It will be No. 1 vs. No. 2 on Sunday, when top seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers battle second seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo for the Shanghai Rolex Masters title. The four leading teams in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London were in action on semi-final Saturday at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center. Kubot and Melo stormed back to defeat Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau 4-6, 6-3, 10/7 in one hour and 23 minutes, continuing their hot streak at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 level. Advancing to their eighth team final this year, the second seeds will contest their fourth at the Masters 1000 stage. They hoisted the trophy in both Miami and Madrid. "We played...
Watch semi-final highlights from Shanghai, as second seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo advanced to the title match. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot goes behind the scenes with Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, the No. 1 doubles team in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings. Getty Images photo.
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Before the end of last year, Poland's Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo of Brazil had played together only two times. But those two weeks in Vienna and the results they produced – two Erste Bank Open 500 titles and an 8-0 record – had convinced the pairing that they might have a future successful partnership between them. They acted on those ideas this year, joining forces in January, and the results have been almost as perfect. During their first seven months as a team, Kubot and Melo posted a 36-10 record and captured five tour-level titles, including Wimbledon, Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Ricoh Open in 's-Hertogenbosch and two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns – the Mutua Madrid Open...
