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b]Herbert/Mahut Qualify For Barclays ATP World Tour Finals[/b]
Spoiler:
French duo qualifies for second consecutive year
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut have become the first doubles team to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held at The O2 in London from 13-20 November. They will compete at the prestigious season finale for the second successive year, following the announcements of the Citi Open, J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad, Generali Open and Konzum Coratia Open Umag doubles draws.
The Frenchmen have been a force to be reckoned during the 2016 season, leading the ATP World Tour in doubles matches won (29) and team titles (5). With 6,175 points, they are No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London and lead second-placed Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (4,630) by 1,545 points.
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Herbert and Mahut captured the first three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events of the year - the BNP Paribas Open, the Miami Open presented by Itau and the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters - before winning their second Grand Slam championship title at Wimbledon (d. Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin).
The 34-year-old Mahut has won 16 tour-level doubles titles and four singles titles. The 25-year-old Herbert owns eight tour-level titles, all but one alongside Mahut (2014 Tokyo w/ Przysiezny).
The Frenchmen went 1-2 in the round-robin stage of their Barclays ATP World Tour Finals debut in 2015.
World No. 1 and five-time champion Novak Djokovic and No. 2-ranked Andy Murray have already qualified for the singles competition at the 2016 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
Open D’Orleans (Orleans, France): Seventh seed Pierre-Hugues Herbert delighted the home crowd by winning the biggest singles title of his career over Norbert Gombos of Slovakia, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. This is Herbert’s fourth career ATP Challenger Tour title, with the Frenchman now owning a 4-0 record on the final Sunday. He also prevailed earlier this February at the $100,000 ATP Challenger Tour event in Bergamo, Italy.
Herbert and Nicolas Mahut are No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race to London, having already qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
Re: Pierre Hugues Herbert
: 15 lis 2016, 23:51
autor: Damian
Re: Pierre Hugues Herbert
: 20 gru 2016, 20:14
autor: Damian
2016 w liczbach (debel):
Ranking: 2
Bilans meczów: 41-13
Tytuły: 5 (Wimbledon (w/Nicolas Mahut), London/Queen's Club (w/Nicolas Mahut), ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Monte Carlo (w/Nicolas Mahut), ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Miami (w/Nicolas Mahut), ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells (w/Nicolas Mahut)
Finały: 2 (ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Paryż (w/Nicolas Mahut), Antwerpia (w/Nicolas Mahut))
Zarobki: $1,048,192
PHH pokonał wczoraj w Rotterdamie Dominica Thiema i odniósł pierwsze zwycięstwo nad graczem z Top-10. Francuz w starciu z tym elitarnym gronem legitymuje się teraz bilansem 1-5.
The Frenchman, currently ranked World No. 109 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, claimed his first Top 10 singles victory with a 6-4, 7-6(3) win over second seed Dominic Thiem. Herbert will contest his second ATP World Tour singles semi-final on Saturday having dropped just nine points on serve.
Re: Pierre Hugues Herbert
: 20 lut 2017, 11:25
autor: Damian
20.02.2017
Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 68
Re: Pierre Hugues Herbert
: 21 maja 2017, 18:57
autor: Damian
Mahut/Herbert Clinch Rome Crown
Spoiler:
First title of 2017 for the French duo
French duo Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won their first ATP World Tour team title of the season on Sunday in Rome as they triumphed at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia with a 4-6, 6-4, 10-3 victory over Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers.
Herbert and Mahut are set to rise to fourth in the Emirates ATP Doubles Race to London after securing 1000 points with their victory at this ATP World Tour Masters 1000 clay-court tournament.
The Frenchmen have battled through the draw at the Foro Italico to end a team title drought of 10 months, since they won the Wimbledon title in July 2016. They saved match point to beat Brian Baker and Nicholas Monroe in the second round and fended off four match points to edge Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas in the quarter-finals, before edging Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan in a Match Tie-break in the semi-finals.
And they did it the hard way in the final too, rallying from a set down to beat Dodig and Granollers in another Match Tie-break after one hour and 35 minutes. Having trailed by a break, Dodig and Granollers clinched the first set as they reeled off three straight games from 3-4. But Herbert/Mahut responded immediately with a break in the first game of the second set, which sufficed to level the match. The French pair then dominated the deciding tie-break to prevail.
Victory at the Foro Italico marks Herbert and Mahut's eighth tour-level title together.
Dodig and Granollers were looking to win their second title together. The Croatian/Spanish duo, who teamed up at the start of the season, captured their first trophy in Rotterdam in February (d. Koolhof/Middelkoop). Granollers was contesting the Rome doubles final for the third time, having won the 2012 title and finished runner-up in 2015 with Marc Lopez.
If you were one of the best in the world at one part of your job, but you really wanted to pursue another aspect, in which you were very good but still growing and learning, which would you choose?
For now, Pierre-Hugues Herbert chooses both – doubles, in which he's won nine titles, including four ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns – and singles, in which he's reached an ATP World Tour final and is No. 72 in the Emirates ATP Rankings but eager to climb.
“It's not an easy thing. Playing both is really tough. Every week you're playing two tournaments,” Herbert said. “And it's not easy to choose the tournaments you want to play.”
This week, the 26-year-old Herbert is choosing his priority – singles – at the Dell Technologies Hall of Fame Open in Newport, where he's making his debut at the historic event. The fourth seed won his opener on Wednesday, saving 11 of 15 break points and coming back from a break down in the third set to beat Spaniard Adrian Menendez-Maceiras 7-5, 2-6, 6-3.
“It's a great place, a great venue. I'm happy to be here to discover a new place,” Herbert said. “I'm happy to be through to the quarter-finals.”
The grass-court season was a week longer this year – six weeks instead of five – but it still wasn't quite long enough for Herbert, who prefers the old-school serve and volleying that often thrives on lawns.
“I wanted to extend my grass-court season to play a lot on grass... I like grass courts. I'm an offensive player. It's a surface that fits my game,” Herbert said.
The right-hander also had heard good things about Newport from a reliable source, his doubles partner and countryman Nicolas Mahut. “He told me that it's a great place to be,” Herbert said. “It's a special grass court. Everybody is going to tell you that.”
Mahut couldn't come this year – he's the best man in Julien Benneteau's wedding this weekend – but Herbert will try to replicate his teammate's experiences in Rhode Island. The 35-year-old Mahut has reached the Newport final two times, falling in the 2007 final to Fabrice Santoro before beating former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt for the 2013 title.
Herbert and Mahut generally play at the same tournament. They plan their schedules at least two months in advance, and their singles rankings, which determine which tournaments they can automatically enter, largely rule the conversation, Herbert said.
This season, Herbert has played at least a qualifying singles match at 15 ATP World Tour tournaments and has a 9-12 record. In doubles, he's played at 12 ATP events and has gone 17-9.
“It's always doubles that is going to be sacrified for the singles. At my age, I'm 26, and I have big goals in singles,” Herbert said. “But even if I'm always playing doubles, I'll play full and I'll try to get the win in the end. But it's the singles that is taking the priority... I think I can achieve much more and I'll try to get my ranking up. I'll try to enter the Top 50 and who knows, maybe in the future if I continue to get better, maybe I'll have a chance to be a really good player.”
On Friday, Herbert will try to reach his second ATP World Tour semi-final of the season when he meets American Bjorn Fratangelo. Herbert fell in the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament semi-finals in February to Dominic Thiem. The Frenchman's prior best singles result came nearby, on the East Coast of the U.S., when he reached the 2015 Winston-Salem Open final (l. to Kevin Anderson).
“I like playing in the States. It's a beautiful country. It's a big country with everything... So I'm enjoying my time here and I'll try to do better this week.”
HERBERT/MAHUT QUALIFY FOR NITTO ATP FINALS; ONE DOUBLES SPOT LEFT
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Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut will attempt to earn their first Nitto ATP Finals trophy when they arrive at The O2 for the third time this November. The Frenchmen join Lukasz Kubot/Marcelo Melo, defending champions Henri Kontinen/John Peers, 2015 winners Jean-Julien Rojer/Horia Tecau, Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares, four-time season finale champions Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan and Roland Garros winners Ryan Harrison/Michael Venus in the 2017 field.
Herbert and Mahut qualified for the event, to be held from 12-19 November, for the third year in a row, and are seeking their first appearance in the semi-finals.
The Frenchmen won at least two titles for the third consecutive year in 2017, with each of the victories coming at an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event — the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome, the Coupe Rogers in Montreal and the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati. The duo leads the tour in Masters 1000 triumphs this season, and their three in 2017 have lifted their overall Masters 1000 trophy count to six.
Mahut became the first Frenchman to finish No. 1 in the year-end Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings last season, with Herbert right behind him at No. 2.
One spot remains up for grabs in the doubles field with one month to go until the season finale. Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram currently sit in eighth place in the Emirates ATP Race To London with 3,020 points. Marcel Granollers and Ivan Dodig are right behind them with 2,945 points in the No. 9 slot.
Herbert/Mahut End Unbeaten Streak; Win Rotterdam Title
Spoiler:
French duo ends Marach/Pavic’s unbeaten start to the season
Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut ended Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic’s unbeaten start to the 2018 season 2-6, 6-2, 10/7 to lift the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament on Sunday.
The third seeds came from behind to hand the second seeds, who had won all 18 of their previous matches this season, their first defeat of 2018. Marach and Pavic had been bidding to win a fourth title of the season after earlier triumphs in Doha, Auckland and at the Australian Open, but it was the all-French duo who tasted victory after 68 minutes of play.
“[Winning for] the first time with Pierre is something great,” said Mahut. “We are pretty happy about the week, we played so many good teams, especially finally beating the undefeated team. It is something special in the final.”
Herbert and Mahut have now won 11 titles as a team, including three consecutive Masters 1000 titles in Rome, Canada and Cincinnati last season. This is also Mahut’s third title in Rotterdam, having previously lifted the trophy in 2014 (w/Llodra) and 2016 (w/Pospisil).
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Marach and Pavic started strong with two breaks of serve to secure a one-set lead, but were taken into a Match Tie-break after a vastly improved serving performance from their opponents in the second set. From there, a series of mini-breaks followed as both pairings struggled to hold serve. But, from 4/6 down, Herbert and Mahut improved their level and charged to victory, winning six of the last seven points, to take the title in the famous port city.
“They played an amazing level in the first set, we were slow to start,” admitted Herbert. “They played amazing and then we levelled it up. We played an amazing game in the beginning of the second [set] and then you go forwards into the [Match] Tie-break, it can go everywhere, but this time it was for us. We are really, really happy about the win today.
Herbert and Mahut will split $120,910 in prize money and earn 500 ATP Rankings points after their title-winning run. “Being able... to win the tournament is just an amazing feeling,” added Herbert. “[Our confidence] is going to get better, I hope, as the year will pass by.”
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Herbert and Mahut have also ended Marach and Pavic’s impressive Match Tie-break winning streak. Before their final loss, the duo had won their past nine extended tie-breaks dating back to the Western & Southern Open in August 2017.
In other action, Pierre-Hugues Herbert won an all-French battle, outlasting his countryman Gilles Simon 6-7(8), 7-6(5), 6-3 in two hours and 52 minutes. Herbert evened their FedEx ATP Head2Head series 1-1, and will next meet 24th seed Gilles Muller of Luxembourg. The 34-year-old Muller will look to reach the Round of 32 for the third time (2017, l. to Nishikori; 2005, l. to Federer).
“It was a match against a friend. It’s never easy to play a player, first of all, a really good like Gilles Simon, and a friend. We know each other really well. It’s never easy to start a match. I started really tight. But as the match went on, I got my rhythm and I was happy with my performance. Even if I would’ve lost, I would’ve been happy, but I got through and I got the win. So happy,” Herbert said.
The victorious Frenchman also had a special fan in the audience: His mother.
“It was something special. She decided three days ago to come. She took a 12-hour plane and came. In the sun, avoiding the winter in Europe, enjoying. She never went here to 'Tennis Paradise'. She’s happy to be here, and I’m really happy to win in front of her,” Herbert said.
Up next for Monfils is compatriot Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who claimed an upset victory over No. 24 seed Gilles Muller earlier in the day. Herbert, who owns 12 doubles titles at the tour level including two Grand Slam trophies, made full use of his doubles skills to serve-and-volley his way past Muller, who was last year’s champion in both Sydney and 's-Hertogenbosch.
Last season, Herbert reached a career-high of No. 63 in the ATP Rankings, and will look to edge closer to that benchmark when he faces Monfils in what will be the first match in their FedEx ATP Head2Head.
Mahut/Herbert Start Bid For Second Indian Wells Crown
Spoiler:
Top seeds Kubot/Melo suffer early exit
Former champions Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert swept into the BNP Paribas Open second round on Sunday when the fifth seeds defeated Damir Dzumhur and Filip Krajinovic 6-1, 6-2 in just 46 minutes. From 1-1 in the first set, the French pair won nine straight games to a 4-0 advantage in the second set. They lost just nine of their service points.
Two years ago, Mahut and Herbert captured their first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells with a 6-3, 7-6(5) victory over Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock in the final. They have since compiled a 6-1 record in Masters 1000 finals and are 11-5 overall in championship matches.
The team will now prepare to challenge Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos, who recovered from a set and 1-4 deficit to beat Santiago Gonzalez and Nicholas Monroe 6-7(5), 7-5, 10-2 in one hour and 32 minutes.
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Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer took their chances to knock out top seeds and last year’s finalist Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-4, 6-4 in 70 minutes. Last year, Kubot and Melo won three Masters 1000 titles and finished the year at No. 1 in the ATP Doubles Team Rankings. Bautista Agut and Ferrer will next face Americans John Isner and Sock in the second round.
Elsewhere, sixth seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau, competing with confidence after picking up the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships crown (d. Cerretani-Paes) for a 17-4 team record in finals, knocked out Ryan Harrison and Max Mirnyi 7-6(5), 6-4 in 90 minutes. They now meet Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez.
In one other doubles match, Fabio Fognini and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi overcame Nikola Mektic and Alexander Peya 2-6, 6-3, 10-5 to set up a match against in-form third seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic, winners of three titles – including the Australian Open – from four finals in 2018.
The German next faces Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who had never advanced to the third round of an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event prior to this event. In fact, the Frenchman owned just five wins at this level (5-12).
But after advancing when Gael Monfils retired while down 2-6, 1-3 due to a lower back injury, Herbert, No. 93 in the ATP Rankings, is into the Round of 16 at Indian Wells. Herbert will attempt to reach his second singles quarter-final of the season against Kohlschreiber (Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune).
