Sixth seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah needed only 58 minutes to move into the Mutua Madrid Open quarter-finals on Thursday, beating Fabio Fognini and Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-3. The Colombian duo will next meet top seeds and defending champions Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo. [ALSO LIKE] Five-time champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, who turned 40 last month, dismissed Damir Dzumhur/Franko Skugor 6-4, 6-3. The Bryans will next face fifth seeds Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares in the quarter-finals. The Bryans will be co-No. 1s in the ATP Doubles Rankings if they win the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title and Kubot/Melo do not reach the final. The Bryans would become the oldest doubles No. 1s in history. They will be...
If experience on the doubles court was the deciding factor, Great Britain’s Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie would not have stood a chance this week. But the pair took little time to get on the same page, winning their maiden ATP World Tour title in their first tournament as a team at the Millennium Estoril Open. Edmund and Norrie defeated Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak, who have now reached three ATP World Tour finals in 2018, 6-4, 6-2 to claim the trophy on Sunday. "It's great to get the title in our first tournament together," said Edmund. "It's nice to have no pressure throughout the week. We went out there and had fun. We obviously know each other off the...
It had been exactly two years since Dominic Inglot and Robert Lindstedt, who made the 2015 US Open semi-finals and triumphed that year in Winston-Salem, teamed. But the British-Swedish pair showed that their chemistry is still there, defeating top seeds Ben McLachlan and Nicholas Monroe 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 on Sunday to claim victory at the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open. The triumph marks the 400th match-win of Lindstedt’s career, and the 41-year-old has now won 22 tour-level doubles titles. His partner, Inglot, has now won back-to-back titles after coming out victorious last week in Budapest. He now owns nine ATP World Tour trophies. "I knew starting this year that reaching 400 was a possibility. Maybe I could've done it sooner...
The all-British team of Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie continued their run of form on Saturday, as they navigated past Leonardo Mayer and home-favourite Joao Sousa 6-2, 7-6(4) at the Millennium Estoril Open. Edmund had faced Sousa just a day earlier in singles, with the Portuguese emerging victorious in three sets. But it was Edmund who came out on top in doubles with Norrie, with both reaching their first tour-level doubles final. In the first semi-final of the day, Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak beat Jonathan Eysseric and Joe Salisbury, 7-5, 6-3. The Dutch-Kiwi duo was unbroken throughout the match and converted both break points on Eysseric/Salisbury’s serve to claim victory in one hour, 11 minutes. Dodig/Ram Blitz Germans At...
#NextGenATP Aussie Alex de Minaur and his mentor, former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, gave it a good go at the Millennium Estoril Open this week, but their intriguing run has come to an end. Britain's Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie ousted De Minaur and Hewitt, who came out of retirement to play doubles, 6-4, 7-6(4), in one hour, 25 minutes. De Minaur and Hewitt battled from a 1-4 deficit in the second set to 4-4 and saved two match points while serving down 4-5, but were unable to complete the comeback, as the Brits advanced to the semi-finals. There was a significant upset in Estoril, as Jonathan Eysseric and Joe Salisbury defeated top seeds John Peers and Jean-Julien Rojer...
