ATP Montreal: Mate Pavic at the start again - does the wrist hold up?
In the doubles field at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Montreal, all major pairs skating specialists are back at the start. Also the recently injured Mate Pavic .
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Aug 09, 2022, 03:55 pm
The start of the doubles competition at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Montreal did not go well from a German point of view: Tim pütz and his New Zealand partner Michael Venus had to give up in round one against Hubert Hurkacz and Jan Zielinski. Annoying not only for the Canadian Open, but also for the annual ranking, the Race to Turin. Pütz and Venus are currently in ninth place, every point counts.
Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic will serve relatively safely at the season finale. It is somewhat surprising that they are doing this again in Montreal. Because Pavic broke his right wrist in a fall in the semi-finals of the Wimbledon tournament, could not play a two-handed backhand and a stable backhand volley in the final, which he and Mektic lost in five sets against Max Purcell and Matthew Ebden. A little more than four weeks later, the two Croatians attacked again in Canada. Placed in fifth place.
Kyrgios and Sock not included in doubles
Incidentally, Ebden and Purcell are starting the Canadian Masters tournament unseeded - as is well known, the two Australians did not receive any ATP points for their Wimbledon victory. They will start off against Andey Rublev and Grigor Dimitrov, followed by the tournament's number two in Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.
The tableau is led by Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, reunited after Ram has tried his luck with other partners in recent weeks (in Atlanta with Jack Sock, in Washington with Horacio Zeballos). Incidentally, the winners of Washington are not to be found in the tableau: Nick Kyrgios and Jack Sock.
After the departure of Tim Pütz, German hopes now rest solely on Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies. The two-time French Open champions will start against Lukasz Kubot and Stan Wawrinka and could face Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in round two.