Petzschner/Peya Stun Top Seeds In Rotterdam

Nicolas Mahut and Vasek Pospisil saved a match point during a 6-7(7), 7-6(6), 10/4 win over Henri Kontinen and John Peers, advancing to the Rotterdam doubles final in their second tournament as a team. Mahut/Pospisil had joined forced in Rotterdam last year, but fell in the opening around against Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

Mahut showed great resilience in returning to the court shortly after losing a tightly contested singles semi-final against Martin Klizan.

“We’re happy we got through today,” Pospisil said after the match. “We had chances in the first set so it was disappointing to lose that one but we competed well and stayed patient. After winning that second set we took the momentum into the third and played a great Match Tie-break.

“Nico and I are enjoying this week and it’s a pleasure playing with such a great guy. We’re going to go into the final tomorrow with the same energy, play our games, and take it to our opponents.”

In the doubles final, the French-Canadian duo will take on Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya, who edged top seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau 7-6(5), 3-6, 11/9. The favourites held three match points at 9-6 in the Match Tie-break, but Petzschner/Peya reeled off five straight points to shock the defending champions.

“I think it was a very high level match that came down to a few points in the end,” said Peya. “Being down 6-9 in the breaker you always need a little luck as well, but we stayed positive and tried to hang in until the last point. Tomorrow will be another very tough one and we need to bring our best again, but we are looking forward very much.”

Cervantes/Lorenzi To Face Top Seeds In Buenos Aires
Inigo Cervantes and Paolo Lorenzi downed Argentines Federico Delbonis and Andres Molteni 7-6(5), 7-5 to set up a final encounter against top seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah. The Spanish-Italian duo improved to 3-1 as a team after falling in the first round of Quito last week (l. to Bellucci/Demoliner) in their first outing.

Memphis Final Set

Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Santiago Gonzalez survived a marathon two-hour and four-minute semi-final encounter against Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin 6-7(7), 7-5, 15-13. The Polish-Mexican duo saved three match points.