Saturday, October 16, 2021 - John Peers and Filip Polasek celebrate after defeating Aslan Karatsev and Andrey Rublev in the men's doubles final match at Stadium 1 on day 13 of the 2021 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, CA. (Michael Cummo/BNP Paribas Open)
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.
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.
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