Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin superior to the semi-finals on the Nitto ATP Finals on Thursday once they saved one match level to beat Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek 6-4, 3-6, 15-13 in a Inexperienced Group qualification shootout thriller.
The fourth seeds end the round-robin stage holding a 2-1 file and be part of Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos (2-0) within the final 4. Prime seeds Dodig and Krajicek finish Inexperienced Group play at 1-2 and are eradicated alongside Andres Molteni and Maximo Gonzalez (0-2).
In a decent match contained in the Pala Alpitour, Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin lifted their degree within the Match Tie-break. After failing to transform match level probabilities at 9/8, 10/9 and 11/10, they then saved one match level at 11/12, earlier than ultimately changing on their fifth match level to triumph after one hour and 40 minutes.
Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin dropped to their knees after advancing earlier than they returned to their toes to embrace these of their field.
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Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin are making their first look on the year-end occasion as a group, with Gonzalez the third Mexican to qualify for the semi-finals in event historical past. The Mexican-French pair has lifted 5 tour-level trophies this 12 months, together with ATP Masters 1000 crowns in Miami and Paris.
Krajicek and Dodig have been making their second look as a group on the year-end occasion, having fallen within the round-robin stage in 2022. They gained 5 titles collectively in 2023, highlighted by Roland Garros.
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