ATP Finals: Peers and Venus qualified, can Melzer top it off today?
Six out of eight teams have been selected to participate in the 2020 ATP Finals. Austria's double legend Jürgen Melzer could take an important step today towards qualifying for the year-end tournament.
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last edit: Nov 06, 2020, 08:53 am
John Peers and Michael Venus booked a place for the ATP Finals in London on Thursday with their success against Austin Krajicek and Franko Skugor at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Paris. This means that six pairs have been decided, in addition to Peers / Venus, these are Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, Mate Pavic and Bruno Soares, the two-time French Open champions Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies, Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos and finally Wesley Koolhof with Nikola Mektic. The latter had already qualified for London alongside Alexander Peya.
Jürgen Melzer and Edouard Roger-Vasselin are currently in ninth place in the race, so they would travel to the O2 Arena as a substitute pair. However, that is not what the two of them claim, it should already be a fixed position in the elite field. And the chances of that are not bad after the opening success against Marcus Daniell and Philipp Oswald: A win against Oliver Marach and Rohan Bopanna would mean 360 points for reaching the semi-finals.
This means that Melzer and Roger-Vasselin would overtake Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski, who lost to Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in the round of 16 in Paris. Kubot / Melo are also ahead of Melzer / Roger-Vasselin, but have to face defending champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut today.
Should Melzer and his partner defeat Bopanna / Marach today, there would be a meeting in the semi-finals with one of the already qualified pairs: either Koohlhof / Mektic or Pavic / Soares.
Here the double tableau in Paris-Bercy
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