Jean-Julien Rojer

[Damian]

Rojer/Tecau Unseat Defending US Open Champions Cabal/Farah

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Murray/Skupski advance on Saturday
Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau scored the biggest upset so far in the doubles draw to reach the US Open doubles quarter-finals on Saturday. The 2017 champions rallied to defeat top seeds and defending champions Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Awaiting them in the next round are Rohan Bopanna and Denis Shapovalov, who also rallied from a set down to take out sixth seeds Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Shapovalov is the only active player remaining in both the singles and doubles draws.

"I feel good. It's pretty nice to play doubles. It gets my blood going and my legs moving again," Shapovalov said. "Obviously it's normal to have wear and tear after four-set matches and five-set matches, but I'm pretty young and I haven't been playing a lot in the past couple of months, so it's not too bad at all."

Mate Pavic and Bruno Soares continued the comeback trend in their 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-4 victory against Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow. Sock/Withrow served for the match at 5-4 in the second set. Pavic/Soares will next face Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski after the British pair eased past Marcelo Demoliner and Matwe Middelkoop 6-3, 6-2.

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[Kamileki]

2020 w liczbach (debel):

Ranking: 25
Bilans meczów: 12-13
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 0
Zarobki: $171,107

[Damian]

Italians Stun Top Seeds Melo & Rojer In Cagliari

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Berrettini brothers make winning start
Italians Lorenzo Sonego and Andrea Vavassori earned a big victory on Tuesday in Cagliari when they upset top seeds Marcelo Melo and Jean-Julien Rojer 6-3, 3-6, 10-6 to reach the second round of the Sardegna Open.

Melo and Rojer own 64 tour-level doubles trophies between them, but they were unable to navigate past the home favourites. Sonego and Vavassori battled through the Match Tie-break to set a clash against countrymen Andrea Pellegrino and Giulio Zeppieri, who eliminated Nikoloz Basilashvili and Andre Begemann 7-6(6), 1-6, 10-7.

Matteo Berrettini and his younger brother, Jacopo Berrettini, made the most of their tour-level doubles team debut in the last match of the day, clawing past Argentines Guillermo Duran and Guido Pella 5-7, 6-4, 10-8 to reach the second round. Jacopo, who is 22, is currently the No. 402 player in the FedEx ATP Doubles Rankings, and he had never previously played an ATP Tour match in singles or doubles. But the Berrettini brothers fought through, saving eight of the 10 break points they faced.

In the other doubles match of the day in Italy, Americans Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul ousted Roman Jebavy and Igor Zelenay 2-6, 6-3, 10-8.

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Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar, who lifted the trophy in Delray Beach earlier this year, beat fourth seeds Luke Saville and John-Patrick Smith 6-1, 5-7, 12-10 to reach the second round of the AnyTech 365 Andalucia Open in Marbella. Tomislav Brkic and Nikola Cacic, who were victorious in Buenos Aires, eliminated Sander Arends and David Pel 1-6, 6-0, 10-5.

Other teams that advanced in Spain on Tuesday were Santiago Gonzalez/Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela and Hugo Nys/Tim Puetz. Both pairs made it through Match Tie-breaks.

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[Damian]

Melo/Rojer Eliminate Murray/Soares In Madrid

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Brazilian-Dutch tandem advance in 70 minutes
Marcelo Melo and Jean-Julien Rojer eliminated eighth seeds Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 6-3, 6-4 on Monday in their opening match at the Mutua Madrid Open.

The unseeded pair, which entered the tournament with a 1-8 team record, saved all seven break points it faced to eliminate the Great Ocean Road Open champions in 70 minutes. Melo and Rojer are both aiming to add to their Madrid trophy collections, having both lifted the trophy with previous partners.

Melo did not drop a set en route to the Madrid trophy in 2017 alongside Lukasz Kubot. Rojer is a two-time champion in Madrid, following title runs with Horia Tecau in 2016 and 2019.


Melo and Rojer will meet Millennium Estoril Open champion Tim Puetz and 2018 singles titlist Alexander Zverev or last year’s Rolex Paris Masters winners Felix Auger-Aliassime and Hubert Hurkacz in the second round.

Max Purcell and Luke Saville won 85 per cent of their first-serve points (41/48) to beat John Peers and Michael Venus 7-6(9), 6-3. The Aussie duo, which saved three set points in the first-set tie-break, will meet Miami and Monte-Carlo champions Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic in the second round.

Rohan Bopanna and Denis Shapovalov booked a second-round clash against top seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah on Monday. The Indian-Canadian duo saved three of the four break points it faced to defeat Spanish wild cards Marc Lopez and Jaume Munar 7-6(4), 6-4.

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Bezpłciowy sezon, ale trzeba kronikarsko odnotować 2 finały na jesieni - w Antwerpii i Sztokholmie.

[Barty]

2021 w liczbach (debel):

Ranking: 38
Bilans meczów: 15-21
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 2 (Sztokholm (w/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi), Antwerpia (w/Wesley Koolhof))
Zarobki: $163,833

[Damian]

Arevalo/Rojer Earn Maiden Team Trophy

Spoiler:

Top seeds triumph without losing a set
Top seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer claimed their first ATP Tour title as a team on Sunday when they defeated Briton Lloyd Glasspool and Finland's Harri Heliovaara 7-6(4), 6-4 to win the Dallas Open.

"We're super happy about this title. This is our first title together. We've been doing great things together. We started the year playing great, maybe not having the best results or the results we wanted, but we kept working together as a team, working on those little details," Arevalo said. "We started seeing those results that we wanted."

Entering the week, the new tandem was 2-3 on the season. But Arevalo and Rojer did not lose a set in Dallas to lift the trophy.

"We're hoping to have a good year together. The biggest thing for us is to keep working. We're a new team, so normally how this goes [is] you put in a lot of work and results come and go, but hopefully we'll get on a stretch where results start happening for us," Rojer said. "It certainly did this week."

Arevalo and Rojer saved all three break points they faced and won 81 per cent of their service points to earn the title after one hour and 27 minutes.

Glasspool and Heliovaara were pursuing their second tour-level trophy together after emerging victorious in Marseille last year.

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[Damian]

Arevalo/Rojer Ride Wave To Delray Title

Spoiler:

El Salvadorian-Dutch pairing backs up Dallas win
Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer completed a perfect fortnight in the United States as they claimed victory at the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com on Sunday.

The top-seeded pairing held their nerve to defeat Aleksandr Nedovyesov and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 6-2, 6-7(5), 10-4 and extend their winning streak to seven matches and earn consecutive ATP Tour titles.

Arevalo and Rojer partnered for the first time at Delray Beach in 2021, losing out in the first round. They did not play together again until the Melbourne Summer Set in January this year, but the newly cemented partnership has enjoyed immediate success and picked up its first title together at the Dallas Open without dropping a set.

“It’s awesome,” said Rojer after the Delray Beach final. “It doesn’t happen that much, obviously, so to get back-to-back titles is great. At the same time, every match is different, and you can take the confidence [from the Dallas title] for sure, that helps, but you saw today, one little let-up and the match gets complicated and then you’re playing a 10-point tie-breaker for the title.

“We’re happy with the result, we’re happy with the work we’ve been doing, both during the matches but also outside on the practice court, and it’s paying off for us.”

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The top seeds looked on course for another comfortable victory in Delray Beach after dominating the first set and establishing a 4-2 lead in the second. One of Arevalo and Rojer’s few disappointments this year was a first-round loss to Nedovyesov and Qureshi in Sydney, however, and the Kazakh-Pakistani pairing proved a tricky prospect again.

The third seeds broke back and went on to force a Match Tie-break, but the El Salvadorian-Dutch pairing reasserted their control and sealed victory in one hour, 50 minutes. Arevalo and Rojer ended the match having won 75 per cent (33/44) of points behind their first serves, restricting their opponents to just two break points.

The Delray Beach title is the 31st of Dutchman Rojer’s career, while his partner Arevalo now has four.

Arevalo is optimistic for further success in the future. “I think we’re big believers in having energy on the court, that’s what keeps us going and that’s what we like about each other. We’re always pushing each other and we both feel great about it.“

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[Damian]

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Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer continued their electric form as they knocked out fifth seeds John Peers and Filip Polasek with a 3-6, 6-2, 11-9 victory.

El Salvadorian Arevalo and Dutchman Rojer came into the match having lost just once in their past three tournaments. They clinched their first two ATP Tour titles together in Dallas and Delray Beach in February before reaching the final in Acapulco.

Peers and Polasek surged to the first set but then fell away as they were constantly put under pressure on serve. Arevalo and Rojer carved out nine break point opportunities in the match, converting six of them, and now face Andrey Golubev and Alexander Zverev in the second round.

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[Damian]

Arevalo/Rojer Surge Into Roland Garros SFs

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El Salvadorian-Dutch pairing chasing third tour-level title of 2022
Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer overcame a resilient effort from Rafael Matos and David Vega Hernandez to seal a 7-6(6), 6-3 win in the quarter-finals at Roland Garros on Monday.

A dominant serving performance nonetheless helped Arevalo and Rojer to their maiden major semi-final together. The 12th seeds won 88 per cent (36/41) of points behind their first delivery and saved the only break point they faced late in the penultimate game of the match to seal a two-hour, two-minute victory.

The El Salvadorian-Dutch pairing carved out 16 break point chances in the match but was only able to convert one, in the opening game of the second set, as Matos and Vega Hernandez dug deep at the clay-court Grand Slam in Paris. That service break proved enough, though.

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Since teaming up at the start of the year, Arevalo and Rojer have enjoyed significant success on the ATP Tour. They won back-to-back titles on hard courts in Dallas and Delray Beach in February, while also showing their abilities on clay with a run to the semi-finals at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in April.

Arevalo and Rojer’s next challenge in Paris will be a semi-final clash against 16th seeds Rohan Bopanna and Matwe Middelkoop or Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara.

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[Damian]

Arevalo/Rojer, Dodig/Krajicek Advance To Roland Garros Doubles Final

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Both pairs are into their first major final as a team
Two gripping men’s doubles semi-finals were decided late in their final sets Thursday at Roland Garros, with 12th seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer and the unseeded duo of Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek advancing to Saturday's title match with a pair of comeback victories.

With both semi-finals played on Court Simonne Mathieu, Arevalo/Rojer defeated 16th seeds Rohan Bopanna and Matwe Middelkoop, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(10-8), before Dodig/Krajicek downed fourth seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, 4-6, 7-6(1), 7-5.

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The 40-year-old Rojer is now the oldest Roland Garros men’s doubles finalist in the Open Era. Arevalo, who was playing in his first men's doubles Slam semi-final, is the first major men’s doubles finalist from Central America.

Their match against Bopanna/Middelkoop featured just two breaks of serve — one to decide each of the first two sets. Arevalo/Rojer never trailed in the 10-point tie-break and held leads of 7/3 and 9/6 before clinching their final place on their third match point.

"We started our partnership this year at the beginning of the year, and we have [been] building each other [up] as a team," Rojer said in a post-match press conference. "We have a great team behind our backs, as well. The whole job that we have been doing is paying off. We are super happy to be in the final, but we know that [there is] still a lot of work to do.

"We are going to go fight on Saturday in the final."

Their semi-final win improved the pair to 23-11 as a team, including a 10-match win streak in February that included titles in Dallas and Delray Beach and a final run in Acapulco. Rojer, who was competing in his ninth major semi-final, is through to his third final. He is undefeated in those title matches, winning the 2015 Wimbledon and 2017 US Open titles with Horia Tecau.


Dodig/Krajicek dropped serve twice in the opening set but were not broken again until a dramatic and eventful close to the final set. The Croatian-American team broke early in the third and had a pair of match points on return at 5-3.

They could not convert those chances, and then failed to serve out the match at the first time of asking at 5-4. But they claimed their third break chance of the ensuing game and made no mistake on their second chance at serving for a spot in the final.

The unseeded pair will bring a nine-match win streak into the championship match, dating back to their Lyon title run. The closest they came to defeat during that run was in the Roland Garros quarter-finals, when they saved five match points to defeat top seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. 3-6, 7-6(9), 7-6(12-10).

"We started playing very good in Lyon and we're just getting better every day," Krajicek said in press. "Hopefully we can stay on that path. Our game styles match very well and we get along great, so it's been a great partnership."

Dodig and Krajicek are 12-4 overall as a team, including 9-3 on the season. Dodig is a two-time Grand Slam champion (2015 Roland Garros with Marcelo Melo, 2021 Australian Open with Filip Polasek), while Krajicek is through to his first major final.

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[Damian]

Arevalo/Rojer Capture Roland Garros Crown

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12th seeds clinch first major trophy as a team
Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer captured their first Grand Slam title as a team Saturday, rallying past Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-3 in the Roland Garros final.

In a hard-fought clash on Court Philippe Chatrier, Arevalo and Rojer produced a strong serving display and showed their fighting qualities. They saved three championship points on serve at 5-6 in the second set, before raising their level in the third set to seal victory after three hours and three minutes.

“I am really proud,” Rojer said during the trophy ceremony. “I know I am getting older and it makes these moments much more special because you don’t know how many more times you have left to play on such beautiful courts. I am extremely, extremely grateful.”

“I want to congratulate Ivan and Austin, this was an amazing battle,” Arevalo said. “You guys are amazing opponents… I feel we are super lucky to win the title today. I want to thank everyone inside the stadium, it was amazing. You guys made our moment precious. Thank you Roland Garros and Paris for this.”

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Arevalo of El Salvador and Rojer of the Netherlands have now captured three tour-level titles as a team this season, having triumphed on hard in Dallas and Delray Beach in February. With their victory, they have improved to 24-10 as a team in 2022.

The 40-year-old Rojer is now the oldest Grand Slam men’s doubles champion in the Open Era. It is the third time he has captured a major title, after lifting trophies with Horia Tecau at Wimbledon in 2015 and the US Open in 2017.

“I really want to thank my partner," Rojer added. "We spent a lot of time living and training in Miami. We decided to play together. I know this kid has a big heart. He showed it today and I thank him. I am glad he trusts me and I am so happy and proud of this moment here.”

Arevalo, 31, is the first Grand Slam men’s double champion from Central America. He has now clinched five tour-level doubles crowns.



In a tight final, both teams dominated behind serve in the first two sets, with opportunities on return limited. After Dodig and Krajicek won the first set, the unseeded tandem then conjured up three championship points on Arevalo and Rojer’s serve at 5-6 in the second set.

However, the 12th seeds saved all three championship points, before they won the tie-break to force a decider. Fuelled by momentum, Arevalo and Rojer gained the first break of the match to move 4-2 ahead in the third set, before they held serve to secure a memorable victory.

Dodig and Krajicek, who saved five match points en route to victory over Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the quarter-finals, were competing as a team for the fifth time this season. They arrived in the French capital in form, after winning the trophy in Lyon last month.

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