Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic reached their fourth final of the 2018 ATP World Tour season at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament after beating Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau 6-1, 6-3 on Saturday. The second seeds won their 17th straight match to start 2018, beating their opponents in just 55 minutes. The duo won 82 per cent of points on serve and broke the 2015 champions on four occasions to move into the final. Marach and Pavic won their first three tournaments of the season in Doha, Auckland and Melbourne Park. Watch Live On TennisTV Watch Full Match Replays The Austrian-Croatian team will meet third seeds Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, who defeated Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram 7-6(5), 4-6, 10/6 to reach the championship match. The Frenchmen saved nine of 10 break points they faced...
Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau began their campaign for a second title at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez on Tuesday. The 2015 champions converted all three break point opportunities they created against the Spaniards, with a 74 per cent success rate on serve. The Dutch-Romanian duo next faces the Dutch wild card team of Robin Haase and Matwe Middelkoop, who beat compatriots Jasper Smit and Jesse Timmermans 6-2, 6-4. Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic survived a huge first-round test to beat local favourites Sander Arends and Thiemo de Bakker 6-4, 1-6, 11-9. Undefeated in 2018 with three tournament wins, the second seeds were taken all the...
Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Croatia’s Mate Pavic saved one championship point in the Match tie-break to capture the Australian Open mixed doubles title on Sunday. Fifth seeds Pavic and Dabrowski scraped past India’s Rohan Bopanna and Timea Babos of Hungary, the eighth seeds, 2-6, 6-4, 11-9 in 68 minutes under a closed roof on Rod Laver Arena. The tournament’s organisers had enforced the extreme heat policy as the temperature neared 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). The victory comes less than 24 hours after Pavic partnered Oliver Marach to the men’s doubles title, with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah. [ALSO LIKE] “It feels pretty good, I have to say,” Pavic said of his two...
Watch highlights as Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic defeat Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah to win the 2018 Australian Open. Watch more video and live matches at www.ausopen.com. Highlights not available in Aus., NZ or Canada and only available in Europe and USA 24 hours after completion of the match. Photo Credit: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images.
