Kubot/Melo Reach Fifth Masters 1000 Final Of 2017

Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo have made a home for themselves on the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 stage, and they would continue their dominant run of form in reaching the Rolex Paris Masters final.

The second-seeded Polish-Brazilian duo will contest a fifth Masters 1000 final of the year on Sunday, following a convincing 6-4, 6-2 victory over Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in Saturday’s semi-finals. Following an opening round walkover, the tandem have not dropped a set all week, also breezing past Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez.

Champions on the hard courts of Miami and clay of Madrid as well as runners-up in both Indian Wells and Shanghai, Kubot and Melo are the first team to reach five Masters 1000 finals in a single season in three years. Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan contested seven such title matches in 2014.

Kubot and Melo will face either seventh seeds Ivan Dodig/Marcel Granollers or sixth seeds Jean-Julien Rojer/Horia Tecau, following the 70-minute dismissal of Murray and Soares. They saved all six break points faced and fired five aces in total, including one by Melo to close out the match. It will be the second Paris final for the Brazilian, who lifted the trophy with Dodig in 2015.

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