Britain's Salisbury keeps alive semi-finals hopes
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Britain’s Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram kept alive their men’s doubles semi-final hopes with victory over Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek at the ATP Tour Finals.
The fourth seeds won 3-6 6-3 10-6 after losing Sunday’s opener to Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot in London.
Salisbury, playing at the ATP Finals for the first time, said: “We needed to win to stay in it.”
He is the only Briton competing at the season-ending event at the O2 Arena.
“I think we will have to win the next one as well, but we’re feeling better. The crowd’s support was incredible,” Salisbury, 27, added.
The top two pairs in both of the two groups after the round-robin stage progress to the semi-finals on Saturday.
In the singles event, 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer is in action against Italy’s Matteo Berrettini before Novak Djokovic takes on Dominic Thiem later on Tuesday.
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