Cabal/Farah Begin Dubai Campaign; Krawietz/Struff Reach Semi-finals
Top-seeded Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah wasted little time on Wednesday in sweeping past local wild cards Omar Alawadhi and Hamad Abbas Janahi 6-1, 6-0 for a place in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships quarter-finals.
Germans Kevin Krawietz and Jan-Lennard Struff booked their places in the semi-finals with a 5-7, 6-3, 10-3 victory over third seeds Wesley Koolhof and Lukasz Kubot.
Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Milos Raonic feature in doubles play at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC on Wednesday. Third-seeded Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, and fourth seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury also compete at the ATP 500 event.