Jurgen Melzer joined Radek Stepanek as only the second active player to record 300 singles and doubles career match wins on Thursday at the VTB Kremlin Cup.
The Austrian partnered Julian Knowle to a 6-1, 5-7, 11-9 victory over Mikhail Kukushkin and Stephane Robert in Moscow. They will next face top seeds Pablo Carreno Busta and Marcel Granollers or wild cards Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev in the semi-finals.
The 35-year-old Melzer has compiled a 347-331 record, including five titles as a singles player, and is now 300-242 lifetime, with 13 trophies, as a doubles competitor.
Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo are the fifth team to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals following the completion of sign-in on-site at the If Stockholm Open, the European Open in Antwerp and the VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Buy Tickets The Croatian/Brazilian duo will return to The O2 for a fourth successive appearance. They have an 8-5 record at the year-end championships, finishing runners-up in 2014 (l. to Bryans) and reaching the semi-finals in 2013 (l. to Marrero/Verdasco) and 2015 (l. to Bopanna/Mergea). Dodig and Melo, who did not compete in Shanghai this week while Dodig played an ATP Challenger Tour singles event in Tashkent, have put together another stellar season and are fifth in the year-to-date...
Americans John Isner and Jack Sock won their first match ever together earlier this week at the Shanghai Rolex Masters. On Sunday, they'll try win their first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 team title. The Americans beat second seeds and compatriots Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan 6-2, 7-6(2) in 59 minutes on Saturday in Shanghai. Isner and Sock were nearly untouchable on serve. They struck 15 aces, saved both break points faced and won 83 per cent of their service points (44/53). In Sunday's final, they'll face Henri Kontinen and John Peers, who beat Croatians Marin Cilic and Mate Pavic 6-3, 6-4. [ALSO LIKE] Both Isner and Sock have captured ATP World Tour Masters 1000 doubles titles. Sock and Canadian Vasek...