Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic picked up crucial points in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London on Sunday with their first ATP World Tour team title. The top seeds came through indoors at the Intrum Stockholm Open, beating second seeds Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer 3-6, 7-6(6), 10-4. Marach said, “It was a high-level doubles match. They played great. We had to come up with some very good shots. Luck was on our side in the second and in the [Match] Tie-break. But doubles sometimes, it's just about two or three points and today we were the luckier ones.” Marach/Pavic will gain 100 more points in the London standings, pushing them to within 100 of eighth-placed...
Croatians Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic completed a nearly perfect week at the German Tennis Championships 2017 on Sunday, winning their first team doubles title 6-3, 6-4 against Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and Marc Lopez of Spain. Dodig and Pavic did not drop a set all tournament and were in control during the 76-minute final. The top seeds saved two of three break points and broke their opponents three times to hoist the trophy. “It was great. We played a really, really good level here all tournament. We had tough matches, from the first round,” Dodig said. [ALSO LIKE] The win gives Dodig eight doubles titles and two for the season (also Rotterdam with Marcel Granollers). Pavic now has seven...
Sixteenth seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic are the first team to reach the doubles semi-finals at Wimbledon, doing so with an emphatic 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 win on Tuesday over Marcin Matkowski and Max Mirnyi. Marach’s only other Grand Slam semi-final came at the 2009 Australian Open (w/Kubot), while Pavic has never reached the last four at a major. They’ll take on Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski or Nikola Mektic and Franko Skugor in the next round. That quarter-final was suspended due to rain on Tuesday, with Podlipnik-Castillo/Vasilevski serving at 7-6(8), 4-6, 1-1. [ALSO LIKE] Top seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers also had their quarter-final suspended against tenth seeds and Roland Garros champions Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus. Kontinen/Peers...
Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic will play in their first ATP World Tour doubles final as a team after beating top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan 7-6(3), 6-3 on Saturday at the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart
Marach and Pavic hit 15 aces and relented only five points on their first serve, winning 89 per cent (42/47). The fourth seeds, who started playing together earlier this year in Miami, also never faced a break point and converted one of their five break chances against the Bryan brothers.
Marach/Pavic will meet second seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in Sunday's final.
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Dominic Inglot and Mate Pavic notched their first team title in their first tournament together, celebrating a 6-4, 2-6, 11-9 triumph over Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez in the Grand Prix Hassan II final on Saturday. For Inglot, it was his seventh ATP World Tour title and the Brit's first of the season. His most recent crown had come in St. Petersburg last year with current World No. 1 Henri Kontinen. Pavic, meanwhile, claimed his sixth ATP World Tour doubles title and first since lifting the 's-Hertogenbosch trophy in 2016 with Michael Venus. "This is the first we played together and we had a great week," said Inglot. "Mate played very well. The level was extremely high, almost like at...
