Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram have become the sixth team to qualify for the 2016 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. There are now two doubles spots left up for grabs at the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from 13-20 November. The South African-American tandem qualified for the first time as a result of Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau beating Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi in the Swiss Indoors Basel quarter-finals on Thursday. Rojer and Tecau, who captured the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals and year-end No. 1 last year, are currently No. 9 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London - one spot adrift from Huey and Mirnyi. Buy Your Tickets Klaasen and Ram...
Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi remain on track to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals after beating local wild cards Antoine Bellier and Marco Chiudinelli 7-5, 6-4 in the first round of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Wednesday. Huey/Mirnyi are currently No. 8 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London. There are three more berths up for grabs for the year-end showdown. No. 2 seeds Nicolas Mahut, who is already qualified for London alongside usual partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert, and Edouard Roger-Vasselin beat Henri Kontinen and John Peers 6-4, 7-6(5). The Frenchmen landed 78 per cent of first serves and saved both break points faced. Vienna: Bryans A Win Away From 1,000 Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan are within...
Third seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram took a positive step towards London on Tuesday at the Swiss Indoors Basel. Klaasen/Ram beat Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta and Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-2, 6-4 to move into the Basel quarter-finals. The South African/American pairing are currently in sixth place in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London, 380 points ahead of seventh-placed Henri Kontinen and John Peers. The top eight doubles teams at the end of the season will qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held 13-20 Nov. at The O2 in London. View the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London Klaasen/Ram will meet Michael Venus and Robert Lindstedt in the quarter-finals. Lindstedt/Venus beat Ivan Dodig and Nenad...
Top seeds Horia Tecau and Jean-Julien Rojer advanced to the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Monday with a 6-3, 3-6, 10-3 win against Argentines Federico Delbonis and Guido Pella. Tecau/Rojer hadn't played together since their fourth-round match at the US Open because Tecau had been out with a foot injury. They won the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals last season and are trying to qualify for the year-end championships again this year. Tecau/Rojer are currently in ninth place in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London, 295 points behind eighth-placed Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi. The top eight doubles teams at the end of the season will qualify for the year-end championships, to be held 13-20 Nov. at...
Swedish brothers Elias Ymer and Mikael Ymer completed a fairytale run on home soil, streaking to the If Stockholm Open doubles title on Sunday. A day after dropping just seven games against second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Treat Huey, the Ymers routed fourth seeds Mate Pavic and Michael Venus 6-1, 6-1 in 51 minutes for their first ATP World Tour titles. They are the first Swedish duo to claim victory in Stockholm since 1998, when Nicklas Kulti and Mikael Tillstrom triumphed. "I don't think me or Mikael expected our first ATP title to come in doubles, especially here in our hometown of Stockholm." said Elias. "We had a great time and I really enjoyed playing with my brother." #NextGen star...