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Wimbledon MD F: Harri Heliovaara/Henry Patten def. Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson [15] 6-7(7), 7-6(8), 7-6(9) Match Stats

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While the margin appeared thin between them, Heliopatten managed to make the most out of the tie-breaker even if they won 10 points lesser than the Australian pair (116 to 126). Through some pacing and anticipation, they turned the tables around several times in the match, saving 3 match points while utilizing the open court well to construct and finish their points. Even though the 15th seeds won twice more return winners than Heliopatten (8 to 4), being balanced between the baseline and the net also became crucial for either of them to stand out. As such, even though Thomcell had 3 break points (1 was the second-set match point), Heliopatten was able to save them, thus the non-conversion and everything went back to the tie-breakers.

Interestingly, Thomcell appeared more solid on serve. Firing 15 aces than Heliopatten's 2, the Australian 15th seed landed 68% of their first serves and had an outstanding first serve winning percentage at 82%, 5% more than Heliopatten, which helped them to avoid trouble at times. In contrast, Heliopatten's second serves appeared more vulnerable even though they double-faulted just twice (than Thomcell's 3) as they only won 60% of their second serve points, 14% lesser than Thomcell, but their point construction on return also made up for it.

This marked Heliopatten's fifth overall year-to-date title, but they won it across Tours since they first paired up in April: 2 Challenger-level titles in Madrid (100) and Turin (175), 2 ATP 250-level titles in Marrakech and Lyon, and Wimbledon was their maiden Grand Slam title as a pair, becoming the first pair to do so this year after Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in 2017 and Kevin Krawietz/Andreas Mies in 2019. To add, H. Patten soared to the doubles Top 20 next week to be the new UK doubles #2, coming a long way from interning as an IBM statistician when he studied in the University of North Carolina-Ashville, while H. Heliovaara also worked in the airport after pursuing his studies after his retirement in 2013 before he picked up the racquet again in 2017 and returned to the game, mostly doubles due to his Ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis. Meanwhile, M. Purcell won in 2022 (with Matthew Ebden) in a best-of-five format, where this year he became the runner-up in a full best-of-three format. Breathtaking.

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aaaaand hello everyone, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming, welcome to yet another episode of 'and that's what you missed on professional tennis players being dumb' (laver cup drama recap coming soon i promise)

- The week following Laver Cup was absolutely wild; Nick got (kind of, but not really) banned from playing tennis, Rafa was legit walking around completely decked out in LC merch for days, Sascha (*a TEAM8 social media intern about to be fired) followed Stefanos on instagram, then Sascha (*actually him) unfollowed Stefanos on instagram

- Of course, we also had Roger confirming in an interview that Rafa is his boyfriend- Sorry, I mean, Roger used the French word for friend, 'copain’, which what do you know, is widely understood to mean boyfriend, when talking about Rafa in an interview. Yep, that’s an actual thing that happened. He’s truly out of control.

- Lots of singles players got involved in doubles nonsense, most notably Sascha teaming up with Isner for some reason (if that never ever happens ever again, it’ll be too fucking soon), and Daniil randomly deciding to come for Stefanos’s ex (To be continued...? 👀)

- Shanghai started out with truly iconic scenes, courtesy of everyone's favourite hateable Italian and our one and only Sir Andy (he really is back™)

- It turns out that Roger is completely useless at parenting their 3 adopted disaster children when Rafa is not there

- Marin Cilic and Andreas Seppi almost had a baby together

- Shockingly, after Stefanos beat Sascha in Beijing the week before (highlight of that anxiety-ridden clusterfuck of a must-watch match), they actually willingly practised together in Shanghai, but that's not all, because according to Sascha’s completely unprompted ramblings, they got a “little bit closer” at Laver Cup and are now “having a good relationship”, which frankly, left me absolutely fucking deceased

- Their enemies-to-lovers practice session did deliver though, because Stefanos was officially adopted into the Fedal family when he defeated Djokovic in the QFs, guaranteeing Rafa’s return to no. 1 in a few weeks (and therefore making sure Djokovic doesn’t get any closer to Roger’s record of 310 weeks at no. 1)

- We had the next edition of ‘tall, blonde next gen player breaks his shoelaces before match even starts’, but surprise! It was Sascha ! If that's not proof that him and Stefanos are soulmates, then I don't know what is. Andrey on the other side of the net clearly thought so too (I can spot a Saschanos shipper when I see one), but then not very nicely Sascha took revenge on him with a bagel for laughing at him: 6-0 7-6 :(

- Marcelo almost died of hysterical laughter when Kubi was hit in the dick by a ball on court, and very helpfully stood next to him, watching him suffer as he lay on the ground in agony

- Then Fedverev happened and OH THE DRAMA !! If you only ever watch one tennis match in your life, make it this one. There was clowning, loads of anxiety, "code violation, unsportsmanlike conduct, point penalty, Mr Federer" (fucking wild ??), butterfly-talk and so much more. We just hope Rafa survived okay watching it, back home in Mallorca.

- It's impossible to stay mad at Sascha for besting him though, and Roger is not immune to his charms either: he immediately said some adorable dad-things about him, as expected.

- Another positive outcome was that we can keep enjoying the fact that Fedal have both won exactly 381 Masters matches in their career #couplesgoals

- The Colombian lads casually bagelled the American servebots to everyone’s immense pleasure, so we had that going for us too

- Meanwhile Stefanos fell victim to Daniil ��Bullshit Russian’ Medvedev for the 5th consecutive time, and in true Stefanos-style claimed that the reason for that was simply because playing him is #boring

- The media turned to our resident Stefanos-nonsense expert for comment, and Sascha pretty much just said, ‘I want to have nothing to do with this, but also Stefanos is wrong as usual.’ He did seem very exasperatedly fond when he heard about it though.

- Daniil, after having just won his 6 millionth tournament of the season (he actually genuinely smiled this time, but probably only because of Sascha being cute), didn't take kindly to the whole being boring thing however, and as it turns out he hate-watched Stefanos's last few vlogs in retaliation #newsubscriber

- Meanwhile everyone was baffled at why Isner of all people was at an UNIQLO exho, but Roger beat him in spectacular fashion, so we quickly got over that

- The ace on match point was a bit of an overkill though and brought back some unwanted W*mbledon memories, but to be fair, we're used to having war flashbacks about those two championship points by now

- For a glorious couple hours, the ATP’s Race to London ranking page was showing Rafa at a joint 15th place (with FAA), with zero points, but as qualified for London. That’s just how much of a legend he simply is.

- Stefanos’s social media break was never really a proper thing, but I’m happy to announce that we're back to full-speed; we got some philosophical, emo insta posts, and also a new vlog, in which he advises us to eat our rice, and proceeds to wander around Shanghai alone and unsupervised, non-stop blabbering about his iPhone. Good to have you back, Stef 💕

- In tragic #hairupdate news, Domi got rid of all his floof (which understandably had people near-suicidal), even more upsetting: David did the same thing (honestly, just wtf), then in our new #facialhairupdate sub-segment: it turns out Stefanos is growing his beard out because he doesn’t want to look too similar to Sascha, which is fair enough; it must get awkward when you go on a date with your boyfriend and people mistake you for brothers

- Kei in glasses happened though, thank you Naomi <3

- I also feel like Patrick McEnroe had some spectacularly incorrect takes to offer on something next gen related at some point, but I can’t actually remember what, so let’s just leave it at that

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I love waking up and seeing results like these 😍😃✌️

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Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot d Sascha and Mischa Zverev 76(1) 64 at Gerry Weber Open

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Mike Bryan, Jack Sock take second straight doubles Grand Slam, the pair won its second straight Grand Slam doubles title together, beating Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-3, 6-1 on Friday at the US Open.

Mike Bryan, now with more Grand Slam doubles titles than any man, can pick his partner next year.

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Marcelo Melo &  Łukasz Kubot celebrate their first Wimbledon men’s doubles title (match duration: 4h39m).

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Nitto ATP London Final, Day 2: Lukasz Kubot/Marcelo Melo vs Marcel Granollers-Pujol/Ivan Dodig

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Szczecin Ch R2: Jaume Munar [2] def. Maks Kasnikowski [WC] 6-4, 6-3 Match Stats

📸 ATP Challenger Livestream (via website)

Kasnikowski had his moments based on how dominant he looked throughout the first bits of the first set, but it was insufficient once Munar dialed in, bringing the former off balance as long as the latter asserted his pressure right. This involved both the baseline and the net, where the former became the most important part as this match went by. Even if Kasnikowski converted 80% of his break points, it was not enough at the expense of his errors or Munar coming up with some brilliant finishes as a form of capitalization of Kasnikowski's errors.

Service game-wise, even if Kasnikowski scored 2 aces in hopes to get himself out of trouble, Munar still won 7% more points through his first serves than Kasnikowski. Interestingly, even if both players never double-faulted, the second-serve dependency became more visible when Munar won 7% more of his points through his second serves than his first (60% to 53%), while Kasnikowski's second serves appeared more vulnerable with a 36% winning percentage, mostly due to the shot rushes, which was insufficient in terms of his follow-ups.

In the quarterfinals, Munar will face the winner between fifth seed Federico Coria and qualifier Lucas Gerch, whose match is ongoing as this was written. While it is also a struggle for Fede to regain his form back, this possible match-up might need the balance between the baseline and the net, often needing either of them to intuitively come up with shot winners (in correct pace) to stand out in this match. Could be a tough one to endure, but anything is still possible. On the other hand, it was still a positive week for Kasnikowski, an experience he could learn from, as well as before his doubles quarterfinals match (partnering the legendary Lukasz Kubot) later today.

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Wimbledon men's doubles champion 2017

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THEY DID IT THEY DID IT !! Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo are the 2019 Winston-Salem doubles champions !! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉1️⃣3️⃣

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Melo e Kubot estreiam contra dupla holandesa em Wimbledon

Melo e Kubot estreiam contra dupla holandesa em Wimbledon

A dupla Marcelo Melo e Lukasz Kubot entra na quadra do All England Club nesta quarta-feira (5), para sua estreia no tradicional torneio de Wimbledon, terceiro Grand Slam da temporada. Os adversários são os holandeses Wesley Koolhof e Matwe Middelkoop. Será a quarta partida programada para a quadra 4, com início por volta das 12h (horário de Brasília). Cabeças de chave número 4 em Wimbledon e…

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Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram miss out on the ATP Finals last four as they lose to Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo. via BBC Sport - Tennis