Henri Kontinen and John Peers finished their debut season with the perfect ending on Sunday in London. The pairing won the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals doubles title during their team debut, beating fellow first-timers Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram 2-6, 6-1, 10-8 at The O2. "To be honest, it probably actually hasn't sunk in. It will hopefully sink in tomorrow once I get a flight back home," said Peers. "When I start to think what we've achieved probably in the last month, it's been a great thing for both of us. "It just feels really good to know all the hard work we kept putting in time and time again, even if we felt good or bad, that it's...
Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram talk about advancing to the championship match at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in their debut appearance at The O2. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram beat Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares, year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings, in the Barclays ATP World Tour semi-finals on Saturday in London. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Peter Staples/ATP World Tour
Two first-year pairings will contest the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals doubles final Sunday after Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram eclipsed newly minted World No. 1 team Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in Saturday’s semi-finals. Klaasen, of South African, and Ram, of the United States, will play Finland’s Henri Kontinen and Australia’s John Peers, who earlier in the day upset four-time champions Bob and Mike Bryan. Klaasen and Ram needed exactly one hour to claim a 6-1, 6-4 win over Murray and Soares, who yesterday learned they would finish 2016 at No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings. After dropping just 12 points in the first set, Klaasen and Ram faced only one scare in the second set...