup doubles on Friday. The 36-year-old Swede, who won nine grand slam doubles titles and was once ranked number four in the world in singles, had announced at Wimbledon earlier this year that he would retire at the end of the season. "It's great to end my career in the biggest event of the year, even if I would have liked to have gone further. But you can't have everything," he told reporters after he and Zimbabwean partner Kevin Ullyett were beaten 6-2 1-6 10-6 by Poles Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski. "I've been mentally prepared for this because I'm mentally very ready to...
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