Australian John Friends and Croatian associate Mate Pavic end runners-up at an ATP 250 match in Kazakhstan.
Astana, Kazakhstan, 3 October 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Astana, Kazakhstan
John Friends has fallen heartbreakingly in need of claiming the doubles title at an ATP 250 match in Astana.
The 35-year-old Australian and Croatian associate Mate Pavic didn’t drop serve of their closing showdown in opposition to American duo Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow. Nonetheless, it wasn’t sufficient to cease the second seeds from edging out a 7-6(4) 7-6(7) victory.
Each groups solely confronted a single break level every on serve within the 96-minute championship match.
Friends and Pavic will rue their missed probabilities after failing to transform two set factors, one within the tenth sport and one other in the course of the tiebreak, in a decent second set.
This helped world No.28 Lammons and world No.29 Withrow snare their fourth ATP staff title this season.
World No.39 Friends now turns his consideration to the Shanghai Masters, the place he’ll staff with one other Croat, Nikola Mektic.
AUSSIES IN ACTION – Astana
RESULTS
Males’s doubles, closing
[2] Nathaniel Lammons (USA)/Jackson Withrow (USA) d [4] John Friends (AUS)/Mate Pavic (CRO) 7-6(4) 7-6(7)
Beijing, China
Sadly, Storm Hunter’s China Open doubles marketing campaign got here to an finish, bowing out within the second spherical alongside Belgian associate Elise Mertens.
Chinese language Taipei’s Chan Hao-Ching and Mexico’s Giuliana Olmos scored a surprisingly convincing 6-1 6-2 victory in opposition to the highest seeds.
This leaves Ellen Perez because the final Australian standing on the WTA 1000 match.
Perez and American associate Nicole Melichar-Martinez are decided to make a deep run this week to spice up their probabilities for qualifying for the season-ending WTA Finals in Mexico.
World No.2 Hunter and world No.1 Mertens, regardless of their loss immediately, have already secured their spot as top-of-the-line eight performing groups this season.
Qualifying for the celebrated WTA Finals is one other career-first in a shocking season for 29-year-old Hunter.
AUSSIES IN ACTION – Beijing
RESULTS
Girls’s doubles, second spherical
Chan Hao-Ching (TPE)/Giuliana Olmos (MEX) d [1] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Elise Mertens (BEL) 6-1 6-2
COMING UP
Girls’s doubles, second spherical
Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v [3] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
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