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...
Competing together for the first time this year, Austrians Oliver Marach and Philipp Oswald claimed the title at the J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad on Sunday. Marach and Oswald defeated Jonathan Eysseric and Franko Skugor 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 after one hour and 27 minutes, saving four of five break points. It was their second title together and first on the ATP World Tour, having lifted the trophy at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Aix-en-Provence, France, last year. "This is probably the most beautiful victory of my career," said Oswald. "So close to home and with my family in the stands it feels very special." [ALSO LIKE] Individually, 37-year-old Marach, who finished runner-up in Gstaad in 2015 (w/Qureshi), earned...
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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