Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic have had a sensational season, winning four tour-level titles and reaching two additional finals. And based on their efforts thus far at Roland Garros, the Austrian-Croatian pair shows no signs of slowing down. Marach/Pavic overcame a second-set hiccup to beat Salvadorian Marcelo Arevalo and American Jamie Cerretani 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Sunday in Paris to advance to the quarter-finals. They are now 34-6 on the season and are currently No. 1 in the ATP Doubles Race To London. They will get a chance to improve that record against fifth seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, who battled from a set down to defeat Dutch/Australian duo Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 The Colombians,...
Fifth-seeded Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah booked their places in the Roland Garros third round on Friday with a 6-4, 7-6(4) victory over Argentineans Guido Pella and Diego Schwartzman in one hour and 37 minutes. Last year’s semi-finalists will next challenge Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak. Cabal and Farah came into the clay-court Grand Slam championship on the back of winning their first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown at Internazionali BNL d’Italia (d. Carreno Busta/Sousa). With a 12-15 record in team finals (9-10 on clay), they have also reached the finals this year at the Australian Open (l. to Marach/Pavic) and the Argentina Open (l. to Molteni/Zeballos). Cabal, 32, reached the 2011 Roland Garros final with Eduardo...
Robert Farah clinched his 200th tour-level doubles victory on Tuesday, defeating Max Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald 7-6(3), 7-6(4) alongside partner Juan Sebastian Cabal at Roland Garros. The fifth seeds advanced to the second round after one hour and 52 minutes, winning 76 per cent of second-serve points. Farah, who turned professional in 2010, recently won his 11th tour-level title with Cabal at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, beating Pablo Carreno Busta and Joao Sousa in the championship match. The Colombian Power await Argentina's Guido Pella and Diego Schwartzman or Antoine Hoang and Ugo Humbert in the second round. Great Britain's Ken Skupski and Neal Skupski took just 67 minutes to produce a big upset on Court 15, defeating Americans Mike Bryan...
Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah had their backs against the wall throughout the week at the Foro Italico. And on Sunday, the Colombians survived once again to claim their maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns. Cabal and Farah rallied past Pablo Carreno Busta and Joao Sousa 3-6, 6-4, 10-4 to take the title at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. Appearing in their second final at the Masters 1000 level, having finished runners-up in Miami in 2014, the duo went one step further to emerge victorious. "This is the title we have been looking for, for a long time," said Cabal. "We've been working hard for it. Hard work pays off in the end and we're really happy about it....
