Turin-Chasing Lammons/Withrow Reach Vienna Final

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Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow kept alive their hopes for a maiden Nitto ATP Finals qualification Friday when they reached their ninth tour-level final of the season at the Erste Bank Open.

Eighth in Pepperstone ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings, the Americans rallied past Frenchmen Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul 4-6, 7-6(1), 10-7 after winning 80 per cent of their first-serve points throughout one-hour, 41-minute contest.

Lammons and Withrow have collected four team titles this season: Newport, Atlanta, Winston-Salem and Astana. They will next face second seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury or third seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer, who are 10th in the Race.

Ram and Salisbury advanced past wild cards Romain Arneodo and Sam Weissborn 6-3, 7-6(7) on Friday.

Nys/Zielinski Upset Top Seeds In Basel
Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski upset top seeds Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 in the Swiss Indoors Basel quarter-finals. Nys and Zielinski will next meet fourth seeds Jamie Murray and Michael Venus, who were finalists last week in Tokyo and are ninth in the Race.

In the bottom half of the draw, Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin will clash against Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz in the Basel last four.