Novak Djokovic and Carlos Gomez-Herrera continued their dream run at the Mallorca Championships as they reached the first doubles final in the first tournament of their new partnership on Thursday.
The wild cards claimed another upset as they defeated third seeds Oliver Marach and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 6-3, 7-6(4) in an hour and 21 minutes. It’s their second victory over a seeded team, after taking down the first seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the previous round.
“I don’t think we expected to reach the finals,” Djokovic said in an on-court interview. “But if we play well, we can return very well, we serve very well and I think we have a quite solid net game.
“All around, everything clicked quite amazingly in the last several days for us. I’m just super thrilled to share the court with him and to reach our first final together.”
Djokovic, who has lifted 83 tour-level titles in singles, will now look to double his trophy haul by claiming the second doubles title of his career this week in Mallorca. In 2010, the Serbian lifted the trophy at The Queen’s Club partnered with Jonathan Erlich. Gomez-Herrera, who won his first tour-level match with Djokovic at the start of the tournament, will be playing for the biggest trophy of his career.
“For me it’s such a pleasure to play with him. I think [everyone] saw, we are so relaxed on court and we’re just enjoying [ourselves],” Gomez-Herrera said. “If we play like this, we can keep going until I don’t know when. And it happened, we are in the final.”
Djokovic and Gomez-Herrera will face either fourth seeds Simone Bolelli and Maximo Gonzalez or second seeds Philipp Oswald and Marcus Daniell in the championship match.
At the Viking International Eastbourne, the top three seeds moved into the semi-finals with straight-sets victories.
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First seeds Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic, who have won six titles this year including three ATP Masters 1000s in Miami, Monte-Carlo and Rome, took down Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan 6-3, 7-6(3). They will next face wild cards Harri Heliovaara and Lloyd Glasspool, who advanced with a walkover from Jamie Murray and Luke Bambridge.
Second seeds Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal have booked a semi-final clash with third seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. The Colombian duo took down Hugo Nys and Jonny O'Mara 7-5, 6-4, while Ram and Salisbury cruised past John Peers and John-Patrick Smith 6-2, 6-3.
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