Auger-Aliassime/Hurkacz Book Paris Final Spot
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Hubert Hurkacz ended the six-match winning streak of Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo on Saturday to reach their maiden team final at the Rolex Paris Masters.
The unseeded pair won 59 per cent of second-serve return points (10/17) to defeat Kubot and Melo 6-2, 1-6, 10-5 in 66 minutes. Auger-Aliassime and Hurkacz are playing together for the second time, following a quarter-final finish at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in February.
[WATCH LIVE 1]Last week’s Vienna champions Kubot and Melo will now prepare for their fourth straight team appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals in London. The Polish-Brazilian tandem qualified for the event by defeating Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the Paris quarter-finals.
Auger-Aliassime and Hurkacz will face US Open champions Mate Pavic and Bruno Soares or London contenders Jurgen Melzer and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the final. Melzer and Roger-Vasselin will clinch the final Nitto ATP Finals qualification spot if they defeat Pavic and Soares in the semi-finals.