ATP: No domino effect after Krawietz and Mies split
Apart from the separation of Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies and Tim Pütz and Michael Venus, the best doubles pairs on the ATP tour will start the 2023 season unchanged.
by Jens Huiber
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Nov 09, 2022, 08:02 pm
There was a great rush on Tuesday, almost 30 journalists came via zoom to a press conference with Kevin Krawietz that was scheduled at short notice. The reason was obvious, Krawietz and his successful partner Andreas Mies will go their separate ways in the coming year. Mies with the Australian Jon Peers, Krawietz with Tim Pütz, which is not bad news for the German Tennis Association either. After all, the two are currently forming the Davis Cup doubles in Michael Kohlmann's team.
On the other hand: Krawietz and Mies have also played for Germany. And that successfully. And quite possibly the Munich and his Cologne playmate may play again. Namely, when the double field in Turin clears surprisingly. At the moment Tim Pütz and Michael Venus are the second successors, the Wimbledon champions Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell are the first.
The top couples stay true to themselves
There have been times when couples, including successful ones, have separated after the unofficial ATP World Championship. Remember the winners of 2020, Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic, who set out for new shores after their final success against Jürgen Melzer and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Especially understandable from Mektic's point of view, he wanted to win gold for Croatia with Mate Pavic at the Olympics (which he did).
This year, however, loyalty is the top priority, as Krawietz emphasized in an interview when asked. To his knowledge, all teams starting in Turin will start the new season in exactly the same way. Which is not surprising: Some couples, such as Mektic/Pavic or Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios, appear almost like twins separated at birth. Others, such as Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer, Lloyd Glasspool and Hari Helliovaara or the best of the year Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski only really got going together this year. The separation of Krawietz and Mies did not trigger the domino effect that was last observed at the end of 2020.