Marach/Pavic Continue Sensational Season

Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic have had a sensational season, winning four tour-level titles and reaching two additional finals. And based on their efforts thus far at Roland Garros, the Austrian-Croatian pair shows no signs of slowing down.

Marach/Pavic overcame a second-set hiccup to beat Salvadorian Marcelo Arevalo and American Jamie Cerretani 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Sunday in Paris to advance to the quarter-finals. They are now 34-6 on the season and are currently No. 1 in the ATP Doubles Race To London. They will get a chance to improve that record against fifth seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, who battled from a set down to defeat Dutch/Australian duo Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 

The Colombians, who captured the Internazionali BNL d’Italia title in Rome two weeks ago and reached the Australian Open final earlier in the year against Marach and Pavic, needed just more than two hours to book their place in the next round.

Marach and Pavic are the highest seeds remaining in the draw after Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin upset top seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-4, 7-6(1) in the Round of 16.

Maximo Gonzalez and Nicolas Jarry moved past Frenchmen Calvin Hemery and Stephane Robert 7-5, 6-3. A day earlier, the Argentian-Chilean team knocked out fourth seeded Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares. Gonzalez and Jarry will either meet Pierre-Herbert Hugues and Nicolas Mahut, or Americans Steve Johnson and Jack Sock. The sixth-seeded Frenchmen defeated Robin Haase and Matwe Middelkoop 7-5, 7-6(6) in the previous round.