Week 46 - Nitto ATP Finals - Turin, Italy (indoor hard) (Doubles)

Elegant Point · Satellite level

RE: Week 46 - Nitto ATP Finals - Turin, Italy (indoor hard) (Doubles)

wolf · Tennis legend

Final: (6) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 23 (11+12) defeated (5) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 19 (10+9) by 6-3 6-4 s

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
Final: (6) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 23 (11+12) defeated (5) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 19 (10+9) by 6-3 6-4 s

I'd hoped, but didn't really expect...

Babfive · Satellite level

Well done Joe and Rajeev. Utterly brilliant!

indiana · Tennis legend

Great last few months of the season for Joe & Rajeev.

4450 of their updated 6290 ranking points have been earned from the US Open onwards. So a decent first few months of next year and they can continue moving back up the rankings from their end of season WR 6 & 7.

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Well done Joe.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Not a mega doubles fan but had the match on and Joe and Raj made that look very easy....

Jan · Hall of fame

Fabulissimo!!!

9vicman · Satellite level

An amazing end of the year for Ram and Salisbury, who even came within 200 points of the year-end No. 1 team ranking.

With all the chopping and changing for next year's pairs, there is a certain irony that both sets of finalists have been playing together since 2019.

Elegant Point · Satellite level

9vicman wrote:
An amazing end of the year for Ram and Salisbury, who even came within 200 points of the year-end No. 1 team ranking.

With all the chopping and changing for next year's pairs, there is a certain irony that both sets of finalists have been playing together since 2019.

Interesting, irony indeed- Rusedski waffling on again about dubs re- pairings for the Olympics confuse

Rich2310 · County player

Congratulations guys.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Brilliant win! Well done Joe and Rajeev

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
wolf wrote:
Final: (6) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 23 (11+12) defeated (5) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 19 (10+9) by 6-3 6-4 s
I'd hoped, but didn't really expect...

It seems that the boys triumphed, even though Rajeev wasn't fully fit.

9vicman · Satellite level

Elegant Point wrote:
9vicman wrote:
An amazing end of the year for Ram and Salisbury, who even came within 200 points of the year-end No. 1 team ranking.

With all the chopping and changing for next year's pairs, there is a certain irony that both sets of finalists have been playing together since 2019.
Interesting, irony indeed- Rusedski waffling on again about dubs re- pairings for the Olympics

Enough Greg, or back it up!

Mahut and Roger-Vasselin are the only new top flight pairing (so far), and of course Mektic and Pavic split up. There are of course existing all countryman pairings, the highest ranked being Gonzalez and Moltenyi. But don't get the sense that the Olympics are the driving force for doubles pairs in 2024. Amd traditionally singles players have been successful in Olympic doubles despite minimal doubles play.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Really, really good. Watched the last 4 or 5 games. Rajeev's serving was beautiful.