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...
A match-up that was tough on paper lived up to expectations at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Tuesday when third seeds Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram edged past experienced pair Marcel Granollers and Nedad Zimonjic. The Croatian-American duo advanced to the quarter-finals 6-7(4), 6-2, 10-6. Dodig and Ram held a set point at 5-4 only to lose the opening set in a tie-break before they broke twice to send the contest into a match tie-break. It was then they surged to 5/1 before sealing a quarter-final meeting with Dutchmen Robin Haase and Matwe Middelkoop. Dodig and Ram had reached the semi-finals in Rotterdam in their most recent outing together while it was the Spanish-Serbian pair’s first event together....
Rajeev Ram and Raven Klaasen preview the Friday evening doubles match between Lukasz Kubot/Marcelo Melo and Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares, which the British/Brazilian duo has to win to make the semi-finals at the Nitto ATP Finals.
