Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers exhibited a dominant display in claiming the doubles title at the Swiss Indoors Basel. The duo did not drop a set all week, capped by 7-5, 7-6(6) victory over Frenchmen Fabrice Martin and Edouard Roger-Vasselin on Sunday. Currently in command of the final spot in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London, Dodig and Granollers add 500 points to bring their total to 3,490. With less than 1,000 points separating them from four other teams, it will be a mad dash to the finish line at next week's Rolex Paris Masters. "Thanks to my partner for a great week and through all this season we really tried hard and we have one more title together,"...
In one of the more thrilling doubles finals of the season, Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas emerged with the trophy at the Erste Bank Open 500 on Sunday. The Indian-Uruguayan duo saved a pair of match points for a tight 7-6(7), 6-7(4), 11/9 victory over Marcelo Demoliner and Sam Querrey. The match, which lasted one hour and 45 minutes, saw Bopanna deny the first championship point at 9/7 with a volley winner, followed by a Querrey forehand unforced error as the second came and went. "Absolutely brilliant," Bopanna exclaimed. "It’s one of the first years for me that I won a 250, 500 and a 1000. I’d made a final of a 250, 500 and a 1000 also but it’s...
Sunday was not Max Mirnyi’s first trip to titletown — not even close. But it will certainly be a moment that the 40 year old won’t soon forget. Mirnyi won his 50th ATP World Tour doubles title, joining Philipp Oswald to defeat singles champion Damir Dzumhur and Antonio Sancic, 6-3, 7-5, in the final of the VTB Kremlin Cup. “You never can say the victory was easy just looking at the score,” Mirnyi said. “There is always a special pressure when you are playing at home. And I think the VTB Kremlin Cup is a home tournament for me as unfortunately we haven't got an ATP tournament in Minsk...many of my relatives and friends came to watch my matches and...
Maybe Scott Lipsky of the U.S. and Indian Divij Sharan should play together more often. In their first ATP World Tour tournament together, Lipsky/Sharan won the European Open in Antwerp, beating Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez and Julio Peralta of Chile 6-4, 2-6, 10-5 in Sunday's final. Two weeks ago, Lipsky/Sharan reached the semi-finals of the ATP Challenger Tour event in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and they raised their level in Belgium, especially in the big moments. The American/Indian pairing won all four matches in Match Tie-breaks. “It was a great match. Those are two great friends of ours, so we're happy to get through. It was fun to play against them,” Lipsky said. Watch Full Match Replays Lipsky improved to 16-12 in tour-level...
Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic picked up crucial points in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London on Sunday with their first ATP World Tour team title. The top seeds came through indoors at the Intrum Stockholm Open, beating second seeds Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer 3-6, 7-6(6), 10-4. Marach said, “It was a high-level doubles match. They played great. We had to come up with some very good shots. Luck was on our side in the second and in the [Match] Tie-break. But doubles sometimes, it's just about two or three points and today we were the luckier ones.” Marach/Pavic will gain 100 more points in the London standings, pushing them to within 100 of eighth-placed...
