Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi’s decision to team up with Grigor Dimitrov at the BNP Paribas Masters payed immediate dividends. The new partnership completed a 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 upset of No. 2 seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in the second round on Wednesday. Dimitrov/Qureshi served well against Murray/Soares, who are already assured of a place at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The new pairing won 89 per cent of first-serve points and only faced one break point in the win. They are into the quarter-finals and await Marcelo Melo and Vasek Pospisil, or Philipp Kohlschreiber and Dominic Thiem. No. 3 seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan avoided an upset, winning 6-4, 6-4 against French wild cards Quentin Halys and Adrian Mannarino....
Frenchmen Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin kept their London hopes alive on Tuesday with a 2-6, 6-0, 10-6 win against Pablo Cuevas and David Marrero at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin are currently in 12th place in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London, 875 points behind Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi, who currently hold the eighth and final qualification spot into the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. But Huey/Mirnyi lost in the first round in Paris, giving Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin an opportunity to make up ground at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. The Frenchmen will face fifth seeds Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in the second round. View the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London Frenchmen Lucas...
Henri Kontinen and John Peers will make their team debut at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals next month. The Finn/Aussie pairing became the seventh doubles team to qualify for the year-end championships on Monday with a 6-2, 6-2 rout against Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. “We knew what we had to do and it was good to be able to do it,” Peers said. Buy Tickets Kontinen/Peers converted all four break points and erased the only two break points they faced in the 46-minute victory. They'll face seventh seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram in the second round. “We're going to finish here, try to concentrate here on every match,” Kontinen said,...
Fourth seeds Marcel Granollers and Jack Sock streaked to the Swiss Indoors Basel title on Sunday, lifting the trophy in their first tournament as a team. "We knew well going into the week that if we played well, we could be a dangerous team," said Sock. "We're both crafty and like playing from the baseline, but are also comfortable at the net. We served well and he returned very well. He usually carries me on the return games. We just had fun out there and kept it light and loose." The Spanish-American duo prevailed 6-3, 6-4 over Robert Lindstedt and Michael Venus in exactly one hour at the St. Jakobshalle, saving three of four break points faced. They claimed an...
Fourth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo repeated as Erste Bank Open 500 champions on Sunday to win their second ATP World Tour team doubles title. The Polish/Brazilian pairing outlasted Barclays ATP World Tour Finals hopefuls Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin 4-6, 6-3, 13-11 in one hour and 43 minutes in Vienna. Kubot/Melo led the back-and-forth Match Tie-break 9-6 before Marach/Martin saved three match points and another at 9-10. Marach/Martin then held their own championship point at 11-10, but Kubot/Melo rattled off three consecutive points to clinch the ATP World Tour 500 crown on their fifth championship point. They will receive 500 Emirates ATP Rankings points and split €126,400 in prize money. “We had great memories from last year and were...
