Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah reached their third tour-level final of 2018 on Saturday, defeating Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 7-6(4), 3-6, 10-8 at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. The Mutua Madrid Open semi-finalists (l. Mektic/Peya) saved five of the seven break points they faced en route to their second victory over Murray and Soares in four FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings. Cabal and Farah will be attempting to win their first title since the 2017 BMW Open by FWU (d. Chardy/Martin) last May. Cabal and Farah will face Pablo Carreno Busta/Joao Sousa in the final. Murray and Soares made a dream start to the semi-final encounter, breaking to love to secure a 1-0 lead. But it was the Colombian duo...
Sergiy Stakhovsky portrayed ‘The Great Showman’ in a successful annual Player Revue on Wednesday night at the 112th edition of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. Stakhovsky starred in an entertaining ballerina ball dancing sketch with Daniil Medvedev and he also took part in sketches about on-court coaching with Bruno Soares, in addition to a skit on the Borg vs McEnroe film with David Ekerot and Thomas Johansson's son, Lukas. Jan-Lennard Struff and Karen Khachanov, who competed in third-round play at the Monte-Carlo Country Club on Thursday, were also brought up to the stage for a ‘Guess What?’ game that was hosted by Robert Farah. Pierre-Hugues Herbert started the show as Ed Sheeran, singing two worldwide hits with Federica Sartori. There were...
Before their first matches at the 2018 Argentina Open, Dominic Thiem, Diego Schwartzman, Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal visited the district of La Boca to watch 32-time national league football champions Boca Juniors. The quartet, who interestingly could meet in the semi-finals of the doubles event, watched Boca Juniors defeat Temperley 1-0 and played a potential semi-final preview, in foot-tennis form, in front of a huge crowd. Thiem and Boca Juniors fan Schwartzman, who will compete together in doubles alongside their singles campaigns, did not get their partnership off to the best of starts, as a lack of communication during their foot-tennis exhibition led to an unfortunate facial injury for the Argentine. "[Our friendship] started years ago and it...
Opportunity is knocking at Melbourne Park, and either the pair of Oliver Marach/Mate Pavic or Juan Sebastian Cabal/Robert Farah will seize that chance Saturday evening to claim their maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open. Marach and Pavic, the No. 7 seeds, entered the tournament on fire and have kept the momentum going at the year’s first major. The Austrian-Croatian duo captured its second and third ATP World Tour titles as a team at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open (d. Murray/Soares) and the ASB Classic (d. Mirnyi/Oswald) in the first and second week of the season, respectively. And the duo will be able to rely on experience in a Grand Slam final as well. Last year, they fell in an...
Watch this preview of the 2018 Australian Open men's doubles final in which seventh seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic will play 11th seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah for what will be the victors' maiden major victory.
