If experience on the doubles court was the deciding factor, Great Britain’s Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie would not have stood a chance this week. But the pair took little time to get on the same page, winning their maiden ATP World Tour title in their first tournament as a team at the Millennium Estoril Open. Edmund and Norrie defeated Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak, who have now reached three ATP World Tour finals in 2018, 6-4, 6-2 to claim the trophy on Sunday. "It's great to get the title in our first tournament together," said Edmund. "It's nice to have no pressure throughout the week. We went out there and had fun. We obviously know each other off the...
Alexander Zverev won his second successive BMW Open by FWU title on Sunday, defeating countryman and three-time champion Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-3. "I am obviously very happy with how I played," said Zverev. "[I am] very happy to get back-to-back titles here [in Munich]. It is a very special event for me so I am very happy that I could defend my title." The top seed dropped just two points behind his second serve and converted four of his six break point chances to clinch the title for a second time after 71 minutes. The final was the first all-German championship match since Zverev lost to Florian Mayer at the 2016 Gerry Weber Open. After successfully retaining a tour-level event...
It had been exactly two years since Dominic Inglot and Robert Lindstedt, who made the 2015 US Open semi-finals and triumphed that year in Winston-Salem, teamed. But the British-Swedish pair showed that their chemistry is still there, defeating top seeds Ben McLachlan and Nicholas Monroe 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 on Sunday to claim victory at the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open. The triumph marks the 400th match-win of Lindstedt’s career, and the 41-year-old has now won 22 tour-level doubles titles. His partner, Inglot, has now won back-to-back titles after coming out victorious last week in Budapest. He now owns nine ATP World Tour trophies. "I knew starting this year that reaching 400 was a possibility. Maybe I could've done it sooner...
Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram won their first team title on Sunday, defeating third seeds Nikola Mektic and Alexander Peya 6-3, 7-5 at the BMW Open by FWU. "Some important deciding points were crucial," reflected Dodig. "We were feeling better in those moments and that was the key." Dodig and Ram defeated the Croatian-Austrian duo in 78 minutes, saving all three break points they faced to lift the trophy. The second seeds, who had only played once together before 2018 at the 2016 Libema Open, have now won 10 matches as a pairing since becoming a full-time team at the start of this season. Dodig and Ram’s previous best performances as a partnership came earlier this season at the ABN...
The all-British team of Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie continued their run of form on Saturday, as they navigated past Leonardo Mayer and home-favourite Joao Sousa 6-2, 7-6(4) at the Millennium Estoril Open. Edmund had faced Sousa just a day earlier in singles, with the Portuguese emerging victorious in three sets. But it was Edmund who came out on top in doubles with Norrie, with both reaching their first tour-level doubles final. In the first semi-final of the day, Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak beat Jonathan Eysseric and Joe Salisbury, 7-5, 6-3. The Dutch-Kiwi duo was unbroken throughout the match and converted both break points on Eysseric/Salisbury’s serve to claim victory in one hour, 11 minutes. Dodig/Ram Blitz Germans At...
