Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury ended their late-season surge in spectacular vogue on Sunday on the Nitto ATP Finals.
The American-British duo downed Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4 to efficiently defend their title on the prestigious season finale in Turin. Ram and Salisbury delivered a rock-solid all-around efficiency to wrap a 69-minute triumph and lengthen their profitable streak contained in the Pala Alpitour to 10 matches.
“I don’t know what to say, to be trustworthy,” mentioned Ram after the match. “We love this place. That is the largest event we play on the ATP calendar all yr and to win it twice in a row is one thing I by no means would have considered and I’m so pleased with.”
Salisbury added: “I feel we’ve acquired higher all through the week. I feel that was our greatest match, perhaps together with the semi-final yesterday. I feel we’ve served nicely and never acquired damaged many occasions. We did that basically nicely and managed to take the few possibilities we had at this time. I feel we acquired a bit little bit of luck as nicely, nevertheless it looks like we get it on this place.”
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Previous to the US Open, Ram and Salisbury had endured a modest season by their requirements. They held a 20-16 report on the yr heading into the season’s ultimate main and have been sixteenth within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Doubles Groups Rankings.
For the reason that begin of their New York marketing campaign, nonetheless, the pair roared again to type. They gained 17 of the 19 tour-level matches in that interval, clinching the title at Flushing Meadows for the third consecutive yr earlier than changing into champions in Vienna and reaching the semi-finals in Paris. After their Turin triumph, Ram and Salisbury will finish the yr in third within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Doubles Groups Rankings.
“We undoubtedly didn’t have an excellent first half of the yr, and typically you want a little bit of a shock, some robust occasions, to form of kick you into gear and get you again to understanding what you have been doing nicely, and the way you have been profitable,” Salisbury later instructed ATPTour.com. “We managed to do this and we’ve saved it going for a bit bit, which is sweet.”
The sixth seeds actually performed like a workforce stuffed with confidence on Sunday afternoon as they used the tempo of the Pala Alpitour courtroom to their benefit with some razor-sharp returning. A Ram return winner in opposition to Granollers’ serve on a deciding level clinched the one break of the primary set within the fourth sport, and so they broke by way of in opposition to the Spaniard’s supply once more for a 4-3 lead within the second earlier than serving out for victory.
“I feel the situations are one factor, however we appear to have the ability to play a few of our greatest tennis on the largest occasions, and this is without doubt one of the largest occasions we’ve got,” mentioned Ram. “I feel that’s additionally a part of it. We actually stand up for it, we actually try to peak for these ones and we’re actually pleased with that achievement truly.”
Defeat on Sunday for Granollers and Zeballos additionally confirmed Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek because the Yr-Finish ATP Doubles No. 1 offered by Pepperstone profitable workforce. Spaniard Granollers and Argentine Zeballos may have made a last-ditch soar to assert the coveted honour however wanted to raise the trophy to overtake Croatian Dodig and American Krajicek.
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