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Lopez/Tsitsipas reach Acapulco final
Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic have the chance to put things right at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday.
The Croatians agonisingly lost out to Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in two tie-breaks in the 2021 final, but the top pairing in the ATP Rankings has another shot at lifting the trophy in the U.A.E after coming through a stern semi-final test against John Peers and Filip Polasek on Friday.
Mektic and Pavic were forced to stay cool under pressure as they saved all five break points they faced in their 6-4, 7-5 victory, winning 80 per cent (32/40) of points behind their first serves in the match.
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Standing between them and a first ATP Tour title of 2022 in Saturday’s final will be fourth seeds Tim Puetz and Michael Venus, after they came through a Match Tie-break against American-French duo Austin Krajicek and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, 5-7, 6-3, 10-7.
Rolex Paris Masters champions Puetz and Venus are seeking their first win over Mektic and Pavic, who won the only previous meeting between the teams in Vienna last year.
Tsitsipas Recovers From Acapulco Singles Defeat
Not long after his semi-final loss to Cameron Norrie, Stefanos Tsitsipas teamed with Feliciano Lopez to reach the doubles final at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC. The unseeded duo knocked off Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara, 6-4, 6-4, to reach their first ATP Tour final as a pair.
Against fourth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer in Saturday's final, Tsitsipas will be bidding for his first tour-level doubles crown. He previously reached the final of the 2019 Miami Open, teaming with Wesley Koolhof at the ATP Masters 1000 event.
Lopez, a former doubles World No. 9, is seeking a sixth ATP Tour doubles title in what will be his 12th final.
No Play On The Santiago Clay
There was no doubles action at the Chile Dove Men+Care Open on Friday as both spots in the championship match were set by walkovers. Top-seeded Brazilian pairing Rafael Matos and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves will face Swedish-American pairing Andre Goransson and Nathaniel Lammons in Saturday’s final, after their respective opponents both withdrew from the semi-finals.
Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic have the chance to put things right at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday.
The Croatians agonisingly lost out to Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in two tie-breaks in the 2021 final, but the top pairing in the ATP Rankings has another shot at lifting the trophy in the U.A.E after coming through a stern semi-final test against John Peers and Filip Polasek on Friday.
Mektic and Pavic were forced to stay cool under pressure as they saved all five break points they faced in their 6-4, 7-5 victory, winning 80 per cent (32/40) of points behind their first serves in the match.
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Standing between them and a first ATP Tour title of 2022 in Saturday’s final will be fourth seeds Tim Puetz and Michael Venus, after they came through a Match Tie-break against American-French duo Austin Krajicek and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, 5-7, 6-3, 10-7.
Rolex Paris Masters champions Puetz and Venus are seeking their first win over Mektic and Pavic, who won the only previous meeting between the teams in Vienna last year.
Tsitsipas Recovers From Acapulco Singles Defeat
Not long after his semi-final loss to Cameron Norrie, Stefanos Tsitsipas teamed with Feliciano Lopez to reach the doubles final at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC. The unseeded duo knocked off Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara, 6-4, 6-4, to reach their first ATP Tour final as a pair.
Against fourth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer in Saturday's final, Tsitsipas will be bidding for his first tour-level doubles crown. He previously reached the final of the 2019 Miami Open, teaming with Wesley Koolhof at the ATP Masters 1000 event.
Lopez, a former doubles World No. 9, is seeking a sixth ATP Tour doubles title in what will be his 12th final.
No Play On The Santiago Clay
There was no doubles action at the Chile Dove Men+Care Open on Friday as both spots in the championship match were set by walkovers. Top-seeded Brazilian pairing Rafael Matos and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves will face Swedish-American pairing Andre Goransson and Nathaniel Lammons in Saturday’s final, after their respective opponents both withdrew from the semi-finals.