Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek earned a comeback win on Wednesday at the Rolex Paris Masters, where they moved past Frenchmen Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul 3-6, 6-3, 10-4 to reach the quarter-finals.
The top seeds, who have already qualified for this month’s Nitto ATP Finals, fired 10 aces and won 80 per cent (32/40) of their first-serve points to advance after one hour and 30 minutes at the ATP Masters 1000 event.
Dodig and Krajicek are chasing their sixth tour-level title of the season as a team, with their triumphs including a trophy at the Masters 1000 tournament in Monte-Carlo. They reached the final in Paris-Bercy last year, losing against Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski.
In other action, Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin moved past Jamie Murray and Michael Venus 6-4, 6-3 to end the British-Kiwi Team's Nitto ATP Finals qualification hopes.
Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin are aiming to qualify for the prestigious year-end event themselves and are currently fifth in the Pepperstone ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings. The Mexican-French team will play Koolhof and Skupski or Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev in the quarter-finals.
Harri Heliovaara and Mate Pavic moved past Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski 7-6(7), 6-4 to reach the second round, while Felix Auger-Aliassime and Sebastian Korda teamed to defeat Sebastian Baez and Lorenzo Musetti 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the same stage in Paris.
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