John Peers and Filip Polasek won the Men’s Doubles championship at Indian Wells with a 6-3, 7-6(5) win over Russians Andrey Rublev and Aslan Karatsev on Saturday.
The Australian/Slovakian duo are full-time doubles players, and that was the edge against the Russians.
Court craft was there winning strategy, tactics an d formations key to any winning doubles team.
They took control of the middle of the court and quickly won the first set.
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The second was little harder, as Rublev stepped up and when Polasek suffered an ankle roll as he looked to change directions at the net, a lengthy medical timeout could hav played to the Russians’ advantage.
But in a see-saw ending, which eventually went to a tiebreak, as both Karatsev and Rublev both pushed for an opening, Peers and Polasek held on for a memorable win.