Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com looks at the headlines that shaped 2017 on the doubles circuit Year-Long Tussle For Top Team It came down to the final week of the season. The battle for year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings was intense from start to finish in 2017, as two teams created plenty of drama on the doubles court. Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo edged Henri Kontinen and John Peers for the top honour during the Nitto ATP Finals, ending a year-long tussle for No. 1. Both teams began their respective reigns in the Top 2 on April 3 and neither would depart from their perches for the rest of the season. Kubot and...
It will be No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the doubles championship of the Nitto ATP Finals, when Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo duel with Henri Kontinen and John Peers. The hottest rivalry of the year on the ATP World Tour doubles circuit will have a fitting conclusion on Sunday at The O2 in London. Kubot and Melo secured the year-end No. 1 position in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings, but Kontinen and Peers enter as the defending champions at the season finale. Both teams will be keen to cap their campaigns with a trophy, as the curtain falls on 2017. While the top-seeded Polish-Brazilian duo celebrated a more successful season overall, they struggled to find any consistent gains...
Watch highlights of Saturday's semi-final between Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo versus Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus. Photo Credit: Thomas Lovelock/ATP World Tour. Watch live tennis at Tennis TV.com.
Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo stand one match win away from their 50th victory of the year and the Nitto ATP Finals title, which would represent their seventh trophy over the past 11 months. The top-seeded Polish-Brazilian team, who have clinched the 2017 year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings, knocked out eighth seed Ryan Harrison of the United States and New Zealand’s Michael Venus 6-1, 6-4 in 64 minutes on Saturday for a place in the title match. Kubot and Melo, who are 49-17 on the season, will bid to capture their seventh title of 2017 against second seeds and defending champions Henri Kontinen and John Peers, who defeated fourth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares...
