ATP Indian Wells: "Djokini" and Struff win, Zverevs and Thiem out in doubles
Celebrity casserole in the first round of the double competition at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells - and the world's number one in singles, Novak Djokovic, has also shown himself to be a pair skating expert.
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last edit: Mar 09, 2019, 07:52 am
Djokovic has chosen Fabio Fognini as a partner in Indian Wells, the start has already been successful with the 7: 6 (5) and 6: 1 against Milos Raonic and Jeremy Chardy. In the next round, the pair of Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray, who are in second place, could wait. The tournament favorites Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut had serious problems right at the start, prevailing against John Isner and Sam Querrey after a time of 93 minutes with 6: 7 (3), 6: 4 and 12:10.
The tournament winners of Acapulco were eliminated: Alexander and Mischa Zverev lost to the fifth placed duo Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert farah with 7: 5, 3: 6 and 5:10. There was also no sense of achievement for Dominic Thiem alongside Steve Johnson: The two were beaten by Nick Kyrgios and Taylor Fritz with 5-7 and 1-6.
Jan-Lennard Struff with his partner Ben McLachlan, on the other hand, is one round further: The German-Japanese couple defeated Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury with 7-5 and 6-3.